What are your guilty book pleasures?

[Geekster1963]

I like the Dairy of a Wimpy Kid books. Don't know that as a 40 something year old I should admit to this!

I really enjoyed the Twilight and 50 shades sagas.

I'm in my 40's.

And Harry Potter doesn't count does it??

Twilight and Hunger Games. But I also like the Flowers in the Attic series, I read them as a child and now I can understand all the stuff that went over my head at the time!

Chick lit - writers like Jill Mansell, Nora Roberts, Heidi Swain. The Chalet School series by Elinor M Brent-Dyer. The Harry Potter books.

But my most shameful and guilty book pleasures are Mills and Boon type hospital romances - especially the ones by Lucilla Andrews and Betty Neels. I have all of Betty's books, and they live in a crate under my bed, because I am too ashamed to have them on the bookshelves, though I am less ashamed of the Lucilla Andrews ones, so they are on the shelves. I was a nurse, and they both were, so they are good at the historical nursing details. At least, that's my excuse!

Crap romance books. The type on kindle unlimited. I do read "proper" fiction too but like these for some light relief

I really enjoyed The Hunger Games too. I remember my friend reading Flowers in the Attic when I was at school but I've never read them.

I don't think the Harry Potter books count as so many adults read them.

I've got the perfect excuse to have these books on my shelf as I'm keeping them for DD.

The Anne Rice vampire books are my guilty pleasure. I don't think they're too badly written, just not exactly highly acclaimed literature!

Terrible, awful smutty books are my guilty pleasure. Mills and Boon or MS Parker stuff. Fifty Shades too. I know, I know. They're awful.
But my Kindle Unlimited has so many to choose from!

I like the shopaholic series by sophie kinsella, very easy to read and entertaining

Kindle unlimited is dangerous...

I too have often fallen into the abyss of smutty fantasy

Shopaholic series by Sophie Kinsella. Absolutely hilarious

Jacqueline Susann - not really a guilty secret, valley of the dolls is one of the best books all time

Probably my Star Trek novels. All the rest of our books live downstairs, my 100+ Star Trek books are upstairs where visitors don't go.

theproudgeek my friend at school's mum used to write the Star Trek novels under a pseudonym! Visiting their house was odd. Her and my friend's dad had had their ears surgically altered and it was ST everywhere. I think she ran the fan club too.

Lorna Hill. Jean Estoril. C. S. Lewis' Narnia series. Dinah Lampitt. Ray Bradbury. Stephen King. Ladybird Well-Loved Tales.

Obviously my "for show" bookshelves are full of worthy classics, some of which I have read. The rest provide great insulation.

Oh my gosh yes to the flowers in the attic series!! One of those books you just never forget and stays with you.

I really loved the Judy Blume adult books, summer sisters

AndNoneForGretchenWieners I promise my ears are normal, although DD did have a Star Trek babygro. But that is very cool about your friend's mum, wonder if I've read any of the ones she wrote.

Karen Rose books.

The Chalet School Series.

Georgette Heyer books.

The 'Why Mummy Drinks/Swears' Books.

Urban fantasy romance stuff - Illona Andrews, patricia Briggs, Kelley Armstrong

Agatha Raisin
Jaqueline Wilson dd1 put all hers in the charity shop box and I got them all out again!
Love the Enid Blyton St. Clares hoping for the Malory Towers set for my birthday!
Currently reading Swallows & Amazons again.
I'm 44.

I'm getting into alternative parenting books. Currently reading a book about a mum who took her girl to protests in Cairo and Mexico as a toddler

I also like ghost stories and Christmas based stories too.

I also like Christmas stories and frothy fiction ones about knitting groups/cupcake cafes etc!
(I do read proper books too...)

Twilight saga.
And anything by Philippa Gregory.