Look what I got in the mail/ preference

Look what I got in the mail today, if you can actually see it, because right now, as I'm typing this, I can't. But anyway, so I ordered Delirium but Lauren Oliver and though I paid extra for the 1 to 3 day shipping, it came in 5, but that's beside the matter. It came in the mail today and I'm so excited I can't wait to read it. And this is the basis for today's blog post. What I like to read.
My favorite books happen to be Ya or Young Adult books. Now, most people I talk to will tell me that I should be reading intellectual books and I say if they were interesting I would. In some of my classes my professors ask me if I've read Faulkner or Tolstoy and other authors like that, to which I cower in my seat as my classmates raise their hands and I say no. But you know what, I am down, I will no longer cower in my seat because I read YA books and I am damn proud of it.
It's not that I don't read them because I think they are bad or anything, they just don't seem to appeal to me, eccept for those books that are actually bad. Now there are probably a million reading lists that have the top 100 books you should read before going to college, and the top 100 books to read in your lifetime or before you die and these lists always include books like As I Lay Dying, The Good Earth, My Antonia and other books like that, but not once have I seen a reading list that says what books we should read that include YA books. Now I have to say that that really pisses me off.
A lot of those books happen to be written in the high modernist era and I won't go into much detail about that but those shit heads like TS Elliot and Ezra Pound were so high on their own shit that they thought the common person had no business reading their works that they made their works so high over people head they didn't want to read them, but the fucking dumb ass part of that is that they didn't even want their writing to sell. How fucking dumb could you be. I want to be able to write full time, and the only way I can do that is to have people like and buy my books, but they must be able to understand them first.
I love reading! When I was young I couldn't read very well, so I hated it, but I got better at it. When I was a freshman in highschool my sister told me to read the Harry Potter books, and that is when I fell in love with reading. And I have not been able to catch up ever since. There are too many books and not enough time to read them, so what is the point in reading books I don't like when I can read the ones that I do like. When I was a junior in highschool I started reading the Grapes of Wrath. When I got at least 100 pages into it the only things I could remember were something about a hitch hiker and something about a turtle so I quit reading it because I didn't think it was worth my time to read a book I didn't like.
Ok, so enough of my ranting and defending, well, not that I did much defending, but I will get there. Here are some of my favorite books and authors of the YA genre, in no particular order.
Hush, Hush series by Becca Fitzpatrick
The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins
Fallen series by Lauren Kate
Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer
The Wolves of Mercy Falls series by Maggie Stiefvater
The Dark Divine series by Bree Despain
As You Wish by Jackson Peace (you should all check out her blog by the way http://www.jacksonpearce.com/)
The House of Night series by Kristen and PC Cast
Evernight series by Claudia Grey
Night World series by LJ Smith
Dark Visions by LJ Smith
Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
Beastly by Alec Flinn
and the list just goes on

Now for the defending part of my blog. I really don't understand why people who think they are intellectuals or even so many other people think YA is a terrible genre, I really don't. If anyone can honestly tell me, like really give me a legitamit answer to why YA are such terrible books please let me know. Even though I couldnt give a rats ass because that is what I like to read and that is what I plan on writing for the rest of my life.
When I read a YA book, which they tend to all be mostly series, I love it. I get into the story deeply and really care about the characters so much so that I cry when they cry or root for one certain guy in a love triangle and so many other things you would not believe. These authors fill these books with their whole heart and soul and it really shows. Yes these books may be meant for a teen audience but have you ever seen a twilight mom? OMG! do they love their Edward.
By the way, Jackson Pearce says it perfectly when she defends the YA genre in this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC7BRavnPWg
So anyway, to sum this all up, I love reading YA books and I am not going to stop anytime soon. I would really like to know your feelings on the matter. You can tell me what you like reading and why you like reading what you like. So leave it all in the comments. Thank you and goodnight!