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!

Same

Well I think it depends on the 14 year old, their interests, what they have already read etc etc... some will still be at the Jacquline Wilson kind of stage, others will be onto Lynda La Plante and similar!

Honestly if they've asked for books and they like reading nothing would have been better for me than a bookshop voucher at that age, so I could pick my own!

Can't remember what my favourite was at that age.

Stephen King at that age, specifically 'IT' and 'The Stand' although when I look at the rape, violence and sexual references in 'IT' especially, I wonder why I was reading the book.

The White Riders by Monica Edwards.
You'll be doing well to get a reasonably priced copy, I think, if the last time I looked is anything to go by though.

I think I was reading the collection of books on ‘a series of unfortunate events’ at this time

I loved Rebecca, Flambards and Nancy Mitford.
I can’t remember when I grew out of pony books - maybe around 12 or 13.

Stephen King, I think.
Also the Mantlemass. Chronicles by Barbara Willard. I've always liked a historical novel!

I am not so highbrow, that’s the age I discovered Jeffrey Archer, so I would say Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less.

Oh, and Flowers in the Attic

To Kill A Mockingbird
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 and 3/4.

To Kill A Mockingbird. Still my favourite now x

Same here. It was the set book for my Eng Lit O Level (I’d already read it twice by then) and despite dissecting it for that I still loved it and I’m actually re-reading it again now, I honestly don’t know how many times I’ve re-read it.

Watership Down

The Outsiders, by SE Hinton (my Mumsnet username is from it), and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Lovely idea, I gave a copy of The Outsiders to my exH's daughter for her 13th or 14th birthday.

Jilly Cooper, Gone with the Wind, Daphne du Maurier, Georgette Heyer. Agatha Christie, Jules Verne, HG Wells, Neville Shute, Pearl Buck. And Jane Austen on rotation. Oh, forgot Jean Plaidy!

Oh yes, loved The Outsiders!

His Dark Materials -- beautiful books!

The Town House by Norah Lofts
To Serve Them All My Days by RF Delderfield

I re read both of them recently- 40 years on, and loved them just as much now as then.

Also any of the Joyce Stanger books, and James Herriot too.

Adrian Mole?

I also really loved the Alice books but idk if they are around any more

Angus, Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging series! Plus point horror, sweet valley high, Harry Potter

My favourite at that time was Animal Farm but I loved all books. Agatha Christie, Paul Gallico, were big favourites too.

Yes! To kill a mockingbird. I adored it at that age and read it many times over.

Wuthering heights - the drama !!!
Also any and all of Agatha Christie esp Poirot ones

I, Claudius. Must have read it 6 or 7 times, I loved it to bits.

Also LM Montgomery's Anne books - all of them, including Rainbow Valley and Rilla, although I read Anne Of The Island so often I was on my third copy by age 18.
Anne McCaffery's Dragonriders of Pern novels, Piers Anthony's Xanth series, Isaac Asimov, Nevil Shute (especially A Town Like Alice).

Lord of the Rings.
Also anything by Terry Pratchett . I was a fan of David Eddings the Belgariad at that age too.