Do you remember the first novel you ever read? If so, what was it?

No, I can't remember. Mom used to read to my youngest brother and I. She sat in a chair and we stood at her knees while she read to us. I thought she was skipping parts of the book so taught myself to read along with her. When I started Kindergarten, I'd turn the books upside down so I could read them. The teacher kept turning them right-side up... As soon as she walked away, I'd turn the book upside down and keep reading. She asked mom about it and mom explained. I read a lot, even back then. I loved The Hardy Boys when I was around 11 years old.

I remember being caught reading Charlotte’s Web in the closet in the middle of the night when I was six years old. I couldn’t wait to finish the book so I decided to just get a flashlight and go to the closet.

I can't remember any, it seems my parents never bought me anything regarding books.

The books kept you good company Lou. My first novel was at the age of 10 and I read Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. I identified with the character Jo in the book..I became strong like her.

Once my mom took me to the library and I got my first library card I became a little bookworm and quickly went through all the picture books in the children's libraay and so I guess after that when I could really read among my fries book were the stories about Pepi Longstocking,

I was always reading and would read under the desk at school if I got the chance. I don't remember a first novel.

I always read a lot as a kid as well. Novel other than children's stories? I read Black Beauty when I was about 9. That book left an impression. It was a gift from my grandmother. My parents still have it. I was thinking I should read it again sometime, but parts of it are sad.

The only book that changed my life is the Bible. The first novel I read was probably one of the Bobbsey Twins series. My brother did the Hardy Boys and I did the Bobbsey Twins.

The Little House on The Prairie Books were very special to me as a child. I also liked "Charlotte's Web".

@looeyville I remember starting to read voraciously in my 14th summer when we moved temporarily to a house across the road from a library. Then at 17 I read Crime and Punishment for the first time and have had my nose in a book ever since then. Anything by Dostoyevsky, Camus, Joyce, Hemingway is fair game. Right now I’m coming to the end of Valérie Perrin’s “Changer l’eau des fleurs”.

tom Clancy