As a kid the series that did it was the seven sleepers by Gilbert morris. But then I didn’t read for a long time. The book that started me reading again was Sarah dessen the truth about forever
Reading Tom Sawyer when I was a child. I believe that was my first novel. I was there with Tom. Pulling pranks and laughing about it! My heart beating faster when I would “see” Becky, and scared to death of the villain Joe.
Nancy Drew and Hardy boys series as a kid. I always loved to read and was a lover of true crime already. My grandpa was taking me to the library every other day as I was burning through books.
Harry Potter series. I can tell you when I picked up the first two books and where I was. I read a few books before that but after Harry Potter I was completely obsessed with reading. Still am ?
Same!!!! Now that I’m older and know JK Rowling’s story they make them even more valuable and I just really admire her grit, courage, imagination and her generosity! She’s totally a Gryffindor.
Oh man that is a good one either bridge to tarabitha or where the red fern grows. Nope before that there were these books like baby sitter club short chapter books about a haunted tree house. I can’t remember the name but they were the first chapter books I got through at around 6. Never stopped after that
I don’t think is a book but a couple of people: my mom, who somehow always encouraged me to read. When I was a kid I was always choosing “the book with the little pig on the cover” for my night read. So, my mom was always reading to me “the animal farm”, by Orwell. But of course I did not know at that time; My professor of French literature, I studied foreign languages at high school (I am Italian) and she had a way to teach us that it was impossible not to fall in love with reading. My job has nothing to do with reading or literature but I decided to graduate at university in literature anyway, years after finishing high school, just for passion
Lucy Mald Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables’ series. The setting was based from a real place on Prince Edward Island, ??. Actually going to also add Shakespeare’s tragic comedies & Arthur Doyal’s ‘Sherlock Holmes.’ Took 3 authors for me to become a BookAholic.
To many But in particular started with what Katie did series, famous 5 , secret 7 , Nancy drew then As got older , the hobbit , The outsiders (read at senior school In lesson ) , it and any Stephen king , flowers in the attic series
Say Cheese or Die! I really got into R.L. Stine when I was 10? Then I was gone, I got into all his books, goosebumps, fear street, I fell in love with reading and tried a bunch of new authors, then I went in a couple book groups and wow how my reading went crazy! I’ve been reading for 5 years now and still adore it so much, it’s my life.
Loved Laura Ingles Wilder and Sweet Valley high I didn’t become a true junkie till my first adult book called Butterfly by Kathryn Harvey first published in 1974
Before I could really read: the pokey little puppy 7yo: runaway Ralph 11yo: interview with the vampire 17yo: covenant with the vampire 23yo: twilight 27yo: the hunger games 33yo: a court of thorns and roses
I went “backwards” in my reading… read “adult” books as a preteen/teen and YA books as an adult
I misread that as alcoholic XD
Not a book, but a website – Goodreads and partly my mum who’s a librarian 🙂
Dan Brown- a lot if times
Tiger’s curse
Whitney my love by Judith McNaught
Enid Blytons books
The famous five
@Barry yes also secret seven and many more
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Kafka on the Shore
I was working shifts and I picked up Fury by Colin Forbes and Mayday by Clive Cussler and I have been a bookworm ever since and that was in 1995
As a kid the series that did it was the seven sleepers by Gilbert morris. But then I didn’t read for a long time. The book that started me reading again was Sarah dessen the truth about forever
Reading Tom Sawyer when I was a child. I believe that was my first novel. I was there with Tom. Pulling pranks and laughing about it! My heart beating faster when I would “see” Becky, and scared to death of the villain Joe.
The Black Stallion by Walter Farley. I was 8yrs old.
Velvet Song by Jude Deveraux
Nancy Drew and Hardy boys series as a kid. I always loved to read and was a lover of true crime already. My grandpa was taking me to the library every other day as I was burning through books.
Nancy Drew
The Five Little peppers and How They Grew, by magaret Sidney.
Harry Potter series. I can tell you when I picked up the first two books and where I was. I read a few books before that but after Harry Potter I was completely obsessed with reading. Still am ?
Same!!!! Now that I’m older and know JK Rowling’s story they make them even more valuable and I just really admire her grit, courage, imagination and her generosity! She’s totally a Gryffindor.
Yes! I totally admire my books way more. My obsession with HP just grows with my age. ?
It’s a hindi book called “GUNAAHON KA DEVTA”
Scars
Hannah, Daughters of the Sea
The Babysitter Club series
Oh man that is a good one either bridge to tarabitha or where the red fern grows. Nope before that there were these books like baby sitter club short chapter books about a haunted tree house. I can’t remember the name but they were the first chapter books I got through at around 6. Never stopped after that
I’m not sure it was one book. I think it was the used bookstore in downtown Columbus Ohio and my discovery of Harlequin romances
I don’t think is a book but a couple of people:
my mom, who somehow always encouraged me to read.
