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Is there an 'angst canon' of books that teenagers read? [View all]
"There's an absolutely dramatic difference between what girls and boys read at puberty," says Jardine.
"Boys read angst books, so they read Catcher in the Rye, L'Etranger and books like that. Girls read expanding emotion and sensibility books. Jane Eyre, Dodie Smith's
I Capture the Castle, the Brontes… books about difficult relationships.
"It was absolutely staggering how little teenage angst books came up on the women's list."
Men also tend to cling on to their teenage favourites later into life more than women, Jardine's research showed.
"Boys read angst books, so they read Catcher in the Rye, L'Etranger and books like that. Girls read expanding emotion and sensibility books. Jane Eyre, Dodie Smith's
I Capture the Castle, the Brontes… books about difficult relationships.
"It was absolutely staggering how little teenage angst books came up on the women's list."
Men also tend to cling on to their teenage favourites later into life more than women, Jardine's research showed.
http://m.bbc.com/news/magazine-24833198
Have to say this struck a massive chord with me. I read catch-22, the trial, the stranger, 1984, brave new world, the castle, catcher in the rye all when I was fifteen or so. I had a girl at the time who tried to get me to read pride and prejudice. Lord I tried, but couldn't quite finish it.
I have to say as well that the part about men still liking the stuff the read in adolescence is true as well. I think the same thing holds true for music. I still like the stuff I liked then but most women wouldn't be caught dead listening to the shit they liked when they were kids.
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