The first book you remember loving

Hi all! This is a follow-up to this week's CONTEST MONDAY, in which I asked what was the first book you remember loving. Several people asked afterward for a list of the results. So here they are, along with my first favorites.

The first book I remember loving that was read to me was "Old Hasdrubel and the Pirates." I mean pirates, treasure, and a guy dressed up in an alligator skin saving the maiden who was tied to a tree? What more could you ask for?

And the first book I remember loving that I read myself was Pippi Longstocking. Oh, how I wanted to be Pippi and have her absolute freedom and independence. (And hair. And horse. And house. I wanted all of it!)

So what was the top choice?

But just one point beneath them was:

Check out all of the answers left on FB and Twitter. There are a lot of classics and some surprises!

2Young 2Go 4Boys

Tess of the D'urbervilles, by Thomas Hardy

Miles to go, by Miley Cyrus

Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins

Hop on Pop, by Dr Seuss

The Secret Garden, (4 votes)

Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein

The Babysitters' Club series (4 votes)

Fly Away Peter, by David Malouf

Matilda, by Roald Dahl (2 votes)

Harry Potter (13 votes)

Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

A book of letters that the reader's grandfather wrote her grandfather while he was away at war. (sigh!)

Twilight (12 votes)

Aztec by Gary Jennings

Breaking Dawn

The Tales of Peter Rabbit

Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger

City of Bones, by Cassandra Clare

The Fever series, by Karen Marie Moning

Super Fudge by Judy Blume

Moby Dick & collection of Jules Verne lesser known stories

Othello, by Shakespeare

Key of Light, by Norah Roberts

Tomorrow When the War Began, by John Marsden

The Worst Witch

The Magic Faraway Tree series, by Enid Blyton (4 votes)

Mio my Mio, by Astrid Lindgren

The Power of One, by Bryce Courtenay

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, by Eleanor Coerr

The Old Man And The Sea, by Ernest Hemingway

The Monster at the end of this book, starring Grover

Battle Royale, by Koushun Takami

Iron King, by Julie Kagawa (2 votes)

Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, by Roald Dahl (2 votes)

Keeper, by Mal Peet

Charlotte's Web (2 votes)

Alice in Wonderland (2 votes)

Anne of Green Gables (3 votes)

When Ghosts Speak, by Mary Ann Winkowski

The Devil Rides, by Dennis Wheatley

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (5 votes)

Careless Whispers (A Sweet Dreams book, no. 216)

Way of the Peaceful Warrior, by Dan Millman

Die For Me (3 votes. ah, flattery)

The Thief Lord, by Cornelia Funke

A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L'Engle (2 votes)

The Eleventh Hour

Guitar Girl, by Sarra Manning

The Stars are Upside Down, by Gabriel Alington

Avi The Good Dog

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, by C.S. Lewis (2 votes)

The Nancy Drew mysteries (2 votes)

The Wicked Lovely series, by Melissa Marr

The Little Creature series

If You Loved Me by Marilyn Reynolds

The Pokey Little Puppy

The Series of Unfortunate Events, by Lemony Snickett

Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lingrin

This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen

Gone with the Wind

R.L. Stine's books

The Little House on the Prairie series, by Laura Ingalls Wilder (2 votes)

The Giving Tree by Shel Sliverstein (3 votes)

Vampire Academy, by Richelle Mead

The Outcast, by Louise Cooper

Summer of My German Soldier

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

The Tiger Who Came for Tea

A Summer to Die

The Brothers Lionheart

The Lord of the Rings

Ella Enchanted (2 votes)

The Bearenstein Bears (2 votes)

The Replacement, by Brenna Yovanoff

Hamlet by Shakespeare

Never Spit on Your Shoes by Denys Cazet

The Diary of Anne Frank

The Outsiders by S.E Hinton

Dragon Rider By Cornelia Funke

The Land of the Unicorns by Bruce Coville

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi

Vampire Diaries

The original Winnie the Pooh series

The Count Of Monte Cristo

Red Riding Hood Puffin Books Edition

The Magicians' Guild by trudi canavan

Blister

Georges Marvelous Medicine by Roald Dahl

She's Come Undone by Waly Lamb

The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle

The Foot Book by Dr. Seuss

Start Girl by Jerry Spinelli

Peter Pan and Wendy

I love you this much

Tubby and the Lantern by Al Perkins

The Velveteen Rabbit

Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish

Angus, Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging

The Mediator Series by Meg Cabot

Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis

The Witches by Roald Dahl

Emily of New Moon

Dragonsong by Anne McCaffrey

Clifford the Big Red Dog

The Last Unicorn

THE GOLDEN COMPASS by Phillip Pullman

The Percy Jackson Books

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Harriet the Spy

Battle Royale