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The one book that got you first into reading as a child or as an adult
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Oct 26, 2025 01:55PM
Flowers in the Attic. I'm a Gen X VC Andrews fan. I gobbled that incest shit up!
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In a really ironic turn of events, it was Matilda and I saved up my money to be able to buy it when I was like six or seven.
I got my first library card in 2nd grade...Little House on the Prairie series.
I know I read a million Danielle Steel books in middle school.
Green Eggs and Ham by Dr Seuss…. Yes I am old and have been reading forever. 😂
Hardy boys. couldn't wait to get my hands on new stories.
as a child, Harry Potter, as an adult the after series
Are You There God, It’s Me Margaret? by Judy Blume
I loved this book. This was the late 1970’s, there weren’t books for Girls to read about Puberty or Growing Up. Her Books are Still Banned.
Hahh my addiction started as a child in the library with the scooby doo series. Couldnt stop myself from checking all of them out.
Junie B. Jones and The Magic Tree House books!
I was 10 or 11 and the book was long live the pumpkin queen <333
For me it was a book called THE BOOK OF LIVE DOLLS but I can't remember the author. I checked it out of the library so many times that they should have just given it to me. It concerned toys that came to life at night and their plight as they were played with. I remember one doll named Dinah, whose legs had been put on backwards and I remembered a garden where doll clothes grew on trees. Quite the tale for a fanciful girl like me.
I read all the time as a kid, zipping through big stacks of library books each week, but ran out that kind of time/energy sometime during high school.After college, I decided to try reading for fun again, and the one that really got me back into it was the short story collection "Unnatural Creatures" (compiled by Neil Gaiman, but this ain't about him).
Black Beauty. Because I was a kid I got hyperfocused on it, so my poor parents had to read it -- two chapters a day, bedtime and naptime -- over and over and over. I was able to read along as they narrated, and eventually had it memorized.
It may sound funny to you but a boy called BAT by Elana K. Arnold. it's a series. and as soon as my mom read it to me I was hooked, since my favorite animal is a bat.
For me it was sherlock Holmes, Harry potter I love Both the Books
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My first book, when I was 4, was "Kater Toto" (I'm from Germany), Die kleine Hexe, Der kleine Wassermann and there were also a lot of comics like Micky Maus.
The first novel I read was a Hardy Boys book in the 1st grade. I think it was Hunting for Hidden Gold. But the book that cemented my love of reading was The Sword of Shannara when I was eleven.It's been mostly uphill from there. I've read a few stinkers in my time.
(I stay away from the current bestseller list. That helps.)
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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bonte. If you read it young, it reads one way: If you read it as an adult, it is an entirely different book! It is one of the few novels where the structure itself is actually revolutionary for the Victorian era AND is still relatable in the 21st century!
Rissa (rissasreading) wrote: "Dragon Rider by Cornelia Funke was the first chapter book I read that fully engrossed me. From there it moved to the Warriors series"I think for me it was harry potter because i got so invested and then i was such a fan girl but then i discovered keeper of the lost cities and school for good and evil and percy jackson and i think harry bpotter was what kickstared that book worm in me but after readin every book in those 3 serises i realised harry potter wasnt so good BUT its still good ok and i cant wait for keeper of the lost cities book 10 and also the new book rick riordan is expected to release in 2027 so yeah ..... wow that was a long answer
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I used to be obsessed with the 39 Clues books when I was in middle school! Unfortunately, I cannot tell you what happened in those books anymore. It definitely helped spearhead my love for reading which has evolved now into so many other genres.
For me it was any Robert Munch book. Had every book written was i was young.
It's actually two for me. Treasure Island - R. L. Stevenson
The Hound of Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
The book that got me into reading as a child was a science book about Space (can't really remember the name, but it is in my profile). I loved that book to death and I was able to understand even the most difficult themes. I loved books about fairytales and history/archaeology as well.Then, my teens and early 20s were dedicated to fanfiction. We are talking about thousands and thousands of fanfictions across multiple fandoms, and I'm not really counting oneshots... I did start reading Harry Potter and a Song of Ice and Fire at this point, they were good, but just not enough.
My late teens and early 20s were also spent reading for college, but can't really say that it got me into reading.
A few years ago I decided to bring back my love to read. And I mean fairytales, fantasy, science fiction and even fiction. So 2023 was experimental, can't really say I was into it yet. In 2024 I started the year reading the Cruel Prince trilogy and that did it! I'm hooked, I rediscovered my love for reading, because I finaly felt the books I've always wanted to read were finally being published!
please dont judge, but for me it was thea stilton when i was in 5k, and the only reason i was reading was to win the AR contest at my school. after that year, i won every contest and i still have the record or 1,400 points
I've always adored reading! As a child I was always reading Jacqueline Wilson's books (the queen of girls' literature in the UK 🙌🏻), as well as Roald Dahl, and Michael Morpurgo.
In my teenage years I loved reading Harry Potter, and books by Jenny Han, Jennifer Niven, and John Green.
And since entering my 20s, I've loved reading books by Ana Huang, Sarah J Maas, Lauren Asher, Laurie Gilmore and Stephen King just to name a few of my fav authors!
the first actual book that got me into reading was it ends with us, but as i child i loved all of the barbie books i could get my hands on 🙏🙏 i also loved diary of a wimpy kid
as a child, rainbow magicalthough i always loved reading after that, the one that sort of got me into ya was keeper of the lost cities
One of the first books I remember impacting me was Where the Red Fern Grows.
As a kid, the Thea Sisters, as a teen, the Dreamland Billionaire series
Liz luv wrote: "As a kid, the Thea Sisters, as a teen, the Dreamland Billionaire series"that is so real
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table by Roger Lancelyn Green
As a kid, around middle school age, I read all the major dystopian book series’s (the hunger games, divergent, the maze runner) and loved the selection series. In high school, I read The Coldest Girl In Coldtown from Holly Black and it got me out of a huge reading slump. I devoured books until I graduated, and then college life became too busy and I lost the drive to read anything that wasn’t for my classes.
As an adult, the ACOTAR series respawned my love for reading, and it’s been downhill ever since 😂
The bob books from like preschool that teach you how to read. I dunno why but I’ve always been super in to reading
as a teenager I read and re read Flowers in the attic by Virginia andrews so much my copy fell apart
For me it was the Warriors by Erin Hunter books that got me really into reading! I had always been a reader but it wasn’t until that series that I knew what it was to really invested in a book and picture the world and characters and lose myself in it. I will always be grateful to those books!
As a child I lowkey think it was The Boxcar Children (so nostalgic), but as an adult Twilight got me back into reading after a serious hiatus in high school and college!
I've been reading since first grade, so I don't really know, but Throne of Glass got teenage me got myself out of a huge reading slump
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