What was your favourite book when you were 14?

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I've been asked to give this as a gift, but my reading habits took a really weird (and completely unmonitored) turn at this age and absolutely wouldn't be appropriate!

Hoping someone can suggest something that resonated and is appropriate. My kids are too little for me to be in this headspace!

Jane Eyre

The time of the ghost by Diane Wynne Jones

Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy

Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
(Little TOWN - when Laura was a teenager, not HOUSE when she was little 🙂)

Charmed Life by Diana Wynne Jones

The secret diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 and 3/4

I think I was reading Dean Koontz horror - from the school library!

Robin Jarvis
The Deptford Mice Trilogy

I think I was reading Anne mccafferey books around that age, love the dragons, Terry pratchett that kinda thing

It's a funny age because you might still being reading kids' books and also reading adults' books.

I remember reading The Country Girls by Edna O'Brien around this time and I was probably re-reading Anne of the Island by LM Montgomery too. Similar themes but very different books!

Ooh and all the point horror books.

i Think I was still into Point Horror at this stage.

The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper.

Among Friends - Caroline B Cooney (80s/ 90s YA author).

Fire & Hemlock - Diana Wynne Jones.

Terry Pratchett - this was mid-90s so the earlier books in the series (Mort, Wyrd Sisters, Guards Guards).

Lord of the Rings, anything by Gerald Durrell, Asimov I, Robot and anything else sci-fi.

Me too.

an actual masterpiece

Flowers in the attic. Super inappropriate 🤣🤣🤣

I was obsessed with Pride and Prejudice and Cyrano de Bergerac (a play rather than a book) but friends who weren't wankers liked Forever by Judy Blume, Point Horror and, er, Flowers in the Attic.

What about Grant's Gone series? Skulduggery Pleasant? Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime?

@pastapestoparmesan me too!

But also Evelyn Waugh & Agatha Christie.

Lord if the Rings / The Hobbit

40 years later they are still my favourite books

Virginia andrews. The Heaven series, Dawn series and flowers in the attic series. And my sweet Audrina- still one of the weirdest ‘twists’ in a book I’ve ever read.

Oh wow - loads of ideas. Thanks!

I was reading Flowers In The Attic (sneaked off my mum's bookcase). I think I read all the Agatha Christie books then as well.

girls in love by Jacqueline Wilson