What books from your youth would you love to re-read?

[Fairyjuice]

I've just finished reading Under the Hawthorn Tree by Marita Conlon-McKenna and it's every bit as good as I remember it as a child. Summer of My German Soldier is next on my list, though I suspect I might not be so doe-eyed this time round. Would love to read the Across the Barricades books too.

What are yours? so that I can add them to my list

The silver sword! I must, must re read this agin soon. It left a huge impression on me.

The Enchanted Woods and Magic Faraway Tree. I loved them!

White Boots

I’ve read it many times but I still plan to re-read it one of these days!

I sometimes re- read Charlotte Sometimes by Penelope Farmer.

Sophie's World! I'm sure I have my old copy somewhere in the attic

I read kids’ books a lot.
I’d love to reread Felicia the Critic and a wonderful book I read aged about 12. I forgot its name and have never found it again. There was a supernatural element to it, an obelisk and an ivory(?) puzzle piece. Something like Voices on the Wind.

A book called Sula. I wanted to live on that island so much.

The Secret Garden
Marianne Dreams

I can't wait for DS to be old enough to enjoy the Faraway Tree

By Lavinia Derwent, just noticed there's another one.

@wooya
I bought it for a 5 year old girl. Mum and daughter are both enjoying it as a bedtime story!

Will have to dig out Sophie’s World. Thanks for the reminder.

Haverhill - not the Chinese Egg? Catherine Storr

He's only 14 m. I've got the whole collection ready though aha @LoveTheLakes40

In fairness, I've read most of them again (I spend hours/days) scouring ebay to get the exact version of all my childhood books.
The Faraway Tree (how terrifying was it when the wind started and they had to run to get back before the land changed, and the time creepy things were attacking the roots of the tree!)
Narnia
Malory Towers
The Jill Crewe horse books
The Jinny at Finmory horse books
The Pullein Thompson horse books (spotting a pattern here?)
A book called the Little Grey Men
Sugar Mouse (about a diabetic girl- got it from the library and was convinced for decades I'd been the only person ever to have read it- then saw the writer of bookworm mentioned it in her memoir of childhood books and reading
Flambards- have these and need to read them, only read the first so far.
Follyfoot (the lightning tree earworm music now for all the evening!)
Kizzy/the diddakoi and various others by Rumer Goden
Joan Aiken- Midnight is a Place (theme music haunted me for YEARS)
Nancy Drew
Chalet School etc etc

The Hounds Of The Morrigan. Can still remember bits of it. And the silver sword as well

I came to say the Silver Sword too.
It was one of my favourite books as a young teen. DH bought me a copy of it a few years ago and I must read it again.
When I was young it just felt like reading about children on an adventure. I worry how it would feel now that I know more about it.

The Silver Brumby

I keep meaning to try and track down some of the YA apocalypse fiction I was into when I was 12-13 or so. Louise Lawrence is an author I remember, Children of the Dust. Maybe Robert Westall too.

Thanks fluandseptember! Just Googled and it’s a distinct possibility. Will try to buy a used copy somewhere.

Children of the Dust! I read that so many times.

To be honest - none
I loved so many books throughout my life but it’s not the same when you reread them.
I’d love my kids to read them and enjoy them but I have a different perspective to life now and different needs now. I can’t enjoy books I enjoyed when I was young.

Horatio Hornblower series. Rogue Herries series.

A Lemon and a Star - it's so out of print that the chance of getting a copy at a reasonable price is vanishingly small.

I don't remember getting rid of my copy but I must have done.

I used to love a book about a girl called Anastasia. It was a thick book with short stories about this girl. I can't remember exactly what it was called or who it was by but I reread it so many times.
Also the Babysitter Club books.