YA

In the days when I could have been called a Young Adult, I didn't read much of the fiction designated for Young Adults; I think that, somewhere along the way, I made the jump headlong into the Adult world, and that was that. (Which, among other things, led to my reading a number of books that I flat-out didn't 'get' at the time. Thomas Pynchon's Vineland, for one, at the age of fourteen or so.) I've since read a couple of books that could be called YA -- mostly recommendations from one of my cohorts here -- and dug them considerably (the His Dark Materials trilogy; Garth Nix's Sabriel;). Via Cory Doctorow and BoingBoing comes a recommendation that seems to be along similar lines. This looks fascinating...