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    What were you reading at 14?

    I've been an avid reader for as long as I could read. Even before then my favorite toys were books and new shoes. Not much has changed for me in that regard haha, but I saw a question earlier about someone asking for recommendations on books for their 14 year old. Which got me thinking about some of the books I read at that age. A lot of Anne Rice, Lestat was my first book crush. Also had a trip down memory lane with the author Francesca Lia Block she wrote a book called I was a teenage fairy which still sits with me over 20 years later. I also got to grow up with Weetzie Bat which was super cool as she wrote a book about her as an adult that I got to read when I was about the same age as the Weetzie. Anyway I would love to see what everyone was reading when they were younger.

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    8. Faizoo797 on

      Khaled Hosseini lol I wanted to seem very serious and smart. MAN BROKE MY HEART INSTEAD

    12. sectionsupervisor on

      Science fiction; Asimov, AE Van Vogt, PKD, Damon Knight, Harry Harrison, Ray Bradbury

    13. MercerCurse2525 on

      I was reading:

      Interview With the Vampire by Anne Rice – Yes, I had a huge crush on Lestat too. lol

      The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas (huge fan of his books) – Fell in love with gothic romance after that.

      Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne McCaffery – It ended up being my all time favorite series ever. I had a huge crush on F’nor (I know, F’lar was everyone’s favorite, but F’nor was more fun)

    14. missdawn1970 on

      I started reading VC Andrews and Stephen King around age 10 or 11. I re-read Andrews over and over, and King is a very prolific writer, so I was still reading them at age 14. I read plenty of other things too, but those 2 were my favorites for a long time.

    15. PalePerformance666 on

      Mostly fantasy, Percy Jackson, Skullduggery Pleasant, Narnia, The Hobbit etc.

    16. dudesmama1 on

      Everything Dean Koontz. Milder than Stephen King with more (good) dogs and children. My favorites were *One Door Away from Heaven* and *Watchers*

    17. Soupjam_Stevens on

      at 14 I was just about exclusively reading Stephen King and Terry Pratchett, both of whom I discovered at like 12 or 13 and became just completely obsessed with for a few years. I also read Name of the Wind and the first few Song of Ice and Fire books around that age but I *think* I might’ve been 15 before I got to those

    18. GingerIsTheBestSpice on

      Everything i could get my hands on! But also a whole lot of Sydney Sheldon and Jackie Collins, they were passed around and all smelled faintly of suntan oil from laying out at the pool.

    19. twentyfeettall on

      I was 14 in 1998, but I didn’t read Harry Potter until the third book. We didn’t have as many books for teens as we do now, so I read everything in the YA section (which was mostly Judy Bloom, Sweet Valley High, RL Stin’s teen books, Christopher Pike, Babysitter’s Club, etc) and eventually started reading adult books like Stephen King. I think I was really obsessed with the X-Files at that time so I was super into horror/alien stuff, which I’m really not into now as a much older woman lol.

      Edit: oh man, Weetzie Bat!!! I loved those!!!

    20. Lumpy_Bandicoot_4957 on

      Things Fall Apart by China Achebe

      The Bride Price by Buchi Emecheta 

      Half of A Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie etc etc

      Basically, I was reading books waaay too traumatic for my young brain

      I, however, loved classics too. Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, Dracula by Bram Stoker, Jane Eyre, Emma, Wuthering Heights, Journey To The Centre of The Earth (Jules Verne is brilliant). I also liked Enid Blyton’s boarding school series until I actually entered boarding school and realized it was way worse.

    21. Arxanah on

      First half of the year, every Goosebump book that was currently published.

      Second half of the year, introduced to Agatha Christie by my dad.

    24. doritobimbo on

      I reread hunger games constantly. I actually would read it in order of my favorite books, so usually 2-3-1 or 3-2-1. Also got into Wally Lamb that year with I Know This Much Is True

    26. Ranger-ApprenticeFan on

      I’m fourteen now and I’ve been reading a bit of everything, tho I’ve been reading more of Rangers apprentice lately as I find those more interesting

    28. mnwannabenobody on

      VC Andrews, Stephen King, other random horror authors I can’t remember the names of, Sweet Valley High, Christopher Pike, and Fear Street.

    30. dkkchoice on

      I stole a copy of Lolita from the Woolworth store when I was 12. Of course when I was 12 it was 1966 so…

    32. skylerren on

      I’m reading Anne Rice now, a decade later, ahaha.

      I think it was the time of my life that I just couldn’t read. At all. But a little bit before that I kind of speedran things like Vampire Diaries, the Night World by the same author and literature like that. And somehow, never ended up with Lestat.

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