I’m just curious about everyone’s “origin story” with fiction.
For some people, it’s that one book; the one that pulled them into reading forever, or the one that made them cry, or the one that made them realise how powerful storytelling can be.
For example, for me it was the Clifton Chronicles by Jeffrey Archer. I was already enjoying the series, but in Book 6 there’s a certain storyline set in Bombay (involving Sebastian and Priya) that completely wrecked me, but in a good way. I didn’t expect a book to hit me that hard or make fiction feel so real. Since then, I’ve realised how deeply a novel can connect to your emotions.
So, I’d love to know,
1) What book made you fall in love with fiction?
2) Which novel made you cry, or feel something you didn’t expect?
3) Or the one you still think about years later?
Would love to read everyone’s stories.
by TurbulentAnything802
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Hamlet. Only 100 pages yet infinite variety
Warrior Cats series by Erin Hunter. As a pre-teen, that’s what turned me into a bibliophile.
Steven King and Piers Anthony in Middle School
Thankfully… I didn’t subscribe to the misogyny as a young adult.
Box Car Children.
As a kid, probably My Side of the Mountain. First book I was truly HOOKED on.
As an… older kid, probably Ender’s Game.
The Shining, when I was in high school
Johnny Tremain.
When I was in 5th grade, I stayed up all night reading the book “Holes” by Louis Sachar on the bathroom floor. I remember it being “all night” but I’m sure it was just till midnight or something. That was a big turning point.
I’m a beginner but after reading novels like 1984, GODAN, KITE RUNNER. i got addicted
So the Winnie The Pooh books by A.A Milne. I just adored them and still do.
But a special place in my heart will always go to Ned The Lonely Donkey, a Ladybird book about two lonely souls who find each other ❤️
Carrie. Showed me that empathy can leak from a page. And anyone that ever read it must have it pop up on occasion.