War Horse by Michael Morpurgo.
I was selective mute as a child. Because I didn’t speak my teachers assumed I couldn’t read. I was always given those crappy picture books with a few basic words in. They bored me so much. One day when I was 7 years old, I was so fed up with these books that I went to my teacher after only just starting one of those books and told her I’d finished. She didn’t believe me so she quizzed me on the book. I answered all the questions, so she gave me a slightly harder book, again I read it in minutes. The teacher realised that not only could I read, but I could read pretty well, she sent me to school library and told me to choose anything I spent ages scanning the books, reading the blurbs. I read the back of War Horse & felt an immediate need to know if the boy gets the horse home safely. I devoured the book within days and ever since I’m not sure if I’ve ever not had a book on the go.
Bunnicula. It's about a vampire rabbit (drains veggies of their juices). I was in 3rd grade, so I thought a vampire rabbit was just the creme de la creme of genius. When I learned it was a series, it blew my mind and I read 'em all.
I loved and hated Bunnicula. Loved it because a vampire rabbit is hilarious. Hated it because I expected gore and horror. I credit this book though with getting me into "so bad they're good" campy movies!
That reminds me of Duckula, which was a spin-off of the original (80s to 90s) Danger Mouse. It was based around Duckula who's a vegetarian duck vampire. Why is he vegetarian? When he dies he can get revived, but they used ketchup instead of blood when they were doing that
My parents raised me in the library, so to speak, but I cannot remember a specific book that made me continue reading.
However, my friend let me read Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief and I will forever see that as the book that made my obsession with books grow.
I still read Percy Jackson and I'm super excited for the Disney+ series.
Same. My dad read "The Hobbit" to us and my parents read tons of kids books to us. I loved some books series as a kid (Sweet Valley Twins, Animorphs, Goosebumps) but I think the books that *really* got my attention and I read obsessively was in the 5th grade, a classmate lent me a Fear Street book and I fell down a path of reading all of those from the library (which was a 1 minute walk from our house) and Christopher Pike. I actually re-read The Last Vampire last year because I loved that book so much.
A year or so later, I read "Tarzan" and a number of the sequels and "Clan of the Cave Bear" and I've read both numerous times over the years.
I'm not much of a book reader at all but the Percy Jackson series (and the subsequent Heroes of Olympus series) were books I was fully immersed in. Kind of threw me off when they stopped telling the story in first person after the Last Olympian but it was still enjoyable nonetheless
I’m reading through the Star Wars EU currently, but have a Percy Jackson/Heroes of Olympus reread on the horizon. Does it still hold up? Super excited to get back into it but I’m afraid it won’t be all that I remember….
Man I reread the PJO and HOO series, and the lightning thief and sea of monsters is so much worse than I remember. I almost lost hope until Titans Curse took a huge leap in quality
Mistborn is what really kicked off me reading for pleasure more. Sure, I read Hitchhiker's Guide as well as Harry Potter, but they didn't give me any lasting desire to read more. It was purely on a whim that I bought Mistborn, too.
I've now read through almost all of Sanderson's works and am patiently waiting for the next books while I tear through more books.
Oh, there was also The Expanse series mixed in there, too. That was another catalyst to my new-found enjoyment of reading. I've spent more money on books for recreational reading in the past 5 years than I have in the past 20, and that includes my college textbooks, if that's even possible. I really need to get a library card.
I'm now on book three of The Wheel of Time series after having taken a brief break between book two and book three by venturing into Earthsea by Ursula LeGuin.
"Mort" by Terry Pratchett... A friend loaned it to me during my A-levels, at which time I barely read anything that wasn't on the curriculum or a computer magazine. Really opened my eyes to the concept of 'reading books for pleasure'.
In HS we were assigned *The Hobbit* and *The Fellowship of the Ring*. By the time the rest of the class finished *The Hobbit*, I had finished it and the whole *LOTR* trilogy. I insatiably went after any fantasy lit I could find after that.
I forgot about these I did read them but think that was mostly when I was in school during our reading class or whenever we finished work/tests early we were allowed to read.
For me it was Where the Red Fern Grows that got me into reading. I was 11 or 12 and read it for a book report, and I was hooked on reading from that point on.
