Top 5 favourite books from your childhood/teen years. Mine are in the comments:
Top 5 favourite books from your childhood/teen years.
Mine are in the comments:
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Top 5 favourite books from your childhood/teen years.
Mine are in the comments:
I mostly read Stephen King as a kid but I moved onto mills and boons as a teenager and the Point Horror Point Crime books 😀 xxx
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen has to be one of them.
I still have a very battered signed first edition 😉
Watership down x ❤
Mallory Towers – Flowers in the Attic – Kane and Abel – Magic Faraway Tree
Kane & Abel! Omg it was so shocking!
I used to read a lot of Jeffrey Archer
Oh and I enjoyed Lace and A Woman of Substance as well
He was always good for a blockbuster type read.
@Debbie Me too. And the Thorn Birds. I stole all of my mum’s books.
Oh yes and The Thorn Birds, yes my mum used to read the historical ones by Jean Plaidy and Victoria Holt
1 Moonfleet J.M. Faulkner
2 Survivor, James Herbert
3 Shining Stephen King
4 Ghoul Michael Slade
5 Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
Kid.
1. Famous Five series
2. What Katy Did series
3. Little House series
4. Little Women series
5. Judy Bloom.
Teen.
1. Stephen King – first one was ‘It’.
2. Lace
3. Maggie by Lena Kennedy
4. James Herbert
5. Literally ANY true crime/murder books.
Judy blume forever
Night kites can’t remember who wrote it
Flowers in the Attic
Light a penny candle
The enchanted faraway tree
I loved Forever. Tiger Eyes is my fave.
I read them at school had to get forever from the library school won’t have it cause it contained Sex
I loved all of Maeve Binchy’s
@Lynne that’s why I liked it lol
Did you read the Sweet valley high books bit cheesy now but I enjoyed them when I was 13 xx
@Debbie also stolen from my mum haha
Don’t think they were around when I was young
@Rebeccå that’s why I read it too lol I embarrass the librarian in school asking for it she was beetroot xx???
I loved American authors.
15 by Beverley Cleary was a good one. I wanted to be a Californian teenager
The midnight library series – Damien Graves
The twits – Roald Dahl
Pet sematary – Stephen King
Misery – Stephen King
Murder on the orient express – Agatha Christie
Loved misery,thought the film was rubbish.
@Karen really? I quite like the film
They missed half the book.out, especially the bit where she sledge hammers his ankle. It put me off going to see books that had been made into films. Not sure I’ve seen one since!!!!
They do that in every book adaption, they just can’t fit everything in. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a film thats as good as the book
Stephen King -christine.
Secret diary of adrian mole -sue townsend.
Christine is brilliant.
And of course, Adrian and the lovely Pandora.
@Rebeccå I must have read christine six times -love it.
So gory! I will never forget when his girlfriend choked on the hamburger.
Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll.
The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett
I Capture The Castle Dodie Smith
The Chronicles of Narnia.
Moonfleet by J M Faulkner and The Owl Service by Alan Garner.
I remember the owl service. Moonfleey my husband enjoyed
Moonfleet was the book that got me into reading
The Owl Service is still one of my favourites
Twins at St Clares
Famous five, five children and it, Flat Stanley, Frankenstein, The Diddakoi. So many!
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I mainly read Star Trek books when I was a teenager although I do remember reading An inspector calls when I was in school and I loved it
I’ve never been a sci fi fan, but I was in love with Captain Picard. Lol
The Mary Poppins books, all of Blyton’s Famous Five and Five Find-outers and Dog (sorry I know that’s way over five). And lots of books in Bengali, my mother tongue.
It’s so hard to choose!
Gerald Durrell, My family and other animals ?
Naughty Amelia Jane
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The Little Wooden Horse
Mrs Pepperpot’s Adventures
Thursday’s Child
Omg. Mrs pepperpot. Forgot that one and I even bought a copy fir my little girl fir Xmas! Lol
I loved the Swallows and Amazons books of Arthur Ransome.
