The first novel you ever read was...

[Pryderi]

The Swiss Family Robinson. I didn't want that book to end. I was 12.

[XemaSab]

1. Pet Semetary

I was 5. :D

[Forkboy]

2. I want to say it was Treasure Island, but I'm not sure.

I wasn't into many "kids" books, and was reading stuff like Ludlum by age 10. I'm not sure I got everything in those books, mind you, but they were the first adult books I read. I pored through all that stuff.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Brave New World.

I was 10 years old and got scarlet fever, so I was kept at home for a couple of weeks. The teacher gave me some reading assignments, one of which was Brave New World. Of course it was way over my head, but I thought it was totally cool anyhow.

[suninvited]

4. I was reading books from the time I was five

but, looking back, don't really consider what I was reading as novels.

I guess the first novel that I consider a novel and not just a story was Diary of Anne Frank. It had a huge impact on my life. I cried for weeks, and I just couldn't explain to anybody else why I was sad. I got into so much trouble over that!!

[kimmerspixelated]

7. I think we read that one in Jr. High,

and I did the same thing. You'd have to be made of stone not be effected,shattered by Anne's words.

[susanr516]

5. Little Women

My grandmother gave me the book for my 7th birthday, and I still have it.

[EFerrari]

25. My first, too. I didn't get all the Bunyan refs until years later

but it was a great way to learn how to read. :)

[mitchum]

6. Tobacco Road when I was seven

[liberaltrucker]

8. Tom Sawyer. Age 8

Many times since.

[WinkyDink]

9. OMG!! I think that was mine! I'm 59, and taught BritLit, and that is STILL one of my faves!

[PassingFair]

10. A book called "The Teddy Bear Habit" by James Lincoln Collier

These reviews on Amazon pretty well sum up my feelings about the book,
I LOVED this book!


5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book for age group 9-14, February 17, 1998
By A Customer
This is more of a comment than a review, but this book is not for the baby-preschool set as indicated, but rather an excellent story for the late-elementary/junior high age group. It deals with a Greenwich Village boy in the mid 60's who lives with his bohemian-artist father, and who accidentally gets wrapped up in a jewel theft. The underlying theme is his inability to shake his dependence on a childhood teddy bear. Many great 60's references including a Beatles style rock group which he auditions for and the Greenwich Village arts scene. Great illustrations, too.







By A Customer
I loved this book as a kid, and I love it still. A few years ago I hunted down a copy from the publisher, since I never had the nerve to steal it from my local library!

It's a great story about a boy in the Village in the '60s, and how he learns to be play the guitar and be cool. There are jewel thieves and Ed Sullivan lookalikes and all sorts of zany things, as well as cool illustrations.

I'd love to get my hands on another copy to give to my 10 year old niece.






4.0 out of 5 stars A great urban adventure story for pre-adolescents, October 2, 1998
By A Customer
This story of a boy growing up almost on his own, without a mother and with a loving but rather absent father, is relevant for so many children today. His bravery in overcoming his fears is inspirational. And it's a great adventure in the wilds of Greenwich Village, where the boy is surrounded by a host of offbeat characters.

Great message for kids and told from their perspective. I highly recommend this book if you can find it!

[county worker]

11. Catcher in the Rye

It was on the "do not read" list at my Catholic grade school so I just had to find out why!

[armyowalgreens]

12. The Hobbit.

[rug]

13. Remembrance of Things Past.

In French.

[Louisiana1976]

14. The Wizard of Oz

[MorningGlow]

15. One of the Nancy Drew books

I was 6. I don't remember which one, but I distinctly remember not knowing that a novel had chapters; I thought the differently named chapters were different short stories, and I started reading one at random because the title sounded good. It took me a little while to figure out the book was one long story.

Weird, that I remember that so clearly...

[hippywife]

16. Little Women.

My grandmother gave it to me for Christmas when I was about 10, I think. I've re-read it a few times since then. :hi:

[JeanGrey]

17. Valley of the Dolls

[EastTennesseeDem]

18. A Wrinkle in Time

I was bragging to all my friends that I was reading A BOOK THAT HAD MORE THAN 200 PAGES IN IT!!!!

[applegrove]

19. The Man From St. Malo. It was a biographie about the explorer Jacques Cartier. I remember

thinking "I just read a whole big adult book!". I think it was about 75 pages long.

[jonnyblitz]

20. the earliest book i remember is "the drifters" by james michener.

I am sure I read little kid books before that but the first adult one i remember reading at a young age was "the drifters".

[MilesColtrane]

21. "That Quail Robert"

I was about seven, I think.

[proteus_lives]

22. Grimm's Fairy Tales/1001 Arabian Nights.

4 or 5, I cut my teeth on my mom's old editions of them. They were so old the Grimm tales weren't the sanitized versions. ;-) Probably formed the basis for my morbid mind-set!

[Doc_Technical]

23. Tom Swift and his flying lab

http://www.tomswift.info/homepage/flylab.html

I was about 8 years old.

[Mudoria]

24. "Storm Over Warlock" by Andre Norton

That book got me hooked on Sci-Fi at an early age. I think I read everything the local library had by her after I finished that book. She is still one of my favorite authors. RIP Ms. Norton.

[Lindsey]

26. "To Kill A Mockingbird" - I've had a love affair with reading every

since.

[WCGreen]

27. My side of the mountain was the first one I remember reading...

Thefirst adult novel was The Source by Michner. It was the summer between 9th and tenth grade...

[velvet]

28. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, when I was 13.

That would be the first adult novel. Long line of classic kid novels before that, not sure what was the first but it could have been "The Princess and Curdie" by George MacDonald.

[BlueIris]

29. "Charlotte's Web," 1st grade. Good stuff. nt

[sarge43]

30. Not sure, but probably Black Beauty. n/t

[Turbineguy]

31. The Bible

:evilgrin:

[Graybeard]

32. Isaac Asimov's "I, Robot".

Granted they are short stories, but it was my first "grown up" book not from the children's section of the library. My first non-fiction was Thor Heyerdahl's "Kon Tiki".

[krispos42]

33. I think it was "The Mysterious Island" by Jules Vern

But I don't remember... I was reading a lot of stuff. Old Heinlein from the 40s and 50s, for example. But I though it was such a cool book I read it like three times total. I even remember... it was 626 pages long! :-)

[crim son]

34. I have no idea. I started reading when I was five

and by grade school was bringing home a stack of books from the library every week to read. I kept them in a pile on one side of my bed and when I was finished with one, I put it in a pile on the other side of my bed. I will say that the first novel that made a real impression was probably The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis but I know I read that later in life, in grade five or something.

[HamdenRice]

35. "Call It Courage" about a Polynesian boy on walkabout (actually sailabout) in the Pacific nt

[Rowdyboy]

36. "Black Beauty" at age 7....I sobbed like a baby....

and was hooked on reading fiction for life.

[kentauros]

37. Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

Never did read 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, though. I guess there was enough of Nemo in Mysterious Island to satisfy me there :)

I take it a children's version of "Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp" doesn't count, eh? ;)

[struggle4progress]

38. Treasure Island. Age 7 or 8

[femmocrat]

39. I used to get books from the Weekly Reader Book Club.

I can remember Justin Morgan Had a Horse, but I don't think that was the first one I read. I also read Black Beauty at a very young age. I can also remember reading Dog of Flanders in elementary school.

[Ikonoklast]

40. Robert Louis Stevenson, don't remember which one was first..

Probably 'Treasure Island', or 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde', I read those both at about the same time.

Then Jules Verne, and H. G. Wells, and...

[mdmc]

41. 5th grade - My Brother Sam is Dead

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/brothersam/facts.html