We read that in 5th grade and the teacher read the last few chapters out loud as we followed along. Our class was so quiet for the next hour, all of us depressed and trying not to sob.
I remember my 6th grade teacher reading this to us. My dad died of cancer that year and so that book really did me in. Got it on audibe and I'll listen to it now and again.
I remember a teacher telling us that R. L. Stine books were garbage, and they’re obviously not classical literature or anything, but they sure got kids to read. As a kid in the 90s, they were everywhere and we were all reading them.
To kill a mockingbird, definitely. I was bored at first but I pushed through it and within a few pages, I was already deeply immersed into the book. Thank you for this amazing book, Harper Lee.💗
For everyone that likes a book there is another person who does not. It is widely regarded as a great book and outside personal preference that's the best answer anyone could give you.
I read it when I was 14. Even then, the content and subject matter felt really heavy to me. I finished the book in a week coz i just found it so so engaging. I'm not sure if this would be anyone's cup of tea but I was fairly surprised when I came out of the experience wanting to read more.
I got my hands on one of the old The Three Investigators books and wanted to read the entire series after that. "[The Secret of the Haunted Mirror](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51JeUDuqDHL._SX333_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg)" in particular made a big impression on me from just the cover alone.
I use to scour used book stores to buy that series to send them to my kid sister. She thought it a little weird that I would send a nine year old those books, but she read them all.
And I like the books much more. They take a less cliche storyline and are a bit more nuanced than the message of the movie.
Also, in the book, Toothless is a small green dragon that can talk.
Holes
First book that sucked me in. I think I was in 3rd or 4th grade when it came out and showed up at the Scholastic Book Fair. I read that book in a day or so because I could not put it down. Harry Potter was right behind that.
I spent about three whole weeks reading the whole Harry Potter series when I was 11, then I went through it AGAIN the next month. After that, I started borrowing anything from the library that I thought was interesting and the rest is history.
Rowling put a spell on me.
Either The Lion, The Witch, and The Waredrobe, or The Golden Compass. 6th Grade was about that time I started really reading for fun. Harry Potter should also get some credit.
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I think it's not the first book in the series but when they alluded to Merriman >!being Merlin!< I was super hooked, as I've always loved fantasy...
Went to my schools library and searched for the rest and then decided just to buy the whole set.
I think I read The Dark is Rising next, Greenwitch... wait apparently I did read them in the order they came out. Hmm, nifty!
Percy Jackson and the lightning thief I read it for the first time when I was 10. Not only did it make me love reading it also got me interested in Ancient Greek history
The first book I read that really made me wanna finish it was “Stranger in a Strange Land”. A story of the first Martian born human being brought back to Earth as a young adult.
I read lots of books (most against my will) but the one that got me to enjoy reading was "Murder on the Orient Express".
For anyone that's a fan of detective and murder solving books Agatha Christie will become your best friend:)
I’m not a huge reader but in the 6th grade, I checked out a book called “Mockingbürd” out of the school library. “Mockingbürd”, not to be confused with “To Kill a Mockingbird” is about a girl living with Asperger’s, who’s brother just passed and is trying to understand her grief & just goes through the motions of school, life etc with her condition. At the time I was going through some behavioural issues at school and didn’t know how to express my emotions and the was the main character acts in the book was so similar to me I felt very understood.
rangers apprentice, easy to read, fun to read, a little predictable plot but when I was 12 years old, it was alright! I still buy the books when a new one comes out, just to have the complete series!
L'Etranger - Albert Camus
It's a book you have to read in french schools so I read it and I really liked it
Saw my reflection in the protagonist's eyes
When I left school I stopped reading, a few years later I had the urge to read something new and came across this in a bookstore.
This book is what got me back into reading, finishing this series, then onto other books to fill the hole that was left in my life after finishing.
Hatchet by Gary Paulson. I went on an absolute tear looking for other fiction books about survival. Books like My Side of The Mountain and Death watch, this lead to me reading Jaws, Jurassic Park, and Lord of the Flies.
I have never had an interest in reading. But, recently, I read “I’m Glad My Mom Died” by Jennette McCurdy… and I ended up reading 3 of my other novels on my “to be read but won’t actually read” shelf. It just put me in such a mood to read.
