what books did you love as a teenger?

[Blandmum]

A Tree grows in Brooklyn
To Kill a Mockingbird

I liked Cherry Ames, nurse books. I'd forgotten them thanks for the memory. I got dd Lisa and Co. Jilly Cooper short stories. Sadly i don't think tat series of Imogen Bella etc. has aged well - lot of explaining what being unable to decipher shorthand means!

Rewmember reading Judy Blume 'Forever' and was the first time I found out what a Hard On was [blush

OOh yeah page 73 of the hardback version of judy Blume's forever was where kathy met "Ralph"

My neighbour's dog is called Ralph - can rarely say his name without the original 'Ralph' coming to mind! lol

Oh, Sue Barton! I read my mum's - they were excellent.
Also Paula Danziger
Alan Garner
and I was a big fan of seriously old-fashioned girl's books - Dimsie, Blyton, Noel Streatfield, Little Women etc - as well as loving futuristic dystopian stuff.
And Pratchett of course

I likes Judy Blume, Forever, but what girl didn't. It was better than any schools attempt at Sex Ed back then and I'm only talking fourteen years ago!

I also loved the Trebizon series and Nacy Drew, Hardy Boys, pretty much anything I read. Remember getting in trouble with teachers when doing GCSE's because while everyone was cramming I was sat reading Nancy Drew.

Read a Danielle Steel book last night called Vanished and I couldn't put it down. Only started it at six and read it through to the end which was unfortunatley half past one this morning. So bit tired.

wow,kama,what an intelligent sounding booklist for a teen.Wish I could get dd to read something a bit challenging!

I loved books that were too advanced for my age - I remeber being told off for reading The Day Of The Jackal in a library lesson aged 13, I skipped the bits I didn't like, i.e. the torture chamber chapter.

Also loved Jeffrey Archer in my teens too, capitalist escapism! :)

God I loved Judy Blume, 'Forever' and 'Are you there god its me margaret'
ah those were the days

Lol..... Into Mauve Binchey now. Fab books that I have to read from Start to Finish!

i've still got my copy of forever!
you had to be in 6th form to take it out of the school library! but of course we had our own copies and passed them around!
There was another one in a similar vein about a boy called joel and a girl called leda and she gets pregnant.that was good.
what about 'my darling hamburger'? anyone remember that?
sweet valley high were a must at about 12!
i read thornbirds for the first time in about 4th year juniors.Loved it!

paul zindel wrote 'my darling,my hamburger'.good but oh so dated!

I read quite a lot of crap in my youth - Jilly Cooper much to the derision of my mum. Also recall absolutely loving Victoria Holt (Jean Plaidy's romantic tosh alter-ego)

I read lots when younger (still do), My faves were Judy blume, Jean Ure, Paul Zindel, Paula Danziger and those Sweet Dreams books which were by various authors think my favourite one of those was called Rocky Romance. Also remember a book I thought was brilliant but can't remember the name about a girl who had out of body experiences, She wore an eagle necklace around her neck and turned out she had a twin who was leaving her body at the same time but the twin was dying in hospital and tried to steal the good twins body before she died.

To may shame, I read practically every bloody Agatha Christie book n my spare time
Luckily was doing the English International Baccalaureate at an International School abroad, so also read loads of very very good books by international authors incluing Camus, Kazantzakis, Moravia, etc.
Also read Lady Chatterly's Lover at 16 - borrowed from library and hid it from my Mum - and was hugley disappointed !

kama - where did you do the IB ?

Judy Blume was fab. For some reason I got seriously into Iris Murdoch, read tons of her books. I think I overdosed on them as I never read them now. I also loved

Salinger (surprise surprise)
Hardy
Iain Banks
Martin Amis (can't stand him now)
Sylvia Plath
Sartre (god I was pretentious)
John Irving
Julian Barnes
Ian McEwan
1984
Brave New World
Joe Orton
and comics, crikey, anyone else a comic fan? I liked Alan Moore, Jamie Hewlitt, the Hernandez Bros, etc.

Has taken me right back actually, I was terribly terribly intense . Great fun remembering it, perhaps not so much fun to live through.

The Thorn Birds
Lace

Now I love all types of books.

To Kill a Mockingbird
Jane Eyre

Those two were my favourites and the ones I always remember.

Read a lot of Stephen King too.

Oh yes, how could I have forgotten Jane Eyre?

Jean Plaidy