What was your favourite book when you were 14?

[stillsleeptraining]

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!

Sweet Audrina is something else alright. Virginia Andrews had quite the er, imagination.

At 14 I was reading Shirley Conran's Lace and my mother was Not Impressed. :-D

Can't recall exactly (was a long time ago!) but likely Agatha Christie or James Herriot.

Rebecca, and Silence of the Lambs

Yep - the whole set!

I don't remember them well enough to know how appropriate they are, BUT 14 year olds seem to know a lot more at 24 than we did, so I'm not sure what would be more inappropriate now than it was then!

Adrian Mole
sweet valley high
judy bloom

Not for the first time, I feel I have led a very sheltered life!

Anything with horses in itl. Usually by Ruby Ferguson or Patricia Leitch.

'which one of you bitches is my mother?'

Oh wow some good choices here! I was reading Mills & Boon😅

Probably the Girls in Love series by Jacqueline Wilson.

Philip Pullman- Dark materials trilogy. It's both appropriate in content and complexity

The Catcher in the Rye

I was reading adult horror by Richard Laymon at that age.

Princess Daisy by Judith Krantz

Terry Pratchett and The Dark Is Rising Sequence

Mine was probably Lord of the Rings!

DD adored the Jeeves stories by PG Wodehouse at that age; very clever, beautifully written, and so funny. (There's also the superb TV adaptation with Fry & Laurie). She still does. And so do I!

Flowers In the Attic by VC Andrews. Probably not appropriate but I loved that book. Might reread it actually.

This ^

To Kill a Mockingbird

All the James Herriot and Gerald Durrell books!

I was very into James Herriot and Agatha Christie at that age. A nice way to bridge the gap between children’s and adult’s books.

All the Agatha Christie books also inappropriate flowers in the attic & also Judith krafts scruples & I'll take manhattan & lace

My now 17 year old dd suggests the school for good &'evil series by soman chainani aimed at age 14-17 and she says it's brilliant (and about to be made into a major movie. It's a trilogy

Oh, and Fahrenheit 451.

I'd probably grown out of the Judy Bloom books and moved into Virginia Andrews