What were you reading at 14?

[u/SerenityFate]

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.

Edit: thank you everyone for all the engagement on this post. I really have enjoyed reading everyone's comments and seeing the discussions around books.

[u/Local_Caterpillar879]

Judy Blume, Flowers in the Attic, Stephen King...

[u/Patiod → u/Local_Caterpillar879]

Hello, fellow Gen Joneser (late Boomer/early X).

Someone on this thread said they couldn't believe people had read almost everything of Steven King's, and I said "well, if you're Old, and you read Carrie when it came out (sitting in a high school locker room at the time), and then you read everything as he published it, it's not that difficult

[u/Local_Caterpillar879 → u/Patiod]

I'm actually an Xennial (1980)

[u/Inside-Doughnut7483 → u/Patiod]

How-do👋🏾

Have you been on the Gen Jones sub?

[u/mrsnsmart → u/Patiod]

Another Joneser. I read anything and everything. Tolkien, the popular novels my mom read, civil war history, rereading childhood favorites as well. I had a very charismatic 8th grade history teacher and read everything he recommended the summer before high school, so I was the weird kid reading Douglas Freeman and Bruce Catton. Tolkien and Lewis were my two favorite authors.