Book recomendations for 14 year old girl please.

[Mrs Magpie]

Rumer Godden

Very good largely forgotten writer.

 

[Biddlybee]

I read Rebecca when i was about 14, and that got me completely hooked on Daphne Du Maurier

Is that the book the Hitchcock film was based on?

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Yes

 

[Zorra]

Stuff I enjoyed at 14...

The Bell Jar - Plath (cheery girl!)
Buchi Emecheta's novels
Isabel Allende - got one as a gift and devoured them
Mary Wesley - books I still go back to as emergency comfort novels
Agree on Cold Comfort Farm, genius
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala - still have all the copies I stole from the school library

Now I reckon she might like Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, my friend's teenager loved it.

 

[Lea]

Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer is very good read for teenage girls.

http://www.amazon.com/Twilight-Saga-Book-1/dp/0316015849/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1240842342&sr=8-2

Similar to Twilight is a Certain Slant of Light by Laura Whitcomb:

http://www.amazon.com/Certain-Slant-Light-Laura-Whitcomb/dp/061858532X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1240842403&sr=1-1

Another series in the paranormal genre is the Gemma Doyle trilogy starting with A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray:

http://www.amazon.com/Great-Terrible-Beauty-Gemma-Trilogy/dp/B0023RT03G/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1240842503&sr=1-1

 

[pennimania]

Very good largely forgotten writer.

and one of my favourite authors

I am also going to suggest 'The Greengage Summer' and 'An Episode of Sparrows'.

Also just remembered she adored 'I Capture the Castle' by Dodie Smith. I have just re-read that and it's brilliant.

 

[marshall]

Another vote for Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight series.

My 14 year old daughter has also been getting into graphic novels like Coraline by Neil Gammon and Fray, Joss Whedon.

 

[Looby]

Sophie's World

Fucking dreadful book.

My mates 14 yo posted on facebook that the twilight series were her favourite books ever. I can't think what I read at 14. Probably the obvious like to kill a mockingbird and catcher in the rye. I also loved Maya Angelou's books but I think I might have been a bit older. Not sure whether they're appropriate for a 14 year old.

 

[mango5]

I was going mad for George Orwell, Iain Banks, Graham Greene, Robert Tressell and LOADS of Sci Fi and Fantasy at that age. For younger (at heart) readers I would also recommend the Artemis Fowl books, Herbie Brennan's Faerie Wars, and Phillip Reeve's Mortal Engines quartet I'd also suggest Carson McCullers, John Irving and E.M.Forster.

 

[Saffy]

The mortal instruments trilogy by Cassandra Clare might be worth a look. The 3rd one comes out this summer as well.

Also The Bartimaeus triolgy by Jonathon Stroud, though they may be for younger readers.

 

[Dillinger4]

I was going mad for George Orwell, Iain Banks, Graham Greene, Robert Tressell and LOADS of Sci Fi and Fantasy at that age. For younger (at heart) readers I would also recommend the Artemis Fowl books, Herbie Brennan's Faerie Wars, and Phillip Reeve's Mortal Engines quartet I'd also suggest Carson McCullers, John Irving and E.M.Forster.

That is a good list. I approve.

Don't just go for books that are marketed for teenagers, there is plenty of stuff, for example, George Orwell, that is perfect for reading at that age.

 

[mango5]

That is a good list. I approve.

*phew*

 

[Dillinger4]

*phew*

I have no idea what a 14 year old girl would like to read, really.

 

[mango5]

Not many laydeez in there. I'd second Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and add Jeanette Winterson's early stuff, Margaret Attwood,

Sorry ladies, also Italo Calvino, William Gibson, Mario Vargas Llosa.

 

[moomoo]

The teen has sorted out the following that she thinks your girl might like.


Helen Forrester - By the waters of Liverpool, Liverpool Miss, Twopence to cross the Mersey, Lime Street at Two

Louise Rennison - And thats when it fell off in my hand, Let the snogfest begin, It's ok I'm wearing really big knickers, Startled by his furry shorts.

The teen said she actually lolled when she read those as they were really funny.


Maya Angelou - I know why the caged bird sings

Caroline B Cooney - Burning up (The teen also recommends Mercy by the same author but won't part with it as it's her favourite ever book!)

Sharon Creech - The Wanderer

Elizabeth Flock - Me and Emma

John Marsden - So much to tell you (The teen says it's amazing!)


If you want any or all of them, pm me your address and I'll post them off to you.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Helen Forrester - Twopence to cross the Mersey

That book is also popular at the school.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Regarding Sophie's World I have yet to meet anyone under 35 who likes that book.

 

[moomoo]

Regarding Sophie's World I have yet to meet anyone under 35 who likes that book.

My teen liked it.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

My hat off to her! Mind you, I haven't met her....

 

[brix]

My 14 year old daughter says she can't find anything new to read. She used to be into Jacqueline Wilson but more recently she's enjoyed 'Ugly' by Constance Briscoe, the 'Naughts and Crosses' trilogy by Malorie Blackman and her very favourite, 'Marley and Me' by John Grogan, which I see she's started to re-read for the umpteenth time. She desperately wants to find something new. Any suggestions?

Can't believe no one's suggested Philip Pullman's Northern Lights trilogy. Your daughter may have already read them, but if not they are really fabulous. Like all good children's literature they work on all sorts of different levels and can be enjoyed by adults as well as teenagers. I was given them for Christmas a few years back and I read them all cover-to-cover over a couple of days; I just couldn't put them down. Utterly wonderful.

 

[trashpony]

Robin Hobb is quite good fantasy type stuff which I'd think I'd have liked at her age.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

I think generally 14 year old girls are like anyone else, they like different stuff for different moods. I used to read voraciously as a teenager (still do come to think of it). Sometimes I'd read something undemanding but fun, or something more demanding that required occasionally referring to a dictionary or encyclopaedia to understand fully.

Don't overlook graphic novels. My daughter loved Art Spiegelman's Maus. How about Persopolis by Marjane Satrapi?

 

[Andrew Hertford]

What a brilliant lot you are! Thank you for all your suggestions and how kind of you moomoo, offering to send some to us.

My daughter says she's read some of them before, but we now have a big list of new titles and to start off she'll take it to her school library tomorrow.

I may even add 'Sophie's World' to the list, but don't anyone tell Alex B.

 

[Santino]

What a brilliant lot you are! Thank you for all your suggestions and how kind of you moomoo, offering to send some to us.

My daughter says she's read some of them before, but we now have a big list of new titles and to start off she'll take it to her school library tomorrow.

I may even add 'Sophie's World' to the list, but don't anyone tell Alex B.

 

[Santino]

I'm sure I could recommend a better introduction to philosophy, if you're interested.

 

[Andrew Hertford]

Yes, please do.

 

[Santino]

This: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Think-Compelling-Introduction-Simon-Blackburn/dp/0192854259/

 

[Dillinger4]

Compelling.

 

[Andrew Hertford]

Thanks. Looks good.

 

[DotCommunist]

Thom Clancy's NetForce

or Andy Mcnab.