What were you reading in the late 90s

[Vladandnikki]

Not so much a what we're reading more a what were you reading in your teens. Because I loved the Riders series of books by Samantha Alexander (not the Jilly Cooper novel) and I don't think I have ever met anyone else that read them.

In the late ‘90s I was at my sixth form and getting into literature in a big way. I was reading Evelyn Waugh and Oscar Wilde and dreaming of going to Oxford and becoming an aesthete. Unfortunately I was nowhere near clever enough! I had to make do with talking like an Oscar Wilde character instead - so you can imagine what an obnoxious little twat I was.

In 1999 I would have been 20, which was around the time I discovered Aldous Huxley and Virginia Woolf, who have been lifelong passions.

Zoey speaks out. Some books about American teenagers that lived on an Island off
the coast of Maine.

Bridget Jones and P G Wodehouse

Goosebumps and Point Horror 😀

I’ve been trying for years and years to remember that series and I’ve almost posted on here so many times about it. THANK YOU!

Goosebumps, babysitters club, Fear street, Nancy Drew

Anything Jacqueline Wilson. Anne Fine.

A few years later it was Harry Potter, Twilight and Hunger Games.

Well I was knocking 40 and reading:

The Cat in the Hat
Michael Morpugo
Alfie and Annie Rose
Alan Ahlberg
Richard Scarry

Etc, etc.

Babysitters club and sweet valley high. ----

I think 'Memoirs of a Geisha'.

Point horror

Nightmares series
Christopher pike books.
Spooksville.

Point sci-fi
Point fantasy.

Louise Cooper.

Sweet valley high- and all the other sweet valley series.

Baby sitter club

Mystery kids.

Pony club.

Horse club?

And loads of others.

Few other favourite authors.

Tamora pierce

Christopher Pike

Flowers in the Attic.

Same!!

And babysitter club and sweet valley high

Anything by Stephen king ❤️ been a fan for 40 years!!

I turned 13 in 1980. I had a couple of years reading my older sister’s Mills & Boon, then the next few years were full of Judith Krantz, Barbara Taylor Bradford, a bit of Judy Blume, a lot of Danielle Steel.
When you say the 1990s, I think James Patterson and Patricia Cornwall. Very late 90s I got into Bernard Cornwall, Sam Llewelyn.
Today, it’s all murder murder death death. I’m sick of it really. But I have several series that I follow.

ooh yes, I forgot Flowers in the Attic. My horror author of choice was Dean Koontz. I still have nightmares about the outsider.

I loved Judy Blume I remember starting my periods and wondering when my Mum was going to offer to get me a period belt… I also loved the Twilight series

In the late 90s I was in my 50s and had just discovered online fanfiction. It was quite a revelation...
In my teen years (1960s) I read almost exclusively science fiction... Asimov, Heinlein, Simak, Wyndham...
And Georgette Heyer.
Oh, nearly forgot "The Passion Flower Hotel" which was secretly passed around when I was at school (a girl's convent school) ... about teenage girls at a boarding school setting up a brothel for the boys at a nearby school ...

Also Adrian Moles diary.

Stephen King, Dean Koontz and Richard Layman, I was heavily into horror despite me not long having bought my first house and I’d be spending most of the time shitting myself at every noise there.

In the late 90s, I was studying English Lit at A Level.
books I remember reading back then-Captain
Corelli’s Mandolin, Harry Potter, and I can’t remember much else!
I did go onto study the same at uni; I have read many books but can rarely recall them unless someone says, ‘have you read X?’

I loved them.

In the late 90s I was in my late teens (I turned 18 in 2000). I was reading Stephen King, James Herbert, The Adrian Mole books. In my earlier teens it was Poknt Horror, Famous Five and the Adventure books.

Point Horror and Sweet Valley High! We read To Kill A Mockingbird and The Colour Purple for GCSE English around that time too and I loved both.

Thank you for this thread, it’s made me remember a lot of books I’ve read previously. I loved Dean Koontz, and read some really good Sidney Sheldon books too. Favourites remain The Hunger Games series, and everything by Kahled Hosseini.