bloodyrosemccoy | All Op-Eds Should Be One Of Those Three

I have so many opinions about NPR’s audience-voted Top 100 YA Books that I don’t even know how to start. Plus, most of them boil down to “FUCK YEAH,” “OH HELL NO,” and “Wait, who?”, and that would get repetitive.

Mostly it’s fueling my urge lately to make a list of One Hundred Books You Can Blame For Shaping Teenage Amelia’s Brain—if I summon enough energy, I’d like to do a series of entries about some of those books that, sometimes embarrassingly, influenced me quite strongly—often in ways I didn’t even recognize for years. Be kind of fun to go back through them and see where they’ve taken me.

I wouldn’t be able to rank them, though. I don’t really like rankings anyway, since it seems to assign linear value to things that are far more multifaceted. (Which, come to think of it, is another opinion I have about NPR’s list.) I’d just wind up thinking through the ones that had a lasting impact. But it could be fun, so I’ll try to buckle down and do it.

If nothing else, it’ll make me feel like I’ve gotten some of my FEELINGS about this NPR list out. That’s got to be worth something.