What were you reading in the late 90s

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Vladandnikki · 25/04/2026 21:00

Not so much a what we're reading more a what were you reading in your teens. Because I loved the Riders series of books by Samantha Alexander (not the Jilly Cooper novel) and I don't think I have ever met anyone else that read them.

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TheyGrewUp · 25/04/2026 22:23

Well I was knocking 40 and reading:

The Cat in the Hat
Michael Morpugo
Alfie and Annie Rose
Alan Ahlberg
Richard Scarry

Etc, etc.

NameChangeScot · 25/04/2026 22:20

Goosebumps, babysitters club, Fear street, Nancy Drew

Anything Jacqueline Wilson. Anne Fine.

A few years later it was Harry Potter, Twilight and Hunger Games.

mynameiscalypso · 25/04/2026 22:16

H202too · 25/04/2026 22:09

Zoey speaks out. Some books about American teenagers that lived on an Island off
the coast of Maine.

I’ve been trying for years and years to remember that series and I’ve almost posted on here so many times about it. THANK YOU!

MidnightMeltdown · 25/04/2026 22:15

Goosebumps and Point Horror 😀

ElizabethVonArnim · 25/04/2026 22:12

Bridget Jones and P G Wodehouse

H202too · 25/04/2026 22:09

Zoey speaks out. Some books about American teenagers that lived on an Island off
the coast of Maine.

Dappy777 · 25/04/2026 21:58

In the late ‘90s I was at my sixth form and getting into literature in a big way. I was reading Evelyn Waugh and Oscar Wilde and dreaming of going to Oxford and becoming an aesthete. Unfortunately I was nowhere near clever enough! I had to make do with talking like an Oscar Wilde character instead - so you can imagine what an obnoxious little twat I was.

In 1999 I would have been 20, which was around the time I discovered Aldous Huxley and Virginia Woolf, who have been lifelong passions.

SnugglyJumpersMakeItBetter · 25/04/2026 21:09

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