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20 Books That Made You Fall in Love with Reading
Remember when you just didn't get what made reading wonderful? (You were probably a child, so don't be too hard on yourself.) Books were just glued together stacks of paper until the day the right one fell into your lap and—not to be hyperbolic or anything—everything changed.
Last week we asked on Facebook and on Twitter: What was your first favorite book? Today we've got your top answers. Did yours make the list?
If your first favorite book didn't make the list, share it with us in the comments! And check out more beloved books over on this Listopia: What Book Got You Hooked?
Last week we asked on Facebook and on Twitter: What was your first favorite book? Today we've got your top answers. Did yours make the list?
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May 08, 2015 08:07AM
Anne of Green Gables, most definitely.
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Harry Potter and Anne of Green Gables
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Tom's Midnight Garden" by Philippa Pearce
Fairy Tales!!!! I was reading in pre-school I borrowed books from the daycare all the time >.< I also looovvveed A Little Princess when I was little.
Harriet the Spy. I went around for months imagining myself as Harriet, keeping notebooks and pretending I was just like her.
Lois wrote: "Anne of Green Gables"same here! I loved that series as a kid and read each book over and over again.
Gone with the Wind. As a 13 year old I was surprised how engrossing a book could be. I couldn't put it down!
Watership Down, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh, The Hobbit.
"Where the Wild Things Are" by Maurice Sendak, and the Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
The Peter Cottontail series by Beatrix Potter
Anne of Green Gables by LM Mongomery and The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
Little House in the Big Woods, by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Anne of Green Gables started everything for me.
I would have to agree with the Anne of Green Gables series along with Little House on the Prairie series but even before reading those, I loved the Mandie books by Lois Gladys Leppard. As a child, whenever my parents went to the book store, they would have to limit me on the number of books I could get (normally 2) and at least one would be a "Mandie" book. :-)
As a child: The three bears.In adolescence : Jane Eyre.
Island of the Blue Dolphins and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. How can you have a list like this and not include Roald Dahl?
Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry
The Phantom Tollbooth for me. For my children, Harry Potter series.
I hated reading when I was a kid, until I found Harriet the Spy. I loved that book so much that I have been reading ever since!
Jane Eyre. I was in grade school and just kept re-reading it. Also in 6th or 7th grade, "I Married Adventure", a book not many people have heard of. It told the story of a photographer Martin Johnson who traveled through Africa in the early part of the 20th Century. His wife Osa traveled with him and wrote of their adventures. It stimulated my love of travel and cultures.
Too many Little Golden Books (like The Little Red Hen), Dr. Seuss books, and so many others (like the books + cassettes kits that told you to "turn the page") got me into reading. (Yeah, I'm that old.) I've never not liked reading. And I liked too many to have a real favorite.
Goosebumps series by R.L. Stine :$ I was totally addicted
Five on a Treasure Island by Enid Blyton
Another vote for Anne of Green Gables
James and the Giant Peach and Phantom Tollbooth too.
The Monster at the End of the Book.Ramona the Pest.
The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe.
So much awesome, so many fit, but one I don't see that fell into my favorites as a kid in the 80s, The Phantom Tollbooth. GREAT list, GR.
I read the entire Little House on the Prairie series over and over and over, and loved it more each time.
A Wrinkle in Time, definitely. But also The Hero and the Crown and Wizard of Earthsea.
Annabel And BryonyThe Far Distant Oxus
Both unusual books, both much loved and read more than once!
- and 'Heidi', definitely.
ANYTHING by L.M. Montgomery. Anne's stories changed my life....for the better. I do not know what I would have done had I not read that series. <3
