/lit/ - Literature

The Hobbit
LOTR
His Dark Materials
Harry Potter

I read this one in 6th grade. I remembered it being ridiculously good compared to anything I read before. It's what got me into reading more than required in school.
After 6th grade I forgot its name and have been religiously searching for it since. I finally figured it out this weekend and, to my delight, discovered there are 7 books in the series now!
I ordered them all.

"The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky (I'm assuming that when you said "childhood books," that also included the teen years as well).

Of course.

>>1179859

The Hobbit - Tolkien
Where the Red Fern Grows - ????

Roald Dahl is an amazing author.

Gary Paulsen made some great childrens books as well. This one was my favorite of his. The Hatchet series were good too.

>>1179881
Oops, forgot the cover.

Does anyone else remember the old Moby Books Illustrated Classic Editions?
I read this version of Huck Finn at least 50 times when I was a kid.

The Chronicles of Narnia
The Boxcar Children
Animorphs
Goosebumps
Fear Street
The Giver
The Ancient One

I read the shit out of these.

Narnia series
Princess and the Goblin
Princess and Curdie
At the Back of the North Wind
Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass
Peter and Wendy
Grimm's Fairy Tales
Andrew Lang's fairy books
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Rip Van Winkle
The Wind in the Willows

I don't even know why, it's not some ground-breaking masterpiece.

>>1180106
These books are great. Not the best writing I've read, but very entertaining.

Calvin and Hobbes Collections
Anything Star Wars related written by Kevin J Anderson or his wife.

I've recently re-read bits of the Kevin J stuff.... holy fuck is it ever bad.

The Bible. Greatest children's story, ever.

[/spoil] Dickholes Brown

>>1180114

Come on now. Young Jedi Knights wasn't that bad- if only for the first book where they rebuilt that Tie Fighter and that Imperial pilot who was like those Jap soldiers who were stuck on Pacific Islands without knowing the war was over.

Narnia, Harry Potter, Madeleine, Harriet the Spy, Little House series, Ramona books, Royal Diaries, American Diaries

Anything by Roald Dahl, EB White, Madeleine L'Engle, E. L. Konigsburg, Lois Lowry

man I miss kid books

>>1180037
Did they say "nigger" in it?

You guys were reading wrong books

>>1180123
I remember loving them as a kid... to be fair I only read the first few pages of Dark Sabre before putting it down in disgust. I remember thinking as kid that it wasn't one of his best works though.... who knows.

>>1180037

Their version of Frankenstein made me cry.

>>1179868

It fucking sakes in retrospect. Mainly because I found out it was basically reviving the old pre-WWII genre of Asian Invasion literature but decided to be all political correct about it and because everything after book 3 was just Marsden cashing in so he could run that alternative primary school he runs.

Also don't get me started about plot armour. How all of them (well...except the ginger) survived is beyond me.

>>1180047
I posted these, but I can't believe I forgot >>1180134 . I just made a post about it a day or two ago. AMAZING book.

This.

Where the Sidewalk Ends
A Light in the Attic
Falling Up

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SO MUCH NOSTALGIA

>>1180047
>>1180176

I also just remembered The Outsiders and That Was Then, This Is Now.
And Rumble Fish.

Lord of the Rings
Chronicles of Narnia
Transall Saga
White Fox Chronicles
The Phantom Tollbooth (this book was the shit)
Holes
A Wrinkle in Time

I also enjoyed Roald Dahl and Shell Silverstein. And I fucking LOVED Calvin and Hobbes, but that doesn't really count as a book.

WAYSIDE SCHOOL MOTHERFUCKERS

The Witches by Roald Dahl

>>1179868
They just did a movie of this. Are you Australian? I never really imagined they'd gain too much popularity outside of Aus...

>>1180346
Yeah I found that out after I remembered the book's name. Funny coincidence that I managed to remember it the same day the movie was released.

>>1180390
Fucking loved! Yes!

This, even though every book has the same basic plot structure and the same cliches, they were entertaining.

>>1179870
Oh god yes this as well

the hobbit

Don't deny it.

I will second the original post's choice.
Ender's Game is an awesome book.

Motherfucking Chris Pike.

Number the Stars. The Giver.

>>1180390
God Tier.

>>1180962
god yes i read every book in the series

>>1181617
Fuck Yes, loved The Tachyon Web when it came out

>>1181717

Also I loved some of the other books in the series like The Lost Diary of Queen Victoria's Undermaid and The Lost Diary of Hercules' Personal Trainer.

Even though the I think the latter made me rage about Heracles/Hercules. Or it might have made a joke about it - I'm not entirely sure.

And who can forget Horrible Histories.

>>1181767

Also every Australian kid I knew read Paul Jennings and possibly Morris Gleitzmann (even though I fucking hated how he always had to have a kid with divorced parents in a gross-out situation).

And then there was the anarchic spirit of Andy Griffiths - Just Annoying, Just Tricking etc. series.

Also fuck Specky McGee.

>>1180962
This, was a library aide in 8th grade instead of P.E., read all the fucking time.

I was a big fan of R.L. Stine's Fear Street series as well.

Also, Holes.

>>1181858
Your school let you skip PE to hang out in a library?

No one else read these.

They were amazing.

>>1181242
fucking nostalgia

>>1179859

Going to have to 2nd that entire series, my good sir.

>>1181242
I have every one of these somewhere. I always laughed at when they switched around the lunch signs.

This shit is actually legit as hell.

>>1180037
I have at least 5 of those in my bookshelf right now. ='D

>>1181912
Daniel Handler thinks he can take credit for that masterpiece.

>>1181912
Ahaha I remember this! I don't think I ever finished the series. :<

>>1181876
I had to do some work, re-shelve the books there, check out the kids who came in with their classes. Other than that, it was easy mode.

good times

A game of Thrones,
Enders,
Some book about a monk who raises someones abandoned child as his bastard son and kills the bishop in the dark ages,
I wish I remembered.