Lots to share from Book Riot this week!

• I’ve worked nearly all year on the project that launched this week: The YA Adaptation Showdown. I invited seven amazing people from throughout the YA community to view a series of YA adaptations and advance one in their bracket to name a single title as the “best” YA adaptation — defining “best” in the best ways the judges could. Scroll to the bottom of the link above to start from the beginning. You can read about the judges and the bracket selection process in the introduction post.

 

• An uncategorized list of 15 fun facts about your favorite tween/teen authors and books.

 

• Check out these 16 awesome literary calendars to crush it in the new year.

 

• Here’s a peek at the most popular bookish goods on Book Riot this year. I always find it fascinating what people are interested in, and this round-up has a little bit of everything!