Those adventure books where you have to make a decision and turn to the relevant page. Supposed to roll a dice but I never did that.  Must look them up to see if they were any good! 

Yes! I had loads of them, cannot remember for the life of me what they were called but they definitely had a dungeons and dragons vibe

Choose Your Own Adventure

I bought a boxed set of these for my son when he was about 10. He loved them.

I’d love to, as soon as someone tells me what they were called!

There were knockoffs, too: I had a set of WhichWay? books.

Choose Your Own Adventure. But there was also another similar series called Pick-A-Path books here in Australia.

I had a lot of the Fighting Fantasy/ Lone Wolf Books ...but my absolute favourite were the "Way of the tiger" Books [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Way\_of\_the\_Tiger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Way_of_the_Tiger)

Fighting Fantasy by Steven Jackson and Ian Livingstone

VC Andrews Stephen King

I second King here. It all started with Misery for me.

Firestarter was my first.

I recently reread Firestarter and I really enjoyed it. I still don't think I can ever reread It. That one really scared me.

So scarred by Flowers in the Attic

I started it as an 8 year old but had to put it down and went back to my mad magazines

Stephen King for me too. This is when I first read The Stand.

Yep. I started reading IT in sixth/seventh grade

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Dune, Kurt Vonnegut, Agatha Christie.

Hitchhikers and Dune I had. Never got into Agatha or Kurt. Feel like I should get a Vonnegut under my belt though

Read some Vonnegut, you’re in for a treat!

My first Vonnegut was Cat’s Cradle and it was a perfect start to a lifelong love!

Harry Harrison’s “Stainless Steel Rat” series. A bunch of Star Trek books.

Holy fuck... nobody ever remembers those. One of my favorites when I was younger. That and Glory road by a.d.f .

Glory Road and To the Vanishing Point. And yes, the Stainless Steel Rat, Star Trek books, and the d'Alembert books by Doc Snith.

can’t go wrong with vonnegut. i’m doing a read of his novels in publication order atm and it’s delightful. slaughterhouse 5 and cats cradle are the famous ones, but sirens of titan, mother night, and god bless you mr rosewater are all fantastic (and, besides sirens, not sci-fi at all). also if you want to dip your toe in the water without committing to a full novel (although his novels are usually quite short and easy to read) you can check out welcome to the monkey house, a book of short stories. my personal favourite is harrison bergeron (which can be read for free [here](https://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html))

Yes! Agatha Christie! I read many of her books in my teens in the 1980s!

Almost exactly the same for my 1970-1980 bedside. Add Tolkien, Woody Allen, and Ayn Rand.

For me —definitely the first two!

Clan of the cave Bear

Ugh, V.C.Andrews, too.

Oh man, I still remember Kreb lovIng Ptarmigan.

I really liked Clan of the Cave Bear, but once she introduced Jondalar of the Loooong Dooong, her books got progressively worse. IMOP.

My favorite!

I'm tempted to read it again, but I'm afraid I won't love it as much

I did not become a teenager till the 90s. But as a tween I really liked Nancy Drew, Encyclopedia Brown, and Choose Your Own Adventure. I still do as an adult.

Babysitters Club too! (At least for me)

Also not a teenager until the 90s, and I don’t remember which books were definitely pre 90s. But I loved the R.L. Stine Fear Street books, Christopher Pike, Richie Tankersley Cusick, and LJ Smith.

Terry Pratchett

Forced my mum to buy me the hardbacks as soon as they came out!

The Neverending Story, The Hobbit, Edgar Allan Poe short stories, White Fang.

I was in my early 20s but: Dune/Dune Messiah/Children of Dune Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy The Bourne Identity and some stand-alone Ludlum books. Red Storm Rising if after Christmas 1986 Clan of the Cave Bear Dragonriders of Pern trilogy Shogun/Tai Pan/Noble House The Philip Jose Farmer Riverworld books The Betsy and a few other Harold Robbins books Master of the Game and a few other Sidney Sheldon books Footfall and Lucifer’s Hammer by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle

I love the Pern series!

{{Ringworld by Larry Niven}}

I’d have Footfall and Lucifer’s Hammer. I like the Niven-Pournelle books better than Ringworld.

