What's your guilty secret reading?

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What book do you read which you know is absolute trash but you love it anyway?
Mine would be Scruples and Lace - my sister's had them when I was about 11ish and I used to sneak in and read the naughty bits!
I finally read them for myself when I was about 17 or 18 and I still love them - will reread them now and again - like a guilty pleasure.
I also love to now and again reread some of my favourites from when I was young - Little Women and The Little house on the praire books - its like comfort reading.
Anyone else have books like that?

I read loads of children's books. Have Malory Towers and St Clare's books on the bed with me . I also read chick-lit which is not exactly high quality reading

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I loved the Malory Towers and St Clare's books! And I have thought a few times of getting them through Amazon to reread - perfect reading in the bath material.
And Chipmonkey if we are talking magazines - then mines is OK - I know it is trash I know the interviews are such crap but I can't stop reading it!!!

I love Malory Towers also would love to take out Mills & Boon from library but stick to my normal highbrow fare

Mills and Boons - now you are taking me back! I used to nag and nag my mum about when I could read them - she finally gave in when I was about 15.
I loved the fact that as soon as you read the back cover you knew exactly how they would end!
My sister sometimes reads the Little Black Dress books for the library - I think they are just M & B for the next generation!

Oh i love malory towers, st claires! Not trash at all!
My very very worst is .....
Angel by katie price
It was in a box of books i bought from the church fair, i was bored one night having read the rest and thought id have a flick if only for entertaiment value!
I actually thought it was okay, in an utter trash kinda way!
Cant believe i just told yous that!

joanna trollop.. gentle read about nothing not taxing or thought provoking just nice.

Harlan Coben the Myron Bolitar series. OMG it's silly but fab.

Thats Life magazine

Chick lit

To be fair, I am a student and spend lots of time reading academic journals so love my lightweight crap which I can read without concentrating and annotating!

Grumpypants, do all harlan coben books fall into this category?
Ones ive read i loved them all!

Oh my itsybitsy08 - Katie Price!!!!!! At least you know that there is probably no chance that she actually wrote it - to be honest I've read Joan Collin's novels in the past and sort of enjoyed them!
Bet it was really naughty though!
I read quite a naughty book recently - though I didn't know it was when I bought it honest!
It was called Priceless by Olivia something I think - and there were times I was reading in the train and trying to hide the pages from the person sitting next to me in case they thought I was reading porn!
And I do also like chick lit - but I don't like stuff that is too fluffy - I like all the Jane Green books.

well, the myron bolitar ones were brilliant but some of the stand alone novels were a bit more gruesome and a bit less fun than myron and whin. Still addictive - poopcorn type novels. Am ploughing my way tho them. Linwood Barclay is good too, but less wholesome iyswim?

The other book on the bed is the latest Joanna Trollope one

I know i know, im ashamed lol!
Was very naughty, wouldnt read it on a train!
I believe you didnt know, thousands wouldnt!

Kate Mosse. I can doze off dreaming of the south of france. Also generally really crap thrillers, you know, when you can spot the ending miles off and every chapter ends with a short recap of the action so far and a really false cliff hanger.

Also Twilight. Renesmee. Nuff said

Grumpypants never read linwood barclay, may look them up? I dont mind a little less wholesome!

No Time to Say Goodbye was brilliant. More creepy and a really good twist. Harlan Coben bit in between Scarpetta and Detectives Agency thing

Jilly Cooper. The original seventies romances, the big 'novels', the lot. Well, except Wicked. That was shit.

Oh azazello and i also loved kate mosse labyrinth - im beginning to think im not as well read as i thought

Penny Vincenzi - I actually really like her books but most people are a bit if I say that! I pick them up in our local Oxfam book shop for a couple of quid.

Does Georgette Heyer count as guilty reading?

She is my ultimate comfort read but I never tell people that I read her. I know lots of MNetters love her though.

God I hated Kate Mosse.

My guilty reads are:
The Famous Five
Ballet Shoes
What Katy Did
Charlotte Sometimes
Daddy Long Legs
The Borrowers

These are the ones I reach for to read in the bath when I am bookless. have also developed a bit of a thing for Georgette Heyer, thanks to MN.

Pulp fantasy and Mary Stewart!

Thanks grumpypants, sounds brill! Will defo check out

SleepingLion - snap!