While I see the reasoning behind Young Adult/Teen as a category, I'm not going to spend a lot of thought on New Adult and whether it should further segment a library's collection. I can see the phenomenon of adults reading Teen fiction as either a passive backlash against heavy literary fiction and gritty Scandinavian police procedurals or the coming of age of a cohort that did not read much as children or as a simple relief from the pressures of work and other time spenders. I could even be that publishers have simply woken up to the discovery a previously untapped market. Perhaps Teen fiction is analogous to Chick Lit. It probably doesn't much matter. What does matter is knowing about these books and offering them to the appropriate customers, no matter what their age.
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