Can you list your Top Ten book suggestions for my 14 yr old bookworm?

[reddhead]

My daughter is 14 years old and has moved on from teen fiction to more adult books. However, there are so many great books out there, I don't know where to start. I don't want to make choices for her - she loved the Lord of the Rings trilogy and To Kill a Mockingbird so I think she will have varied taste.
Can you suggest your Top Ten books for her to try? Thank you!

[MarkRae]

She might like Ben Elton. Start her off with Stark and, if she likes that, suggest she reads all the others in release order...

[sandyRoe]

Two by Waugh that i have read and reread are Scoop and The Sword of Honour Trilogy. They're both laugh out loud in places.

[giveup]

At that age I used to love Agatha Christie but that was a long time ago. Why not try Terry Pratchetts Discworld books.

[owdhamer]

Freud on course, a witty look at life from one who lived it to the full

[Philtaz]

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time and Life Of Pi would be my recommendations.

[sandyRoe]

Is that Clement or Sigmund? ^^^

[Buenchico]

Quality literature doesn't have to be serious.

What about the funniest book ever written, Three Men in a Boat, or any of P G Wodehouse's 'Jeeves' books? Or, for something more modern, anything by Douglas Adams.

[annadomino]

Terry Pratchetts earlier books, my lads loved them.

[owdhamer]

Clement, sandyroe

[scotman]

Something like 'The Stars Tennis Balls' by Stephen Fry might interest her. It is a modern reworking of 'The Count of Monte Cristo' and I found it very entertaining.

[Ellipsis]

My wife loved Georgette Heyer at that age and (much more recently) we know another young female bookworm who loved them too ... start with "The Grand Sophy".

[Buenchico]

Those other posts weren't there when I started typing. It's good to see that others like a good laugh!

[reddhead]

You're all a great help so thank you, some great ideas there. Keep them coming!

[tommy-h]

Suggest fahrenheit 451,catch 22 and anything by agatha christie or wilbur smith for escapism.

[starone]

Terry Pratchett wrote some of his books specificaly for teen-agers (not the discworld ones.) I think they were about the carpet people. I know I read them and enjoyed them as much as the discworld series.

[scotman]

If you want to make her head hurt give her 'The Third Policeman' by Flann O'Brien. :-)

[sandyRoe]

And At Swim Two Birds by the same author.

[sandyRoe]

And in the unlikely event that you wanted to put her off reading for life then Finnegans Wake should do the trick.

[shaneystar2]

I was fourteen donkeys years ago but sandys suggestion of Evelyn Waugh is good ,include Brideshead Revisted and A Handful of Dust.
Anything by George Orwell,Salinger .The Great Gatsby .Lord of the Flies .
Things like The Stars Look down by A J Cronin and books by Howard Spring who is mostly forgotten now but brilliant .
Laurie Lee ,Cider with Rosie and As I walked out one Midsummer Morning .
Hemingway .Agatha Christie .

[scotman]

Not forgetting the nuclear option of 'Puckoon' by Spike Milligan.