Your Favorite Books From Childhood!

[sui generis]

The world atlas, especially the section in the front about the solar system.

I was a weird kid.

Me too. Atlases are awesome.

And I used to read our set of World Books for fun, too. I kind of miss physical encyclopedias. There was so much I'd learn about because I turned past a picture that was interesting, then I'd read the article.

I do the same thing with Wikipedia, now, too, but it's not the same.



I used to do it with dictionaries, too. Read them for fun and learn all sorts of new words.

[InsatiableCuriosity]

As a young chld:

The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley
The Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
The Wind in the Willows
What Katy Did and What Katy Did Next
Artur Mee's Children's Encyclopedia
The Song of Hiawatha
A Child's Garden of Verses by RL Stevenson
Fables, Myths and Legends of other countries - various authors
The Odyssey and the Iliad
1,001 Arabian Nights (Scheherezade)
the poetry and stories of AB (Banjo) Paterson (author of Waltzing Matilda)
particularly The Geebung Polo Club, The Man From Ironbark,
Mulga Bill's Bicycle and The Man from Snowy River
the poetry and stories of Henry Lawson
Heloise
May Gibbs' Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, Blinky Bill,
and the Gumnut Babies

As a pre teen:

the Billabong Books
Anne of Green Gables series
Emily of New Moon Series
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayam
The books of Jean Plaidy
The Prophet
The Crucible
books of RL Stephenson

too many more to mention!

[stringstheory]

The entire Animorphs series.

THIS

also, The Redwall Series



I also read a lot of Stephen King, starting around age 10 or so. Reading was about the only way to shut me up when i was young, and my aunt had a bunch of his books lying around so i guess it was the logical solution

i have a serious problem with this.

[Gloriana]

I, too, have the Wiki-mania. I suffer similar symptoms on YouTube and StumbleUpon.

[wildcat]

Oh, I was a total bookworm as a kid. I remember a book I turned into a cabbage when I was 6 - The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Selma Lagerlöf. Read that over and over again, always carried it around, what a weirdo.

Books by Astrid Lindgren were always my favourites. Karlson on the Roof; The Children of Noisy Village; Ronia, the Robber's Daughter; the Pippi Longstocking series; The Brothers Lionheart; etc.

Later on I couldn't get enough of the Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. The Tarzan and the Martian series by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Dracula by Bram Stoker. The Three Musketeers and the sequels by Alexandre Dumas. The Leatherstocking Tales by James Fenimore Cooper. Books by Karl May with the characters of Winnetou and Old Shatterhand. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. Anything by Agatha Christie!!! Basically, I read anything with a hint of adventure, thriller, crime, mystery. Good times.

In my teens I expanded my interest on to works by Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters, Shakespeare...stuff like that.

I was and still am into the classics a lot and even though I read anything that piques my interest, I always turn back to the classics. Oh, this is great, it brings back so many wonderful memories. Now I want to start reading those books all over again.

My best books were not written in English.

English is a good second. Burroughs and Conan. Very entertaining.
Most teen-agers rebel. The Catcher is for them.

If you do not rebel, you do not catch. A ready-made suit does not fit.

[Chloe]

I didnt read at all when I was under 16-17, except few books for school.
But among those I read:

The Diary of Anne Frank - I was around 12 when I read it and adored it. Felt like I understand Anna very good.

Around 17 it was Catcher in The Rye.

around 18 it was Steppenwolf

[CuriousFeeling]

Childhood:
The American Girl series... loved the elements of history infused into the storyline. After reading the Samantha stories, I got heavily into Victorian era stuff.
The Secret Garden
A Little Princess
Charlotte's Web
Little House on the Prairie
Dr. Seuss books
The Magic Schoolbus Series (science nerd in action)
Issac Asimov's The Rocky Planets
Various encyclopedias
Lynn Reid Banks' The Fairy Rebel
Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
Various fairy tales
Non-fiction books about meteorology, butterflies, marine life, the solar system, the human body, and dinosaurs.

Adolescence:
Homer- The Odyssey
Daniel Keyes- Flowers for Algernon
Jack London- The Call of the Wild
E.L. Doctorow- Ragtime, The Water Works
Steinbeck- The Pearl, Of Mice and Men
John Knowles- A Separate Peace
Edith Wharton- Ethan Frome
Charles Dickens- Great Expectations
Shakespeare- Romeo and Juliet, Othello
J.D. Sallinger- Catcher in the Rye
Harper Lee- To Kill a Mockingbird

[sui generis]

How did I forget "Charlotte's Web"????

[Arthur Schopenhauer]

Let me see if I can remember them all.

Treasure Island
Great Expectations
A Tale of Two Cities
The Lord of the Rings (The Hobbit, The Silmarillion, The Children of Hurin, etc.)
Paraifals Page
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
All of the Narnia's
Lord of the Flies
Odysseuss
A few of the Redwall's
The Voyage of Jerle Shannara Trilogy

I can't remember anymore right now but I'm having flashbacks from some of these posts! Animorphs and Ramona the Pest! My fourth grade teacher read the entire Ramona series for us. It was the best part of the day - even better than recess.

[Arthur Schopenhauer]

The world atlas, especially the section in the front about the solar system.

I was a weird kid.

I used to read my grandmothers Encyclopædia Britannica set when I went over to her house. My aunts medical books were over there as well but they took those away from me after I showed them the section about pelvic exams... There was a picture of a woman undergoing a speculum exam and it showed all of THAT. I don't know why they let me read that book in the first place though because it had some very mature pictures in it.