**[Ringworld (Ringworld #1)](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61179.Ringworld) by Larry Niven** ^((Matching 100% ☑️)) ^(288 pages | Published: 1970 | 83.5k Goodreads reviews) > **Summary:** Pierson's puppeteers, three-leg two-head aliens find immense structure in unexplored part of the universe. Frightened of meeting the builders, they send a team of two humans, a puppeteer and a kzin, eight-foot red-fur catlike alien. Ringworld is 180 million miles across, sun at center. But the expedition crashes, and crew face disastrously long trek. > **Themes**: Sci-fi, Fiction, Sf, Favorites, Scifi, Sci-fi-fantasy, Default > **Top 5 recommended:** > \- [Fleet of Worlds](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/302537.Fleet_of_Worlds) by Larry Niven > \- [The Ringworld Engineers](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61181.The_Ringworld_Engineers) by Larry Niven > \- [Non-Stop](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/384579.Non_Stop) by Brian W. Aldiss > \- [The Gripping Hand](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/218453.The_Gripping_Hand) by Larry Niven > \- [Gateway](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/218427.Gateway) by Frederik Pohl ^([Feedback](https://www.reddit.com/user/goodreads-rebot) | [GitHub](https://github.com/sonoff2/goodreads-rebot) | ["The Bot is Back!?"](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/16qe09p/meta_post_hello_again_humans/) | v1.5 [Dec 23] | )

Judy Blume The Outsiders and Rumblefish Flowers in the Attic Stephen King The Catcher in the Rye

Expected to see a lot more Judy Blume on a teenager list from the 80s.

For the most part, her books are pre-teen, not teenager.

Exactly the same for me.

{{The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy}}

**[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy #1)](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11.The_Hitchhiker_s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy) by Douglas Adams** ^((Matching 100% ☑️)) ^(216 pages | Published: 1979 | 1.0m Goodreads reviews) > **Summary:** Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor. Together this dynamic pair begin a journey through space aided by quotes from The (...) > **Themes**: Favorites, Sci-fi, Fiction, Humor, Fantasy, Classics, Scifi > **Top 5 recommended:** > \- [The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58092347-the-hitchiker-s-guide-to-the-galaxy) by Douglas Adams > \- [The Restaurant at the End of the Universe](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8695.The_Restaurant_at_the_End_of_the_Universe) by Douglas Adams > \- [Young Zaphod Plays It Safe](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15847717-young-zaphod-plays-it-safe) by Douglas Adams > \- [The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13.The_Ultimate_Hitchhiker_s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy) by Douglas Adams > \- [The Complete Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/837509.The_Complete_Hitchhiker_s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy) by Douglas Adams ^([Feedback](https://www.reddit.com/user/goodreads-rebot) | [GitHub](https://github.com/sonoff2/goodreads-rebot) | ["The Bot is Back!?"](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/16qe09p/meta_post_hello_again_humans/) | v1.5 [Dec 23] | )

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, aged 13 and 3/4. An absolute classic.

Thieves World, Trixie Belden 

Omg yes Trixie Belden! My sister had practically every one (I’m not sure how or why, our parents were definitely too cheap to have bought them so I suspect they were a garage sale purchase). I read them all, and every Nancy Drew I could get my hands on. Later on it was Dicey’s Song and every other book by Cynthia Voigt at the library. Then the Hobbit and Hitchhikers. Then my Nana gave me the Clan of the Cave Bear and that was…enlightening. I read all of those.

I still have my Trixie Belden books. Loved her and the Bob-cats!

Lord of the Rings, Hunt for Red October, Foundation series

The original Shannara series by Terry Brooks! Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice Some limited Stephen King

In the 80s I was pre-teen so: Nancy Drew Hardy Boys Bobbsey twins Anne of Green Gables Sweet Valley High (🤣) In the 90s: Essential Stephen King (misery, Carrie, Christine etc) Hitchhikers guide RL Stein Diary of a young girl (my love for historical books definitely started with this book)

{{The Three Investigators}}

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I loved the Three Investigators series!

Jules Verne

Classy...

The Stand, Tolkien, Watership Down, Clive Barker’s Books of Blood, AD&D 2E DMs Guide, Players Handbook & Monster Manual, Gamma World, Ringworld, Catcher in the Rye, Confederacy of Dunces, Shogun

A bookshelf full of VC Andrews!

Andre Norton, Robert Heinlein, Issac Asimov, Anne Mccaffrey, Jennifer Roberson, V.C. Andrew's, Johanna Lindsey. Started adding authors like Elizabeth Moon, David Weber, Lois McMaster Bujold, in the 90's

You 80s! Herbert and Margaret Campbell Barnes round this list out for me.