1. The Harry Potter series by J K Rowling
2. The Twilight Saga by Stephanie Meyer
3. The Cirque de Freak books by Darren Shan
4. The Wicca series by Cate Tiernan
5. The Uglies series by Scott Westerfield
6. A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
7. The Noughts and Crosses series by Malorie Blackman
8. Anything by Roald Dahl
I know that’s not strictly 5 but I absolutely loved the above and still have many of them ? really loved reading as a child!
I was hooked on the Malcolm Saville Lone Pine series
Yes loved them
Black beauty
The didikoi
Carries war
Grimms fairytails
Then as i got older i discovered
Stephen king and never looked back.but i still hsve all the above books in my bookcase..im 50 yrs old and still love reading the books i read as a 10 yr old.?oh yeah and cant beat a bit of enids famous five
…george.dick.anne.timmy the dog and cant for the life of me remember the other lads name.lol
Yes, I still have my books and lots of my mum’s ?
Anything by John Wyndham.
‘The ??? of Adventure’ series by Enid Blyton were my very first books and they made me feel that books were my friends – they still are. I was in a remedial group because I couldn’t read. One of these books was featured in Jackanory one week, I was six. Borrowed the book from the library and taught myself to read using an alphabet poster I sent off for with Smartie tops. Never looked back. Then all of The Famous Five and suddenly moved onto Stephen King for a short while, they were so easy and quick to read. Favourites as a teenager were To Kill a Mockingbird even though I cried it helped shape who I am, and The Catcher in the Rye. Sorry, a few more than five!
I loved the famous five,and the Narnia books. The magic far away tree and the wishing chair,the wife bought me them for my birthday last year. They never get old.
1. All the Gerald Durrell – I told my mum I was running away to live at his animal park in Jersey.
2. Chalet School by Elinor M Brent Dyer
3. Lone Pine Club by Malcolm Saville
4. Inspector Alleyn books by Ngaio Marsh ( she was a good friend of my English teacher)
Anything by Neville Shute. Fell in love with his writing when I read The and Rainbow and the Rose and discovered the word “halcyon”. My favourite of his though is On the Beach.
Oh I forgot about Neville Shute. Ballet Shoes and A Town Called Alice ♡
the jennings series by anthony buckeridge billy bunter series by frank richards (charles hamilton)
It’s amazing once you start thinking about how many books you have actually read !
What worries me most is that the modern generation just don’t seem to read books the way we used to. Will books disappear?
No I don’t think so, just different authors. If you think J K Rowling and Jaqueline Wilson, there are more books for teenagers now than when we were young, we just moved on to adult books
I do think they read. Kids have to have someone to guide them, I think. My kids both read, not as much as I did at their age though. My mum was avid reader & that made me one. Kids have more options now.
So true I loved the library as a teenager . All teenagers like now are mobile phones laptops games consoles
Books will never disappear.
@Lynne I don’t think that’s true of all teenagers.
Don’t forget children love technology and that’s what an e reader is
Anything by Enid blyton
My books are my pride and joy .i love reading .and kids today dont read enough.i have 3 chidren and i dont recall seeing my youngest(21 yrs old) with a book since he left school.my older 2 love reading and my oldest son is always reading too and encouraging his 2 girls to read
My youngest son doesn’t read, he’s dyslexic.
@Norah.i wasnt having a dig hun.my best friend is dyslexic and she loves to read although she does struggle.i was saying that it seems kids dont want to explore the joys of books.they just have phones glued to their hands and only read whats on fb.twitter etc..
@Sue I know you weren’t having a dig, I didn’t mean to imply that you were. I have 3 other children, the oldest is an avid reader like me, and he illustrates for a magazine. My second son (borderline dyslexic) didn’t get into books until he was nearly out of his teenage years, now he writes his own books. My daughter took her time to get into reading, it has to be something that really grabs her attention otherwise she is into craft work and drawing tattoos. It’s only the youngest that doesn’t read because he finds it so difficult, although he’s not as bad as he used to be.
