what books did you love as a teenger?

[Blandmum]

A Tree grows in Brooklyn
To Kill a Mockingbird

1984-orwell

brave new world-huxley

ooh and two of my other faves:

the importance of being earnest
and
the picture of dorian gray, loved oscar wilde

oh of course adrian mole was a fab read too!

I loved Danielle Steele and agatha Christie.

I can't get my 14yr daughter interested in books other than Louise rennison ones.

Totally mortified dd at recent parent/teacher meeting when I asked her english teacher to recommend some books for her.GOd it's so easy to embarass them isn't it?

OMG I am reading Octavia now. Have to read all Jilly Cooper's novels ATM for work.

They are naff but quite entertaining.

I also read loads of Agatha Christie! Great fun. I used to get them from the library and they had that 'library' smell.

For work??? What is this work?!

Did anyone read the Chalet School books? I LOVED those books, especially the first ones in the series. They always seemed to escape death by a hair's breath in each book. I wasn't so keen on Jo but some of the others (can't remember their names) seemed so cool!

Perhaps I am showing my age!

chalet school books, swoon! I was so deeply impressed by the trilingual regime at the school. Finally visited Interlaken 18 months ago!!It's stunning! Now just need to go on holiday to the Australian Tyrol!

I was just thinking the same thing about the trilingual bit!

Yes, I too dragged a reluctant husband to Interlarken. I did not admit the reason for the visit though. Perhaps he knew and that's why we divorced shortly afterwards.....? I was a bit obsessed by those books. I really wanted to live in that setup.

snort, it's not just me then with Interlaken . Went to Interlaken with my mum and DS, who loved it there.

Judy Blume - remember "Forever" and "Are you there God, its me Margaret".

Also someone called something Danziger who was American and wrote cool teenage books.

Used to read bits of Sweet VAlley High in WHSmiths.

And felt all grown up by reading 1984 in 1984 aged 12.

And I remember reading Less than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis at a young-ish age. Thought I was so cool.

Oh crikey

I forgot about the Point Horror books too. I must have read all of those. The babysitters club too.

does anyone remember - somebody barton, student nurse, then staff nurse, superintendent nurse, about 8 books in total or am I just really old.

The first "adult" books I read were Flowers in the attic etc etc, by Virginia Andrews. I scared myself shitless and had to sleep with the light on for months!

MrsMuddle, I was the same with those - used to be wide eyed with terror! Had to read them because everyone else was, but I can still remember the worst bits of them now - horrific.

I capture the castle
Cold Comfort Farm
Precious Bane
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Darling Buds of May before that bloody tv prog ruined it
Three Men in a Boat

i read all the same things as harpsi :o. and jane gardam too, gem13.

and for a bit of originality, the constant nypmph by margaret kennedy.

Harrogatemum-- it was Sue Barton!

v old-fashioned, but great.

Dusty Answer, Rosamund Lehmann
Mariana, Monica Dickens
Jilly Cooper's name novels

hobbit LOTR - i got into those fantasy books where you threw a dice and turned to the back of the book or those that has a multiple choice and you went to a different page.

God I love Monica Dickens. She is hysterically funny!

MegandSoph - ditto! I loved point horror, sweet valley and judy blume. memories.

pre teen I seem to remember a series of books about a girl called Ramona that were quite funny.

Think I read The Thorn Birds before I should have too - my mum wasn't too impressed I'd managed to acquire it!

harrogate mum - I remember those Nurse books. Also there was a US series of nurse books - Cherry Ames!