Which is the first book that you read growing up and has stayed with you over the years?
Which is the first book that you read growing up and has stayed with you over the years?
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The Wind in the Willows <3
Caddie Woodlawn
The Hobbit
Enid Blyton’s The Adventures of Mr Pink-Whistle
Ann Likes Red. My first book that I read over and over and over. I was 4. My parents said I was obsessed. I still have that book. And I love red!
Alice in Wonderland
Go Ask Alice
My Antonia by Willa Cather. Read it when I was 12. It was my first experience with falling in love with a fictional character.
I just bought this last night at the bookstore. I’m working to complete a top 100 list and this book is on there.
My stack I bought last night.
@Maggie Let me know how you like it.
Oohhh this is hard. Eithe Nancy Drew, Little House on the Prarie, or Babysitter’s Club. They were some of the first books I owned and that were MINE and will always be special to me. ?
Without question, The Hobbit!
From the mixed up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by EL Konigsburg
Wuthering Heights
love that one!
Gone with the wind
oooh….I love it too! Can’t say how many times I have read :-). Have you read the ‘sequel’ – it’s called Scarlett?
@Scarlett will look for that
I think for me, the first one that has forever stayed with me is ‘A Tale of Two Cities’
Lord Of The Flies
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
t. Dragt ; Torenhoog en Mijlenbreed
My mother read me the little house on the prairies seires when I was a young girl I think that’s where my love of books really took off.
I read the OZ series by Frank Baum
Re-reading that now and then doing a comparrision to the Marvel graphic novel series. It’s lots of fun.
Dragons of Autumn Twilight truly defined my life and set me down the fantasy path.
Oh my god, I loved these books too! Tanis was also the first fictional character I had a crush on ?
@Maja I named my son, Tanin, after him.
@Garrett that is amazing, and what a great name!
Where the red fern grows
“Christopher Robin” or “Winnie the Pooh” as it’s called in the U.S.
Little House on the Prairie series
Lots of mark twain
ooh…yes! There was a time when I had ‘Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn’ on an endless loop 🙂
Trixie Belden mysteries…I loved them all and re-read them many times.
The diary of Anne Frank
Little House on the Prairie.
The Boxcar Children and Surprise Island
Where The Red Fern Grows
The Yearling
Harry Potter ?❤️??
@Ines I know. <3
@Ines, being inspired by you, last night I bought Death Comes To Kimberley too. On my kindle. As Im currently reading 5 books simultaneously, it will be a while before I finish it. Im reading The Woman In White, Crime And Punishment, the remaining PnP, Black Coffee by AC, and Roger Ackroyd by AC. <3
@Huma that’s great!! I bought a copy of the woman in white too and I’ve always wanted to read Crime and Punishment maybe I will join you if I have time. I’m currently reading Emma by Jane Austen ?
@Ines God bless you. Youre a fast reader. Woman in White has 900 pages. Im 60% into it. Youll finish it. For me it took a year. But its full of dreamy atmosphere and dreamy scenes and has a great suspense in it. Its awesome that youre reading Emma. After I read the introduction to Death Comes To Pemberley, I said to myself, “Wow how nice that suspense and crime will be added to the story of PnP.” 🙂 <3
Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys
ooo….I LOVED the Hardy boys!
Enid Blyton
Me too! My mom used to read them to us.
That makes two of us, Nikitta
Detective novels in Urdu by Ishtiaq Ahmed who was the passionate craze of all Pakistani children. The suspense and the drama, loved it. Always saved my money to buy more and more of his novels. Also the classy children magazine like Naunehaal, Hikaayaat e Saadi and lots of fairytales in Urdu. I started reading English storybooks in my teen age with Agatha Christie.
I have a friend who can speak Urdu…I love listening to her speak…it is such a beautiful language to hear!
@Huma Urdu is indeed a very beautiful language!
Thanks Scarlet.
@Sharmistha so is Hindi. <3
@Huma both are sisters I feel
Nancy Drew
Lots of books! But Gone with the wind is my all time favourite! And it has always motivated me!
I was very young when I read The Blue Willow. The plight of the main character really stuck with me and it’s what I remember most about the book.
I also want to add Uncle Tom’s Cabin
The 5 little Pepper’s & how they grew and Little Women.
The 3 Musketeers by Dumas
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Peter Pan
Goosebumps my Hairiest adventure
Little House in the Big Woods
Boxcar Children
Charlottes Web
Jane Eyre
@Silvana I read Jane Eyre long time back! Must read it again!
@Sharmistha your keyboard is acting up again, my friend. Its not like you to write incoherent English. <3
@Huma thanks corrected it now! Its my mistake , I didn’t review before hitting Send!??
Pickles To Pittsburgh (my dad reading it to me my dad always made it fun(still does)
Asterix comics (Asterix in Switzerland and Asterix at Olympic Games being my first two, shortly followed by Asterix and The Soothsayer).
@Rohen Asterix is my favourite comic!
@Sharmistha, no different here. Asterix has been part of my life since my early reading days. ? Ain’t no place to escape to like that li’l Gaulish village we know so well. ?
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@Rohen wow. I wish I had read comics in my life. Yesterday, I came to know theres a new great comic of 2018, Sabrina.
@Huma, never too late. Asterix books (as well as Calvin & Hobbes) are the kind of delight no one should be deprived of. 🙂
Thanks 🙂
Rohen Kher ??? yes I can totally relate to your enthusiasm!! Have read the whole lot!! I love Tintin as well!
Not overly fond of Tintin. Have read ’em and enjoyed ’em, but, not among my list of favorites.
A Rabbit’s Eyes (Japanese book) and Chronicles of Narnia