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. 

[Memory]

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.

[H0ppin_H00ligan]

I was notoriously a very picky reader as a kid (...and admittedly i'm still pretty picky when it comes to the media i consume now) but i LOVVVVEEEEEDDDDDD dork diaries as a kid!!! I remember wanting to be nikki SO BAD!!!! I was also really into babymouse, bad kitty, the rainbow magic fairy books, dear dumb diary and other stuff....as you can probably tell, i was a pretty girly girl back in the day (...albeit i never wanted to admit it)

I remember playing "rainbow magic" with my siblings whenever we'd play in our pool during the summer, i was shannon the ocean fairy, my brother was storm the lightning fairy and my sister always changed what fairy she'd be. I remember my brother and i tried to make up our own "fairy-sonas" once, mine was daisy the petal fairy and my brother's was chronos the time fairy. I remember my brother explaining in detail what chronos looked like to our sister so that she could draw him and she kept drawing him wrong just to mess with him lol (IE giving him a wand when bro made it VERY CLEAR chronos had a staff)

My mom used to take me to the library growing up bc she knew i liked reading and i was OBSESSED with this graphic novel series called "kit feeny" that was about this little weasel boy named kit feeny going on adventures....there was also this graphic novel series called "fashion kitty" that was about a cat girl superhero that gave people fashion advice. Another one i was REALLY REALLY into was a book series called "the popularity papers" that was admittedly geared towards a slightly older audience than i was when i first read it (like around middle-school age, i was 9) it's a coming-of-age series about two girls named julie and lydia as they make their way through middle school. It was surprisingly the first gay representation i ever REALLY saw in media because julie has two dads so that's cool.

[Memory]

My favorite books are Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, Citizen Welles by Frank Brady and They Lyrics by Paul McCartney.

I grew up reading Diary of a Wimpy Kid, I Spy, Big Nate, Goosebumps, 39 Clues and Bone. Those r just some of the things, not all lol.

 

[snufkin]

I've always been a voracious reader. Some of my favorites as a child were series like Warriors, Guardians of Ga'hoole, The Underland Chronicles, Artemis Fowl, and Bartimaeus.

My favorite books now that I'm an adult are Pachinko by Min Jin Lee and Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino.

[chxshire22]

i read a hell of a lot of books as a child/teen. my school had mandatory 30 minutes(?) reading session in the morning before starting the day. it's called silent reading. singaporeans would be familiar with it.

anyway, these are the books that i remember reading and re-reading a lot in my formative years:

1. tom sawyer
2. adventures of huckleberry finn
3. ALL of the sherlock holmes books
4. frankenstein
5. dracula
6. to kill a mockingbird
7. chronicles of narnia

out of them all, i read tom sawyer first. it was my favourite book of all time. as a child i thought of how cool it would be to live a life like his. i feel like it shaped me the most as a person throughout my life.

recently, i've considered re-reading tom sawyer. the last i read it was probably close to 2 decades ago so i wonder how different i will perceive it now that i'm a full grown adult

[Teletypist]

For books a grew up with: I wasn't much of a reader growing up (I was a progenitor to the Ipad kid  ) but I did read Captain underpants ! I read all of them EXCEPT for the very last one :( I guess that is on my bucket list. I also remember reading 'Kasper: prince of cats' at 11/12 which IIRC was one of the few school assigned books I liked; it is about a bell boy in London who secretly takes care of an aristocrats(?) cat, and eventually has to sneak him into the Titanic.

As for favourite books... I don't know if I have any? I've read a couple books this year but I don't think I have a favourite. Though if I had to recommend some, I would recommend Legends & Lattes (cosy fantasy about a retired warrior starting a coffee shop) and This Is How You Lose The Time War (Cloud Cuckoo Country explains it better than I could)

[Seechain]

I remember 3 books clearly: Gulliver's Travels, The Prince and the Pauper, and Sandokan. I must have read each one several times when I was a child.

[Tiffany]

I didn't start reading a lot until middle school, but this one was one my dad read to me when I was in elementary school and kind of started the journey to wanting to read, but it was The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner, it was the one with the yellow cover.