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

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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

In the 60s/70s I loved reading:

The 7 Narnia books
Chaotte's Web
Secret Garden/A Little Princess
Quite a lot of Enid Blyton....
Anne of Green Gables
House on the Prairie series
Stig of the Dump
Charlotte's Web
Tom's Midnight Garden
Falmbards trilogy
Lots of Bronte novels
Jane Austen - everything
Paul Gallico novels, my favourite was Jennie.
A book of short stories called A Book of Princesses - some very unusual princesses in this.
Iona and Peter Opie collections of fairy tales
Lots of poetry
Little Women
Ursula le Guin series
Sooo many more......

Oh I can feel myself back in that time of total absorption and happiness at the anticipation of a new book to read. Total joy!

Spellhorn by Berlie Doherty (I think)
Blackjack by Leon Garfield
Books about a girl called Alanna who disguised herself as a boy called Alan to be a knight- think it was a knight.

I revisited Narnia and some Nancy Drew recently.

Also loved Willard Price, Green Knowe, Hardy Boys and Diana Wynne Jones. Actually I still love Dianna Wynne Jones. She may be my favourite writer of all time.

EyeDrops - I think I know the trilogy you mean! Space Demons by Gillian Rubinstein? I loved that, and had it pretty much on permanent loan from my local library in the early 90's.

After starting on Enid blyton and then moving on to the Ramona books, I discovered Betsy Byers and Caroline B Cooney. I remember I had read most of what was in our little library and I didn't really like hardback books (because I thought some of the books smelt.of sick). I remember reading the first one I picked up and being hooked. I used to go back and check for others each week but I never thought to find out if there were any others and request them (pre Google, what a pain!). I got a book for Christmas one year, The Bewitching of Allison Allbright- I loved it. I found my copy recently and skimmed it, it brought back that real pageturning excitement I felt as an 11.year old.

I think I might go back and read some more now. Loved the face on the milk carton by Caroline B cooney.

After a while I discovered sweet valley high, Nancy drew, Christopher pike and point horror. That kept me going a while

vampirethriller I also loved those Alanna books; The Song of the Lioness. By an author called Tamora Pierce. I've never met anyone else who read them, and I haven't been able to find them to read again.

I loved Ursula Le Guin books too. Also, a book called Twin and Supertwin by Anne Fine (I think) about a twin who hurts his arm and then can change it into things he needs ie a rope.

@yearinyearout was that Children of the Oregon Trail? I loved that book.

I loved all the Willard Price books - Elephant Adventure, Lion Adventure etc. I used to get then out of the library. When DC were small I bought the whole hile set for them but they didn't like them!

I loved the Marlow stories by Antonia Forrest. I've bought them as an adult for an eye watering price but re-read then every few years.

I've reread a few. Some really don't hold the nostalgia afterwards (I absolutely adored the memory of Bogwoppit - but it just wasn't how I remembered when I reread it as an adult.)

Most recently I reread Goodnight Mister Tom - that managed to remain loved - I then discovered Michelle Magorian had written many other books (besides Back Home) which I hadn't read (as I would have been too old to register a children's book). Very tempted to read those now for the first time.

There was another called The Runways which I'm tempted to reread but a little worried it'll suffer like Bogwoppit.

The silver sword and a book called Rebecca's world which for some reason costs hundreds online now...no idea why

@BobbinThreadbare123 the Alanna books! I read those - I think there were 4? I had forgotten until you mentioned it. I'm so sad that all my childhood books are gone, I don't know where...

Racheyg - I still have my copy of a Teddy Robinson.

Always fancied re-Reading Anna of Green Gables.

Thank you for the thread. It's bringing back lovely memories of the books I enjoyed as a kid.

One that I loved and haven't seen mentioned is The Little Gymnast by Sheila Haigh
It had a black cover with a picture of a girl on a beam.
I borrowed it several times from the library!

This is making me remember so many of the books I read when young...
Babysitters Club
Saddle Club
Goosebumps
Point Horror
Point Crime
Chalet School (I reread the few I have occasionally, unfortunately only the prewar and war time ones, really want to read the rest)
At Clare's, Mallory Towers, Trebizion
Lots of Pony ones

DH currently reading Narnia with DD1. They've done some at school

DM and I are currently trying to make a list of Classics to get for DDs. One likes adventures, the other likes gentler stories.

@Lobsterquadrille2 and @mynameisMrG so glad I didn't make them up 😁 I have since search them and they are all over eBay. I might buy them for ds1 to read

@Loveislandaddict OMG have you re-read it? I'm going to hunt around my parents house when I go to see them, I'm sure they wouldn't have thrown them away

When I was about 9, my teacher lent my Gwen Grant's Private, Keep Out and I remember absolutely loving it and finding it so funny. I'm going to order it now for DD (and myself), I hope it's as good as I remember through the mists of time.

Through the barricades books
All of Enid Blyton
A Little Princess
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
Heidi
Little House on the Prairie
What Katie Did
And another one about a little boy and girl in Holland on a canal boat with his Uncle Hans??, or was the boy called Hans?

All the Mallory Towers books
Searching for Shona - I cant remember who it's by but it's about a couple of girls who get evacuated from Edinburgh in WW2 and swap identities
The Dollhouse Murders - again I cant remember who it's by but it utterly terrified me!

Gowie Corby plays chicken by Gene Kemp. Loved it at primary school and it's always stuck with me. That and the previous book by same author - the turbulent term of Tyke Tyler

The far away tree. I bought it a couple of years ago to read to my ds's, they are not interested said its boring!

I don't really want to ready any others, I don't think they will be as good as I remember and that might ruin the memories for me.

I read one from the school library when I was around 9, I absolutely loved it and tried to find it to read it again but I never could, it vanished. I can never remember the name of it or the author, but always thought it was Enid Blyton but could never find one with a similar cover. As far as I remember the front cover was cover in bramble bushes 😂 that's all I've got.

Quite the challenge Drogosnextwife!!

Unless it's called The Brambe Bushes

I still reread Swallows and Amazons and Ballet Shoes from time to time.

My all time favourite book as child was All about the Bullerby Children by Astrid Lindgren and I still have my copy. But it's a bit childish to really enjoy as an adult.

Oh I also just bought Carrie's War from Amazon and I really enjoyed it as as an adult.

I'm also rereading Laura Ingalls Wilder and it's very different re-reading those as an adult.

Bloody hell. I remembered a pony story I used to have, called "She Wanted a Pony." I just googled exactly that and really, really regret it.