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The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
Edit: by Douglas Adams (yeah, like that addition was needed)
I felt personally offended when my teenage son was like yeah it’s OK.
So that’s why you gave him up for adoption ;)
+1
The Hobbit.
First “real” book I read at like 10 or 11 and I just went straight the the whole series after.
I still remember turning the page to start Chapter 5.
Theres A Monster At the End of This Book
Honestly I can’t remember. I’ve been reading books since 2nd grade and there’s been numerous I loved
Not even one above all? Or the last one you read 😀
Richard Scarry’s “What do people do all day” is such a fun book that even now I wish I had again just to flip through the pages and see the intricacies of the drawings
Almost any Golden Book (Pokey Little Puppy) or
My Side of the Mountain (Jean Craighead George),
Paddington Bear books.
Along with titles others have mentioned (Scarry, etc.). These are firsts
Something by Brian Jacques when I was ten. Probably Long Patrol or Mossflower. turned me from a book hater into a book fiend. Like, literally pissed off my parents because I would read at night instead of sleeping.
The 1982 version of “The Amazing Adventures of Hercules”. They re-released it in I think 2004, but butchered it.
The Hounds of the Morrigan by Pat O Shea. Pure Irish fantasy set in real locations I know in Ireland.
The Planet of Adventure series (it came as a single book) by Jack Vance.
It was more of an adventure book than sci-fi. Light on the science but amazingly descriptive with the details of its world building. It was the first time I could read a book and really experience it like I was there. I dug it out of my dad’s sci-fi collection when I was about 11 I think. It was a Dutch translation and came with a separate map. I loved that map so much, you could follow the journey and fantasize about all those other parts that weren’t mentioned in the book.So yea, it’s the book that opened a whole realm of imagination for me.
A Wrinkle in Time.
One of the first big kids’ books I read on my own. I should re-read the series as an adult since I might have been almost too young for it the first time.
“Nor Crystal Tears”: by Alan Dean Foster
One of the first novel length books I ever sat down to read when I was young.
The first series that I fell in love with was: “The Belgariad” by David Eddings
Say what you want about Eddings, the guy was not a nice guy, but “The Belgariad” was a great series and I leaped from it to LOTR.
Something by Robert Munsch
The first of the Dragonlance books. I loved that trilogy so much as a kid. With Raistlin and Caramon, Tika, and Riverwind, Goldmoon… Thirty years later I still remember it.
The Mysterious Benedict Society was my childhood. I swear I read the whole series like 8 times. Got me into mystery novels and I’ve loved them ever since.
