theguardian.com/books/2026/oct/16/john-green-i-devoured-the-sweet-valley-high-books-in-the-1980s John Green: ‘I devoured the Sweet Valley High books in the 1980s’
At 16 this writer read Toni Morrison's Bluest Eye, Sula and Song of Solomon back to back and stopped finding literature distant and slightly dead. Years later, Holden Caulfield went from whiny rich kid to a character who shattered them.
— via The Guardian: Culture, John Green