Thread 24778863

What were /lit/'s favorite books as young boy?

For me personally, it was Goosebumps and Animorphs books.

>Boxcar Children
>Captain Underpants
>Butt-Ugly Martians
>Roald Dahl books (The Witches is my favorite)
>Nancy Drew
>Hardy Boys
>Encyclopedia Brown

>>24778864
I enjoyed those Goosebumps 2000 and their CYOA books they made.

You want to see all the Holocaust propaganda they made me read in school? Maus was only the beginning.

>>24778882
Number the Stars

>>24778883
The Upstairs Room

>>24778863 (OP)
It's kino

The Magic Tree House

>>24778888
Daniel's Story

>>24778882
Weirdly enough, I never read the Diary of Ann Frank or The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas in school.

>>24778864
I liked the Chronicles subseries in Animorphs. The Andalite Chronicle and the Ellimist Chronicles I remember being actually pretty well-written for kids books.

Also, Ax is still the best member of the Animorphs.

I remember reading a ton about slaves during the Civil War. Pink and Say was read to me a lot.

>>24778863 (OP)
Count of Monte Cristo
The Name of the Rose
Stephen King (devoured everything by him)
Some shitty YA novels

Literally just Harry Potter because everyone fucking loved those books back then. Seriously, that shit was inescapable.

Kind of the same thing with The Hunger Games trilogy but definitely not as big as Harry Potter.

>>24778863 (OP)

Why do they keep making the same thread again and again.

I feel like every American Christian household in the 2000's had a copy of A Child Called It (Which turned out to be mostly made up) and at least a few of those Chicken Soup for the Soul books.

>>24778875
>>24778864
>Goosebumps

Always thought RL Stine's Fear Street books were better because since they were meant for older teenagers, the deaths were much more gruesome. They also predate Goosebumps.

I also was a fan of his non-Goosebumps horror book, The 13th Warning.

Read way too many cryptozoology books as a kid. I was obsessed with Bigfoot and Nessie.

>>24778910
Yep, I remember The Drinking Gourd being assigned to be in like third grade.

I read this as a child because I yoinked it from the teens section of the school library and it unironically destroyed my life.

>>24778943
>it unironically destroyed my life.
Storytime.

>>24778938
Also Friend on Freedom River

>>24778943
I'm shocked they would even be at a school library. College/university library, yes, it would be there. But idk why a school library would have de Sade.

I was austically obsessed with the American Revolutionary War and read way too many books about it.

>>24778954
I don't really feel comfortable elaborating online about that, sorry.

>>24778959
It was a gifted school, so I guess that might have been why, but it really shouldn't have been there.

I'm all for giving inquiring young minds access to whatever they need to flourish but this is unironically corrupting in the exact way paranoid christian moms think books can be.

To Love Ru or some ecchi manga isn't going to corrupt your kids, hell most of the "corrupting" literature people complain about is just healthy sexuality. But this stuff shouldn't be allowed to kids under 18 I think.

>>24778966
1776 is still one of my favs.

Somewhere around fourth or fifth grade, I got really into Tom Clancy, Clive Cussler, Robert Ludlum novels.

I have a memory of reading a kids version of Illustrated Shakespeare that had stories of like Romeo & Juliet and Much Ado About Nothing. They basically did summaries of the plot.

Can't find that particular edition because there's like thousands of Illustrated Shakespeare books for kids.

>>24778892
Classic books. I remember reading a kids retelling of The Odyssey by the same author.

Percy Jackson & The Olympians because that's what every other kid read when I was in school. Feels weird that has blossomed into a huge series.

Hatchet and all its sequels to a varying degree
I was really into wilderness survival and camping stories
My Side of the Mountain was another memorable one
Call of the Wild/Where the Red Fern Grows were great
Robinson Crusoe was boring

Also May Bird and A Series of Unfortunate Events

One time my fourth grade teacher tried to stop me from reading in class and pay attention, so he gave me Heidi to read because it was a "girly book". I finished it and liked it actually!

Then he assigned me Little Women, and I stopped because I didn't know what was going on

>>24778864
>Animorphs

Everyone remembers Animorphs, but I also liked K. A. Applegate's other series that came out around the same time.

Remnants, about a group of the last surviving humans from a destroyed Earth wandering through space encountering weird aliens.

Everworld, about a group of teens who are sent to a dimension where the old gods of Earth (Greek, Egyptian, Viking) still live.

Actual boomer coming through. Pigman is a classic.

>>24778966
Don't worry, Johnny Tremain is one of my favorite from growing up.

>>24778863 (OP)
I ended up reading most of Lemony Snicket because it was more interesting than Harry Pooper.
Otherwise it was a lot of random library books on UFOs and Space.
There was the Magic Tree House Series. Those were pretty dope.
Bunnicula!!!!
I remember Artemis Fowl was big when In was younger. I read 5 pages of that and decided it was shit.

In High School I started reading Ben Bova because I really had hope for humanity at that point and thought we'd be doing something interesting with space travel, like maybe a lunar base or mars landing.

I also read Snow Crash and Virtual Light, those were good books.

For some reason in middle school I went on a Stephen King bender. "IT" was a complete bore. Desperation was pretty good.

I didn't like Dune when I was younger but when I was older and had a wiki by my side it was good.

In High School we read the Sun Also Rises, which is honestly the most ADHD zoomer party fuckboi fest I ever read. Pointless.