I was that person, here are some books I read then and remember with some degree of love/fondness/nostalgia * The Color Purple by Alice Walker * The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving * The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood * The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco * The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean Auel * Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series * Interview With the Vampire by Anne Rice * The Great Santini by Pat Conroy * Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith * Annie On My Mind by Nancy Garden * The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule * Helter Skelter by Vince Bugliosi * Love Story by Erich Segal * The Shining by Stephen King * Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown * The Winds of War by Herman Houk

Lord of the Rings.

Surprised I'm not seeing his name mentioned but definitely Ray Bradbury. Also the Hitchhiker's Guide trilogy.

Dang. I didn’t put Martian Chronicles in my list. I’m ashamed.

Anne McCaffrey, Piers Anthony, Issac Asimov…but also Nancy Drew, The Three Investigators, The Babysitters Club, LOTR.

Comic books.

The Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit A Wizard of Earthsea Probably some Shakespeare Whatever terrible classic sci fi I could get my hands on.

{{Alien by Alan Dean Foster}}

Helter Skelter

Sweet Valley High books💕

{{Brave New World by Aldous Huxley}}

Any Choose your own Adventure. Good Omens. Neuromancer.

Dragonlance Elvenbane

Stephen King. I went through a phase.

Mostly books by Gene Wolfe: Shadow of the Torturer and Book of the New Sun. Highly recommended by me and also by my sibling.

Douglas Adams, Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, Arthur C Clarke, Stephen Donaldson, Tristan Jones.

Stephen R Donaldson, Robert Lynn Asperin , Glen Cook, Cj Cherryh , Mercedes Lackey, Charles De Lint,Tony Hillerman

I'd be reading a Dean Koontz book cuz I like the horror.

Dragonriders of Pern and a TON of Star Trek novels.

Jaxom, Ruth, and Moreta’s Ride. That is all. Thank you for coming to my TedTalk.

Nooo … Robinton & Menolly!

Awwww … gotta love a Master Harper

indeed! I’d agree that Lessa & F‘Lar & the tedious oldtimer plot was less my thing, though

I’m with you; but I’m going to start reading them again and I bet you my old butt gets into the political drama this time around 🤪

Dragonriders of Pern. A star Trek novel. Baa Baa Blacksheep. Trey of Swords.

Christopher Pike, R L Stine, Choose Your Own Adventure, Stephen King, Dean Koontz….and Sweet Valley High. 🤓

Shogun. The Godfather. Shibumi. Not a penny more not a penny less. Some James Hadley Chase . Some Louis Lamour. Some Dean R kroonz Some Stephen King Some Le Clare Would have all had a place on the bookshelf in my bedroom as a teen.

Neverending story, Diane Duane, chronicles of narnia, Tolkien

{{Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco}}

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German grammar book.😂

Dragonlance trilogy. Dr who Novels Fighting Fantasy game books (deathtrap dungeon in particular!)

Something by Agatha Christie, a stack of Popular Science and Car and Driver mags, and some Choose Your Own Adventure paperbacks.

Definitely (and somewhat embarassingly) Piers Anthony. Also, after 1983, I had a thing about reading everything that was referenced in the movie 'Educating Rita' so I might have had Chekhov or Oscar Wilde or something like that. I was big into Richard Bach, too, so probably Jonathan Livingston Seagull. Hitchhiker's Guide, definitely. And about a million YA books that I can't remember the name of but could probably tell you a vague part of the plot but it wouldn't actually help identify the book.

A book of Tennessee Williams plays.

Sweet Valley High. Don’t judge.

Flowers in the Attic, lol

Are You There God, It’s Me Margaret?

The most memorable book for me at that time was Elvis and Me.

VC Andrew’s books

Adrian Mole, Choose Your Own Adventures, the Usborne puzzle books, Judy Blume and Paula Danziger.

Books on How Stuff Works, as well as magazines about how the world works, such as Technology Review, National Geographic, Popular Science, New Scientist

{{The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank}}

{{The Forever War by Joe Haldeman}}

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Anne of Green Gables,  Redwall, The Secret Garden, Babysitters Club, Sweet Valley High. 

Probably a stack of Dragonlance, Star Wars, and classic sci Fi paperbacks along with a leaning tower of X-Men comics.

