If you grew up in the 80's what books did you enjoy?

Yes to the lion witch and wardrobe too.

And wasn't there a pony club series too?

Misty
Stormy mistys foal
The children of cherry tree farm/willow farm series
Rats of nimh
Water ship down
Adrian's mole
Else the lioness
Chalet school
Just William
Animals of farthing wood
Lord of the rings
The hobbit
Hans Christian Anderson

All of Enid Blyton, judy Blume, babysitters club, sweet valley.

I pretty much lived in the library and read anything.

I was born late 70's.

Perhaps they aren't actual sequels but she wrote a lot of 'shoes' books after Ballet Shoes and I remember being really disappointed by them. Something to do with ice skating too I think.

"A book about a brother and sister (A...?) who were sent off to knight training/convent except they switched places and the girl trained to be a knight and the brother a monk."

Oh gosh I remember that! The girl was called Allanah I think. I loved those books!

"Ballet Shoes..the original before they messed about with it and wrote strange updated sequels and prequels."

What were they? I frequently re-read Noel Streatfeild and am not aware of any rewritten versions of Ballet shoes or updated sequels.

The babysitters club
Anastasia krupnik
Nancy Drew
Sweet valley
Jude Blume
Ronald Dahl

Goodnight Mr Tom
A book about a brother and sister (A...?) who were sent off to knight training/convent except they switched places and the girl trained to be a knight and the brother a monk.
Enid Blyton
Narnia series
There was a series about a family whose parents walked out and left them with an address of a relative across the country. They then trekked across to this relative surviving on very little. When they had settled in new school the teacher asked for a piece of work on how little money a family could survive on and the eldest sister wrote how she had fed her brothers and sisters and was told it wasn't possible. That stuck with me, but I cant remember the title.
frozen you may have just given me a clue to a historical series I've been looking for ever since my Dd was born!

Enid Blyton - especially the Five Find-Outers and The Wishing Chair. Ooh, and The Faraway Tree.
The original Mr Men books when I was very young.
The Haunting of Cassie Palmer.
Goodnight Mr Tom.
Betsy Byars books - I loved her. Also Paula Danziger, Lois Duncan and Judy Blume.
The Sweet Dreams series of trashy US romances.
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.
Little Women.
Ballet Shoes.
The What Katy Did books.
Roald Dahl.
Pam Ayres poetry
Jackie, Blue Jeans and Misty annuals.

I adored reading. Still do. It's the love of my life.

Yes! That's it - thank you!

Fallulah that was Paula Danziger - 'There's a bat in bunk five'. She also wrote 'Can you sue your parents for malpractice'. Both of these, and all Judy Blume, read many times in my teenage years.

Like others, Noel Streatfield (ballet shoes etc)
Joan Aiken (The Wolves of Willoughby Chase etc)
Diana Wynn Jones (Howl's moving castle etc)
The Dark Is Rising sequence
My Friend Flicka etc
Chalet School

Willard not Willand. And so many I thinks!

Books by E Nesbit, Enid Blyton of course, Willand Price adventure series, Jennings and Darbyshire, all the C S Lewis and Arthur Ransome books, and a series of books which Alfred Hitchcock gave his name to about kids who investigated stuf. I also loved the Swish of the Curtain, and Ballet Shoes and the others by the same author. There were also lots of.historical novels by Rosemary Sutcliffe I think. They made one of her Roman ones into a film I think. The Eagle of the Ninth I think.

Oh, and Tom's Midnight Garden. And Conrad the Factory Made Boy. And Mrs. Pepperpot.

Lois Duncan. I was a bit obsessed with her.

Worst witch.

Enid Blyton.

Forest of Doom (and any other ' choose your adventure' book).

Mallory Towers
St Clare's
Nancy Drew
The Hardy Boys
Judy Blume
Malcolm Savill
The Secret Garden
A Little Princess

I loved 'Charlotte Sometimes' by Penelope Farmer, 'Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing' and subsequent books by Judy Blume and 'Sweet Valley High'.

Roald Dahl
Point horror and
Narnia

Wow, PookBob I can't believe someone else has read the bullerby children too! I loved them. I read lots of the above mentioned and also Stig of the Dump and the Cruise of the Happy Go Gay about an aunt who goes on a voyage with her nieces. Really good story.

Oh yes! Roald Dahl. I loved Danny the Champion of the World.

Roald Dahl, i loved all of them.

Also:

The Giant Under the Snow
The Wierdstone of Brisengarmen/Moon of Gomrath
The Owl Service
A Dog So Small
The Secret Garden
Kes

Ballet shoes
Felicia the critic
Mademoiselle
Fifteen
The wheel on the school
Mrs pepper pot
The lion the witch and the Wardrobe
Malory towers and St Clare's
Lyrico
Grimble
Pippi long stocking
.... I know these cos I've collected them again recently and it's been a fantastic trip down memory lane

Silver brumby series
Jinny and Shantih series by Patricia Leitch
Narnia series
The hobbit

Famous Five (ds1 also enjoyed these)
The Faraway Tree
Mallory Towers
Judy Blume (as a teenager)
I loved those books that had multiple different endings, depending on the choices you made during the book.
I think in the late '80s, I read Robin Jarvis, Deptford Mice series, who appears to still be writing. His books are fab.

Hated the Little Women series (but plodded through them, because my friends liked them) and hated Secret Seven.

A lot of these and the Josepheine pulleign Thompson horse books.

Little house on the prairie
What Katie Did