All the Shakespeare was stupid.

I legitimately enjoyed the Great Gatsby.

I read the unabridged version of Les Miserables when we did the French Revolution in Junior Year. That was good, but I definitely skipped over the sections where Hugo was obviously getting paid by the word, like the 30 pages of description on the catacombs of Paris.

>>24778998
Johnny Tremain is good. But I remember another one I really liked called Toliver's Secret.

Dunno how this ended up in my school library. It wasn't a popular book... just a passion project of some rando lawyer who wanted to write a book.

It was the story of a baseball player who left to fight in WWII and was taken prisoner and had to live in a large pipe for months.

Dragonlance

Eragon and those fucking Warriors books with the cats.

>>24778863 (OP)
>>24778863 (OP)
This

Holes by Louis Sachar is prob the best American YA novel of all time.

Also still really like the movie with Shia Labeouf (Back then best known for Even Stevens).

Percy Jackson and Gregor the Overlander.

>The Hobbit
>Lord of the Rings
>Chronicles of Narnia

Unironically Poe and Lovecraft. I was a spooky kid.

>>24779008
Oh god Stephen Biesty, I was obsessed with those Cross-Section books, especially the Star Wars ones.

>>24778864
I read the Goosebumps rip-off series called Deadtime Stories, which was one of many ripoff series from that time.

>>24778863 (OP)

>>24778988
I had a weird story surrounding Hatchet.

Basically we got this 23 year old dude who was our Social Studies teacher and he never taught us shit, he just basically larped as the cool professor/teacher from movies and let us do what we wanted, which meant he started getting unusually chummy with the teachers. The rest of the kids thought he was awesome but I thought he was odd. Then it clicked when he told everybody in class that the narrator of the hatchet book on tape spoke to him through the tapes, and most of the kids laughed because Indian spirt jokes or some shit.

Anyway, shit went real south real quick when started playing board games during lunch hour with a few of my classmates. Well, he invited him and a bunch of kids over to smoke weed and he got arrested pretty quick.

>>24778914
I feel like I'm the only person who ever heard this theory, most people accepted his claims, but I read the NYT article and never got a conclusive answer.

i devoured gary paulson and chris de Lacey. hatchet and tracker were my fav paulson. the fire within had a grip on me. though its fairly obscure as far as i can tell. its about a young man who sublets from a family of ceramics artists who produce sculptures of ceramic dragons, which containthe true spirit of a dragon. i also remember the candy shop wars quite fondly. but the book that really opened me up to appreciating literature was in high school my english teacher lent me his personal copy of candide by voltaire. im graduating with my undergrad in philosophy this semester, time flies.

Fucking loved Halo books. Fall of Reach, The Flood, and Contact Harvest were awesome.

I remember my mom somehow discovered that Contact Harvest ends with a sex scene with Sgt. Johnson lol

>>24779044
gary paulsen wrote a lot of boyhood classics
hatchet
the transall saga
white fox
mr. tucket series
woodsong

If cried at Old Yeller you're gay

>>24779062
What if I cried at Marley & Me?

Dinotopia!

Fucking loved Dinosaurs dude.

Does anyone remember The Sixth Sense kids books? It was called Secrets from Beyond.

>>24778982
I liked this kids version of the Odyssey.

>>24779012
I liked his Sideway Stories from Wayside School book.

Lol Junie B. Jones and Amelia Bedelia books.

>>24778872
>>Roald Dahl books
charlie and the chocolates for me

>a series of unfortunate events
>atriums fowl
>harry potter

>>24778863 (OP)
I read books about American history, The Presidents, and Renaissance Art History. Stuff on meteorology, music production, books on foreign languages (including a huge Chinese-English dictionary from my stepdad's cousin who was a translator for the CIA in Afghanistan) and books on the braille system and various YA novels including Charlotte's Web and 1984. Reader's Digest from grandma's stash, etc. I got diagnosed with autism in 1990. I am over 40.

>>24779089
I liked his book about a fighter pilot called Going Solo.

I was a fucking mark. Long live WCW and the nWo.

>>24779104
>I am over 40.
we all are

>>24779104
>American history

I really liked Don't Know Much About American History, I've reread it numerous times when I was kid.

Remember seeing this on Reading Rainbow. I sung Abiyoyo way too much.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid books. I even read the original version posted online. I hate how they ended up Bart Simpsoed the main character to never grow old.

Battle by R. G. Grant. Also another book by the same author called "War" or "Warfare". Gives short overviews of some the most famous battles throughout history.

I loved those DK Handbooks.

Yes, I'm autistic.

Remember reading this book called The Cheat. About a group of teens who all get caught cheating on their test.

I really liked those Two-Minute Mysteries books where you read a short mystery scenario, and you have to guess the answer yourself based on the details in the story. The answers were written upside down.

Anyone remember Brian Froud's Goblins?

>>24779146
Always thought it was a parody of that famous Gnomes books.

Anyone remember the Spiderwick Chronicles?

I loved this book called UFO Kids by Allan Zullo. I loved "true" UFO/alien stories.

Zullo has an entire series of cool paranormal books called Haunted Kids.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haunted_Kids

Anyone remember the Dinoverse books?

>>24779166
Also The Lurker Files by the same author.

Foster's War

Pictures of Hollis Woods

Had this really fun Egyptian Mummies Pop-up book.