Enid Blyton famous five, Arthur Ransome swallows and amazons, and we didn’t mean to go to sea, my brothers Biggles books!
Anything I could get my hands on! Luckily most of the places I lived had library.
I read the Denis Wheatley horrors when I was 12yrs old. Loved them.
They frightened the life out of me! ?
@Norah The Haunting of Toby Jugg ‘frightened the life of me’ lol. I was so scared of spiders. But they were terrific, he knew how to write a scary lol.
Sidney Sheldon Carpetbaggers
Oh yes! Scandalous.
I read Savages by Shirley Conrad as a teen. It was horrifyingly good. Just bought it on kindle.
Yes I loved that one too. Harold Robbins was similar to Sheldon
Loved all Enid Blyton. Top 5 would be, Mallory Towers, st Claire’s, Famous Five, Secret Seven and The Mystery of …. also loved The Galliano Circus ones too. Plus any classics, Heidi, Secret Garden etc always had my nose in a book ?
Famous five, the lion, the witch and the wardrobe, 101 dalmatians, sweet valley high and rock star
Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne, The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss, Dune by Frank Herbert, A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle, and Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny.
A kiss before dying – Ira Levin
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole – Sue Townsend
Danny the Champion of the World – Roald Dahl
Flowers in the Attic – Virginia Andrews
Stark – Ben Elton
Love virginia andrews although her ghost qriter seems to have gone away from the likes of flowers and heaven etc.
Cant wait for the new trilogy thats advertised on amazon.hoping that maybe she can return to the original features of v c andrews early books
I loved the Flowers & the Heaven series but haven’t read any of the more recent ones.
Who remembers Apple, the puppy pony? ?
That one must have passed me by!
@Catherine it belonged to the weird, murdery kid, who’s name escapes me (Flowers in the Attic , but probs the 2nd or 3rd book).
@Rebeccå ?? I read them so long ago, I can’t remember the details. They were real page turners though.
I have 3 sisters and we passed them down to each other. Apple the puppy pony is still a running joke. I don’t even know why haha
Teen years? The beginning of my addiction to all things Stephen King!
. Five Children and It.
. The Faraway Tree series.
. St Clair’s series.
. Mallory Towers series.
. The Famous Five series.
Also Harold and Bella and Jammy and me.
Carbonel, little princess, secret garden, ballet shoes, faraway tree, my naughty little sister, then on to Jeffrey Archer, Sidney Sheldon and Leslie Thomas
I bought the Naughty Little Sister books for my daughter. I loved reading them to her. And the Alfie books.
St Clare and Mallory Towers.
Progressed to Dennis Wheatley lol ?
Not much difference …lol
Any Enid Blyton x
Laura Ingalls Wilder.
I wanted to be Laura!
@Rebeccå me too, loved those books.
All Enid Blyton, Black Beauty, Secret Garden, A Little Princess, The Jill pony books. As well as Silver Brumby books, the coloured Fairy books, Ladybird books and then there was the Mandy, Bunty, Judy annuals to name just more than 5 ?
And Jackie annuals♡
Loved the Jackie And Patches and Blue Jeans as well. vaguely remember Look-in magazine. ?
I read anything I could get my hands on. Black Beauty, David Copperfield,Little Women, Mills and Boon, I used to read to my son every night, and I remember most by heart Little grey rabbit, Olga the Polga, Peter Rabbit, The Fantastic Mr Fox, Garfield, Ivor the Engine, Thomas the Tank anything by Roald Dahl.
One thing I do remember from when I was very young was my parents would by me and my sisters Storyteller every couple of weeks, it was a collection which had a book and cassette so you could listen to it and read along with it at the same time
Enid Blyton and a little bit later (11/12 years old) I started reading Terry Pratchett and haven’t stopped.
