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Recommend some books to a 13yo girl who's passionate about literature!

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franch · 14/04/2007 16:11

This is heaven for me - reliving my discovery of literature through a friend's DD! She's very mature and is reading 'grown up' fiction (White Teeth, Birdsong, etc) - so far I've come up with:

Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
J D Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
L P Hartley, The Go Between
Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
D H Lawrence, Sons and Lovers

Please add to my list - I'm sure I've left off some really obvious ones.

I'd also like to recommend some biography/non fiction to her but wonder if 13's a bit young for A Child Called It, A Piece of Cake etc. I think she's keen to have her eyes opened in the way these books do though - anyone read anything that might be more suitable?

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fishie · 20/04/2007 21:37

barbara comyns, our spoons came from woolworths

phew. have been trying to remember that all week.

ILoveDolly · 20/04/2007 21:40

when i was 13 i was a right tomboy and loved gerald durrell books which are great reads, funny and feature lots of animals.

ILoveDolly · 20/04/2007 21:43

plus gerald durrell actually did the stuff he writes about so that's non-fiction?! i would otherwise have recomended similar mix of classics, angela carter. big up 'our spoons...' too, which is a great book.

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