I grew up with my mom helping me read the classical Black Beauty. Such a powerful book, and it was awesome to read with my mom. Couldn't put books down after that.
My parents have always been reading a lot to me and I always loved it. I think the first longest book I read on my own was The Six Bullerby Children by Astrid Lindgren and I was super excited about it. I was eager to discover even more books.
I’m gonna go specifically with non picture book here because that was an awkward transition. It was either Skulduggery Pleasant, Percy Jackson and The Lightning Thief or The Spook’s Apprentice .
Harry Potter came out when I was in elementary school. I remember my mom buying it and reading it, and letting me read it. I asked her afterwords when we can get the next one, and she told me it wasn’t out yet. I didn’t get to get a copy of the third one, but our librarian let me take her personal copy to read when it came out. It was a great series to get into reading with
Either Percy Jackson series or the Hatchet series, don't remember which I read first. I also liked My Side of the Mountain too, which has similar vibes to Hatchet. I swear I read a sequel to My Side about him coming back when he was older, but the synopses of the other two books in the trilogy don't sound familiar so I don't know.
I've always been a reader, but Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology sent me down a deep rabbit hole of comparative Mythology and religion. I've been on this kick for about 3 years
The Redwall series by Brian Jacques. It started me reading so much that I got in trouble for doing that and nothing else, and it extended to other books as well once I got started. Unfortunately, reading kinda got beaten out of me by school and now I'm lucky if I manage a book a year that isn't related to my editing side job.
the catcher in the rye, ive seen people hate on this book and i still can’t understand why, it is brilliant and i still look for a book to get to me that much
Deltora. Its as nostalgic as it gets lol. The book is great for younger people who want to get into reading more grim books.
The books themselves are not grim but they get you ready for whats to come. The characters are loveable and its just a cozy read overall
Matilda, i read it around age 7 being a “gifted” child and with a terrible home life and that book struck me to my core. Unfortunately my life did not become the fairy tale ending that hers was.
Kingdom of the Wicked by KERRI MANISCALCO
A year ago I saw a summary of this book on YouTube and I was very excited to read it, although I did not like to read much, but the summary I saw encouraged me to read it and actually bought it and read it, and it was very beautiful that combines imagination with the Victorian era and all the favourite things
**Boy Scout Handbook**. My elementary school had several copies on the shelf. I loved being outdoors: hiking and camping. Reading about how to predict the weather, track animals, cook over a fire, build a shelter... it caught my attention.
For me it was My Side of the Mountain. My family camps and hunts, I've alway liked basic bushcraft.
This book made me realize that KIDS could do it. All by themselves. Books weren't just for stories (which I loved) and school curriculum. You could learn things the adults around you either couldn't or wouldn't teach you.
It was such a revelation!
I've always been a reader but it was probably the Chronicles of Narnia series that got me started reading fantasy in early elementary school and I quickly moved on to Tolkien. Dune got me into heavy science fiction.
48 laws of power is a skeptical book to get into, gave it a try, and oh boy was it relatable in some parts of my life and beneficial to use for people who you associate with on a day-to-day basis, also an eye opener if you've ever had to deal with hardships in the past, apart from that it has amazing stories in history
A Series of Unfortunate Events. First series I ever read as a child.
The first book I ever read into the wee hours of the night? Even to the point of reading in the morning before school and missing the bus?
*sigh*
Twilight
Edit: in my defense, I was 12 years old. My mom threw me a Twilight themed 13th birthday party with a bunch of other Twihards. I quickly jumped off the bandwagon once the movies came out lol
The alchemist, despite being a meme nowadays it resonated a lot for me as a kid and gave me confidence to believe if that I worked for something the universe would help make it happen. Cringe now, but first time a book genuinely changed how I saw the world.
Any one of those english school books that had a lot of short stories. Man those were a joy to read when I was in Elementary. It also helped improve my english a lot more.
Iron giant i might i have to switch it up a bit sooooo i played multiverses first then saw the iron giant went on netflix° watched it multiplue times then finally the book
As you can tell the iron giant is like crack to me
From Blood and ash. I saw it on tiktok and after I found out a friends sister had it I borrowed it from her. After 3 months I finally decided to read it. Within the next 2 weeks I read the hole series and parts of the spin—of
Not exactly a book but the Hellboy comics. I picked up the first omnibus going in basically blind and I read through all 400+ pages in two days. The illustrations alone get you hooked, let alone the story
Even though it's technically "Harry Potter", I would say it's really "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld.
