10/18/2026
John Green: ‘I devoured the Sweet Valley High books in the 1980s’
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The American author on being inspired by Kurt Vonnegut, coming late to Jane Austen, and the brilliance of Robert Penn WarrenMy earliest reading memory I remember learning to read with dull stories about Jane going up a hill, but my earliest thrilling reading memories are of series like The Baby-Sitters Club and Sweet Valley High. In the highly gendered reading days of the 1980s, I knew those books were for girls, but I devoured them.My favourite book growing up Besides the girls of The Ba
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