The Collectors
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Winner of the 2024 Michael L. Printz Award A National Bestseller From Michael L. Printz Award winner A.S. King and an all-star team of contributors including Anna-Marie McLemore and Jason Reynolds, an anthology of stories about remarkable people and their strange and surprising collections. From David Levithan’s story about a non-binary kid collecting pieces of other people’s collections to Jenny Torres Sanchez's tale of a girl gathering types of fire while trying not to get burned to G. Neri's piece about 1970's skaters seeking opportunities to go vertical—anything can be collected and in the hands of these award-winning and bestselling authors, any collection can tell a story. Nine of the best YA novelists working today have written fiction based on a prompt from Printz-winner A.S. King (who also contributes a story) and the result is itself an extraordinary collection. M. T. Anderson, e. E. Charlton-Trujillo, A.S. King, David Levithan, Cory McCarthy, Anna-Marie McLemore, G. Neri, Jason Reynolds, Randy Ribay, and Jenny Torres Sanchez have each penned a surprising and provocative tale. (Cover art may vary.)
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I (like many, I imagine) was a lil surprised when this won the Printz this year but you know what? I should have trusted AS King. This is a banger anthology. I think my fav was Cory McCarthy's “Misery Museum.” And I also loved King's introduction about why she's fascinated by collectors/collections and what kind of power they have
This was a gritty, strange, almost ethereal collection of fascinating stories. I'm here for it. I can't even really pick a favorite because they're all so wildly different, but G. Neri and Jason Reynolds probably had the most accessible stories of the bunch and I really liked them. It's a wild ride of a collection and worth a read. That being said, I do not know a teen I would give this to.
As someone who likes collecting stuff (everything dinosaur related, rocky horror related, and coins I find on the ground) the entire concept of this book was really intriguing to me.
This was a really cool and strange anthology with each story vastly different from the next. My personal favorites were Take it From Me (by David Levithan) (nonbinary protagonist and love interest!!), Ring of Fire (by Jenny Torres Sanchez), and Sweet Everlasting (by M.T. Anderson)
Some stories get a bit dark so content warning for racism, abuse, and death/abandonment of family but nothing too triggering in my opinion.