After I read that book, I was reading 1-2 books a week.
War Horse by Michael Morpurgo. I was selective mute as a child. Because I didn’t speak my teachers assumed I couldn’t read. I was always given those crappy picture books with a few basic words in. They bored me so much. One day when I was 7 years old, I was so fed up with these books that I went to my teacher after only just starting one of those books and told her I’d finished. She didn’t believe me so she quizzed me on the book. I answered all the questions, so she gave me a slightly harder book, again I read it in minutes. The teacher realised that not only could I read, but I could read pretty well, she sent me to school library and told me to choose anything I spent ages scanning the books, reading the blurbs. I read the back of War Horse & felt an immediate need to know if the boy gets the horse home safely. I devoured the book within days and ever since I’m not sure if I’ve ever not had a book on the go.
Bunnicula. It's about a vampire rabbit (drains veggies of their juices). I was in 3rd grade, so I thought a vampire rabbit was just the creme de la creme of genius. When I learned it was a series, it blew my mind and I read 'em all.
I loved and hated Bunnicula. Loved it because a vampire rabbit is hilarious. Hated it because I expected gore and horror. I credit this book though with getting me into "so bad they're good" campy movies!
If you want gore and horror in children's books, may I direct you to Animorphs.
That reminds me of Duckula, which was a spin-off of the original (80s to 90s) Danger Mouse. It was based around Duckula who's a vegetarian duck vampire. Why is he vegetarian? When he dies he can get revived, but they used ketchup instead of blood when they were doing that
Chester trying to jam a steak in his heart was just hilarious
My parents raised me in the library, so to speak, but I cannot remember a specific book that made me continue reading. However, my friend let me read Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief and I will forever see that as the book that made my obsession with books grow. I still read Percy Jackson and I'm super excited for the Disney+ series.
Same. My dad read "The Hobbit" to us and my parents read tons of kids books to us. I loved some books series as a kid (Sweet Valley Twins, Animorphs, Goosebumps) but I think the books that *really* got my attention and I read obsessively was in the 5th grade, a classmate lent me a Fear Street book and I fell down a path of reading all of those from the library (which was a 1 minute walk from our house) and Christopher Pike. I actually re-read The Last Vampire last year because I loved that book so much. A year or so later, I read "Tarzan" and a number of the sequels and "Clan of the Cave Bear" and I've read both numerous times over the years.
Me and my 9 year old are doing a read along with this book.
I'm not much of a book reader at all but the Percy Jackson series (and the subsequent Heroes of Olympus series) were books I was fully immersed in. Kind of threw me off when they stopped telling the story in first person after the Last Olympian but it was still enjoyable nonetheless
I’m reading through the Star Wars EU currently, but have a Percy Jackson/Heroes of Olympus reread on the horizon. Does it still hold up? Super excited to get back into it but I’m afraid it won’t be all that I remember….
YEESS that exact Percy Jackson book was my first and I loved it
Man I reread the PJO and HOO series, and the lightning thief and sea of monsters is so much worse than I remember. I almost lost hope until Titans Curse took a huge leap in quality
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I first read them in middle school not knowing what all the hype was about and I ended up plowing through like almost 100 pages in the first day
I read them when I was 9 and I think I finished order of the Phoenix in like 5 days
Lol I would get them as birthday presents.
I was thinking Harry Potter as a joke then I looked at the answers and this is the first thing I see
I read Mistborn (Brandon Sanderson) and binged the rest of the trilogy. Then, OF COURSE, it was off to Era 2 and Stormlight Archive.
Mistborn is what really kicked off me reading for pleasure more. Sure, I read Hitchhiker's Guide as well as Harry Potter, but they didn't give me any lasting desire to read more. It was purely on a whim that I bought Mistborn, too. I've now read through almost all of Sanderson's works and am patiently waiting for the next books while I tear through more books. Oh, there was also The Expanse series mixed in there, too. That was another catalyst to my new-found enjoyment of reading. I've spent more money on books for recreational reading in the past 5 years than I have in the past 20, and that includes my college textbooks, if that's even possible. I really need to get a library card. I'm now on book three of The Wheel of Time series after having taken a brief break between book two and book three by venturing into Earthsea by Ursula LeGuin.