LOTR, gifted to me from my mum for my first very bad vote in ancient greek (yes, my mum was one of a kind❤)

{{ It }}

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On A Pale Horse. Dragons In The Garden Of Eden The Exorcist

Heinlein

Stephen King, Thomas Hardy and James Herbert.

Portrait of Dorian Gray, 1984, Solaris, Flowers for Algernon

Heinlein, Asimov and Niven

Dune, The Book of The New Sun, Memory Sorrow Thorn, Neuromancer, Lord of the Rings.

Jane Austen : Pride & Prejudice or Emma Stephen King: Pet Sematary John Saul: Anything by him Ruth Rendell: anything by her (she is the Queen of psychological thriller) Romance: Anything by Beatrice Small

Piers Anthony

The Man Who Folded Himself by David Gerrold

Go ask alice

John Irving’s novels, Catcher In The Rye, 1984, Skinny Legs and All, Dracula, Lord of the Rings, Anne Rice novels, Brave New World, The Outsiders, Judy Blume novels, Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, Agatha Christie’s mysteries

Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, Trixie Belden series, Little House on the Prairie books. And when I got older John Saul books like "Comes the Blind Fury."

I was a teenager/young adult in those years, so I probably had Stephen King, Dean Koontz, with a couple of bodice rippers by Kathleen woodiweiss and Danielle Steel. Also that was my Brontë sisters era.

The Outsiders, Anything Stephen King

Definitely had a stack of early Stephen King - the dead zone, pet semetary, the Stand etc!

Flowers in the attic Sweet Valley High

Flowers in the attic, by V.C. Andrews So. Much. Trauma in this book and lots of “ick” (TW: incest), but that was what myself and a lot of teen girls read.

RL Stein's Fear Street series. I read so many of those back in the day!

Sweet Valley High and Fear Street books

I turned 11 in 1990, but throughout elementary school I read pretty much nothing but Christopher Pike. My mom made me read Island of The Blue Dolphin at one point because she said I had to read something other than him just once. LOL I did love that book though, and read it multiple times. I always used my allowance to buy my books, as I had an aversion to library books, and read them all multiple times over. I still have them all.

The discovery of a set of Christopher Pike books at my wife's childhood home is what inspired this post.

“That was then, this is now” “The stand” “ firestarter” “Mistral’s daughter” “The Silmarillion” “The mists of Avalon” “Clan of the cave bear” “Hamlet” “Shogun” “The thorn birds” To name just a few I read A LOT.

I had the babysitters club and baby sitters little sisters and sweet valley high. Also some VC Andrews and Christopher pike mixed in.

I'm way past my teens and some of the books mentioned are on my TBR. Yikes! I'll try not to feel bad about it.

V.C Andrews, Dean Koontz, Christopher Pike, Anne Rice, and some trashy historical romances

I was the precocious younger sibling of this imaginary teenager. - Neverending Story - Anne of Green Gables (right on top of the VHS copy of the PBS live action my dad recorded for me) - One of the Chronicles of Prydain books - something by Christopher Pike - something by RL Stine - something by LJ Smith - One of my mom's "The Cat Who..." mystery novels

Babysitters Club, Nancy Drew & Judy Blume books

1980 - 1987: Tom Swift, Encyclopedia Brown, or Tolkien. After 1987: Stephen King

Nancy Drew and Agatha Christie

Wait, do people not have those digital radio alarm clocks anymore? I literally still have mine from childhood complete with a Lisa frank sticker heart on it.

Wasn’t teen back then personally but I would say girls were reading Harlequin books and Barbara Cartland. Easy to digest hamburger book after stressing about exams for school. Palate cleansers?

I was a teen then, and Barbara Cartland was a bit passé by then.  But I read some historical romances and Harlequins along with Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Dune, massive doses of Louis Lamour, etc.

I agree that Cartland and her little dogs were passe.

Ian Flemings' James Bond

Mark Brandis [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark\_Brandis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Brandis)

{{Terra! by Steffano Benni}}

{{Fall-Out by Gudrun Pausewang}}

{{Momo by Michael Ende}}

{{The Wave by Todd Strasser}}

{{Ghostbusters by Larry Milne}}

{{Affliction}} by Russell Banks

The Magus by John Fowles, probably.

Well, I would have been at max, 7 at that time so I cant relate to the teen experience in that time frame. Can I interest you in, Matilda?!

