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  • BleedsCoffee
    BleedsCoffee Posts: 247 Member
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    The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Trilogy) by Douglas Adams
  • PJ64
    PJ64 Posts: 866 Member
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    Trinity by Leon Uris
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    Anything by Tony Hillerman (Southwest Navajo detective Jim Chee series)

    Someone said the Bible. For me the Bible is not so much book as it is an owners manual :smile:
  • CallMeCupcakeDammit
    CallMeCupcakeDammit Posts: 9,377 Member
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    The first book that found it's way to my heart? That's a tie, I recall two I read in elementary school that I bought on Amazon to re-read whenever the mood strikes me.

    ~Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
    ~A Time of Darkness by Sherryl Jordan

    Those two books were my favorites when I was young and I still enjoy them to this day! :)

    Where the Red Fern Grows! My copy is falling apart, I should probably get another one. One of my teachers read it to our class and I fell in love with it.
  • slkehl
    slkehl Posts: 3,801 Member
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    Anything John Grisham
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    Pride and Prejudice
  • tuathanari
    tuathanari Posts: 38 Member
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    The first book that found it's way to my heart? That's a tie, I recall two I read in elementary school that I bought on Amazon to re-read whenever the mood strikes me.

    ~Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
    ~A Time of Darkness by Sherryl Jordan

    Those two books were my favorites when I was young and I still enjoy them to this day! :)

    Where the Red Fern Grows! My copy is falling apart, I should probably get another one. One of my teachers read it to our class and I fell in love with it.

    I was coming here to say Where the Red Fern Grows. Only book I read more than once, until I was 18 and found Asoiaf. :) And as much as I liked those books the only reason I reread them was because I'd get lost otherwise when the next one came out :laugh:

    In fact, I just reread it a couple of months ago.

    Second place goes to The Giver.
  • themommie
    themommie Posts: 5,019 Member
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    Pick a fav is hard I just LOVE to read
    recently anything by jodi picoult
    But I have aleays loved The Thornbirds
  • bookyeti
    bookyeti Posts: 544 Member
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    Favourite: Far From the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy

    Runners Up...
    Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
    Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
    Microserfs - Douglas Coupland
    The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
    The Blue Castle - Lucy Maud Montgomery
    To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
  • NotRailMeat
    NotRailMeat Posts: 509 Member
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    First Book I was drawn to:
    "Where the Red Fern Grows" - Wilson Rawls. I read this probably 5-6 times

    Got me though High School:
    "Hitchhikers Guide (Trilogy)" - Douglas Adams

    Current Passion:
    "Atlas Shrugged" - Ayn Rand. I just started my second reading of this.
  • HS2305
    HS2305 Posts: 422 Member
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    Q & A by Vikas Swarup
  • aelunyu
    aelunyu Posts: 486 Member
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    "...few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart." - Carlos Ruiz Zafón from "The Shadow of the Wind"

    Fellow bibliophiles - what was the first book to find it's way to your heart?
    Mine was "To Kill a Mockingbird" It was assigned reading for my Sophomore English class and I literally read it four times before the class finished it.


    BTW - anyone on Goodreads, feel free to add me - mnishi


    Some other recs, if you liked Shadow of the Wind

    The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht
    A Visit From the Good Squad by Jennifer Egan
    The Night Circus by Erin Morganstern
    The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
    Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
    Jamrach's Menagerie by Carol Birch
    The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

    Maybe though, the first book that found its target was The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  • elenathegreat
    elenathegreat Posts: 3,988 Member
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    Since very few of us are picking just one, I am going to add some more loves to my list...

    The Milagro Beanfield War, The Magic Journey, The Nirvana Blues(trilogy) - John Nichols
    The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings Trilogy(cannot count how many summers I spent reading these since age 11 or 12)
    The Stand - Stephen King
    Comanche Moon - Larry McMurtry
    Hannibal Rising - Thomas Harris
    The Asian Saga(six books) - James Clavell
  • rfechter
    rfechter Posts: 109 Member
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    it is so hard to decide since I love to read and have been reading since the age of 4. I would have to say that my favorite read is actually a short story "the last leaf" by O' Henry. A close second is "The Stand" by Stephen King.
  • spederse86
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    I just want to say... I'm so happy that (I'm pretty sure) no one said anything by Ernest Hemingway. I don't care how much critics say his works are wonderful, I dislike every single one of his short stories and books. >___> *lol*
  • dan_boisvert_sub5x50
    dan_boisvert_sub5x50 Posts: 44 Member
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    The FIRST? "The Little Engine that Could" ...
  • LilRedRooster
    LilRedRooster Posts: 1,421 Member
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    My favorite book? Well, that's just the impossible question of the day.. I don't have just one, but if I had to narrow it down a bit, it would be "The Casual Vacancy", by J.K. Rowling, "To Kill A Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, "Sabriel", by Garth Nix, "Good Omens", by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, and.. Probably "A People's History of the United States" by Howard Zinn.

    Really, I like a whole lot of other books. I can never narrow it down to less than 10 without a whole lot of issues, haha.
  • bookworm_847
    bookworm_847 Posts: 1,903 Member
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    I think Goosebumps and Nancy Drew were the childhood series which really helped me to develop my love of reading.

    Agreed! ^____^

    Third this...mine was fear street.

    I forgot about those! I used to LOVE the Fear Street books.
  • Jonesingmucho
    Jonesingmucho Posts: 4,902 Member
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    Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

    ...right now....
  • durangocal
    durangocal Posts: 90 Member
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    The Count of Monte Cristo, To Kill a Mockngbird, Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice
  • ScatteredThoughts
    ScatteredThoughts Posts: 3,562 Member
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    Another vote for The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. Heinlein had a wonderful writing style, and it really helped fuel my desire to read when I was in high school.
  • LordByproduct
    LordByproduct Posts: 117
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    my favorite book if I had to choose

    novel: Narcissus & Goldmund by Herman Hesse

    naturalism non-fiction: song of the dodo (forget author)

    a couple other good non fiction books "the swerve: how the world became modern" " Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science, and Bad Religion in a World Without God "

    "the unbearable lightness of being" Milan kundera

    "a scanner darkly" Philip k. ****

    ANYTHING VONNEGUT

    especially "a man without a country"

    the list goes on.... I cant pick one.

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