The Top 50 Books that got readers hooked

[vicki]

This is a fun site showing the top 50 books that got readers hooked (http://www2.firstbook.org/whatbook/top50.php)--compiled from the responses of more than 100,000 people.



Nancy Drew by Carolyn Keene
Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss

See any titles that got you hooked? Any of your favorite early reads that didn't make the list?

[Kiyomi]

He-he-he, one of my early favorites was 'Kiyomi' a childrens book about how everyone is beautiful no matter how different they look :-D I occasionally find it on bookstore shelves and it still makes me smile.

[Strawberry Curls]

This is a fun site showing the top 50 books that got readers hooked (http://www2.firstbook.org/whatbook/top50.php)--compiled from the responses of more than 100,000 people.



See any titles that got you hooked? Any of your favorite early reads that didn't make the list?

For me it was the Doctor Doolittle series. I had the poor librarian scouring the countryside for the last of the books, I just had to read them all. I think I was around 9 at the time.

[AmyLizzie]

Enid Blyton definitley got me hooked onto books as a kid, I loved the famous five series and read every one, they conjure up lots of warm fuzzy memories of summer holiday reading :)

[jtb1951]

Looking through the list, many of the books are ones that we read to our daughters when they were young. A few of the books on the list that really hooked me when I was a young reader are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (which I study to this day!), The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (which was my intro to Sam Clemens), and A Wrinkle In Time (which along w/ juvenile fiction by Asimov and Heinlein got me excited by science fiction and fantasy).

John.

[KarenB]

Jeez-louise! I've read all except the baby-sitters club. Little Women was my first book that inspired passion . . . would be interesting to break it down by generation . . .

[Smurrey]

My Mom got so tired of readin "one Fish, Two Fish" when I was 3 that she hid it, so I just started reciting it to her :) I still love a good Nancy Drew and have been known to pick up the computer games from time to time. L'Engle is in my top three favorite author picks. Several of the books actually are books that I find myself re-reading seasonally. Maybe its that holiday break thing.

[AmyLizzie]

I loved the babysitters club! I read them all when I was about 8! Very sad I know...

[kitling130]

I remember reading The Boxcar Children, Where the Red Fern Grow, His Dark Materials , Animorph series, Goosebumps when I was younger, and then a bunch of science books like the Eyewitness series on animals and the human body (kid version). What can I say, I'm a science geek. Also a physiology major and premed.