Thr treasure Hunters – Enid Blyton
Eagle of the Ninth -Rosemary Sutcliffe
Sula (series, cant remember who by)
Charlottes Web – EB White
Midwinter Violins – but cant remember who by
In no particular order
Five Findouters and Dog series – Enid Blyton … of course lol
The Brothers Lionheart by Astrid Lindgren
The Wind On The Moon – Eric Linclater
Nobody’s Boy – Hector Malot
Little House series – Laura Ingalls Wilder
Charlie and The Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
Did anyone read The Clan of the Cave Bear series. Ayla!
yes loved it have all the books
The Secret Garden
one of my faves
Enid Blyton’s Adventure series and Famous Five… Just William…The Wind in the Willows..Jeeves and Wooster … and my auntie had a set of encyclopaedias I loved reading
Secret Garden and Nancy Drew.
Adrian mole…. Agatha Christie. Books …3 investigators… wind in the willows……terry prat Chett
Junk, Melvin Burgess.
Absolutely loved that book! ?
Such a great book! I reread it many times x
@Nicola I first read it at school but have bought it so that I can read it again ?
Flat Stanley (which I’ve recently read with my 6yr old). Anything by Enid Blyton; Mrs Frisby and the rats of Nimh and then in my teens it was anything by James Herbert
Pippi Longstocking, mrs Pepperpot, The Magic Faraway Tree, Ballet Shoes, Famous Five.
Charlotte’s Web
My Friend Flicka
All the Nancy Drew books
Little House on the Prarie series
The Outsiders
My friend Flicka!! Another I’d forgotten. There was another Folly something farm?
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm was another horse one. 🙂
Follyfoot?
@Nicola that’s the one. I looked it up on Goodreads ?
All of the Little House books. 4th grade 1962
Milly molly mandy then The Secret Garden
The lion the witch and the wardrobe. Still have my original copy that was 25p ?
Goosebumps.
Stuff that was lying around the house, paperback detective novels and sagas like Gone with the Wind, Kon-Tiki, and The Bridge of San Luis Rey –not that they were favorites, just that they were what I had at hand.
THE FAMOUS FIVE series
Boxcar kids
Babysitter’s club
Hardy boys
The Wishing Chair series Enid Blyton, naughty Amelia Jane Enid Blyton, then progressed to the Famous Five books Enid Blyton, Enid was my best friend as a young child
The Lion witch and the wardrobe Enid Blyton Fairy stories…many more x
Sherlock Holmes series, Harry Potter, Malgudi Days, Jane Eyre and Feluda series
All roald dahl books..
sherlock holmes..
and other haunted stories in my native language..
I can’t remember that far back.
The magic faraway tree, famous five series, little women, the mysterious Mannequin, guns of navarone
C S Lewis the Narnia series I loved it ! The Midnight Cat ( I think ) Jennie by Paul Gallico and always Winnie the Pooh and House at Pooh corner to make me laugh !
The Famous Five series, Now we are6. Then as a teenager anything by Mary Stewart. Gone with the Wind, The Cry and the Covenant by Morton Thompson
Oh and the Mog series . I read to my children !
All Enid Blyton, My naughty little sister, Pippi longstocking, all Alan Garners books, and the wonderful Flambards series
Flambards! Loved that and the tv adaptation was so good too.
@Lis I loved that too ?
Long time ago. Read the Faraway tree books & Biggles. Then went on to Agatha Christie.
Enid Blyton’s Famous Five, Adventure to Castle Island etc. The Hardy Boys. Nancy Drew.
Here’s one:
Like The Tiger Who Came to Tea!?
Can’t remember pacific books but I really liked Enid Blytons books and as a teen I loved Sophie Mckenzie books
Enid Blyton books were the best. Famous Five and then The Secret Seven. Also enjoyed The Secret Garden and Black Beauty. They were the ideal pocket money spend at car boot sales looking for other stories in the above books. 50p pocket money a week and every 2 weeks walk to nearest car boot with parents and younger brothers. Then back home where I would go to my room and read. X
Judy Bolton series, Pollyanna, Little Women, An Old-Fashioned Girl, anything by Agatha Christie, Anne of Green Gables