Really loved The Indian in the Cupboard. Also the movie too.

Harriet the Spy!

Anyone remember Little Nino's Pizzeria? Cool artwork.

>The Ferocious Beast with the Polka-Dot Hide
>Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
>The Very Hungry Caterpillar (And other Eric Carle books)

I weirdly read books about the creation of the Erie Canal.

This Wildlife of Star Wars book had some cool illustration.

>>24779190
Also Sharks, I fucking loved Sharks. Read Peter Benchly's Jaws too.

Dictionary of Imaginary Places is still one of my favorite books.

Did anyone else read Jay's Journal and got the complete opposite message from it and got into edgy Satanism/occult shit?

Also, I remember getting Go Ask Alice assigned in high school and it being taught as nonfiction.

Shel Silverstein books

I binged through Sidney Sheldon's collection when I was a wee boy because those were the first and only books I could find around the house that wasn't either the Bible or lifestyle magazines

Everyone knows Percy Jackson, but does anyone remember The Cronus Chronicles?

I read the Illiad and the odyssey when I was a boy along with a tremendous amount of greek writing. The teachers all said "start with the greeks," and so I did.

Vampire Plagues anyone?

If you were a girl in the 80's/90's, you had these series:

>Sweet Valley High
>Sweet Valley Twins
>Babysitter’s Club
>The Treehouse Times
>The Fabulous Five
>The Forever Friends
>Friends 4 Ever
>The Girls of Canby Hall
>The Gymnasts
>The Party Line
>Penpals
>Roommates
>The Saddle Club
>Sleepover Friends

I feel like the only people who write YA books now are Asian women with WMAF fetishes.

>>24779228
Examples?

Flat Stanley
Geronimo Stilton
The Berenstain Bears
Little Critters
Franklin the Turtle
Little Bear

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

>>24779231
To All the Boys I Loved Before books.

Clifford the Big Red Dog lol

>>24778863 (OP)
I loved Percy Jackson. I loved them so much that I skipped some pijama parties with friends to read it. I even remember the thought of being afraid of death because "if I die right now then I will never be able to finish Percy Jackson"

>>24778863 (OP)
various Seuss works; If I Ran The Zoo comes to mind. I still like that one a lot. I like most of his stuff.
I'd also throw Silverstein in there, I was aware of A Light in the Attic and Where the Sidewalk Ends, though I don't know if I actually knew any of his poems. I knew it by its title and cover at least.
Frog and Toad were cool (and not gay)
I liked a good bible story before bed or at church or whenever.
around junior high I read The Hatchet, that was big.
various other novels which I was exposed to via school - Old Yeller, Where the Red Fern Grows, Because of Winn-Dixie, etc.
Old Yeller I liked a good bit. I liked the rural setting - that scene with the bull fight is the one I recall best. it was visceral. I would've loved Twain back then for much of the same reason, though I hadn't read him.
and all the Scholastic, school library type books, I'd read a number of Goosebumps. whatever was somewhat popular among my peers or caught my eye.
I liked Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. the librarian wouldn't rent it to me at first, it was too scary. but I eventually got it. it was indeed scary.
also various non-fiction - nature stuff (especially animals, fishes most of all, and space), books on cultures, and biographies.
there's too much to name. some kitsch, some classics. good times, good times.

>>24778863 (OP)
The manual for this game got me into fantasy.
It was one of those long manuals with the lore and worlbuilding, like the Fallout and the Arcanum manual.
Sadly, there is no digitalized version of it.

Phantom Tollbooth
The Tripod Trilogy
The Cay
Kidnapped
Hank the Cow Dog
The Pony Express

>>24778863 (OP)
Harry Potter, I was basic like that

>>24778863 (OP)
The Mouse And The Motorcycle was one of my early childhood favorites
also remember kinda liking those Magic Treehouse series of books

>>24779501
>from the creator of TIMEBANDITS
>and BRAZIL


DARKNESS AT NOON.

>>24778863 (OP)
I liked Ray Bradbury and Roald Dahl. Other than that I mostly just read comics, history books and encyclopaedias.
>>24779135
Loved these. Also Usborne.

>>24779501
Kino. One of my favourite movies growing up.

Ender was literally me

This was one of the first books I ever read, lol

>>24779601
>Bradbury

All Summer in a Day blew my mind reading it as a kid.

>be me, late 20s
>try to find children's books for my little niece
>start reading A Series of Unfortunate Events
>it's actually good
>mfw
On book 3 right now and I find it kind of incredible how the author managed to put so much misery and adult themes in a children's book, and somehow got away with it without the publisher making a fuss about it.

tistou les pouces verts

Hans Christian Andersen

Maisy the Mouse
The Poky Little Puppy
Muppet Baby books
Madeline
Curious George
Winnie the Pooh
Sesame Street books
Peanuts comic collections
Calvin and Hobbes

The Giver

Are middle schoolers still required to read it?

Really liked S. E Hinton's The Outsiders when it was assigned to us. Later found it was a beginning of a series by Hinton.

>The Outsiders
>That Was Then, This Is Now
>Rumble Fish
>Tex
>Taming the Star Runner

Zoobooks lol

Also the Kids Discover magazine and Times for Kids

>>24779070
I just read Jurassic Park a ton of times. I remember reading a few Michael Crichton books.

