Favorite books and what books did you grow up with?

[SPARK]

What books do you guys like? I really like Animal Farm and the Little White Bird; I grew up on those two. What kind of books did you guys grow up with? I want to expand what I'm reading now, so I want to know what books you guys like so I could read them. 

[⋆DizzyLizz⋆]

Well personally I mostly read graphic novels and comics as a kid but for like actual novels I loved the Percy Jackson books.Now for comics I could probably go on for ages, one of my favorites was the walking dead comics (im aware I was way too young to be reading those).

 I also loved like captain underpants by Dave likely as juvenile as many of his books were they helped encourage literacy and creativity in children such as myself :3. Last but not least I loved reading the halo novels, my dad's a huge gamer so he got a lot of them back when the Bungie games were coming out in the aughts.

My favorite halo novels were Eric Nylund's 4 novels that came out from 2001 to 2006 and "Halo Evolutions" Wich came out in 2009 and featured stories from the halo universe by various authors (most of which Were Canon to the lore!!!)
 


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[Melooon]

A few books that had a big impact on me as a kid/tween - some of them were audio books that my dad put on in the car, he did that a lot but one or two really pulled me in!

• Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne - A classic, but a fun adventure!
• Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome - 1920s British holiday book about kids camping on an island
• The Secret of the Ruby Ring by Yvonne MacGrory - A girl is transported back 100 years to Victorian Ireland
• Northern Lights by Philip Pullman - Alternate reality series aka The Golden Compass
• The Last of the Wind Ships by Alan Villiers - Journal of a man crewing on the last merchant sailing ships in the 30s
• Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer - Fantasy novel about a boy who gains fairy powers and is cool
• Kim by Rudyard Kipling - About an orphaned Irish boy growing up on the streets in Victorian India
• Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder - A narrative exploration of philosophy from the perspective of a girl in Norway
• Marie Antoinette by Antonia Fraser - A narrative biography about the last French queen
• Exodus by Julie Bertagna - A YA novel about a post-global warming world with a cool abandoned virtual world!
• Plus the usual suspects, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter etc

[MrsMoe]

As a kid, I really loved the Guardians of Ga'hoole books! The film is probably slightly more well-known, but the books were very formative for my love of xenofiction and especially owls (my favorite animals <3). I was so obsessed with them that I shared them with my dad, and he even took me the movie when it first came out. Deadass, nothing was ever cooler to me than birds wearing armor and fighting for justice.

The other dark, sort of mature animal stories I read were Watership Down (still a massive fav to this day), Warriors and Animal Farm. Other than those, I occasionally read some of the Goosebumps and Bailey School Kids books.

[Notabot]

My favorite books are "Jurassic Park" the Novel (Michael Chrichton) and "the Hunger Games".And i grew up with "Harry Potter" and "the magic treehouse".
Btw Jurassic Park and Hunger Games are a bit brutal.

[TheFrugalGamer]

Growing up, I really loved Jules Verne, though I'm not sure which one of his was my favorite. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is also one I read many times. Dickens is difficult to get through in that he was very wordy (he was paid by his word count), but if you can push past that, he was ultimately a satirist and very entertaining. The Sherlock Holmes stories and books are definitely on my favorites list as well.

Dune is probably also one of my favorites, and one of the few I've read multiple times as an adult. I always get something different from it when I re-read it, which is a hallmark of what makes a classic, I think.

[Kalka]

Huge comic-book nerd here ! Marvel, DC, IDW, Image, Boom, I have so many, over 2000 collected over many years ! I have both French and English comics since not all titles are translated.

I also love to read CYOA (Choose Your Own Adventure) gamebooks such as "Fighting Fantasy" and "Lone Wolf" my two favrite series. You just need a book, a pencil and a dice. Lots of fun, I do some with friends sometimes, acting as the narrator and they are the player !

I grew up with Comic-Books and CYOA so I haven't changed topics 

If I had one comic-book to recommend it would be "Last Stand of the Wreckers" a TransFormers comics by Nick Roche & James Roberts.

[wolfkitty42]

As a kid, I really loved the Guardians of Ga'hoole books! The film is probably slightly more well-known, but the books were very formative for my love of xenofiction and especially owls (my favorite animals <3). I was so obsessed with them that I shared them with my dad, and he even took me the movie when it first came out. Deadass, nothing was ever cooler to me than birds wearing armor and fighting for justice.

The other dark, sort of mature animal stories I read were Watership Down (still a massive fav to this day), Warriors and Animal Farm. Other than those, I occasionally read some of the Goosebumps and Bailey School Kids books.

DUDE!!! I loved Guardians of Ga'Hoole!!!! I remember disliking the movie as a kid, but now I can accept it's a good movie if not a good adaptation. It really struck a chord with me because it was so scary in a specific way. The way all the adult characters are untrustworthy and  nobody can ask questions really resonated with me. It was a great series- I was also pretty into Wolves of the Beyond, and I have vague memories of reading her bear books.

I was pretty into Little House, Boxcar Children and Bobbsey Twins. I really wish I could find the old collection of Bobbsey Twins we had.... Unfortunately it's been a long time and we don't really know where they went.