/lit/ - Literature

Well, I can tell most of you really are poseurs who started reading to seem smart.

I started with Corduroy, Winnie the Pooh, Love You Forever. (Thank you Grandma)

Once school started, things get fuzzier because I had access to a library and small books only took me 4 or 5 minutes to read. I know I read all of the Berenstain Bears books, Strega Nona, Clifford...skip ahead a little bit and I was enjoying Choose Your Own Adventure books, Goosebumps, Wayside School...
The summer after 2nd Grade I was involved in the library program at school and discovered Harry Potter. I read the first (and only at the time) 3, and they gave me such a confidence for reading, but grade school libraries aren't brimming with "great prose", so I finished out the 6th grade with very few memorable books...(Robinson Crusoe, Hatchet, The Ear The Eye, and The Arm, Artemis Fowl, Freak The Mighty, The Abhorsen Trilogy(Except Abhorsen itself wasn't released) a bunch of the Indian in The Cubbard novels, this one book with the exact same plot as The Village)
Oh! Fucking Animorphs! 54 of those mother fuckers, plus the "chronicles", plus the Alternamorphs. If you've never read the Ellimist Chronicles, I still recommend that book.
In the 7th grade, I was busy getting beaten up, but I read K. A. Applegate's other series Everworld, and started the Remnants, but my library didn't have any but the first 2. (It was going to be bleh anyway)

8th Grade had me find the gold that is Cirque Du Freak, setting me up for a vampire fetish that haunts me to this day.

I could go on for quite some time, but I doubt it's very interesting. It must suck to see someone with a genuine love of reading though. Again, thank you Grandma, and an honorable mention to my mother who loved showing me off to her friends.