Books we loved when we were young

what katy did and what katy did next also heidi was a firm favourite also milly molly mandy with her striped dress and the family at one end street loved those books too

The secret garden, all of the what Katy did books.
The famius five, the secret seven.
I think i preferred the five over the seven.
The waterbabies.

The Whiteoaks Jalna series.
Forever Amber was surreptitiously passed round at school, for the naughty bits, though they’d be tamer than tame nowadays.

Funnily enough, just last night I was thinking of Milly Molly Mandy, and the nice white cottage with the thatched roof….

Lucky girl, I loved The Princess and the Goblin and The Princess and Curdie. Both written by George McDonald. Happy memories- Still have those books, you have tempted me to read them again.

I read them Nanny27, The Joy of Sex also did the rounds, holding the pages at all sorts of angles to work out some of the illustrations!

Famous Five. I still have my hardback copies too
Black Beauty.
Borrowers

The Famous Five and Secret Seven, Georgette Heyer and then Forever Amber, the Angelique books and yes The Carpetbaggers.

As a child, I absolutely adored Enid Blyton’s books. They engendered in me a deep love of reading that still exists to this day. They were banned in our high school library in the late sixties until I campaigned to get them reinstated. I can still remember the excitement of saving my pocket money to buy a hardback edition of a Famous Five story. I still have them all now. When my granddaughter is old enough to appreciate that some of the attitudes were very much of their time, then I shall let her read them.

The Princess and Curdie - loved that book as a child.

And my all-time favourite as an adult is The Land of Spices by Kate O'Brien.

Heidi
St. Clare's
Mallory Towers
The Sea of Adventure
Autumn Term
The Cricket Term
The Attic Term
Peter's Room
The Thursday Kidnapping

These last five were all written by Antonia Forest. She has a large following of adult readers (with good reason).

I remember mild disapproval from my mother as I ploughed my way through Jacqueline Suzanne. Also Sudney Sheldon.
Flowers in The Attic series was passed around at school

When I was young I enjoyed Heidi, the What Katie Did series and Willard Price's South Sea Adventure series.
As a young adult I read all the Jackie Collins books as well as Jilly Cooper and the Sergeanne Golon Angelique books plus many more.

I read Valley of the Dolls but not The Carpet Baggers. I also read Peyton Place by Grace Metalious, Lady Chatterly's Lover by D H Lawrence and The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.

I must have read other books but those are ones I remember.

Secret seven.
Famous five.
Loved them

Read them both many moons ago, I thoroughly enjoyed them.

Yes! I thoroughly enjoyed them!