We're all a product of who comes before us.
So the question I pose to you is who made you the writer you are today? Who influenced you? In short, who do you love?
For me, when it came to books I read as a teen, it was often John Irving. I loved The World According to Garp, and that led me to read more of his writings. The Hotel New Hampshire. And especially A Prayer for Owen Meaney.
Earlier in my teens, it was Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath comes immediately to mind, but I loved so much of his story telling.
How about you? Who do you love? Who made you the writer you're becoming?
I love Piers Anthony fantasy. I grew up on Barbara Cartland romance Christina Sky paranormal romance and got addicted to David Weber Sifi. I loved Agatha Christy mysteries and Lilian Braun cosy mysteries. I studied Hemminway to learn how to write more concise without adj and adverbs. If I could learn to grab a reader and hold them like Stephen King, Id be so happy.
The first books that impacted me as a small reader were My Teacher Is an Alien (and subsequent books) by Bruce Coville, The Giver by Lois Lowry, and The Diving Bell by Todd Strasser. Another major influence was RL Stine (Goosebumps first then later Fear Street).
Definitely Ursula K. Le Guin and Anne McCaffrey. Thanks to my Grams Bobbi!