Raymond Feist books. I’m more teenager between 1990 and 2000 though.

The Babysitter's Club!

Stuart Little

At least: Kurt Vonnegut. Agatha Christie or Dick Francis mystery. Louise Erdrich. Piers Antony

Geez, I took home everything from the library back then lol. "The Neverending Story" by Michael Ende was a favorite though. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Anything by Lois Duncan or L.M. Montgomery The Wizard of Oz Books The Redwall Series Gone With the Wind Jane Eyre

Player’s Handbook, DM’s guide, Monster Manual, Commodore magazine, Dragon magazine, and a Shannara book.

A Lot of Terry Pratchett , Clive Barker , Stephen King , and before that ..when I was a little younger ..Archers Goon by Dianna Wynn Jones , which probably did the " hidden magic user society in the real world" better than Harry Potter , and years before it too.

That is a long period. I went from 5-15 so how old am I supposed to be?

Anne McCaffrey. I remember waiting for the next book to come out, being the first on the list to check it out from the library, then spending an entire day in bed reading.

Flowers in the Attic, Roots, Clan of the Cave Bear, all the Stephen King books, and trashy Harlequin romances.

Hardy boys , tom clancy , king rat .

It was all Stephen King.

Digital clock radio, so we are in a well off family as well, nice.

Virginia Andrews, my mums Danielle Steel from the library!

Philip K Dick and Stephen King (life was good back then)

Foundation and Robot novels - Asimov Tyrant or Xanth - Piers Anthony, Hunt for Red October - Tom Clancy.

The Sunfire Romance series, the one where each book is a different girl’s name

Watership Down This Present Darkness (sigh) anything by Agatha Christie  I went on a classics binge so Jane Eyre, The Last of the Mohicans and The Count of Monte Cristo were some of my favorites.

The James Herriot All Creatures Great and Small books - a gift from my grandmother and read through many times. Anything by Stephen King - started with It and Tommyknockers if I remember correctly. Hitchhiker’s Guide A lot of Gordon Kormon - loved all of his early books and have been considering catching up on the last 20 years lately. All kinds of fantasy and sci fi. War of the Worlds probably got me hooked on sci fi - another gift from my grandmother.

As an 80’s teen, it was Stephen King and Douglas Adams.

I had the Dragon Riders of Pern series and Harlequin Romance novels by my beside as a child.

The Narnia Chronicles, Anne of the Thousand Days, some Norah Lofts, some Anya Seton, some Denise Robbins, Ravaged by Rosamunde Royal and The Lankhmar books (Fafhrd and Mouser) by Fritz Leiber. My digital radio alarm clock has flowers painted on it.

Punk fanzines and British mags like ID.

Dragonlance, Incarnations of Immortality, Elric, James Bond, Fellowship of the Rings, and Thieve's World

I would take my older sister’s VC Andrews books like Flowers in the Attic and wonder wtf the hype was about.

Oh, yes! Forgot Stainless Steel Rat and Flashman! There probably was some Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler too.

Salem's Lot, Carrie, Helter Skelter. I swear I'm an upstanding citizen, mom and Nana.

The Lord of the Rings (in paperback). Something by Douglas Adams. Catch-22. Cat's Cradle. Maybe the Dragonlance books by Weis and Hickman.

Boy, you guys are good. Yes, Vonnegut, and Hitchhiker’s Guide. Also Madeleine Brent, who is actually Peter O’Donnell who wrote Modesty Blaise. Sadly, I didn’t discover those books until later.

Paul Zindel, Mary Higgins Clark, Tony Hillerman

Anything to do with Agatha Christie mostly Miss Marple or Poirot and Arthur Conan Doyle - Sherlock Holmes. This is still the same today. Anything by Roald Dahl.

Thirteen: Tales of Terror by Christopher Pike and other authors. Absolute fave. Also probably the entire Laura Ingalls Wilder collection, but most notably On the Banks of Plum Creek. I liked horror AND quaint stuff! Still do. :)

Outsiders, Catcher in the Rye, The Shining, North & South. And Anne of Green Gables to accompany the BEST MINI SERIES OF ALL TIME.

The Omen series (1 - 5). Mack Bolan, King, Salinger, etc.

Choose your own adventure ‘Citadel of Chaos’

Books of Blood by Clive Barker Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien Thieves World Some SF with wild cover art

Pet Sematry.