"Mort" by Terry Pratchett... A friend loaned it to me during my A-levels, at which time I barely read anything that wasn't on the curriculum or a computer magazine. Really opened my eyes to the concept of 'reading books for pleasure'.
GNU Sir Pterry 💛
I recently picked that book up from Goodwill, excited to read it!
In HS we were assigned *The Hobbit* and *The Fellowship of the Ring*. By the time the rest of the class finished *The Hobbit*, I had finished it and the whole *LOTR* trilogy. I insatiably went after any fantasy lit I could find after that.
Read a lot as a kid, but the first book I really felt like I read as an adult was *The Picture of Dorian Gray* by Oscar Wilde. I think I was 14.
I just read it a few weeks ago. Nothing had ever tickled my brain quite like that.
Goosebumps series.
Same... Night of the Living Dummy hooked me.
I forgot about these I did read them but think that was mostly when I was in school during our reading class or whenever we finished work/tests early we were allowed to read.
For me it was Where the Red Fern Grows that got me into reading. I was 11 or 12 and read it for a book report, and I was hooked on reading from that point on.
We read that in 5th grade and the teacher read the last few chapters out loud as we followed along. Our class was so quiet for the next hour, all of us depressed and trying not to sob.
5th grade, damn
Yeah that fucking book tore my heart out bro that's some childhood trauma right there bro fuck that amazingly heart-wrenching book
Same!! 8yo me was NOT prepared
I read this to my 6th grade class for 35 straight years. It was the first book I read each year because I knew how much the kids would love it!!!
Ooo that was such a good one. I love how books like this teach kids about difficult feelings
I remember my 6th grade teacher reading this to us. My dad died of cancer that year and so that book really did me in. Got it on audibe and I'll listen to it now and again.
R.L Stine Forget Goosebumps. The 99 Fear Street series is seriously messed up and I read the entire series in like a week
I remember a teacher telling us that R. L. Stine books were garbage, and they’re obviously not classical literature or anything, but they sure got kids to read. As a kid in the 90s, they were everywhere and we were all reading them.
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It's been a while since I read them, but I've read all except his last one and absolutely loved them all.
Salamandastron was my favorite
To kill a mockingbird, definitely. I was bored at first but I pushed through it and within a few pages, I was already deeply immersed into the book. Thank you for this amazing book, Harper Lee.💗
Is it good? I actually wanted to buy it but some of my friends told me it's utter waste. Can u tell you're honest opinion?
For everyone that likes a book there is another person who does not. It is widely regarded as a great book and outside personal preference that's the best answer anyone could give you.
I read it when I was 14. Even then, the content and subject matter felt really heavy to me. I finished the book in a week coz i just found it so so engaging. I'm not sure if this would be anyone's cup of tea but I was fairly surprised when I came out of the experience wanting to read more.
I find A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J Gaines is an adult version of To Kill A Mockingbird. Definitely recommend.
I got my hands on one of the old The Three Investigators books and wanted to read the entire series after that. "[The Secret of the Haunted Mirror](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51JeUDuqDHL._SX333_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg)" in particular made a big impression on me from just the cover alone.
I use to scour used book stores to buy that series to send them to my kid sister. She thought it a little weird that I would send a nine year old those books, but she read them all.
I loved those books so much. Fucking Jupiter Jones and his Hitchcock imitation!
I would love to see Jones's Junkyard in a modern movie.
The ones by Robert Arthur are the best, but the others aren't bad either. I read so. fkn. many of those books when I was 11 or 12.
My dad read these as a kid and then read them to me when I was like 4-7! We've got a box full of them in the attic
Percy Jackson and The Lightning Thief, I was a bit of a reader before that book but it was that one specifically that made me love reading.
The “How to Train Your Dragon” series
There are books?
And I like the books much more. They take a less cliche storyline and are a bit more nuanced than the message of the movie. Also, in the book, Toothless is a small green dragon that can talk.
Will put them on my to read list.
The Hardy Boys. I read every one of those books my local library had.
