Which books have you borrowed from your DCs and then really enjoyed?

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About 4 years ago while on holiday I had got fed up with exahusted my own holiday reading so borrowed one of DDs (she was 10 at the time) It was one of the Robert Muchamore "Cherub" books and I found it fun, escapist stuff and have read several others since then.

While on holiday this year she was in stitches over a book called "Spud" by a South African writer called John van de Ruit. I borrowed it at the weekend and have just finished it. Marvellously funny book!

However, she still has not managed to interest me in the Twilight saga.

Which books have your DCs introduced you to?

The Dark is Rising Sequence (5 books in all) by Susan Cooper are great, plus the Tiffany Aching books by Terry Pratchett (is it cheating if his other books are for adults?). Also like Philip Reeve, Garth Nix and Trudi Canavan, although the chance to read with a four month old around isn't great :-(

Books I would never have read if I had not had DDs: the Mog books (Judith Kerr); Hairy Maclary series; Mary Rayner's books about Mr & Mrs Pig. Though DDs are 18 & 11 now, & reading more sophisticated stuff, we still quote them constantly.

Books DDs recommended to me: Twilight series, His Dark Materials, 'Goodnight Mister Tom'; 'Charlotte Sometimes'; Malorie Blackman; & especially Hilary McKay (Casson family made me laugh out loud.

Old favourites that I've shared with DDs: the Anne(of Green Gables) books but especially the later ones; Dimsie books; Chalet School(yes, another one confessing to owning a complete set); 'Swish of the Curtain' + sequels; & a rare long-out-of-print book about a college for wizards (a 1930s precursor of Hogwarts), called 'Vermilion' by Norah Shaw.

Books we've discovered together: has to be Harry Potter, surprised not to find more mentions in this thread as can be read on so many different levels & re-read with enjoyment so many times.

My kids and I were fighting over the Angie Sage books, starting with Septimus Heap.

This thread is a little old now but just thought I'd add my favourites:

His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman, and the Sally Lockhart series.
Twilight Series (well, the first one)
Hunger Games (Well, the first one!)
Both books by Jo Danilo (Blackwood Crusade and Curtain Twitcher's Handbook)
And lastly, but by no means leastly -
All Mr Gum books by Andy Stanton (for kids aged six to a hundred!)