When I was a kid I was always choosing “the book with the little pig on the cover” for my night read.
So, my mom was always reading to me “the animal farm”, by Orwell.
But of course I did not know at that time;
My professor of French literature, I studied foreign languages at high school (I am Italian) and she had a way to teach us that it was impossible not to fall in love with reading.
My job has nothing to do with reading or literature but I decided to graduate at university in literature anyway, years after finishing high school, just for passion
Harry Potter
Lucy Mald Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables’ series. The setting was based from a real place on Prince Edward Island, ??. Actually going to also add Shakespeare’s tragic comedies & Arthur Doyal’s ‘Sherlock Holmes.’ Took 3 authors for me to become a BookAholic.
Any R.L. Stine book
Nancy Drew mysteries
Warriors or the Sea Breeze novels.
Gone With The Wind.
When I read Where The Red Fern Grows in middle school…that started my love for books!!?
Nancy Drew and the library that went to as a child
A series started it
https://www.goodreads.com/series/49083-anita-blake-vampire-hunter
Twilight
I’m not even sure I know the answer to that. I remember struggling to read in kindergarten then once I “got it” I wouldn’t stop reading.
Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew series.
This started it all for me! I just recently read it to my son ❤️
I remember reading this as a child. Loved it!!
Anything by Agatha Christie.
Poochie and the Four Seasons Fair
up the down staircase
False memory, Dean Koontz
My obsession began with Dr. Seuss books. Then on to the Nancy Drew series and Marguerite Henry.
Hardy Boys mysteries.
Magic Faraway Tree.
I think it was Dorian Gray
It wasn’t a book so to say. It was a life circumstance.
It wasn’t a single book, but rather being read to since birth by my mother and grandmother. I was taught to love fiction from an early age.
Mark Twain’s “Tom Sawyer”
Robinson Crusoe <3
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Dick and Jane
Nancy Drew I think it was the mystery of the winding starcase
I’d have to say it was Matilda by Roald Dahl.
The Ramona series by Beverly Cleary, Encyclopedia Brown series, and Judy Blume.
Were book soul sisters!!!
The outsiders
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
A Three-Year Minute
Turn back time (Alex Mercer thriller) by Stacy Claffin Book #2
For me I think it was The Kingdom Series by Chuck Black that truly did it to me. I think…not a 100% sure
Babysitters club, Chronicles of narnia, and RL stine ?
Roald Dahl books
To many But in particular started with what Katie did series, famous 5 , secret 7 , Nancy drew then As got older , the hobbit , The outsiders (read at senior school In lesson ) , it and any Stephen king , flowers in the attic series
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen.
My gateway into sci-fi, which then turned into my book obsession, as well as fantasy was Starstruck by Brenda Hiatt
Say Cheese or Die! I really got into R.L. Stine when I was 10? Then I was gone, I got into all his books, goosebumps, fear street, I fell in love with reading and tried a bunch of new authors, then I went in a couple book groups and wow how my reading went crazy! I’ve been reading for 5 years now and still adore it so much, it’s my life.
See Spot Run
Hannah Swenson series
Loved Laura Ingles Wilder and Sweet Valley high I didn’t become a true junkie till my first adult book called Butterfly by Kathryn Harvey first published in 1974
Dr. Seuss and the Hardy Boys series
Hardy Boys, Little Prince
Wish I had one but I’ve been book-obsessed since I was a toddler. My parents taught me to read books at the same time as talk.
Slated by Terri Terri
House of the spirits by Isabel Allende
Hardy boys
The Outsiders
The Right to Write =)
The Lord of the Rings
The Song of Ice and Fire series, by George R. R. Martin
R.L. Stine anything.
And then there were none
Robin Hood
Grimms’ Fairy Tales maybe. Honestly not sure. Maybe Winnie The Poo or something? I’ve been reading longer than I can really remember.
Redwall
Don’t think any one book turned me into a bookaholic.
nancy drew case files
The Hobbit and The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
Anything by Sandra Owens, and Kristan Higgins.
john grisham’s the firm
Little House On the Prairie and The Hobbit
A horse called wonder Joanna Campbell
Mine was Catch 22
The hunger games
15 year old me fell in love with this book, and Lance ?
The Shack, and the Hunger Game Series❤️❤️
When I was a kid, Harriet The Spy and A Wrinkle in Time
It was john grisham when he stuck to legal mysteries. Now. Pauchological thrillers
At different times in my life…
Before I could really read: the pokey little puppy
7yo: runaway Ralph
11yo: interview with the vampire
17yo: covenant with the vampire
23yo: twilight
27yo: the hunger games
33yo: a court of thorns and roses
I went “backwards” in my reading… read “adult” books as a preteen/teen and YA books as an adult
I think it was the Nancy Drew books.
Honestly, an old Dick and Jane reader my cousin had and gave to me in kindergarten. I’ve not stopped reading since!