Book Poll

Puja20

Since we have discussed favorite shows from our childhood..does anyone have any books they loved?My personal favorites:Sweet Valley HighBabysitters ClubAre you there god, it's me MargaretJust as long as were together.Bonus-Are you reading anything now? I just started reading Best Friends Forever by Jennifer Weiner.  So far I like it.

saschaduran

Oh my god....Sweet Valley High. I was beyond obsessed. I wish I still had them all.

julezlee

I read the entire BSC series over and over and over again. Totally wanted my own club. Too bad I sucked at babysitting real kids. R.L. Stine Nancy Drew The Hardy Boys I need to start a new book. I have a ton on the shelf I just need to commit.

jajph1974

I was a Stephen King fanatic by the time I was 12

TurtlesAllTheWayDown

Babysitters ClubAre you there god, it's me MargaretLoved both of those. I also read Little House on the Prairie over and over (all the books), Anne of Green Gables (again, all the books) and the Narnia series. Right now I have a shiit ton of school work, so my reading is slow, but in theory I'm about to start Olive Kitteridge. It better be good, because I was on a long wait-list at the library to get it. I just read The Little Stranger, which was okay. Very Brit-Fic. On my list still are the Time Traveler's Wife and the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society.

missy68

The older (hardback yellow) Nancy Drews (Secret in the Old Clock, etc). all Judy Blume books - Deanie, Forever, Are You There.... etc.Mushroom Planet books (can't tell you much more about them; but I loved them)Little Womenfairy tales - Hans Christian Anderson, etcEncyclopedia Brown booksBlack BeautyThis list could go on forever.....

kate51485

I loved BSC too. Also Boxcar Children. Earlier than that, I loved the Frances books (she was a badger I think?), Junie B. Jones, and Ramona books.

sarah0725

I definitely read my share of Babysitters Club and Goosebumps.My favorite authors as a young person were Gary Paulsen, Katherine Patterson, and Judy Blume. I'm sure there are others...I don't have time to read anything right now that isn't for school. Tonight I'm supposed to be reading a book called "The Texture of Industry: An Archaeological View of the Industrialization of North America," but I don't wanna.

Moneypenny424

I was OBSESSED with Sweet Valley High!  I remember reading the first 100...and then I think I got over it.  BSC was awesome too. Right now I'm reading A Suitable Boy and am 500 pages in...only about 2000 to go.  My next book will be The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson, which is supposed to be amazing!

julezlee

The Boxcar Children! Good call, Kate.

Nebb

BSC, sweetvalley kids/high/university, goosebumps, ramona quimby, nancy drew, theres a boy in the girls bathroom, the cat who... series, I also got into anne rice at a young age (11) and I read that religiously for years.Right now I am re-reading the dark tower series by stephen king.  

RachNRich

Sweet Valley High for sure, Goosebumps, Fear Street, and when I was fairly young--I started to read V.C. Andrews books.

jenn.daniel

Nancy Drew. Jane Eyre. Currently reading Book of the Dead by Patricia Cornwell

Nebb

I still remember the first "novel" I ever read - the ghost in the mirror by lewis barnavelt. Such a good book.  I was in grade 2.

Puja20

I wanted to be Elizabeth Wakefield and have a boyfriend like Todd Wilkins :Sigh:

missy68

Oh reading now:  Just finished Wicked (I thought I'd read it through years ago; turns out I never finished it).Before Wicked, I read Say Goodbye by Lisa Gardner and Devil's Teardrop by Deaver (below).I'm starting Jeffery Deaver's The Bodies Left Behind, and I've got about 6 books coming from Doubleday.I started Stephen King around 12, too!  I was a huge reader - started kindergarten already reading. I don't read for details, though, so I had a hard time in English class on tests.

julezlee

*I don't read for details, though, so I had a hard time in English class on tests.* Me too, Missy. I would always miss the questions where they asked for people's names.

sarahmk5

I loved:Sweet Valley HighBabysitters ClubAnne of Green Gables.Now, I'm just starting the Purity Myth (not a novel).  merymac - The Time Traveler's Wife is one of my favorite books ever.  I highly suggest it.

Puja20

Did anyone read the Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry series?  It was required reading at my school and it just broke my heart it was sad.

katiewhompus

I had every single Babysitters Club, Saddle Club, Boxcar Children. I also loved goosebumps and fear street, nancy drew, hardy boys, black stallion...oh soo much.I just finished Wildwoods by Juliet Marillinear and am starting The Girl with the Pearl Earring.

sarahmk5

I remember reading Roll of Thunder!  So sad...I also loved Call of the Wild and Where the Red Fern Grows.

kate51485

Oh and my bonus: Nothing now, but I'm waiting for Elizabeth Gilbert's newest book to come out (the sequel, of sorts, to Eat Pray Love) in January.

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the velveteen rabbitare you my mother?put me in the zooblubberchoose your own adventuresbunniculaa wrinkle in timewait till helen comesbehind the attic wall

Nebb

I loved choose your own adventure books, I forgot about those completely.

brookelynpaisley

Babysitters Club, Sweet Valley High, Pen Pals series (how one of my BMs and I met), Blubber, Ramona series, those weird books where you read a section and then went to one of two pages for the next part. I love Jennifer Weiner. And Sophie Kinsella.

LindyL

Boxcar ChildrenSweet Valley HighBabysitters ClubR.L. StineThe Doll in the Garden (read that so quickly in third grade my dad flipped to random sections and read a sentence or two to quiz me on it. I was able to rattle off the next thing that happened... semi-eidetic memory.)V.C. AndrewsNot reading anything currently, but I'm strongly considering re-reading The Shining.

Nebb

I love the shining, such a good book.

SnShne322

Christopher Pike!  I've read so many of his books. I'm working on the Anita Blake Series right now. I'm only on number 1 though.

brookelynpaisley

Oooh, loved The Giver. What was the one about the young Jewish girl? It's right on the tip of my tongue.

brookelynpaisley

Oh, and Sideways Stories from Wayside School.

Vikki2pay

I loved SVH, it was great.