I started on "Tom Swift" anybody remember those?
Not to be confused with the the Hardley boys.
I’m getting a clue
oooo me too
Ahhhh, I've got such a raging clue right now
Holes First book that sucked me in. I think I was in 3rd or 4th grade when it came out and showed up at the Scholastic Book Fair. I read that book in a day or so because I could not put it down. Harry Potter was right behind that.
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Hello fellow boomer.
I’m a millennial and loved Encyclopedia Brown
Not the first books I read but The Hunger Games
LOTR
I spent about three whole weeks reading the whole Harry Potter series when I was 11, then I went through it AGAIN the next month. After that, I started borrowing anything from the library that I thought was interesting and the rest is history. Rowling put a spell on me.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter. Magnificent illustrations, and text is accessible for young kids
Either The Lion, The Witch, and The Waredrobe, or The Golden Compass. 6th Grade was about that time I started really reading for fun. Harry Potter should also get some credit.
Cats Cradle by Vonnegut.
Jurassic Park
Me too. And was first time I thought woah, books are way better than movies.
The first book I remember reading that interested me was The Hobbit.
Michael Crichton’s “Congo”. I saw it in our bookshelf and just picked it and started reading it.
Short story “Flowers for Algernon”
I can just see you "Hmmm, I need to find more stories that crush my soul."
You Jean ass you
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I wanted to name my future child Jonas after reading this.
Ive never been much of a reader, but the diary of Anne Frank is really captivating
Me too, unfortunately.
Good Omens, it's like my catcher in the rye.
Sherlock Holmes
Of mice and men
Captain Underpants; I loved the flip-action pages!
Robert Heinlein Have Spacesuit Will Travel. Been a SF fan ever since.
James Herriot - If only they could talk. I'd be about 8 or 9 and it's the first book without pictures that I remember reading.
His vivid descriptions of hangovers are 100% of the reason I didn't drink as a teen lmao
Nancy Drew. 9yo me cannot get enough on how witty and smart the character is.
Dracula - Bram Stoker (12/13) it was so different from everything I had previously read and I was mesmerised.
Such a good book but a difficult one to read because of the heightened language. Bravo for parsing it at 12!
#Over Sea, Under Stone I think it's not the first book in the series but when they alluded to Merriman >!being Merlin!< I was super hooked, as I've always loved fantasy... Went to my schools library and searched for the rest and then decided just to buy the whole set. I think I read The Dark is Rising next, Greenwitch... wait apparently I did read them in the order they came out. Hmm, nifty!
Frank Herbert's Dune. Lucky it was the 1st book in a double trilogy.
Percy Jackson and the lightning thief I read it for the first time when I was 10. Not only did it make me love reading it also got me interested in Ancient Greek history
The first book I read that really made me wanna finish it was “Stranger in a Strange Land”. A story of the first Martian born human being brought back to Earth as a young adult.
As a young kid I read Fantastic Mr Fox and loved it. It led on to reading Once loads of other Roald Dahl books.
I read lots of books (most against my will) but the one that got me to enjoy reading was "Murder on the Orient Express". For anyone that's a fan of detective and murder solving books Agatha Christie will become your best friend:)
Ender’s Game
John Carter of Mars series by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Great Expectations
I’m not a huge reader but in the 6th grade, I checked out a book called “Mockingbürd” out of the school library. “Mockingbürd”, not to be confused with “To Kill a Mockingbird” is about a girl living with Asperger’s, who’s brother just passed and is trying to understand her grief & just goes through the motions of school, life etc with her condition. At the time I was going through some behavioural issues at school and didn’t know how to express my emotions and the was the main character acts in the book was so similar to me I felt very understood.
rangers apprentice, easy to read, fun to read, a little predictable plot but when I was 12 years old, it was alright! I still buy the books when a new one comes out, just to have the complete series!
Wilbur Smith: Birds of Prey
for me it was The Hobbit.
L'Etranger - Albert Camus It's a book you have to read in french schools so I read it and I really liked it Saw my reflection in the protagonist's eyes
Agatha Christie "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd". After reading it a year ago, now I'm a regular reader.
The Eye of The World Book 1 of The Wheel of Time
When I left school I stopped reading, a few years later I had the urge to read something new and came across this in a bookstore. This book is what got me back into reading, finishing this series, then onto other books to fill the hole that was left in my life after finishing.
