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The one book that got you first into reading as a child or as an adult
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Aug 01, 2025 07:11AM
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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Lemony Snickets a series of unfortunate events
The inheritance games I honestly thought it would be so boring but it was good and the rest I’d history
My passion for mysteries / thrillers also started with Nancy Drew, and it has never waned.
A book called Tangerine. My 5th-grade teacher read it to us. It might be the one by Edward Bloor. I remember it being the first time reading sounded interesting instead of a required chore for school. The big draw was Harry Potter
it was two books for me, Swiss Family Robinson and Robinson Crusoe. I read and re-read them a whole lot of times.
I didn't really get into reading until my teens and the book that did it was "God is an Englishman" by RF Delderfield. It was pure romance and in another country and time which I found fascinating. I have been an avid reader since.
It was Diary of Wimpy Kid series for me. 🫣
Alchemist is a book that started my reading!!
first book that I got into reading was hello bad kitty and the Franny K. Stein books as wellafter that phase I stopped but in middle school I have read the whole divergent series and even watched the movies and Theo James is a fine babe!!! then I stopped again and
I got back to reading again in my freshman year of college and its credence from Penelope Douglas and ever since.... I have been reading non stop lol
Shifa wrote: "It was Diary of Wimpy Kid series for me. 🫣"Reallllll
The vanished man by Jefferey Deaver. I distinctively remember reading half the book and it being robbed from me in high school. My mum gifted me the book after she recieved a crate (I'm not joking my mum got one of those that you see in super markets, full of fruits, only this was full of books) from my grandad. They were books that had been at our local morrisons over 15 years ago, roughly, and they have to throw them away if the books go no where, so my grandad brought the books home because my mum has always been a massive fan of books. My mum finished the vanished man and it had been a book I had been peering around my dads room door at the time when she was reading, just eyeing the book. So she gifted it me one day. She said to me "now Louis. This book is for adults, but you're in high school now. I know you don't like horror movies, so how about a horror book?" I'd at the time begun struggling sitting and watching criminal minds with her. I used to enjoy the show but it started to traumatise me when I had nightmares that I wasn't sure how to communicate. At any rate, I got halfway through the book and someone robbed it from my bag when I went to the loo and I never finished it. I remember it was the cover with the mask in the middle, the pages were yellow and faded with smoke- according to my mum you can tell with newer books if they have been in the home of a smoker if the pages are yellow before their time.
I remember there were many crime scenes in it. And I remember feeling sad that I never finished it.
I remember when I was in like fourth grade and I had found this series at the library and the first one was called "Escape From Wolfhaven Castle" and it was so fricken good. It was fantasy and was about these four kids who have to find magical creatures to save their kingdom. There were five books in the series and I even did a book report on the first one because I loved them so much. And then in between the summer of fourth and fifth grade I read The Hunger Games, Maze Runner, and some of The Unwanted Series. I loved them all so much and then in seventh grade I read the Selection and Michael Vey and once again I did book reports on them too. And then I fell into the biggest reading slump of my life for a year, I didn't pick up another book until the beginning of 2024. Then my friends introduced me to The Inheritance Games and Shadow & Bone. And my reading addiction has basically gone from there.
Oddly, mine was one of those personalized books that parents give kids where they type your name in the blanks for the main character. I was 4 or 5 yrs old....then around 7th or 8th grade I stated to read seriously...Michael Moorcock and Stephen King were among the authors I first started with and from there it was all about sci-fi and fantasy for a long while...still is, but Ive read across the spectrum including most of the Pulitzer winners
I wasn’t much of a reader due to mild dyslexia. I was put into a special class as a teenager and we had to read The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe out loud and that was it. I became a massive reader. I used to read a book a day, now it’s a lot less.
"Mine was *Dork Diaries*. It was during the COVID year, so in 6th grade, I was in my English class and just picked a book from the bookshelf. I started reading and ended up finishing the third *Dork Diaries* book. Then, on my phone, I had downloaded Libby, so I read more *Dork Diaries* books online until I finished the series. More didn’t come out until I got older, but when they did, of course, I had to grab the new one and read it. Coming back to it was kind of funny and brought back a lot of memories. That’s how I was for a little while, and then in 7th grade, I started reading Harry Potter.
as a child, it was Enid Blyton's books, but when academic reading took over, I stopped reading for a while. It wasn't until I read The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo that I picked up reading as a hobby again.
Mine was The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton.
Thousand Splendid Suns! I read it when I was 16 years old. Every year during summer break, we're encouraged to read a book and write a review. I was in 10th grade, and Thousand Splendid Suns was one of the suggested readings. My mom wouldn't stop talking about it, so I picked it up. Best decision ever!
I believe it was Sans Famille (Nobody's boy) by Hector Malot
Keepers of the lost cities or Rival darling
I read a lot of Mangas during school. After a time, i don't really know what happend, but i stopped reading. Since last year i got back into my reading era bc of a Youtuber i really love to watch & i really wanted to read again so i bought "Love decoded" from Anna Lane & the whole "Save me" Series from Mona Kasten. Now i'm totally back into it & i'm thinking "Why tf did i stopp reading?". Like, it's so fun to dive into another Universe, lol
Sir Small and the Dragonfly.I was young. XD
The Hobbit! My mother read it to me when I was a child, and I was hooked!
Jumanji - my first English read. I was 8, which is impressive as English is my second language. Bridgerton - as an adult. I stopped reading when I became a mom. Until one day my grandma gave the Bridgeton book. Since them I am hooked.
Jumanji - my first English read. I was 8, which is impressive as English is my second language. Bridgerton - as an adult. I stopped reading when I became a mom. Until one day my grandma gave the Bridgeton book. Since them I am hooked.
I read The Black Stallion series by Walter Farley, and the Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder. I have been an avid reader since I was 6 or 7 yrs old
when I was little it was Geronimo stilton, then when I was a little older it was Warrior cats, and what got me obsessed again was They both die at the end
I first got into really loving reading after reading ACOTAR :))
Harry Potter as a child. picked back up as a teenager with "Marked" and "Twilight". again st sn adult with Tuffany Jenkins "High Achiever"
My favorite little child book was "The Sleepy Puppy". My father read to me every night at bedtime and that was the best one. As for reading on my own - "Charlotte's Web" was the absolute best book of my early reading years.
I got mega into reading after reading ACOTAR :))
Allice in the wonderful as a child 5/5 ratings
For me it was Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë:) I love that book
The Guardians of Ga’Hoole in 7th grade. Read all 15 over summer break and it still sticks with me 15+years later
I have Fairy Tail (the anime) to thank for getting me into reading when I was twelve haha. But the first actual book I picked up and loved was Mary E. Pearson's Kiss of Deception.
Little House on the Prairie and
Are You There God? Its Me, MargaretLove that I just got the Original Versions of Both these Books. I was Hooked on Reading Every Since 😊📚💕
It was Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë that got me into reading, I picked up a copy in a charity shop when I was 10. That was the book that started my obsession with books and buying books.
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