What shall 14 year old DD read next? What grabbed you at that age ?

I loved the James Herriott books at that age.
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn - Betty Smith was a favourite of mine too.

I loved a Town Like Alice too!!!
My DD absolutely loves the School for Good and Evil series.
Animal Farm
Tess of the d'Urbervilles

My friends and I were hooked by the Gossip Girl books and the Mates Dates series at that age.

Noughts and crosses and the His Dark Materials series were also popular.

I enjoyed Michael Crichton at that age.

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Secret History by Donna Tartt

I also LOVED Behind the Scenes at the Museum (Kate Atkinson) at that age

Try her in Virginia Bergin who runs the world (epic book about a time where females are in charge) she also wrote the Rain series which are fab. They are YA and very good.

Also anything by Holly Bourne is good and feminist.
I think I got into John Wyndham at around that age.

Highly recommend How i Live Now - Meg Rosoff - especially in our current circumstances!

The Museum of You by Carys Bray .Interesting for showing different perspectives on the same event.

I read anything I could get my hands on at that age.

My favourite was the historical novel Katherine by Anya Seton. I adored it.

I remember loving a book series called the forbidden games which was in the point horror series. I also loved a series about faeries, the first was called tithe by Holly Black. I reread it as an adult

These are the books that stood out as I remember them well. Another was a true story called Sold about a girl sold off for marriage in the Yemen but tbh I think I was probably a bit young for it at 14. It really opened my eyes to the world though

Mary Stewart?

I was never one for classics. At 14 I used to more or less live in the library and would read anything: from Barbara Cartland to Gerald Durrell: if the cover or synopsis looked good, I read it. We didn't have the Young Adult range back in the 80s: you went from children to adult.

I remember reading Jackie Collins, Barbara Taylor-Bradford, Jean Plaidy, James Herriot, Barbers Erskine, Lace (can't remember who wrote that!). I loved sagas, especially Cynthia Harrod-Eagles's Morland Dynasty (set in Yorkshire from 13C onwards I think: a great introduction to UK history and royal succession).

I got into science fiction and fantasy in my early teens. Never looked back.

Another Daphne du Maurier -- Frenchman's Creek. More of a novella really but appealed greatly to my teenage fantasies!
Some of the books here, (like Anne of Green Gables) i read and enjoyed very much when i was 11 or 12 but wanted more adult books by 14.
I can endorse A Town Like Alice, it was great. I read other Neville Shute books too but that was the best.
For lighter reads, how about some Gerald Durrell, if she likes animals? Very funny and engaging.

Ds14 is reading Animal Farm and really enjoying it. He's planning on reading Noughts and Crosses next

Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres.
It was the first book which really made me feel something.
The Bloody Chamber - Angela Carter. Quite dark but good.
Wuthering Heights.
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China - Jung Chang.
Dracula
White Fang/The Call of the Wild - Jack London

Northanger abbey - my favourite Austen

I loved all the Anne of Green Gables books at that age.

She might also like Helen Dunmore’s Zennor in Darkness.

I Capture the Castle would be a great read.

She might also like Lois Lowry, who I loved at that age.

Has she read To Kill A Mockingbird?

Oh, and Flashman (not sure how suitable that is but I don't think it did me any more harm than the rest of society)

I read a few of the Alexander Kent maritime novels (Midshipman Bolitho etc) - don't see them around much nowadays, been superseded by Patrick O'Brian (Master and Commander et seq). I skim-read several sections of that, substituting the words "rope" and "sail" for quite a lot of things

I also read all the Chalet School I could get my hands on, which probably wasn't particularly good for me.

I kept seeing Thomas Covenant in the library and thinking it looked great, but never actually got round to it. Read the first book as an adult and on balance I'm glad I didn't at 14 (a rape is central to the plot).

Oooh, I read both Burning Bright and Bilgewater - Bilgewater when I was 14.

Other books at that time:

Wizard of Earthsea trilogy by Ursula K LeGuin
Georgette Heyer - wrote both Austen-like and Christie-like so pretty much guaranteed to please!
SE Hinton - The Outsiders and "That was then, this is now"
Susan Cooper's Dark Is Rising sequence (5 books, starting with Over Sea Under Stone)
Alan Garner
Noel Streatfeild - Gemma and Sisters etc
lots of CS Lewis, but I was both religious and a weirdo. Till We Have Faces is interesting.
Asimov's short stories
Wodehouse