What's your guilty secret reading?

[Snooks14]

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?

Charlotte Sometimes is a truly brilliant and haunting book.

We share a list Janite, all yours are on mine too.

Anything and everything Agatha Christie. It's utter trash but I'll read it again and again.

Mind you I reread all my books .

Humphrey - you are clearly a reader of v good taste! What 'adult non guilty' books do you like then? Am looking for more inspiration.

Robertson Davies, he is wonderful. I am always evangelising about him on here. Have you ever read any?

I am also obsessed with Jane Austen.

I read childrens' books - mostly Jacqueline Wilson and Francesca Lia Block. Loved them when I was a child/teenager and still love it. It just feels so cosy and comfortable and uncomplicated.

I also find myself reading a lot of far-fetched historical fiction, usually with rather a bit of bodice-ripping and swooning. The sort of stuff which uses a sophisticated cover and grown-up narrative to pretend to be high-brow but really it isn't.

Just downloaded MB no 5 and The Innocent - - try the library for the Barclay stuff, think the latest is still in hefty hardback. (I always justify ebooks by not physically handing my card/ cash over )!

Never heard of R Davies - please tell me more. It goes without saying who my obsession is!

RD is wonderful. Wise, witty, erudite and hilarious. I can't praise him enough. I would read The Salterton Trilogy first, it contains my favourite character in fiction. Unsurprisingly named Humphrey Cobbler.

There is no getting away from Austen in my life, I must read them all at least twice a year. Mansfield Park is my favourite.

Azazello - I love the Twilight books! I got Breaking Dawn for Xmas and seriously could not put it down and I was so down when I finished it - couldn't believe that was it all done!
DearPrudence - I love Rupert Campbell Black - he is my favourite character ever! Think the best Jilly Cooper one is Rivals - some of the best one liners ever - I took it on my honeymoon with my ex and read it twice - which said a lot for that marriage!
And Dearprudence - you didn't take that name from the Jilly Cooper book by any chance!!!
And Bluebump I also really enjoy Penny - but I found the latest one about a car crash a bit tedious to be honest - I skimmed through a lot of it.

I am a secret Horrid Henry fan. In fact I think I would quite like to adopt him.

Twilight books and Marian Keyes. The shame

Anything by Susan Howatch

ditto Ruth Rendell/Minette Walters-I like a good murder, me!

The innocent is brill! Good twist!
Ill try the libary, hardbacks are a tad expensive!
I get most of my books from the church were i take dd to playgroup - they have boxes and boxes, any 3 for 1 pound, some new ones and hardbacks too! Last time i got 10 pounds worth and if i bought them new it added up to just over £400
Im not that hi-tech yet to start downloading!

Snooks - yep, Prudence is probably my favourite of the romances and inspired my nickname! Also totally love Rivals. I get that giddy excited feeling when I allow myself to re-read again.

Love Winnie-The-Pooh as well.

when I was pregnant and my mind was REALLY woolly, I read something by Patricia Scanlan my sister lent me, but by god it was crap.

Dearprudence, thought it might have been Souixie and The Banshees.

I had wooly pregnant brain too. The only books I could focus on and enjoy were by Sophie Kinsella or Marian Keyes. And the trashy women's magazines the cleaner would leave behind (Chat, OK, Take a Break etc).

OMG, Robertson Davies is absolutely wonderful. He is brilliant. Please everyone read him when you're feeling in a reading mood! The cornish trilogy and the salterton trilogy are both absolutely wonderful.

HC- I had the same wedding motto/reading as Maria in the Cornish trilogy. so far things are working out okay though

All my favs are are starting to pop up on here, ruth rendall, minette walters, patricia scanlan!
Maybe all my reading should be a guilty secret,
Ian rankin,
Richard layman,
Dean koonz,
Karin slaughter,
Tess gerritsen,
Nicci french etc
Although i do read some proper stuff too, honest!

Black Lace.

Oh, and the Chalet School.

DrivenToDistraction, I must agree about Agatha Christie, and shame on me for not mentioning that. It's the delicious snobbery which does it for me! There is the same feeling from James Anderson's detective Wilkings series. Mwah.

And I guess I ought to throw in Wendy Holden, as I don't believe anyone else has mentioned her yet.

Wendy holden! Now theres one i forgot! I have read a couple of them, all came free with magazines! Fab for in the bathroom, absolute trash but strangley addictive reading!

itsybitsy08 - I don't think any of those authors you mentioned are a guilty secret - Tess Gerriston is brilliant - I've read quite a few of hers and also like Karin Slaughter as well.
Dean Kooznt is not bad but I find him a bit wordy at time.
And I'm about to start a Nicci French one - The Red Room - have you read that one - any good?

Oh god, Wendy Holden. I see that and raise you Rachel Johnson.