>>24778863 (OP)
>Percy Jackson
>The Hobbit
Probably read this once every other week from the ages of 7 to 13
>Battle Royale

>>24778863 (OP)
I didn't really give much thought to what the White Whale was a metaphor for as a kid. I just enjoyed the nautical journeys and the rich description of the whales' ecology.

>The Chronicles of Prydain
>The Once and Future King
>The Demonata
>The Sea of Trolls
>Redwall
>Deltora Quest
>Rowan of Rin
>Beast Quest
>Pendragon
>Percy Jackson (But only the original Camp Half-Blood books)
>The Last Apprentice aka Spook's
>New Heroes aka Quantum Prophecy series
>Watership Down
>Plague Dogs
>Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
>His Dark Materials
>Deptford Mice/Deptford Histories
>Wings of Fire
>Groosham Grange (predates Harry Potter btw)
>The Power of Five/Pentagram
>Anthony Horowitz's Legend series
>Amos Daragon

I really liked fantasy.

Anyone remember the Wonder books?

>>24779495
I brought my Age of Empires 2 manual to school with me lol

>>24779098
*Artemis Fowl

I did highly enjoy those books. Recently learned the author revived the series but it focuses on Artemis' younger twin siblings.

>>24779526
Only Beverly Cleary book I liked.

The Enemy series
A Series of Unfortunate Events
Warrior cats
Harry Potter
Animorphs
American Chillers / Michigan Chillers
Magic treehouse when really young
Idr the name but some series of teens/preteens red-dawning Chinese in New Zealand which was the first time I ever read about sex
Diary of a wimpy kid
I survived series
These are the ones I remember from elementary and middle school but there are a lot of others I really liked and forgot about and get flashbanged by once in a while

>>24780058
>>24780079
Good example, Artemis Fowl was great
Percy Jackson
Maximum something? Angel girl?

The Spook, Harry Potter. Goosebumps was too scary.

>>24778863 (OP)
Scribbleboy, first book I ever read. it was a strange feeling, the first time I almost got that sensation I could 'see' the book world. And I fully understood the appeal when I read Robinson Cursoe

Written by a guy from Derrick Comedy

I liked Robert Louis Stevenson.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Treasure Island were boyhood classics.

D Copperfield
Fuck Finn

>>24778863 (OP)
I still love Anne of Green Gables, my kindred waifu 4ever

Alex rider

>>24779008
I liked looking at all the places where people pooped in castles in these.

white fang is a childhood favorite of mine.

>>24779023
>Unironically Poe
Same. I watched that episode of the Simpsons where they parody The Raven, other shows had Poe inspired halloween episodes as well and that inspired me to look up his books. Cool stuff but I was probably a little too young to really understand it back then.

>>24780035
>Groosham Grange (predates Harry Potter btw)
Indeed. People that compare HP to Earthsea are giving way too much credit to JK.

>>24778863 (OP)
Depends how young we're talking. when I was I vaguely remember liking br'er rabbit when I was <5, 6-7 I remember really liking the faraway tree and tashi. Then I was reading stuff like >>24778864 until I was 10 and after that I just got into reading fantasy.

>>24778943
Considering it reads like it was written by a 13 year old who just discovered how to jack off, it couldn't have affected you that much.

>>24778968
>I don't really feel comfortable elaborating online about that, sorry.
WHAT!?

>>24778863 (OP)
All the assassins creed books
>>24779008
Goated books

>>24780055
I was watching a yt video about G String, I've seen it has a pretty cool manual too.
https://archive.org/details/g-string-beauty-secrets
>>>24779098
>Artemis Fowl
The only volume I had was the second. It was fun but I never got to buy the first one lel. Is it good only for kids, or is it also a nice read for someone in their 20s?
>>24781248
Based.
I've read them a couple years ago. Lovely books.

>>24778863 (OP)
Tolkien and Walter Moers books

>>24778863 (OP)
You stole my thread, but Geronimo Stilton books, Andy Griffiths' Just! books, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, The Gizmo by Paul Jennings are all books I remember enjoying as a kid.

>>24780035
Based Pendragon enjoyer. I fear that rereading them will spoil my memories of them, but they were a wonderful ride back in middle school.

>>24781275
Another series that the author revived for money sadly.

>>24779980
Lol i read the junior novelization of it.

Anyone remember these?

there was this canadian "kid-detective" type series that i read a couple books from but i cannot for the life of me remember the name of that i read a few entries in and enjoyed.

harris and me

>>24779002
>I didn't like Dune when I was younger but when I was older and had a wiki by my side it was good.

Based sci-fi enjoyer. I loved Roadside Picnic and Stanisław Lem books.

>>24778923
>Fear Street

There was sub-series aimed for the Goosebumps audience with Ghosts of Fear Street.

Marlfox

Enid Blyton

Swiss Family Robinson

And I also loved Jules Verne like 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, The Mysterious Island, and Journey to the Center of the Earth.

