Before we get back on topic, I just want to say: Team Tyler's Van. It came so close to smashing Bella...
Anyway, I grew up on Young Adult fiction, and although I enjoyed it, I'll be the first to admit that a whole lot of it is cliched schlock. *cough Eragon cough* Of course, there are worse things young adults could be reading...50 Shades of Grey, for example.
I also read stuff that wasn't exactly Young Adult fiction, including Bram Stoker's Dracula, Silence of the Lambs, 1984, and Edgar Allen Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum. None of those were required reading for school, I just read them for fun.