How to get 13 year old DD to read?

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My DD always loved being read to when she was younger but since being old enough to read books herself she’s just not interested. School keep banging on about the benefits of reading and how important it is, which I am fully aware of, but how the hell can I get her to read? Please can anyone recommend a book which might get her hooked?

Divergent and hunger games series has kept my year 9 dd happy this yeAr.
Kate Meryon books are like grown up Jaqueline Wilsons .
Skellig and the sequel My Name is Mina
These are the ones I remember, I’ll ask her later for more.

If she's into youtubers and vloggers, she's probably heard of Zoella. Zoella did a book club for teen girls in conjunction with WHSmith. There are several YouTube clips of her talking about her recommended books and some articles about them online. Just google Zoella Book Club.

Do you read? Does she see you read? Do you visit the library regularly? Does she? Do you listen to audio books in the car? Do you see theatre shows of adapted books? Are you in a book club - real life or online like Twitter? Do you talk about books over dinner? Does she receive books as gifts?

Could you start reading to her again? Or set up an audible account to rekindle her interest in stories?

Bribery?

What kind of books did she used to like before stopping reading?

Does she see you and her dad read?

It’s not about school ‘banging on’. It’s a life skill you should role model.

@northernspirit - Yes both her father and I (and younger brother) read. She has no shortage of role models but thank you for the obvious pointer.

Thanks for the helpful comments. Will def try hunger games and zoella and bribery

Where the World Ends by Geraldine McCaughrean. You could visit St Kilda & read it as a holiday book.

No idea...I've failed miserably with mine!

Asda have a really nice range of teen books, 2 for £7.

How about a magazine to get back into looking at paper, rather than a screen?

If you find the secret, let us know!

I have to be firm about device time even with my 13 year old who really enjoys books! They all know devices are given to me at 9pm at latest, after that it's books or drawing etc.

Could you read a book together over the holidays? Like a two person book club but take it in turns reading to each other. ( obviously she may be to old for this but it might be a nice thing for you to do together)

What else in life does she find interesting? Any particular type of films or TV shows. Choosing books from the millions out there can be overwhelming but if you go for a certain genre it can cut down the choice. For 'teenage girl life but not always modern life' books * did she watch Hetty Feather on CBBC. Based on Jacqueline Wilson books and are very good reads. As is Jacqueline Wilson's Opal Plumstead. Also Katy by JW was adapted by CBBC. Good solid stories.
Back Home by Michelle Magorian is another good one.
Just take her to the library and see if anything catches her eye. I loved books by Paula Danziger at that age (American author, mostly out of print these days) - I discovered her books because I was intreged by the title of her first book. It was called The Cat Ate My Gymsuit.
*I have just made that genre up!

We just put our foot down and said she had to.
we choose a book each summer holiday and study it together.
despite being dyslexic she came top of her year in comprehending and discussing texts at school.
we have done Animal Farm, Lord of The Flies, Of Mice and Men, and this summer 1984, she suggests them all from choices on a list of literature studied at school.
At first she was a bit apprehensive, but soon got into it, and now it's part of our summer holiday she looks forward to.
Sometimes you just have to insist as their parents, whether they like it or not.

I would get audiobooks to listen to in the car and at any suitable opportunity I would encourage DD to lie next to me on the big bed while I had a read and she read her book.
I would go to bookshop with her and buy her what she fancies. Apart from anything else you might see what she is drawn to.
Magazines are good for very reluctant readers.
I am rather allergic to specially marketed young adult/ teenage fiction but agree with twilight/ divergent as ticking many young people's boxes.
Bill Bryson/ shopaholic/ James Herriot/ Georgette Heyer/ Cranbrook/ to kill a mockingbird/freakonomics/ Outliers etc
I was a bookworm as a teen but as well as working my way through tougher reads/ classics I still went back to old favourites, in my case The Swish of the Curtain and Laura Ingalls Wilder.Is she keen on HP? My DD( adult now) is a reader but still reread the HPs on a regular basis.
Best of luck... I am a reader and 2/3 DC are.

I have an audible account and very reluctant ds14 does enjoy listening to an audiobook on his phone.

Sorry OP, just thought about this post and how I may sound smug.
It was a last resort after trying everything else.
I had some success when younger with Enid Blyton, but she didn't really find anything after this.
My apologies, I know what it's like and not suggesting my way should be modelled, it just worked after such long battles.

Depending on what she is into, I give another vote for Michelle Magorian Back Home. A Little Love Song is good too. And Margaret Mahy The Tricksters.

Thanks everyone. I have told her we are going to the library and she is going to choose a book which she will read over the hols! Some good suggestions as to what to look out for so thanks.
@gillybeanz - I didn’t think you sounded smug, thanks for your input and yes, going to be a bit firmer with her!

Very late to the party, sorry - hope you've found something that catches her interest. Agree about The Hunger Games series (although it does get pretty grim). And maybe the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer.

I remember devouring books by Judy Blume and Paula Danziger when I was that age, many of my friends did too, we used to pass well-thumbed copies around. Don't know if they're horribly dated? I also loved everything by S.E.Hinton, Cynthia Voigt and K.M.Peyton but again, this was 25 years ago so may be too dated...

Ruby Redfort series? And yes to Zoella books.
We kick started dd reading again by tv books like Wolfblood and Hettie Feather.
Good luck!

Oh! Too late! Sorry!
And yes, read to her again and hope she gets into a story and wants to carry on reading it herself.

Dd(12) is not very keen on reading. But I have found diary style books work for her as they are broken up into chunks. She has read all the wimpy kid books and is now reading Adrian Mole, which she is really enjoying. I'm hoping that as she gets more practised at reading she will move on to non diary books.