I was an early reader.
My parents had to keep picking up "childrens illustrated classic" for me.
My first paperback? First grade teacher nun asked me to read it.
I guess, to prove I could read.
"Two on an island", juvenile fiction.
I called it a "baby book".
An older kid, had "Jason and the Golden Fleece".
I wanted to read it, but I'd never been to the little town library across the street from my catholic school.
I went as soon as he said he was done, and he told me I had to know the "book number", to get it.
Still remember it. J292Sis, was Jason and the golden fleece.
Which led me to ore mythology, so...
Bullfinch's Mythology, was next.
From there, it was paperbacks and library books.
Developed a taste for, like spy novels, and thrillers.
Used to live for the next Dirk Pitt adventure, but outgrew him. (Clive Cussler).
"Raise the Titanic!", was my first Cussler Pitt novel.
By my teens, things like Casca: the Eternal Mercenary (Barry Sadler) were must-have's.
Between spy novels and thrillers.
Got into investigation serial killer books? The genre got too formulaic.

Not sure if this was translated into English.

Beowulf retold by Michael Morpurgo

Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter

>>24781248
You read the entire series?

go2outer.net

The Brave Little Toaster

>>24779089
It's Boy for me.

>>24778911
>Stephen King (devoured everything by him)

I like Rose Madder.

Twilight ruined a whole generation of women.

>>24779945
>>24779601
It was Fahrenheit 451 for me. Prepared me for 1984.

Paul Jennings

Lolita

Did they turn this into a series?

>>24783201
I liked the Martian Chronicles.

Finnfamily moomintroll

A. C. Doyle - The lost world

Some graphic novels based of Brennu-Njáls saga. Never followed it up with reading the original, for some reason. Maybe I'll get around to it in the summer

Playboys

>>24783224
Read the Magnusson-Palsson translation, you can thank me later. The Cook translation is newer, and more accurate on some minor points, but generally doesn't capture the terseness and the laconic, sometimes deliberately ambiguous humor like M-P.
Dasent's translation is archaic and not pleasant, though interesting in the antiquarian sense. Bayerschmidt and Hollander's version is weirdly inaccurate/sanitized, as though intended for children. I can't recommend these two.
William Ian Miller's book on Njals Saga, 'Why is Your Axe Bloody?' is also practically mandatory reading to go along with it.

Ninjago
horrid henry

I loved Scholastic Book Fairs

Thus spoke Zarathustra

Asterix & Obelix
Tintin

>>24780058
>Artemis Fowl

Yeah Artemis Fowl was cool.

Does anyone remember Eoin Colfer's other YA novels The Supernatuarlist (This was dystopian YA cyberpunk) or the Airman (historical fantasy)?

Suzanne Collins actually wrote a YA fantasy series called The Underland Chronicles in the early 2000's before the Hunger Games. I honestly think its a better series.

Any William Sleator fans here?

Freak the Mighty

Had a bad sequel called Max the Mighty.

>>24778863 (OP)
Shit was quaint.

this was part of 6th or 7th grade curriculum. nothing special or highly literary - just cozy writing about a kid from a really poor family visiting a tutor for french lessons. she eventually feels bad for him and starts giving him stuff like newer clothes and food, but eventually gets into really bad trouble for it because it's the 1950s in USSR

Mostly Fantasy like pic related

>>24778926
I think someone at school had this but I'm not sure. It was a hardback with a red cover, and nobody could find it anywhere to buy me it for birthday or Christmas... I remember it was a really in-depth encyclopaedia of monsters and mythical creatures, and it was where I first read about the Amerindians' thunderbirds.

Pic related was kino too

>>24778863 (OP)
1984 was my favorite. I read that too many times as a little kid. The library in my home was limited, and for some reason that I glommed onto that specific title.

I read my sister's Goosebumps books. She was part of the mail order book club. Even the covers would terrify me when I was very little. In fourth grade, my teacher turned me onto the Eragon books and I quite liked them. In sixth grade, I got into the Redwall books, in random order, and I was amazed at how imaginative they were. In seventh grade, I read a good chunk of the Lemony Snicket books. In eighth grade, I read Tolkien for the first time and since Twilight was popular, I also read those. And all throughout the years I was reading Harry Potter.

Those were the major series I read as a kid. Also some random stuff like the Pendragon books and Inkheart, etc. Somehow, I really only ever read maybe one Animorph book despite being there right when they were popular.

>>24783915
>Goosebumps
The scariest one was Werewolf Skin. That book terrified me, but I loved it.

>>24783937
The one with the cursed Halloween mask I remember scaring me the most in terms of plot. But the cover that scared me the most was from the 2000 series, I think, and it had two rotting zombies on a gravestone. One of their eyes was hanging down by a stalk. Terrified me so much I was afraid of the bookshelf. Don't even remember the actual contents of the book.

Looking back on it, almost every Goosebumps book had amazing art for the covers.

>>24779002
>this entire post

>>24783950
The part where the baseball ends up in(side) the friend's hand messed with me more than anything in any otherGoosebumps book.

Also, that cover is really nostalgic for a number of reasons.

>>24779108
Nice, this was one of my favorite books in 8th grade, as well as the WWE Legends and I had some issues of Professional Wrestling Illustrated

>>24783806
Oh shit Shiloh, such a sad book.

>>24783950
I vividly remember Say Cheese and Die

>>24784004
Picrel series was my intro to classic lit

>>24778863 (OP)
Percy Jackson

>>24784791
>Great Illustrated Classics
My nigga
I read a ton of those, those were great. The Time Machine and Journey To The Center Of The Earth were my favorites

>>24784791
i have bad news for the illustrator: the three musketeers were four!

>>24779089
read his "Ah, Sweet Mystery of LIfe" not long ago. very nice

Some on /lit/ might even see these as books, but they got me started on my reading journey at age 11.

