My faves back then:

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
I'm as Quick as a Cricket by Audrey Wood
Math Curse by Jon Scieszka
The Magic Schoolbus series by Scholastic
The Stinky Cheese Man & Other Fairly Stupid Tales by Jon Scieszka
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka
Harry Potter series by J.K Rowling
A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket

And a 1,000 others but I can't remember..
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raveun2thejoyfantastic said:

Those are all very good books! My son loved reading the Unfortunate Event books.

And anything by Maurice Sendak is AWESOME! In the Night Kitchen was my son's favorite!

The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings Trilogy.
I've read those four books at least six times.

The encyclopedia was my favorite read in the bathroom.
Just go sit down and read and learn.

The Chronicles of Narnia
Choose Your Own Adventure series
Stephen King
Ramona the Pest series
Wacky Wednesday
Dr. Seuss

Any/everything by Rohl Dahl, Enid Blyton, Narnia series

Now I get to read the likes of BFG and James and the Giant Peach to my neices and nephews, they are still great stories

HotPaisleyGirl said:

ah, yes!

NDRU said:

I could even understand those long made up words like snoozcumbers

Chronicles of Narnia, definitely. The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe was one of my favorite books and still is.

I also loved Lloyd Alexander's Prydain books - The Book of Three, The Black Cauldron, etc.

I was a big Encyclopedia Brown fan, and I was crazy about the Choose Your Own Adventure books.

Cricket in Times Square and A Wrinkle in Time were favorites of mine as well.

The Adventures of Tintin [I'm Belgian:)].
Anyone has read them? They've been translated into dozens of languages.

OH! and SUPERFUDGE. how could i forget superfudge?

Le Petit Nicolas

CLASSIC!!

I read the flowers in the attic books before I even finished primary school

narnia, trixie belden, bobbsey twins, nancy drew (our library had not really been updated since early 70s) then read sweet valley high, some similar books to that, I forget what they were called which where occult/romance books "dark forces" or something? I read all the crap there was!

ZombieKitten said:

omg!!!

ZombieKitten said:

WTF is that book about??? Or should I ask?

MoniGram said:

I can't even remember, mild horror, teen romance
"After winning a doll at the state fair, strange and horrifying accidents start occurring. Something evil has invaded Jack and Cassie's lives and is trying to capture Cassie's very soul. Can Jack save her?"

ZombieKitten said:

It looks like one of those RL Stine's Goosebumps !!

JoeTyler said:

are those for teens? I bought 3 for my kids (since they are reading harry potter already) but maybe my boys are too young for them?

ZombieKitten said:

hmmm, I'd say that the target is 9-13 years old; maybe they're somehow intense for children (4-8), but certainly harmless for teens (14-18)
Nevertheless, there isn't violence or/and cruelty, just some intense frights , that's all

I used to read a lot of those books back in the mid-90's

JoeTyler said:

Yes but it has that damn doll!!! I HATE dolls!!!!!

JoeTyler said:

oh! scarier than harry potter you think?

ZombieKitten said:

is harry potter scary?



Anyway, I know what you mean: the frights of Goosebumps are more or less as scary as the "terror" passages of Harry Potter; in a word, just harmless fun (certainly not Stephen King )

JoeTyler said:

OK thanks! now get your kit off

ZombieKitten said:

you're welcome

Fantastic Mr. Fox!

2the9s said:

oh yeah! the twits, bfg, charlie & the…, the witches, my uncle oswald (don't tell my mum )

ZombieKitten said:

I loved Trixie Belden. She was so much cooler than that prissy Nancy Drew (imo).


I loved mysteries-- Encyclopedia Brown, The Hardy Boys, Sherlock Holmes, but NO Nancy Drew! Laura Ingalls Wilder/Little House on the Prairie series, Old Yeller , Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, Ramona, Judy Blume, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, and in jr. high those cheesy teen romance books--I wish I could remember the publisher. They all had really cheesy titles and photographs of preppy girls on the covers. I read all the Flowers in the Attic series (and the Heaven series), too. I had to sneak-read them because my mom was convinced they were written by the devil.

DevotedPuppy said:

wow, i can't even remember what i read when i was a teenager. i think i got stephen king out of my system. "the stand" was the first "grown-up" book i ever read - my 6th grade teacher gave me a copy, and it was kind of a reading rite of passage for me. even though king isn't exactly "mature reading", i moved on from the likes of judy blume and narnia when i was handed that fat slab of paperback goodness.

of course, now i'm 37 and i still read spidey comic books.

DevotedPuppy said:

Sweet Dreams!







I read a little Sweet Valley High, too, but I was in high school when those started getting really popular and for some reason I wasn't that into them.

Little Women, Shel Silverstein books (Lafcadio, The Giving Tree, Light in the Attic, etc), Dr. Suess books, Anne of Green Gables, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing books, Ramona the Pest books, Encyclopedia Brown Series, The Boxcar Children, Charlotte Sometimes, The Chronicles of Narnia, Island of the Blue Dolphins, Are you there God It's Me Margaret, Bunnicula series, Babysitters' Club series, Roald Dahl stories, Hans Christian Anderson tales, Grimm's Fairy Tales, etc... I loved to read and still do.

DevotedPuppy said:

all of those too!