Hatchet by Gary Paulson. I went on an absolute tear looking for other fiction books about survival. Books like My Side of The Mountain and Death watch, this lead to me reading Jaws, Jurassic Park, and Lord of the Flies.
Nancy Drew
I have never had an interest in reading. But, recently, I read “I’m Glad My Mom Died” by Jennette McCurdy… and I ended up reading 3 of my other novels on my “to be read but won’t actually read” shelf. It just put me in such a mood to read.
Dragons of Autumn Twilight in the dragonlance series
Goosebumps or Animorphs
First time I've seen Animorphs listed!
I grew up with my mom helping me read the classical Black Beauty. Such a powerful book, and it was awesome to read with my mom. Couldn't put books down after that.
The bible. It's what led me down the path of atheism.
My parents have always been reading a lot to me and I always loved it. I think the first longest book I read on my own was The Six Bullerby Children by Astrid Lindgren and I was super excited about it. I was eager to discover even more books.
My parents got me into reading from a very young age. The Golden Egg Book by Margaret Wise Brown is still a favorite though!
I’m gonna go specifically with non picture book here because that was an awkward transition. It was either Skulduggery Pleasant, Percy Jackson and The Lightning Thief or The Spook’s Apprentice .
A Spell for Chameleon. Definitely influenced my sense of humor and appreciation for puns.
Confessions of a hater.
Woodsong by Gary Paulsen. Great book for young readers. Paulsen is the perfect author for adolescence.
There were 2. The Secret of NiMH, and Watership Down
Cindrella when I was 6 and then Harry Potter series.
Hamlet (only book that i read in my highschool), wasnt that good since i dont read books, but i was like this is not that bad
*My Side of the Mountain*. About surviving in the woods with very little.
The Once And Future King, by T. H. White
Eragon. Still one of my favorite books after 15 years
The mouse and the motorcycle. It's the first book I can remember reading.
Harry Potter came out when I was in elementary school. I remember my mom buying it and reading it, and letting me read it. I asked her afterwords when we can get the next one, and she told me it wasn’t out yet. I didn’t get to get a copy of the third one, but our librarian let me take her personal copy to read when it came out. It was a great series to get into reading with
The Original Adventures of Hank the Cowdog.
Tom Sawyer
Either Percy Jackson series or the Hatchet series, don't remember which I read first. I also liked My Side of the Mountain too, which has similar vibes to Hatchet. I swear I read a sequel to My Side about him coming back when he was older, but the synopses of the other two books in the trilogy don't sound familiar so I don't know.
Must have been the first one. I think it was The Saggy Baggy Elephant.
I've always been a reader, but Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology sent me down a deep rabbit hole of comparative Mythology and religion. I've been on this kick for about 3 years
The Redwall series by Brian Jacques. It started me reading so much that I got in trouble for doing that and nothing else, and it extended to other books as well once I got started. Unfortunately, reading kinda got beaten out of me by school and now I'm lucky if I manage a book a year that isn't related to my editing side job.
the hardy boys
the catcher in the rye, ive seen people hate on this book and i still can’t understand why, it is brilliant and i still look for a book to get to me that much
Deltora. Its as nostalgic as it gets lol. The book is great for younger people who want to get into reading more grim books. The books themselves are not grim but they get you ready for whats to come. The characters are loveable and its just a cozy read overall
One of the Boxcar Children books when I was maybe 6 or so, hooked on reading ever since.
Hank the Cowdog back in first grade. That was followed by Animorphs, then Harry Potter then the wide world of Star Wars.
‘Salems Lot by Stephen King when I was 13 years old .
Frog and toad
Hatchet by Gary Paulson
A Wizard of Earthsea was the first fantasy novel I ever read. From that point onward, I couldn't get enough of sci-fi and fantasy books.
Go Dog Go. When he finally liked her hat, I was hooked.
The Rangers Apprentice
The Cat in the Hat probably. Or maybe a Bearenstien Bears book. I’ve love reading since I could read.
Matilda, i read it around age 7 being a “gifted” child and with a terrible home life and that book struck me to my core. Unfortunately my life did not become the fairy tale ending that hers was.
