top 10 formative authors & series (of my youth)

i read a lot as a kid, way more than i do today, and i was not supervised even a little bit, so i probably read a lot of stuff i shouldn’t have, and it has all greatly impacted my various hyperfixations and writing tendencies and even writing styles. and so, here are ten authors and series that i read somewhere between the ages of 11 and 15 that greatly influenced me as a reader and writer.

(p.s. obviously, harry potter was one of the biggest influences on me, but alas, we will not be giving it a...