Looking for suggestions. I love the idea of reading and have read multiple books but have never been in love with reading to the point that I would do it over other activities. Would love nothing more than to enjoy picking up a book and reading for hours. I am a 21 y/o male who enjoys fantasy/sci-fi type novels.
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As a really young kid: Curious George.
As a young kid… Roald Dahl/Babysitters Club books.
As an older kid (11+): Flowers in the Attic.
As a teen, Dean Koontz and Stephen King.
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
*Holes* by Louis Sachar. I read it in 6th grade and haven’t lost the itch since.
Encyclopedia Brown as a kid
Breakfast of Champions as a young adult
How old are you? Male/female/NB? What other things interest you?
(these are questions I consider as a librarian during my “reference interviews” when people ask for suggestions; your post is too open-ended lol)
As a child reading A Series of Unfortunate Events. I think I sort of aged out before the series was finished so I never got to the end, but my husband and I were talking about how much we both loved them recently. Daniel Handler did such an outstanding job walking the line between recognizing the intelligence of young readers and their ability to handle heavier content while maintaining a sense of levity and silliness and mystery, not only in the books themselves, but in his use of the pen name/persona of Lemony Snicket.
As a teen I fell in love with the work of Kurt Vonnegut. I think he captures something similar to Handler but with more adult subject matter.
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Very young, *The Little Grey Men* and its sequel *Down the Bright Stream* by BB. A little later, maybe age eight, the ‘Molesworth’ books.
Easy question- “Go, Dog! Go!”
Excluding picture books (although The Monster at the End of This Book was probably it), I think maybe Charlotte’s Web or The Diamond in the Window.
Babysitters Club series from when I was like 10.
Island of the Blue Dolphins, I was in 3rd grade🐬