the Gen Z bookshelf
books that remind me of my Gen Z childhood, not necessarily books published 1997-2012.
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created by helenoneverything
last updated August, 2026
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Not sure if this is more about your specific childhood or the childhood of anyone who grew up around this time, but here are some books that I think about for my childhood (I was born in 1998 in Ontario, Canada and so many of the above are relevant to me):
- the Clique books
- the mother-daughter book club series
- among the hidden
- the outsiders (bc everyone read it in school)
- the animorphs books
- the thoroughbred series (I wasn't a horse girl, but I was a horse book girl)
- that series where every book was a different fairy? I can't remember the name!
- the Royal Ballet School Diaries (this might have just been a me thing, but as someone who danced from the age of 3 these book were my life and I so desperately wanted to go to that school!)
- Molly Moon
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