adult literature
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For one thing, I don't know of another adventure story that has a gay protagonist, at least in adult literature.
From Salon • Sep. 27, 2022
When you walk into the high-ceilinged space, you’re greeted by a display of beautiful photography and coffee table books, with genre fiction and young adult literature on the left wall and nonfiction along the right.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 23, 2021
Kacen Callender took home the young adult literature prize for “King and the Dragonflies,” and gave one of the night’s most tearful speeches.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2020
As a book publishing phenomenon, young adult literature entered the decade like a lion.
From Slate • Dec. 17, 2019
The public of Warton's day had relegated all tales about knights, dragons, and enchanters to the nursery, and Thomas Warton shows courage in insisting that they are excellent subjects for serious and adult literature.
From Some Diversions of a Man of Letters by Gosse, Edmund