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The one book that got you first into reading as a child or as an adult
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Jun 25, 2025 08:25PM
The Saddle Club series by Bonnie Bryant and ‘The Ghost Horse’ by Janni Lee Simner :)
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It was a mix of Percy Jackson and Wings of Fire
well, the one that got me REALLY into reading was 'Miss Peregrine's home for Peculiar Children' ♥︎
I've ALWAYS been a reader, and apparently I did my first reading at a restaurant from my high chair. I honestly can't remember my first book, but I know there was one.
Secret Garden was my first real book. I think I was about 7 or 8.
The Brothers Lionheart by Astrid Lindgren was used to teach me to read as a kid. Been reading ever since then
Child - I remember owning a Pokemon novel and I read it sooo many times that it fell apart. To this day I can't remember the title of it. Adult - the book that got me back into reading was The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
When I was younger, it was Twilight by Stephenie Meyer What got me into reading now was Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness
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I don't remember the 1st book, but grade school saw me reading anything by Enid Blyton, Trixie Beldon, Nancy Drew. There was book that I took out of the school library two or three times but damned if I can remember the name now. All I remember is it involved amethyst and mountains. Junior High - Lord of The Rings. And I haven't stopped since..
Los vampiritos and I don’t remember the author.
The Prince and The Pauper, Mark Twain...I liked the classics even when I was six. 😅
Not necessarily a book, but I got into reading as a teenager and Harlequin's were my downfall. I'm a sucker for a good romance and HEA.
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I read the Nancy Drew mysteries, and Hardy Boys and Bobbsey Twins, but I think the first set that really pulled me may have been the Little House on the Prairie series.
When I was very young in the lower grades of elementary school I would read the huge stacks of old comic books my mother had... They were already very old but I loved them. Stuff like Bugs Bunny, Mickey Mouse, Scrooge McDuck, Nancy, Little Dot, Audrey, Richie Rich, Wendy the Witch, various horror comics, etc. Then from the school library I would read stuff like the Hardy Boys..
By 6th grade I had a real library card and I was actually reading adult novels. I remember reading stuff like Star Trek, Dragonriders of Pern, Anne Rice, etc. I was on an 8th grade reading level in 6th grade.
The one that got me REALLY into reading was Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children ♥︎
The October Country, by Ray Bradbury - my dad got it for me when I was 10(ish) years old. I inhaled it. It messed with my dreams. All of a sudden I wanted to devour all Ray Bradbury works I could find. It got me to start exploring the "grown up" stacks at the public library.
I used to read Thea Stilton books when I was around 9-10. It made the base for me then came The Alchemist, my first novel at 13. And what ignited my love for novels was The Silent Patient, at 16.
As a child it was the Shadowhunters series and Twilight, but as an adult it was A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
As a child I think it was one of Frozen 🤭😅, or The Little Prince. Now, it was Fourth Wing!
So many honestly but I know as a kid, I read a ton of Animorphs and Magic Treehouse somewhere in elementary school, so probably those series + other series that were popular during that time (Goosebumps, Bailey School Kids, etc). I spent a lot of time in bookstores just reading them in sequence!
As a child I read Nancy Drew, Enid Blyton, Harry Potter. There were several short stories for children book
When I was young it was The Weirdstone of Brisingamen by Alan Garner, but what really turned me to reading as an adult was John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids. I remember reading it right through the evening and into the night. There were other books which influenced me but that was the main one.
Junie B. Jones when I was little. ACOTAR as an adult.
when I was in grade school I loved all Laura Ingalls Wilder books. Then I discovered my love of mysteries with Trixie Belden series by Julie Campbell Tatham.
okay i feel like this is a pretty common book to get someone into reading , im talking about it ends with us by collen hoover (nope, i do not support her in any way)
probably the ruby red trilogy. it still holds up pretty well!
The book that got me into reading as a child was actually 2 books 1. The chrismasaurus and 2. One of the wimpy of a diary kid books (the brown one) but overall it was the first one and I'm so thankful for it, but the one that got me into reading now was actually "another day"
I've always loved reading, so it's hard to pick one specific title that I can say "first got me into reading". But I do remember which books I re-read the most as a child, which is probably the closest to an answer I can give. - Magic Treehouse Series
- Great Illustrated Classics series (Specifically Ivanhoe and Black Beauty )
- Dragon on a Pedestal (9yr old me was obsessed with this book, and I still read the series)
- Series of Unfortunate Events
- Spiderwick Chronicles
- A Spiderman comic novel omnibus that has been re-read to the point of being taped back together many times over. Featured Dr. Doom, Sandman, The Vulture, and I think Green Goblin.
Warriors.... My elementary teacher knew I had a fascination with cats (it was my whole personality as a child) and recommended the series for me. I remember using my recess and most of my lunch breaks to read!
As a child Harry Potter. As an adult Shatter Me😊
I can still see myself holding the book. It was almost as bigger than me. The Dr Seuss Dictionary made me smile and read and learn new words and ways to use them.
Jacqueline Wilson, The Bed and Breakfast Star ✨
The Mouse and the Motorcycle and the Indian In The Cupboard started my love for libraries, but reading comic books with my dad when I was like 5 started my love for reading.
Em wrote: "As a child it was the Shadowhunters series and Twilight, but as an adult it was A Good Girl's Guide to Murder"Do you mean the immortal instrument series
Harry Potter. Gregor and the prophecy of bane
VC Andrew's, I think Flowers in the Attic
For me it was the whole Escape the Furnace series.Lockdown, Solitary, Death Sentence, Fugitives, Execution.
The whole series was super fast paced and was the perfect blend of terrifying, mortifying, but friendships I could go about forever even now. (I read these books while I was 11) I could never expect the next thing and I am so close to buying the books (I read them from the library) so I can reread them endlessly.
As a teen, my English teacher let us do book reports first extra credit, the first book I chose, paperback in the CVS, was the novelization of the film... Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, lol, and have been reading ever since...
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