These were the best of them:ġ0 Everything Beautiful is Not Ruined by Danielle Young-Ullman ( FSG) – The first book on our list is also the most ambitious on the list, the fractured and multi-faceted story of the relationship between young Ingrid and her opera-singer mother Margot-Sophia, a story that’s told in flashes forward and backward as Ingrid takes readers through the surprisingly gripping process of trying to understand her own life.ĩ At the Edge of the Universe by Shaun David Hutchinson (Simon Pulse) – This psychologically intricate story – from one of the best YA authors working today – centers on a boy named Ozzie, who’s becoming reluctantly convinced that the universe is ending, one deleted chunk of reality at a time.
The combination opens doors off the main hallways of my usual reading, and even when the subject matter was dark, this was a tremendously rejuvenating experience that led me to lots and lots of new books. I read more kid’s books and more YA in 2017 than in any previous year, and as usual, I ended up feeling greatly rewarded by that decision: I soaked up the urgency that’s the hallmark of so much YA, and I soaked up the pure delight that so often brings children’s books to life.
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