It’s been a minute since I’ve done one of these posts, so let’s do it again. You can check out past entries here and here. The premise is simple, but the game is not as easy as it seems like it could be.
I’ll screen cap the subject headings for popular YA books, and you’ll see how well you can guess what those books are based entirely on the subject headings. These won’t be obscure books, though by the card catalog subject headings, you might think they are. Note that some of these I’ve limited to the first handful of subject headings. Answers are at the bottom of the post, and I’d love to hear in the comments how you did! Anything particularly tricky? Anything particularly easy?
Guess The YA Book By Its Card Catalog Subject Headings
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1. The Astonishing Color of After by Emily XR Pan
2. Turtles All The Way Down by John Green
3. The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
4. One Of Us Is Lying by Karen McManus
5. A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
6. Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
7. We Are Okay by Nina LaCour
8. Piecing Me Together by Renée Watson
9. Strange The Dreamer by Laini Taylor (the first two subject headings were “Teens’ Top Ten Nominee” and “Michael L. Printz Honor Books”).
10. The Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi