Reviewers' Roundtable- Topics I Want Authors to Write About

The Reviewers' Roundtable is a weekly discussion feature hosted by me and Emily from Read Your Bookcase.  Each week we discuss a different bookish/blogging topic and hope you guys will share your thoughts too! 

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Emily at Read Your Bookcase

Michelle at Pink Polka Dot Book Blog

Topics I Want to See More Books Written About

I like to think I could write a book if I really buckled down and committed to it... but let's get real, I read books by John Green and Sarah Ockler and pretty much KNOW I could never write that good.  And if I can't do something awesomely, I don't want to do it.  But that is kind off topic... what I was trying to say is writing is really hard and it's easy for me to be like "I want more books like this or like that", but to actually write the book, that takes major creativity and skill.  Having said that, there are ideas that come to mind for books that as a reader I would LOVE to see.  Here are some of my ideas:

1.  College

• I just so want books about the college experience that are like what I actually experienced when I was in college... which I happen to think was a pretty standard (and awesome) college experience.  But there were no rock-star boys covered in tattoos... us girls weren't all innocent virgins just waiting to get dirty with the bad boy (I'm pretty sure NONE of us were virgins).  I want the authentic feel of college... the uncertainty, the finding yourself, the freedom!  Of course there has to be some action, I know it is fiction after all, but I don't want what is out there right now.  I want Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell.
• Maybe there could even be books about going on college tours.  That would interest me.
• Maybe there could even be books about taking a year off from college and what it's like to still be home after everyone leaves.  Or a book about doing something super cool on a gap year before starting college.

2.  YA Mysteries

• I actually have been seeing more of these lately... but I want even MORE.  I want what Adult has in mystery choices.

3.  2 Book Series

• Duologies?  I don't know what it's called but I would really like to see more 2 book series.  Part I, Part II, Done.  Personally when I read series of 3+ books I find the first and last book most interesting.  A lot of the middle books suffer from middle-book syndrome where they seem to just be filler and lead-up to the final book.  Why not cut all that and do a 2 booker?

4.  Bromance

• In 2013 I went through a big male narrator book phase.  I found I really really like reading from a teenage male POV.  But I also noticed that these guys don't have a lot of friends.  And when they do have a really close friend, it's usually a girl... who they end up liking.  I want to see 2 guys be besties... hard-core besties.  No more awkward, we don't want to look gay so we have to keep our friendship super chill, male relationships.  I want BROMANCE.

5.  Gender Flipped Fairy-Tale Retellings

• Maybe these do exist and because I'm not a HUGE retelling reader I don't know about them??... but I would LOVE to see a girl who saves the GUY!!!  Wouldn't that be awesome.  The guy is the damsel in distress or the princess in the tower and the girl is the warrior who goes in to rescue him.

6.  Villian POVs

• I would love to read more books where the bad guy is the narrator.  And maybe we even up liking him/her a little, but still don't because they are clearly evil, but at least understand where they are coming from.  Not sure if that made ANY sense at all.

7.  Healthy Sex

• Every time a girl has sex, she doesn't have to get dumped and humilated, wind up pregnant and give a baby up for adoption, or get an STD.  Sex does not have to = you will die.  Sometimes people have sex because they are ready and they end up being cool with breaking up or they stay together and they use condoms and they get STD tests beforehand.

8.  Unconventional Formats

• Jay Asher wrote 13 Reasons Why with a casette tape narrating a lot of the time.  How cool is that??  I love journal/diary books and the idea behind the book Shooter by Walter Dean Myers which is entirely police reports and interviews.  I'm sure it's super hard to come up with stuff like that but oh how I love reading it.

9.  New Time Periods

• Thanks to The Diviners, I've discovered that I can like historical fiction!!  So I would love to see some more historical books from time periods that we haven't been seeing.  50's?  80's? 90's?  Vietnam War-era??  WWI??

10.  Not What I've Been Reading

• I don't want the same old, same old.  I want an author to write about YA friendships that break up, but it's NOT because of a guy.  I want stories with BIG FAMILIES (à la The Garretts), not nonexistent ones.  I want more nonwhite main characters.  I want New Adult fantasy/dystopian not contemporary.  I want AUTHENTIC gay characters not caricatures.... and maybe even gay characters where it's not ALL about them being gay.  I want books where the girl ends up with no one.  I want books where the popular people are actually normal nice people and the geeky people are sometimes mean.  Books where people go through phase relationships that don't END their worlds.

Not trying to be demanding here.  These are just some suggestions that I've come up with/heard other people mention over the years.  There are so many good books out there.... SO MANY.  And for the most part I think authors do a superb job at being creative.  But of course I'll always want MORE.

Please tell me what topic you would love to see written about.  I love hearing ideas!!!

Stop by Emily's blog and see what topics she'd like to see more of.