What shall 14 year old DD read next? What grabbed you at that age ?

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She’s a great reader. Or was till the phone took over. She’s just read Rebecca at my suggestion. She’s done a lot of Agatha Christie, Pride and Prejudice, and a lot of YA stuff. She’d
enjoy Jane Eyre but I think she needs something a bit easier first to reengage her.

I remember really enjoying A Town Like Alice at that age. Any other suggestions ?

Highly recommend How i Live Now - Meg Rosoff - especially in our current circumstances!

Try her in Virginia Bergin who runs the world (epic book about a time where females are in charge) she also wrote the Rain series which are fab. They are YA and very good.

Also anything by Holly Bourne is good and feminist.
I think I got into John Wyndham at around that age.

I also LOVED Behind the Scenes at the Museum (Kate Atkinson) at that age

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Secret History by Donna Tartt

I enjoyed Michael Crichton at that age.

thanks for all these great suggestions. Some of them she's read already (the Meg Rosoff but that was a hit with DD so good call). And yy to Virginia Andrews - we were all obsessed with My Sweet Audrina at school and various other ones that were about being locked in an attic and incest - I'll probably let her friends introduce her to that one .

But loads of the rest in my shopping basket (will try to get them all from the bookshop if they are still doing deliveries). Choccy I've looked for the Helen Dunmore Burning Bright but can't find it. Could it be by someone else?

My friends and I were hooked by the Gossip Girl books and the Mates Dates series at that age.

Noughts and crosses and the His Dark Materials series were also popular.

I loved a Town Like Alice too!!!
My DD absolutely loves the School for Good and Evil series.
Animal Farm
Tess of the d'Urbervilles

I loved the James Herriott books at that age.
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn - Betty Smith was a favourite of mine too.

Looking for Alibrandi

Tomorrow, When the War Began (series)

Helen Forester's books starting with Tuppence to Cross the Mersey
Stan Barstow A kind of loving
On trashy notes we devoured Jilly Copper, Thornbirds and North and South at this age.

I'm finding this thread really nostalgic and will add;
Molly Keane
MM Kaye
PG Wodehouse
Scoop
Cold Comfort Farm
Diary of A provincial lady
Mazo de la Roche

Definitely I Capture the Castle!
Eva Ibbotson's YA books
The Flambards series by KM Peyton
I loved the Cazalet Chronicles at that age
Sisters of the Quantock Hills

Oh and Antonia White's Frost in May quartet are beautiful books for intelligent, sensitive teenage readers

Thomas hardy.
Shakespeare.

From 10 I read a lot of cathrine Cookson. Cos my mum had them all.

schoolreadinglist.co.uk/reading-lists-for-ks3-pupils/suggested-reading-list-for-year-9-pupils-ks3-age-13-14/

Our Lady of the Flowers. I'd finished reading Kerouac and went on to Jean Genet.

Bali Rai - fantastic author! I liked (un)arranged marriage.

Robert Swindells, I read a lot of his books at that age. I remember Brother in the Land.

The shell seekers by Rosamunde pilcher. Favourite book ever, I reread every year.
Some thing different The Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch.
The house at Riverton by Kate Morton.

I checked on my Kindle and the Burning Bright I mean is definitely by Helen Dunmore. Strange though, because I read it years ago, and couldn't remember the name and had to search for ages to find it again on the Kindle. There are 2 pages of burning brights books!
The first one that comes up is a Tracy Chevalier book which is ok as well.

Not sure whether they'd be a bit old for your daughter, but she might like to try something by Heidi Dwain or similar?

Swain, not Dwain!

Anne McCaffrey
Dorothy L Sayers
Georgette Heyer
Bill Bryson
Laurie R King
JD Salinger - 'Catcher in the Rye' is the ultimate teenager book!
Erin Morgenstein - 'The Night Circus'

Thanks I’ll look again for the Dunmore Burning Bright.

And fire Frost In May is my all time favourite book. I loved it as a teenager despite having no familiarity with convents or converts or Catholicism. I hesitate to give it to DD - if she doesn’t love it like I did I’d feel bereft.