>>24783950
My favorite was Monster Blood.

>>24784791
>>24785084
Great Illustrated Classics were great! That's how I read Frankenstein and Dracula when I was a kid.

>>24785293
Looks a ripoff of the classic Choose Your Own Adventure books. Loved those books.

>>24785973
Lol I had one that was Roller Coaster Tycoon themed

Any Jerry Spinelli fans here? I loved Loser.

I Am Legend because of the Will Smith movie. Still a Richard Matheson fan to this day.

Anyone else here read a fuckton of Gordon Korman books when they were younger? He wrote a ton of books I enjoyed.

>I Want to Go Home!
>Don't Care High
>Schooled
>Island series
>On the Run series
>Kidnapped series

Does anyone else remember Replica from the 90's?

About a girl who finds out she is one of many clones.

I remember reading this book where I boy and his mom lives with the boy's grandfather while the boy's father fights in WWII. I couldn't remember the title. ChatGPT gave me pic related, but I don't think this is it.

>>24778863 (OP)
someones gotta tell that little kid horowitz means jewish

I'm a zoomer and I remember reading the Unwind series. Surprised no mentioned it yet.

Has a cool premise. In the aftermath of a second American Civil War over abortion, abortion is made illegal but when you can do is "unwind" kids, ie take them apart surgically and donate their organs to people who need them. A young guy escapes being unwinded by his family and starts a rebellion to stop unwinding. There 5 books in total.

Arthur books cause I liked the PBS cartoon.

Bruce Coville is the GOAT. I loved the My Teacher is An Alien series. Also liked Aliens Ate My Homework and Goblins in the Castle.

Everyone remembers Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, but there were a FUCKTON of people aping on that shit.

Basically just authors writing their own horror story collections for kids. One of them I remember is Invasion of the Road Weenies. The cover doesn't do it justice, some of those stories were FUCKED UP.

Other books like Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark:

>Tales for the Midnight Hour
>Scary Stories for Sleep-overs
>Short & Shivery
>Dare to Be Scared

Bailey Street Kids!

>>24780079
>American Chillers / Michigan Chillers

Good choice.

Anyone remember the Weird US books? They tried to do one for every state but I don't think it was finished.

>>24786041
They also had a kids book that was spin-off called the Weird Club. They only made 1 book even though it was supposed a series.

The Ology books were great. Dragonology, Egyptology, Wizardology, Pirateology, Mythology, Monsterology, and Spyology.

I was a nerd and read Eyewitness Books

Also liked their tv show, and they even made some games on the PC.

>>24786061
Great theme song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V1Ld3Ej8I0

>>24783082
Are you thinking of Screech Owls? About the Little League hockey team that solved mysteries and murders? They made it into a YTV tv series.

MOTHERFUCKIN TIME WARP TRIO

>>24786076
Same illustrator as the Stinky Cheese Man

Pic rel was one of the only ~5 books I had read in total up until I was 14 or so when my sister gave me Master and Margarita and got me into /lit/. I had probably read it over a hundred times at that time and desu I still think it's kino. Now that I think about it, I should probably reread it again.

World Book Encyclopedias

>>24786026
Sweet

I really liked those A Wrinkle in Time books.

Three Little Pigs and Mother Goose Fairytales

Grimm's Fairytales and Aesop's Fables

>>24786014
Kinda surprised they put that into a kid's book desu. As a zoomer, it reminds me of another favorite of mine when I was young, The Darkest Path. It's about a second civil war waged between the US government and a theocratic movement that, in hindsight, was probably meant to be an ISIS allegory. It was pretty kino iirc

I literally started with the Greeks

For me it was Among the Hidden and the rest of the Shadow Children series.

How it ended:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Among_the_Free

This and Old Lady who Swallowed a Fly

All of those Teacher from the Black Lagoon books.

>>24786021
I liked those Camp Haunted Hills Trilogy books he did.

I Was A Sixth Grade Alien

>>24778863 (OP)
I read Clan of the Cavebear when I was 10 because the cover looked cool.

>>24786129
Oh damn that's how it ended.

Redwall (Mossflower was my favorite)
Cirque du Freak/Demonata
Narnia

>>24786123
based, lmao

>>24778863 (OP)
I didnt read books until middle school or rather i had no real interest. I mostly read books on weather and medieval weaponry.
In middle school the first book i picked up and really enjoyed was The Time Machine. I did read the Lord of the Rings in the 4th grade because of the movies. But i didnt enjoy them and even as an adult i do not like the books. The movies are better.

>>24788874
Same, I liked books about the history of war. Also Ancient Greece and Rome.

The Computer That Said Steal Me by Elizabeth Levy

Anyone remember Thrills & Chills magazine? They would publish RL Stine short stories.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (read the entire series when I was 11). I also loved reading Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" series, which I finished at 14. Not to mention that I was a huge LOTR fan, too. I really enjoyed fantasy books.

But then again, I've also read a lot of classics (mostly Russian though), and my favorite one was (and still is) Turgenev (Oтцы и дeти/Fathers and Sons) or Dostobro (I've read both Crime and Punishment and Brothers Karamazov, when I was 13). I've also read Tolstoi, but I didn't like him much, and later on in life I've read "Les Miserables" when I was 15. Purrya

Stone Fox, ends with the dogs heart exploding

I read a lot of old juvenile boy's lit like Tom Swift, Heinlein stuff, and the usual Treasure Island and Call of the Wild.

