What was your favorite teenage years book?

[LA Ute]

No one can feel emotional highs and lows quite like a teenager, and Rocky's post about summer reading reminded me of the books I read during the summer when I was between 14 and 18 years old or so. My favorite was "To Kill A Mockingbird." I remember feeling sad when I finished the book because I would miss the characters. Like a lot of people, I suppose I really began to want to be a lawyer at that point too. (Deep down, I think, all lawyers want to be Atticus Finch.)

What were your favorite books you read during your teenage years?

[RockyBalboa]

DragonLance books.....both the Legends and Chronicles series.

I also enjoyed The Legend of Huma.

I didn't get into artsy fartsy books til later on in life. Just didn't care for them. They were too boring.

[ewth8tr]

Stephen King's The Stand was probably my favorite.

[wuapinmon]

Pat Frank, Alas, Babylon.

[DrumNFeather]

Ender's Game

[OrangeUte]

I read the Shanara books by Terry Brooks and enjoyed them. I loved Catcher in the Rye and Catch 22. Early teen years I read Huckleberry Finn several times and have read it a few more times as an adult.

[SeattleUte]

"The Three Musketeers" Read it twice. Also, the longer sequal, "Twenty Years After."

[CardiacCoug]

I really liked The Good Earth -- I read it a couple of times, in fact.

[DU Ute]

"Cry the Beloved Country" Read it twice as a teen, once more since. It reminded me so much of my father and my relationship with him.

[happyone]

I don't know if I have one book that turned me on to reading. I've always been a reader. I do have some favorite authors from my teenage years

Science Fiction - Anything by Heinlien esp Citizen of the Galaxy and The Moom is a Harsh Mistriss

Reg Ficton - Leon Uris - Battle Cry, Armagedon, Mila 18

Non Fiction - Martin Cadin ( wrote about WWII aircraft )

[SoCalCoug]

I read Huckleberry Finn several times as a teenager, so I'd say if there's one book, that's the one.

But I also have to give a nod to Robert Heinlein - I remember the weird juxtaposition I always experienced in his books with the frequent titillation (i.e., Friday, which starts out with a female cyborg being gang-raped) and frequent references to Mormon temples in various extra-terrestrial locations.

[happyone]

I read Huckleberry Finn several times as a teenager, so I'd say if there's one book, that's the one.

But I also have to give a nod to Robert Heinlein - I remember the weird juxtaposition I always experienced in his books with the frequent titillation (i.e., Friday, which starts out with a female cyborg being gang-raped) and frequent references to Mormon temples in various extra-terrestrial locations.

I thought Heinlein got really wierd after Moon. I read them all, but didn't enjoy them as much. I kind of liked looking for the Momon references in his books.

[PaloAltoCougar]

I had two: The Count of Monte Cristo (I envy anyone who can acquire wealth, knowledge and revenge, notwithstanding the melancholy conclusion), and Intern, a nonfiction journal of a young M.D.'s internship. I grew up wanting to become a pediatrician, and the book was very enlightening.

I was also surprised and pleased by wuapinmon's pick, Alas, Babylon. I read that book as a pre-teen and was mesmerized (it's about WW III and the after-effects on a Florida community). As a kid, I was fascinated by the possibility of thermonuclear war and ordered plans to build a fallout shelter when I was ten (this was during the Cuban Missle Crisis); my dad humored me by discussing this at great length, although I'm certain he never intended to follow through with the construction.

[SeattleUte]

I had two: The Count of Monte Cristo (I envy anyone who can acquire wealth, knowledge and revenge, notwithstanding the melancholy conclusion), and Intern, a nonfiction journal of a young M.D.'s internship. I grew up wanting to become a pediatrician, and the book was very enlightening.

I was also surprised and pleased by wuapinmon's pick, Alas, Babylon. I read that book as a pre-teen and was mesmerized (it's about WW III and the after-effects on a Florida community). As a kid, I was fascinated by the possibility of thermonuclear war and ordered plans to build a fallout shelter when I was ten (this was during the Cuban Missle Crisis); my dad humored me by discussing this at great length, although I'm certain he never intended to follow through with the construction.

I loved the CMC almost as much as the Three Mustketeers, but not quite. Milady de Winter was such a great villainess. I still get chills when I see the Duke of Buckingham's moseleum in Westminster Abbey. I too have a weakness for revenge epics.

[il Padrino Ute]

I loved the CMC almost as much as the Three Mustketeers, but not quite. Milady de Winter was such a great villainess. I still get chills when I see the Duke of Buckingham's moseleum in Westminster Abbey. I too have a weakness for revenge epics.

It sounds like I really need to read The Three Musketeers. There is no reason for not having read it.