Do you remember reading any of these books as a teen in the 70/80's?

Question

Go Ask Alice
The Chocolate War
My Side of the Mountain
Bless the Beasts and the Children
I am the Cheese
Are You There God?,It's Me, Margaret

What othere books did you read way back then when you were growing up?

Answer 1

I remember all those titles. I specifically remember reading Go Ask Alice and My Side of the Mountain. I purchased My Side of the Mountain for my daughter a couple of years ago. I also read Island of the Blue Dolphin back then and bought that for my daughter too. Did you read Sunshine? Or That Was Then, This is Now? Jonathan Livingston Seagull. The Hiding Place. The Diary of Anne Frank. I was an avid reader. I read so many, many books. All of the James Herriot books. So many books, so little time...... (-:

Answer 2

My Side of the Mountain is still one of my favorite books ever. I make a point to read it at least once a year.

I've also read Go Ask Alice, and Are You There God... but I haven't much desire to re-read those.

Other books/authors I read way back then (pre-teen age, for me) include Tolkien, Weiss & Hickman's Dragonlance books, other Judy Blume (Superfudge was always a fave from her), Stephen King, C.S. Lewis, Tove Janson's Moomintroll series... ahhhh the list goes on and on... ohhh another fave to this day: The Little Prince by Antoine de St. Exupery.

Answer 3

Don't remember reading anything on you list. Stephen King was really getting into gear. Little House on the Prairie Books. JR Tolkein Hobbit books were the rage. Comic books were still biggies along with Snoopy, Calvin & Hobbes. Mystery Books - total Sherlock Holmes revival. Katherine Anne Porter & Dorothy Parker were the classics to know. Used to think the turn of the century was super distant into my future...can't believe we passed that "way back when."

Answer 4

Oh Wow- You just took me back and I don't know if I was ready to go there yet. When I read your question and saw those book titles, especially Go Ask Alice and Bless the Beasts and the Children, it was like I went back in time. I hadn't remembered that time frame of my life yet. I'm hearing the song to the beast and child one right now. From the movie, I guess.
Thank you so much. I'm gonna sit back, close my eyes, and have memories now. Wish me luck.

The Boxcar Children was a good one. Remember it?

Answer 5

I also read My Side of the Mountain by Jean Gorge at least once a year.
Also read.The Runaways, Flight of the Grey Goose and The Painted Tent: by Victor Canning. A Mid Summer Nights Death: by KM Peyton.Flambards , Edge of a Cloud, Flambards in Summer :by KM Peyton. The Hill of the Red Fox by Allen Campbell McLean. The Adventures of the Mad Scientist Club :by Bertrand R Brinley. Mandy :by Julie Edwards. Castaway; by Lucy Irvine. and many many more one year I actually read one book a day. didn't do much else.

Answer 6

I read a lot of the classics. Also, Tarzan of the Apes(and other Edgar Rice Burroughs), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and The Hardy Boys series.

Answer 7

Wow... yes. What about Tiger Eyes, Blubber, Fifteen, Jean & Johnny, Sister of the Bride, The Luckiest Girl, and the all time classic - Forever by Judy Blume.

Answer 8

I read Go Ask Alice. Papillon? Valley of the Dolls. Flowers in the Attic (not sure of that title, but sounds familiar). Can't remember too many others.

Answer 9

I read Go Ask Alice, but that was in the 90s. I wasn't old enough to have read it in the 80s.

Answer 10

Jonathan Livingston Seagull, and I loved most of Judy Blume's stuff; still, I got a lot of pleasure from reading anything by Robert Heinlein.