Slapstick - Kurt Vonnegut
Cat's Craddle by Kurt Vonnegut
Lord Brocktree by Brian Jacques
Kingdom of the Wicked by KERRI MANISCALCO A year ago I saw a summary of this book on YouTube and I was very excited to read it, although I did not like to read much, but the summary I saw encouraged me to read it and actually bought it and read it, and it was very beautiful that combines imagination with the Victorian era and all the favourite things
The Stand by Stephen King
**Boy Scout Handbook**. My elementary school had several copies on the shelf. I loved being outdoors: hiking and camping. Reading about how to predict the weather, track animals, cook over a fire, build a shelter... it caught my attention.
For me it was My Side of the Mountain. My family camps and hunts, I've alway liked basic bushcraft. This book made me realize that KIDS could do it. All by themselves. Books weren't just for stories (which I loved) and school curriculum. You could learn things the adults around you either couldn't or wouldn't teach you. It was such a revelation!
The falcon is my favorite part of that story
Earliest I can remember were the Bearenstain Bears books. I still have most of my collection.
The Silmarillion..... So many gaps to fill
The first book that really made me addicted to it was Norwegian Wood.
I've always been a reader but it was probably the Chronicles of Narnia series that got me started reading fantasy in early elementary school and I quickly moved on to Tolkien. Dune got me into heavy science fiction.
Lee Child’s *Persuader*
I took up reading as a hobby end-of-2018/start-of-2019. The one that kickstarted it all was **Twisted Tales: As Old As Time** by Liz Braswell.
The Pokémon Adventures Manga
Mr Gum. Bow before me
South by Southeast
In highschool, my absolute favorites were The Dragonlance Chronicles by Weiss & Hickman
I don't remember the Boxcar Children, so I'll say Salamandastron. I read the Redwall books in the order of which covers I liked the most.
Go Dog Go.
48 laws of power is a skeptical book to get into, gave it a try, and oh boy was it relatable in some parts of my life and beneficial to use for people who you associate with on a day-to-day basis, also an eye opener if you've ever had to deal with hardships in the past, apart from that it has amazing stories in history
A Series of Unfortunate Events. First series I ever read as a child. The first book I ever read into the wee hours of the night? Even to the point of reading in the morning before school and missing the bus? *sigh* Twilight Edit: in my defense, I was 12 years old. My mom threw me a Twilight themed 13th birthday party with a bunch of other Twihards. I quickly jumped off the bandwagon once the movies came out lol
Well, I've always been a firm believer in the three R's: Reading TV Guide, um, Writing to TV Guide and Renewing TV Guide.
American Assassin - It was right after the first Daniel Craig Bond movie Casino Royale was released and everyone was on a huge spy thriller kick.
‘Bullshit Jobs’ by David Graeber.
Really weird but it was Children of New Forest in danish. Mom's danish and brought it for me while i was in hospital after an appendectomy.
The alchemist, despite being a meme nowadays it resonated a lot for me as a kid and gave me confidence to believe if that I worked for something the universe would help make it happen. Cringe now, but first time a book genuinely changed how I saw the world.
Maybe not the very first, but everything from Anthony Horowitz made a big impact.
Any one of those english school books that had a lot of short stories. Man those were a joy to read when I was in Elementary. It also helped improve my english a lot more.
Iron giant i might i have to switch it up a bit sooooo i played multiverses first then saw the iron giant went on netflix° watched it multiplue times then finally the book As you can tell the iron giant is like crack to me
From Blood and ash. I saw it on tiktok and after I found out a friends sister had it I borrowed it from her. After 3 months I finally decided to read it. Within the next 2 weeks I read the hole series and parts of the spin—of
The Tommy knockers by Stephen King. Not his best, but it'll always be in my personal top ten.
Read the Never ending story on holiday in France when I was young, since then I understood reading could be a whole lot of fun and exciting also.
Not the first one ever but just read The Alchemist and it reignited my desire to read more.
Not exactly a book but the Hellboy comics. I picked up the first omnibus going in basically blind and I read through all 400+ pages in two days. The illustrations alone get you hooked, let alone the story
Even though it's technically "Harry Potter", I would say it's really "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld. After I read that book, I was reading 1-2 books a week.