I also read all the Edgar Rice Burroughs and Robert E. Howard stuff.

Frindle

Clements is the GOAT

Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle

Bridge to Terabithia

Yes, I cried

I Spy and Where’s Waldo books.

>>24789144
I had a Waldo-like book but it was Batman themed.

>>24786014
I liked his book downsiders

Does anyone remember the author who just went by Avi?

Here's there book about the kids singing the anthem.

The Westing Game

Wanted to do my own Egypt Game after reading this

The Engineer of Beasts

>>24789159
I remember his Crispin book

Octavian Nothing

Anyone remember Fever 1793? Our teacher made the entire class read it.

My Brother Sam is Dead

So many Star Wars books from the prequel era.

>Jedi Apprentice
>Jedi Quest
>The Last of the Jedi
>Jedi Prince
>Galaxy of Fear

Sign of the Beaver

The Wind in the Willows

Spider and the Fly book

>>24786123
How I started with the Greeks. D'Aulaires'

>Walk Two Moons
>Hoot
>How to Eat Fried Worms

Spider School

Bystander

Read this for class, and now I enjoy Sherman Alexie books.

Judy Blume books

Skeleton Man

Weird n' Wild Creatures cards

That book Speak about a high school girl that gets raped by a popular guy.

War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, and The Invisible Man by HG Wells.

>>24789254
Same art as those Mythical Monster books

Max und Moritz

>>24789229
I had one of those in my mother tongue about the Trojan war. For some reason, the story that stuck with me the most was about Ajax' madness and suicide. When I read the Iliad and Odyssee a few years later I was very confused that it wasn't included, it was only recently that I realized it's in Sophokles play.

Horrible, No Good, Bad Day

>>24789272
what is the moral of that story?

Goodnight Moon
Where the Wild Things Are

I fucking love the Star Wars EU.

I even made a timeline of all the works that take place after Return of the Jedi because I hated the sequel trilogy so much. The New Essential Chronology and the Essential Reader's Companion were very helpful. ABY = Years after the Battle of Yavin.

>New Republic era (4 ABY to 24 ABY)

>The Truce at Bakura
>The Rise and Fall of Darth Vader
>The Mandalorian Armor (Bounty Hunter Wars 1)
>Slave Ship (Bounty Hunter Wars 2)
>Hard Merchandise (Bounty Hunter Wars 3)
>Tales from Jabba's Palace
>Marvel's original Star Wars comic: Issues 55-66, 81-107 (and the short story "Lumiya: Dark Star of the Empire")
>Rogue Leader comic
>Rogue Squadron comic
>A New Hope: The Life of Luke Skywalker (and the short story "Escape from Balis-Baurgh")
>Mara Jade - By the Emperor's Hand comic (and the short comic/stories "Mara Jade: A Night on the Town" and "Handoff")
>Shadows of the Empire novel
>Shadows of the Empire: Evolution comic
>Star Wars: Forever Crimson comic
>Jedi Prince series (6 short kids novels)
>Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina
>Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor
>Star Wars: Dark Forces video game
>Dark Forces novella trilogy
>Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II video game
>X-Wing: Rogue Squadron (and the short story "Buyer's Market")
>X-Wing: Wedge's Gamble (and the short story "Fists of Ion")
>X-Wing: The Krytos Trap (and the short story "Deader than a Triton Moon")
>X-Wing: The Bacta War (and the short stories "Chessa's Doom", "Big Quince", "Explosive Developments", "Starter's Tale", "Vengence Strike", and "Kella Rand, Reporting...")
>X-Wing: Wraith Squadron
>X-Wing: Iron Fist
>X-Wing: Solo Command (and the short stories "The Saga Begins" and "The Saga Nears Its End" from The DarkStryder Campaign)
>The Courtship of Princess Leia (and the short story "Crossroads")
>Tatooine Ghost (and the short stories "Corphelion Interlude", "A Forest Apart", and "The Trouble with Squibs")

>>24789305
>New Republic era (4 ABY to 24 ABY) cont'd

>Heir to the Empire (Thrawn Trilogy 1) (and the short story "Crisis of Faith")
>Dark Force Rising (Thrawn Trilogy 2)
>The Last Command (Thrawn Trilogy 3)
>X-Wing: Isard's Revenge
>The Life and Legend of Obi-Wan Kenobi
>Tales from the Empire
>Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith video game
>Dark Empire comic trilogy
>Crimson Empire 1 comic
>Crimson Empire 2 comic
>Jedi Search (Jedi Academy Trilogy 1) (and the short story "Firestorm")
>Dark Apprentice (Jedi Academy Trilogy 2)
>Champions of the Force (Jedi Academy Trilogy 3)
>I, Jedi
>Children of the Jedi (Callista Trilogy 1)
>Darksaber (Callista Trilogy 2) (and the short story "Murder in Slushtime")
>Planet of Twilight (Callista Trilogy 3)
>Jedi Academy: Leviathan comic
>Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast video game
>X-Wing: Starfighters of Adumar
>Crimson Empire 3 comic
>The Crystal Star
>Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy video game
>Before the Storm (Black Fleet Crisis Trilogy 1)
>Shield of Lies (Black Fleet Crisis Trilogy 2)
>Tyrant's Test (Black Fleet Crisis Trilogy 3)
>The New Rebellion (and the short stories "One of a Kind", "Easy Credits", and "Two for One")
>Tales from the New Republic (and the short story "A Credit for Your Thoughts")
>Ambush at Corellia (Corellian Trilogy 1)
>Assault at Selonia (Corellian Trilogy 2)
>Showdown at Centerpoint (Corellian Trilogy 3)
>Tales of the Bounty Hunters
>Alex Winger short story series ("Turning Point", "Passages", "A Glimmer of Hope", "Whispers in the Dark", "Mission to Zila", "Shadows of Darkness", "Rendezvous with Destiny", "Betrayal by Knight", and "Shades of Gray")
>Specter of the Past (Hand of Thrawn 1)
>Vision of the Future (Hand of Thrawn 2)
>Star Wars: Union comic (and the short story "Judge's Call")
>Scourge (and the short story "Hunting the Gorach")
>Junior Jedi Knight series (6 short kids novels)

