What’s the first book you remember loving?

[theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world]

The Magician's Nephew

[zagorath@aussie.zone]

I think mine would probably have to be the Darren Shan saga, starting with Cirque du Freak. I think I was 10 when I picked up the first book in the series at a random bookstore in Seoul, and I can't have been older than 12 when I finished the last one. I think that ending was the first time I cried at a piece of media.

[slazer2au@lemmy.world]

There was one early teen book series that my school library has where it was a town with weird things happening and kids investigate. Twice aliens came to get help from the kids. I can't remember the name of the series though.

[zagorath@aussie.zone]

That's the Narnia prequel, right? It was by far my favourite book in the series as a kid, though I was already familiar with the concept of multiple realities thanks to The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. I always hoped it would get an adaptation. I haven't reread any of them as an adult, but my memory of it still makes me hope for that one day.

[001guy001@sh.itjust.works]

I never read a book outside of school (which was all fiction books, which I never got into), and then I was gifted Zygmunt Bauman's Globalization: The Human Consequences and loved it and realized non-fiction is a thing

[zagorath@aussie.zone]

I only read it for the first time earlier this decade. The series goes through about four distinct phases. If you liked Eye, you'll almost certainly also like books 2 and 3, which are very similar in style. After that, it goes from being high fantasy adventure into more of a political intrigue. Then it expands into a much larger cast, fleshing out the world. Parts of this third phase are what's often referred to among fans as "the slog", because the pacing slows down a lot and it can really drag to read. Personally on my first read-through I didn't find this nearly as bad as I expected, but I did notice it a fair amount at times. Then the fourth phase happens after Robert Jordan dies and Brandon Sanderson takes over finishing the series takes it back to the feeling of phase 2, but wrapping up and pushing towards a dramatic climax and conclusion.

I think it's reasonably likely that if you liked 1, you'll like the series as a whole. But it's possible that the shift from phase 1 to 2 could break the interest for you, if that's not a change that vibes with you.

[pagpag@lemmy.world]

The Green Odyssey by Phillip José Farmer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Green_Odyssey

[iww4@lemmy.zip]

Watership Down

[spankmonkey@lemmy.world]

Pickles, aka the fire cat, is born homelss and lives in a barrel before being adopted by a nice lady and then eventually joining the fire department and improving himself to become a better cat.

Here is Pickles being an asshole by chasing a kitten up a tree, because that is something cats do.

If I remember right Pickles wasn't able to get down either and had to be rescued by the firemen. It leads to his journey to learn how to be nicer to other cats and improve himself.

[jumpywombat@lemmy.ml]

The Paul Street Boys. I still remember it fondly!

[rylock@piefed.zip]

Redwall by Brian Jacques. Introduced me to so many things like the fantasy genre, multi-book series, deep worldbuilding, archetypal races and probably way more. The food descriptions also stand out in my memory.

Haven't gone back to see how it stands up but I highly recommend it for kids whose reading level is improving and want to move up a tier in length/difficulty.

[walrusdragononabike@reddthat.com]

Idk about "loved," but I'll put "I can fly" since I remember reading it a lot.

In case others don't know it, it goes a little something like this (each line is a page):

"I can fly

Up, up, up

Down, down, down

Up, up, up

Down, down, down

Up, up, up

Down, down, down

I can fly"

[a_cook_not_a_chef@lemmy.world]

Redwall by Brian Jacques was probably the earliest one I remember loving.