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Top books from your childhood
>the bailey school kids
>dear mr.henshaw
>wayside school falling down
>Charlotte's web
>the chocolate touch

>> No.15987492

>>15987482
The Iliad
The Aeneid
Moby Dick
Don Quijote
Paradise Regain'd

>> No.15987503

Ulysses
Moby dick
The Holy Bible
Lolita
Mein Kampf

>> No.15987521

Ten little niggers
Stop doing that sh*t
F*ck feelings
It
Getting free
Life without money

>> No.15987572

>>15987482
The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mantel
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

>> No.15987573

First book I ever read from start to finish was The Edge Chronicles. Only the first book. Prior to that I would spend literal years unable to finish a book.

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>> No.15987626

>>15987573
To be specific I only read book 4. Beyond The Deepwoods.

>> No.15987689

I was really into
The thief/King of attolia
The C.H.E.R.U.B series and the first couple books of the Henderson boys
The rangers apprentice
Charlie Wilcox and Charlie Wilcox's great War

>> No.15987901

>Harry Potter
>Star Girl
>Loser
>Tweak

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>>15987482
I unironically didn't read as a kid. I would just stare at the pages and read summaries online to bullshit when quizzed. I don't feel I really lost out on much since it was all babby shit they were feeding us anyways

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Out of my way, plebs.

>> No.15988238

>>15988217
DAM BOY!!!!!! SLAY!!!!!!!

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>>15987482
Martin Eden
Journey to the End of the Night
The Tartar Steppe
A Man Asleep
Lost Illusions

>> No.15988522

>>15987482
I've still got a Bailey School Kids book that my teacher gave me in 5th grade.

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>> No.15988576

>>15987689
Cherub and the Henderson boys was fucking amazing. IF you wanna get a boy into reading that would be my go to.

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My mother would have me sit next to her on the couch in first grade and read these out loud to her.

>> No.15988621

The Black Cauldron
Comet in Moominland
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

>> No.15988634

a series of unfortunate events is goated

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Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats
The Meanwhile Adventures
The Wind In The Willows
The Hobbit
various natural history books

>> No.15988684

>>15987521
kek

>> No.15988690

>>15987901
LOSER BASED

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Outta my way brainlets

>> No.15989163

>>15988576
Thats what really got me reading. I thought it was so cool. I still vividly remember scenes from both series

>> No.15989273

didn't really read much as a kid but I enjoyed reading Tolkien, read one called sea of trolls that I remember really enjoying, and there were these short mystery books that took place here in canada that I cant remember the names of for the life of me that I enjoyed. also some kids books about an hour at midnight when monsters came out and only a select few people experience it

>> No.15989292

The Phantom Tollbooth is GOAT

>> No.15989332

>>15987482
Early teens I read a lot of Stephen King, mostly his short story collections. I also read a lot of Bruce Coville, mainly the aliens ate my homework series and the short story collections he did with fellow authors.

>> No.15989563

>>15987573
I loved that series as a kid. The world building is excellent, very surreal like a bad fever dream. I'm actually impressed how many fantasy cliches they managed to avoid

>> No.15989623

Mortal Engines

>> No.15990028

>>15987573
>>15988217
>>15988634
These three and the Gahoole owl books. Stopped reading in middle school till I got to college.

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Redwall was a particular favorite of mine and a comfy series to return to.

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Any other William Sleator fans?
Also I miss Goosebumps desu. I wish someone could write a series of a few dozen super short horror books for adults that wasn't absolutely horrible.

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Halloweiner
Wayside School series
Magic Treehouse series

>> No.15993006

>>15987482
Calvin and Hobbes anthologies
Bionicle books
Poppy
Sabriel

>> No.15993056

>>15988217
the fuck is wrong with this guys hand?

>> No.15993064

>>15988596
basedbasedbased based.

>> No.15993414

>>15987482
The Redwall books
This one sci-fi book about a guy travelling back in time to Batista's Cuba in order to change history so he could be with his mistress in his present, who is in a different caste than he is and where such relationships are prohibited (I forgot the name and the author of the since it's been forever since I've read it, but I remember loving it when I rented it from the library)
Artemis Fowl
Eragon
Children of the Red King

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>>15987482

>> No.15994420

Ottfried Preußlers "Krabat".