>>24789305
>>24789307
don't they have those timelines at the beginning of like every Star Wars EU book?

>>24789307
>New Republic era (4 ABY to 24 ABY) cont'd

>Survivor's Quest (and the short story "Fool's Bargain")
>Outbound Flight (Prequel to Survivor's Quest) (and the short story "Mist Encounter")
>Young Jedi Knights: The Rise of the Shadow Academy (Books 1-6)
>Young Jedi Knights: The Fall of the Diversity Alliance (Books 7-11)
>Young Jedi Knights: Under Black Sun (Books 12-14) (and the short story "The Crystal")

>New Jedi Order era (25 ABY to 36 ABY)

>New Jedi Order: Vector Prime
>Chewbacca comic
>Invasion comic (and the short comic story "Revenants")
>New Jedi Order: Dark Tide 1: Onslaught
>New Jedi Order: Dark Tide 2: Ruin (and the short story "Red Sky, Blue Flame")
>Rogue Planet (Prequel to the New Jedi Order trilogy)
>New Jedi Order: Agents of Chaos 1: Hero's Trial
>New Jedi Order: Agents of Chaos 2: Jedi Eclipse
>New Jedi Order: Balance Point
>New Jedi Order: Edge of Victory 1: Conquest (and the short story "Emissary of the Void")
>New Jedi Order: Edge of Victory 2: Rebirth
>New Jedi Order: Star by Star (and the short story "Recovery")
>New Jedi Order: Dark Journey (and the short story "The Apprentice")
>New Jedi Order: Enemy Lines 1: Rebel Dream
>New Jedi Order: Enemy Lines 2: Rebel Stand
>New Jedi Order: Traitor
>New Jedi Order: Destiny’s Way (and the short story "Ylesia")
>New Jedi Order: Force Heretic 1: Remnant
>New Jedi Order: Force Heretic 2: Refugee (and the short story "Or Die Trying")
>New Jedi Order: Force Heretic 3: Reunion
>New Jedi Order: The Final Prophecy
>New Jedi Order: The Unifying Force
>The Joiner King (Dark Nest Trilogy 1)
>The Unseen Queen (Dark Nest Trilogy 2)
>The Swarm War (Dark Nest Trilogy 3)

>>24789310
>Early Legacy era (37 ABY to 45 ABY)

>Legacy of the Force: Betrayal
>Legacy of the Force: Bloodlines (and the short comic "Outbid but Never Outgunned")
>Legacy of the Force: Tempest
>Legacy of the Force: Exile
>Legacy of the Force: Sacrifice (and the short story "Boba Fett: A Practical Man")
>Legacy of the Force: Inferno
>Legacy of the Force: Fury
>Legacy of the Force: Revelation
>Legacy of the Force: Invincible
>Crosscurrent (and the short story "A Fair Trade")
>Riptide
>Millennium Falcon
>Fate of the Jedi: Outcast
>Fate of the Jedi: Omen (and the short stories "Imprint" and "First Blood")
>Fate of the Jedi: Abyss
>Fate of the Jedi: Backlash
>Fate of the Jedi: Allies
>Fate of the Jedi: Vortex
>Fate of the Jedi: Conviction
>Fate of the Jedi: Ascension
>Fate of the Jedi: Apocalypse (and the short story "Getaway")
>X-Wing: Mercy Kill (and the short story "Roll of the Dice")
>Crucible (and the short story "Good Hunting")

>Later Legacy era (130 ABY to 139 ABY):

>Star Wars: Legacy comic Vol. 1 (52 issues)
>Star Wars: Legacy - War comic (6 issues)
>Star Wars: Legacy comic Vol. 2 (18 issues)

And that's the end of the original Expanded Universe Timeline.

>>24789309
Mine is more detailed.

>>24789305
I remember playing the DarkStryder campaign from the Star Wars RPG when I was a kid

Was only allowed to read the Bible

Charlie Bone
Pendragon

>>24778995
That book creeped me out for some reason

I've probably read 2000+ books, mostly sci-fi, fantasy and the classics

>>24778872
>Hardy Boys
this one

>>24778863 (OP)
A Theseus and the Minotaur retelling was one of them, but I can't find the specific book.

>>24790659
But I always carried around dinosaur encyclopedia's more than mythological books.

>>24780035
Deltora Quest was great. Those were the first books I remember reading of my own volition.