NPR YA Books list: Wait, what?

[owlmoose]

Hey, remember last year when NPR asked people to nominate and vote on the 100 best SF/F books of all time and chose to exclude YA novels (along with a number of other categories and genres)?

Now they're doing a similar vote for YA novels. I went to take a look, and this little tidbit caught my eye:

In winnowing the roster to a manageable size

Comments

[taricalmcacil]

I agree that they can't have it both ways, vut I can see why they'd have trouble categorizing LOTR. The Hobbit is categorized as a children's story, so I can see how it follows that LOTR could be categorized as YA. Sounds like they need a specific set of criteria to follow for making a cut off line, but they don't really have one.