The book that really got me into reading in English was The Fault in Our Stars – a friend of mine recommended it to me and I ended up loving it and several more of John Green’s books 🥰 In general, I was fortunate enough to have some friends in high school that also loved to read. I remember reading more and more in English instead of buying the translated editions, as I got more confident in my language skill level. I did read a lot of amazing books in high school, now that I think of it.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Stephen Chbosky).

Simon VS The Homosapiens Agenda (Becky Albertalli).

It’s a Trilogy featuring vampires in a historical setting and I still own the books as well as I loved the romance in here so much 💕 The second German author that I really loved was Brigitte Melzer and her Vampyr series. I don’t read many German books anymore, but I do have two books that I’m still very much fond of! One is Blutbraut by Lynn Raven, it was my ultimate favorite book for the longest and I still love it so much, so I might have to do a reread someday 🥰 I also love the rest of her books, but I’m not sure if my opinion on her older ones still stands, given that I haven’t read them in a long time. However, after looking back it seemed like I maybe didn’t read nearly as much as I wanted to, but I did read some great books 📚

To be honest High School was my biggest reading slump as I was somehow constantly too stressed to consider reading.

A friend loved the latter as well and when they stopped translating them to German (my young heart was broken) we were determined to do it ourselves 😂 I also loved Claudia Gray’s Evernight books – this was back when vampires were everywhere – and I still own them to this day as I can’t quite let them go! Then there is the Chestnut Hill series (why did they call it Rose Hill in German?) that I loved despite never having gone riding or having an interest in horses … I have no idea why I got so obsessed with them except that I loved the girl’s friendships and was really invested in all of the characters! Lastly, I also loved the Emily’s series about a girl who is part mermaid and part human having adventures in the sea, this might have been my mermaid phase 🧜‍♀️ I had a bigger fairy phase back then and two of my favorite fairie books were 13 Treasures and The Fairie Path. I can’t quite recall when I read all of these books, but here are some of my random favorites that I loved back in the day but probably wouldn’t care that much about if I reread them now because my tastes have changed drastically.