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YA as a mainstream category started with the later Harry Potter books, Twilight and The Hunger Games. Donât get me wrong, there have always been YA books, but they werenât widely recognized or labeled as such until you had these kinds of phenomenon books. But New Adult came out of self-publishing. Many self-published authors were filling a gap in traditional publishing. There were books for very young kids, middle graders, and teens, and then there were books for adults.