Kelly talks with New York Times bestselling author Gayle Forman about her new book, about the afterlife, and about the growth and evolution of YA as a category.

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Books Discussed

After Life by Gayle Forman

Our Town by Thornton Wilder

Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin

The Everafter by Amy Huntley

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

Not Nothing by Gayle Forman

How to Read a Book by Monica Wood

Lamar Giles on Hey YA

When The World Tips Over by Jandy Nelson

On a Wing and a Tear by Cynthia Leitich Smith

One Day by David Nicholls

Wicked by Gregory Maguire

We Need Diverse Books

Shoutouts to Lexapro and Zoloft

Gayle emailed the following additional recommendations from our segment on books about/related to the afterlife: The In Between by Hadley Vlahos, Briefly Perfectly Human by Alua Arthur, When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalinthi, and Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal.

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