What Books Did You Love When You Were Younger?

I agree with Bethany o what she wrote, loved the classics, Dickens, Jane Austen, Tolstoy, CS Lewis, JRR Tolkein, Bronte sisters, Melville, Steinbeck, some science fiction from David Eddings and Orson Scott Card, loved war and holocaust series... but then the 'newer' popular books like Twilight, Hunger Games, Eragon, Harry Potter, Te Lightening thief, all really good too.

Also read VC Andrews, but don't think I want my kids reading those!

I also really loved reading plays from Oscar Wilde, Moliere, Shakespeare and those sort of things.

As a teenager, I was in love with the classics and saved them all for my kids. A tale of two cities, The scarlett letter, Tom Sawyer, Of mice and men, etc.
I also really really liked studying about the holocaust and World War 2, so I have saved those books for my kids too. Hopefully they'll be bookworms like I was. :)

I read the Sweet Valley series about twin girls.

In adolescense I loved anything by Judy Blume, Paul Zindel, Roald Dahl

*Ah, forgot Daphne Du Maurier

As a teenager I had gone onto reading adult best-seller stuff and classics. I read lots of trashy books like, "Princess Daisy" and "Lace" but I also enjoyed (and still do) historical fiction. My grandmother gave me her set of The Kent Family Chronicles by John Jakes, and they were fantastic! I will definitely introduce my sons to them. I also loved his "North and South" trilogy and his book "Homeland." I got MAJORILY into Anne Rice as a teenager too. The Vampire Chronicles and the witch series kept me completely absorbed! Stephen King has always been a favorite, so I tore through everything he had written and eagerly awaited all new releases. Dean Koontz was good too when I was a teenager, but I got tired of him. I will definitely pass Stephen King onto my boys. Yes he writes horror fiction and popular best sellers, but he's one of our most talented writers alive today. He is a phenomenal character writer -truly gifted in that respect.

I was BIG into R.L. Stein, Ann Rice! anything creepy or w/ vampires and I was reading it! LOL As long as my son reads - I'll be happy ! His father is NOT a reader at all! but does ready to DS :-)

Where the Red Fern Grows
Little House on the Prarie Series
The Chronicles of Narnia series (sooo much better than the movies!)
RL Stine Fear Streetseries
and for girls- The Sweet Valley High series (it's been SOOO long!) and Are You There, God? It's Me, Margret

I loved the Judy Blume books, Ramona the Brave and Encylopedia Brown series.

The Babysitters Club was my fav. And Ann Frank Story.

I loved reading as a child (still do) and vividly remember...
- "Ramona Quimby" in early elementary
- "Babysitter's Club" in late elementary
- Anything by Jane Austen in high school... she was the first real trashy romance novelist and I still get a kick out of her wit!
- "The Yellow Wallpaper" is a short story by Charlotte Perkins Gillman that was both fascinating and eye-opening as a young woman who was interested in the psychology of gender roles. If you haven't read it, do so! It's about a woman in the late 1890's who is essentially on "bed rest" for depression... locked in a room with yellow wallpaper with no stimulation or interaction and it literally drives her insane.

I read all the Judy Blume books, the Narnia series and Daphne Du Maurier's books.

I'm much older, so my favorites are out of the early-mid 60's. I remember The Boobsey Twins, The Boxcar Children, The Nancy Drew Series, the Cherry Ames Series, any biography I could get my hands on written age appropriate, Black Beauty, The Chronicles of Narnia, Little Women, Anything by Madeline L'Engle...(A Wrinkle in Time, etc.).

Start with the classics.

I read Nancy Drew ( the old and new ones), Sweet Valley Twins, Sweet Valley High, choose your own adventure, those the school "made" me read (I liked them, too!) and there were a series of historical non-fiction that covered figures in history. LOVED those. As I have aged, my tastes are as varied as they were as a child.
I would love it if my kids got interested in the Hardy Boys, Narnia and the historical books.

This is fun: lets see, Judy Blume, VC Andrews (for much older teens), Little House on the Prairie, I did read the "classics", however, more so because I HAD to and only some did I really enjoy. Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, hummm, looks like I read more than I remember :). I loved mysteries, and still do. The books about Scarpetta, the ME in Richmond, VA, very good. I have also read Christian fiction and love them. Read, read, read; my (4 days away) 18 year old reads ALL the time, she can read 3 different books at once and keep them straight, my 15 year old, he's not a reader at all, and my 4 1/2 year old LOVES to read also. I think they will make their own decision to read, and enjoy it, when they find something they are truly interested in.

I've always been a bit of a book worm.
When I was little, around 5-6, i would just sit in my room and read for hours. my mom is always talking bout it. even to this day*
I always read above most kids my age. My favorites were
Chronicals of Narnia
Into the Land of the Unicorns.
The golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, & Amber Spyglass(By the way I was PISSED when I saw what they did to the story when they made that movie)
I never liked books with pictures as a kid, had more fun imagining it myself.
Now that I'm older my favorite authors are:
Christopher Moore
Tom Robbins
Mark Haddon
etc

I am not sure this title translates the same in english but my favourite was "The young Holden" by Salinger...alo Little Women by LM Alcott of course!!

My favorites were:
--The Babysitters Club (and Little Sister) series by Ann M Martin
--Matilda by Roald Dahl (favorite)
--anything by Judy Blume
--Nancy Drew occasionally, but preferred the Hardy Boys
--The Middle Moffat (can't remember who wrote it though, it was one of the kids in the book, along the lines of yours mine and ours)

These are good lists. I don't see The Old Man and the Sea, the Outsiders, or the Sherlock Holmes books, which I enjoyed in school. All the original texts can be found here: http://www.sherlockian.net/canon/ . Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass were good. Although newer, the Harry Potter series is also excellent. Here's a link for a great database, catagorized by subject and age: http://librarybooklists.org/fiction/ya/yageneral.htm . And how could I forget Edgar Allan Poe.