Did you ever read a book as a teen/young adult that touched your soul

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But if you read it now, it would probably not affect you in the same way?
For me:
Still Life with Woodpecker
Winters Tale (lol)

White Oleander by Janet Fitch. I used to love it. Read it again recently and it's terrible.

Christopher Pike - Sati

Still enjoy it as an adult - my copy's quite battered now!

Please don’t go by Peggy Woodford

Started my lifelong love of France, I studied it, live there and have a French DH and children!!

A Summer to Die by Lois Lowry.

earless yes to Summer of My German Soldier, really moved me as a kid. Bought it recently and wasn't sure whether to reread, but I did still get something out of it. What struck me most though was how unloved that girl was.

The Colour Purple.

Goodnight Mr Tom and Wuthering Heights.
Have both remained two of my favourite books.

A Traveller in Time. I was just captivated by it. I read it again over Christmas having bought it for dd, still loved it!

Another vote for Goodnight Mr Tom - I remember reading it on the tube, on my way to school and crying.

The Colour Purple - a hard read but my oh my, epic and moving.

Looking for Alibrandi - re-read this a few years back and found myself wanting to slap Josephine, the lead character. As a teen, I was sure that I’d found my literary heroine

Hiroshima by John Hersey

The Handmaid's Tale
Captain Corelli's Mandolin

In fact, Captain Corelli was the first book I stayed up all night to finish at 15 😄

I Am David by Anne Holm.

I loved The Flambards series as a teenager but not sure I would enjoy now.

Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov, it effected me so much, made me question myself and try to change.

I found myself in Oblomov, the main character, in his crippling indecisiveness, his inability to adapt and his resistance to any slight change, his discomfort in dealing with choices he has to make, his deep thoughts and self-talk that are funny as well as tragic. It was fascinating to read about someone who talks to himself just the way I would do If i was in that position. I thought that book "talked to me".
I was a self -discovering late teen.

If i read it again today, I very much doubt I would be that shocked and fascinated.

Lords of the Flies was when I was in my mid teens. I was so disturbed by it for ages, it was so real in my mind.

Wuthering Heights - remains a favourite

The House of Spirits - Isabelle Allende - read it at about 16, fell utterly in love. Got me into the South American slightly magic realism type of book which I read almost exclusively for a few years after, the female characters names are still names I’d call my hypothetical future daughters. I still list it as one of my favourites however I’ve not reread it since I was early 20s (so 17 years or so ) and recently bought a new copy as my last had fallen apart. I’ve been reluctant to start rereading though because what if it’s actually rubbish?

Similarly The World According to Garp - John Irving, adored it at 15 or so, not sure I could handle the whole ‘mans take on feminism’ aspect of it now though.

Daphne Du Maurier “Rebecca” still love it to this day.

Good. So many.

Jane eyre
Great expectations
IT
The code of the woosters
Superfudge
Longitude

Another one for Summer of My German Soldier. Read it at 13/14 i think, before starting GCSEs. Daren't read it again.

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit i read around 10yo. It holds up to re-reading at 39yo and i have hung onto my copy for DS when he is older.

Oooh yes, also “I am David”. That was the first book that made a big impression on me as a kid an amazing book.

Snakeface - Flambards - a joy!
I loved Gone with the Wind.
School ones I liked - Macbeth and Catcher in the Rye (a bit sad they don't seem to do Shakespeare at Higher in Scotland now - correct me if I am wrong any English teachers in Scotland!).
Also the wonderful Lymond series by Dorothy Dunnett.

Another vote for “I am David”! I was about 12 when I read it.

“A Traveller in Time” was my favourite book for years, and I always think of it if I hear “Greensleeves”.

“Flambards” was another book I re-read.

All of Anne Rice- the Mayfair witches in particular. I think id find them a bit lame now if I was to re-read them.

Thos These Is My Words I can still remember seeing it on a shelf in WH Smith and buying it then being captivated! Loved it.