I tried to post this in the Saturday Night Social thread, but clearly something went wrong so I'm gonna write something similar to what I said there here: This past weekend was kind of disappointing. Didn't go to any college parties even though I wanted to, these girls tried to avoid me by lying to me and hiding from…

First off, BEST POST EVER. As a kid, I was a voracious, obsessive reader, and I really enjoyed reading everyone's favorites. Made me think of books I haven't seen or thought about in years. Love it! Also, I agree that I seemingly learned reading and writing by osmosis as the author states, and I credit all of that to…

I'm the daughter of a librarian (Mom) and a sci-fi buff (Dad), so I always had a plethora of reading material to choose from as a child. Nearly every room in our house had a bookshelf, even the kitchen, so I used to raid them all the time. I always thought reading the way I did was normal, until I went to school and…

• By Carolyn Keene, published in April 28, 1930

Forgive my grammar I'm so excited that I typing this at the bar!

I either got this from the library or through one of the book clubs I belonged to as a child. I was a bookworm obsessed with dollhouses, so this was basically a book marriage made in heaven.

Bonnie Bryant, 1988

Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. (1880)

"Ramona Quimby, Age 8," by Beverly Cleary (1981). Ramona is like the honey badger. I mean, she squeezed an entire tube of toothpaste into the sink.

• Little House in the Big Woods

Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maude Montgomery, pub. 1908

Madeleine L'Engle, 1962

Published in 1993, and written by Lois Lowry, The Giver was my favorite book for a long time as a kid. The thing that stands out to me the most about this quick and satisfying read, is that it doesn't pander to the lowest common denominator of teens and kids. It's actually fairly complex for a kids book, and it really…

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DEFINITELY the 3 books in the Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry series. I loved them, and they are kinda historical too.

Not even close to YA, but this is the book that made me a reader. I had it memorized by the time I was 2 and could "read"/recite the entire thing (except it was "One ponce a time"). And then my sister COLORED IN IT. That was probably 25 years ago, and I'm still annoyed. Anyway, that was it. I read every damn thing I…

The Mummy, The Will and The Crypt, by John Bellairs (1983). Start of a series of seriously terrifying (for a 10 year old, as I was when I discovered the series ... he kept writing into the late 1990s) quasi Gothic horror books. They're delightfully scary, have a plucky young orphan and his mentor as heroes, and are…

Anne of Green Gables! Anne Shirley forever! If they like the first one then there are tons more in the series too.

Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time'