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Would like to add the Cart and Cwidder series (the Dalemark Quartet) by Diana Wynne Jones, because as usual she aims so high, and just about reaches it every time. Some of her books are not Dystopian, but I think this one is. Also her books The Homeward Bounders and a Tale of Time City are on the dystopian edge. Also a very, very good unclassifiable book by Connie Willis, The Doomsday Book. I'm sorry, but I don't know how to add and I'm frantically busy today with mentoring so can't take the time to figure out what tab to hit etc.
I wanted to mark all the ones I liked in order of "goodness" but there were so many I had to just mark them as I came to them. Thanks for so many good ideas, Nikki. Welwyn Wilton Katz

Battle royale is Young adult.

I personally have trouble defining young adult. I've read books that were obviously for adults and yet had main protagonists that were only 9. What... is it? To you? And to all those who voted?

I'm now a Librarian and removed Battle royale, because the characters are all younger than 18 years-old and because many readers have it in their young adult shelves.

Can anyone remember the book The Riverside Villas Murders by Kingsley Amis? The story is told entirely from the point of view of Peter, a fourteen year old, and is (IMHO) not a young adult novel. It is wonderful reading, not at all predictable, beautiful characterization and not at all for the prudish among us. If this book is not a young adult book when the entire book's PoV is from a 14 year old, and it's not a kid's book, then, how do you define it? Personally, I'm grateful not to feel that I must define all books. I have written ten published novels and none of them are definable. I'd love it if there were more indefinable novels to read.