>age >where are you from >first book you remember reading

24
Mexico City
The Witches by Roald Dahl (and I spent a whole month thinking my mother and teacher were one)
I'm currently re-reading Nine Stories by JD Salinger

>24
>Maryland
>I dunno, Harry Potter?
>Apollonius' On Conics and Carl Menger's Principles of Economics

25
NI
I have no clear idea of when I read what, but the other day I found a mostly empty diary with two entries from when I was 7. In one of them I wrote that I had started Charlie and the Chocolate Factory that day.
Winesburg, Ohio

>>9120418
20
Sydney
Tintin in The Shooting Star by Herge
Amsterdam by Ian McEwan. It's not bad, a bit too much 90s era satire for my liking though.

47
seattle
Finn Family Moomintroll
The Anatomy of Story - Truby

>>9120418
>21
>Missouri
>A non-fiction book about the moon in my 2nd grade library
>Sketches from a Hunter's Cabin by Turgenev for class
>Brothers Karamazov for Pleasure

>>9120418
>25
>New York
>The Twits by Roald Dahl
>Ulysses & Meditations

>>9120473
You didn't read a book until you were in 2nd grade?

23
Wisconsin
Where the Wild Things Are
Universal Harvester and Maristain's Bolaño biography

>>9120418
18
Oklahoma
I feel like it was one of those magic tree house books
Currently reading Notes From The Underground and The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

>>9120705
I do not remember reading a book before that time . . . ? I was diagnosed with Asperger's before I started school so I was placed in special ed right off the bat. Until middle school I had no contact with non-Disabled children.

36
North Carolina
Dinosaur Days
Computerized Engine Controls

21
Michigan
The Runaway Robot - Lester Del Rey
The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann

18
Estonia
Karu-aabits
Practical Demonkeeping

>>9120418
19
Ghana but living in Sydney rn
Can only really remember the experience, was sitting in comfy shade of pear tree reading through some weird possibly gay sexual thriller I had found in my Uncle's belongings.
To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf

>18
>Roselle, Il.
>One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish
>Fellowship of the Ring

21
Australia
Horrible Histories book series: Awesome Egyptians, Terrible Tudors etc
Currently reading The Violent Bear It Away by O'Connor

>24
>born in Russia raised in Bavaria
>Lord of the rings
>Sons & Lovers

now I hate my mom

>19
>Finland
>Bert
>W&P

86
NYC
Alice's Adventure in Wonderland
Shakespeare's Complete Works

23
London
Some Biff, Chip and Kipper book
The accumulation of capital

23
Scotland
Neverwhere
1984

26
Finland
The Year of the Hare
Blue and Brown Books

25
Munich
Karlsson-on-the-Roof
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

21
Philippines
But No Elephants
The Recognitions by Gaddis

33
Stockholm
Vampires Don't Wear Polka Dots
Doktor Glas

20
Ireland
Roald Dahl shit
120 Days of Sodom

>18
>Croatia
>Robin Hood by Jens Sisgaard
>Of Human Bondage

>19
>Heidelberg
>Encyclopedias and books about Dinosaurs and the Roman Empire
>Death in Venice
>>9121500
Irre ich mich oder hat München eine richtig miese Studentenkultur? Alle Leute die ich da kenne sind selbstbesessene BWL-Spinner.

>>9121028
>Ghana but living in Sydney rn

Get out.

>>9120418

>20
>Spain
>IT
>Fedra & Andromaque by Racine

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>19
>Kentucky
>pic related
>Iliad

>20
>Spain
>Óscar y el león de correos
>The old man and the sea

>22
>Norway
>Can't remember, probably The Hardy Boys, Harry
Potter or some Roald Dahl book.
>Finished 1984 yesterday, might read Moby Dick next.

>>9120418
>22
>Midwestern U.S.
>Mr. Popper's Penguins
>The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

19
New Orleans
Motherfucking Goose
JR by William Gaddis

>>9121511
>That book is fucking great, man. I'm reading JR right now. Gaddis is fucking incredible.

20
SoCal
Cat in the Hat
Rebel Yell

>19
>Spain
>Oscar y el león de correos
>Niebla

25.
Richmond, VA.
Edith Hamilton's Mythology, though I obviously didn't really get it. I remember getting it at a yard sale for a quarter.
Currently reading Jurgen by James Branch Cabell.

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27
Texas
The Fire Cat by Esther Averill
Runes: An Introduction by Ralph Warren Victor Elliott

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21
Maryland
Maybe The Jester Has Lost His Jingle or The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (the children's book)
Leviathan

>>9120418
23
Texas
Some Dr Seuss book
The web and the rock

22 / Female
Missoula
Umm, probably Harry Potter lol
Kinda reading two books at the moment, first is Private Citizens by Tony something and the other is Bleeding Edge by Pynchon

>>9120418

19

arizona

huckleberry finn, so much nostalgia

discourse on method

>>9123440
>Female
>OP didn't mention gender
>No one else had said what their gender is
ahhh girls

>23
>Ireland
>Harry Potter, or one of those Goosebumps books
>Napoleon the Great, Seneca: dialogues and essays, The Penguin Russian Course, Anna Karenina

>20
>Ohio
>Vladimir Tod
>The Silmarillion

>>9123451

This so much

>>9120446

Hey, NI bro, where you from? Donegal, about 10 miunutes from Derry here

>>9123528
You shouldn't say that you're 17 m8, might get you banned

>>9123451
>>9123460
IT's BaiT!

>>9120418
>27
>Go Dog Go
>The Pursuit of Power Europe 1815-1914

21
Wisconsin, US
Probably Goodnight Moon if that counts, Lion The Witch and the Rainbow series were earliest novels.
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

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>>9121608
Ja, die 120.000 Münchner Studierende sind alle BWLer ohne Niveau.

>>9121610
fuck up cunt

>>9120418
23
South Carolina
The Boxcar Children
Pale Fire

>>9120418
>25
>Vermont
>Captain Underpants???
>Within a Budding Grove

18
massachusetts
might've been harry potter, or the bfg
dead souls

>>9120418
35
texas
the phantom tollboth
resistence, rebellion, and death (camus essay compilation, starting an anarchy streak)

>20
>brazil
>used to read a national coomic book every night, but the first literature book I ever read was O Alienista (The Alienist or The Psychiatrist) by Machado de Assis. remember asking my mother to borrow
>V. by Pinecone

>>9120418

>24
>Florida
>...Goosebumps, maybe?
>If on a winter's night a traveler

>>9123588
*Studierenden
Ich wusste es.

>>9120418
25
Monterrey, Mex.
Heart by Edmondo de Amicis
The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

>>9123465
Co. Antrim for me

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23
Miami
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Ayn Rand's Capitalism: An Unknown Ideal

>22
some book, can't find it again, but it involved a sabertooth tiger and a big extinct sloth fighting in a swamp, both going extinct at the same time

>18
Aarhus, Denmark
Tintin and the Seven Crystal Balls (Rascar Capac scariest villain to this day)
Anabasis, Loeb version.

20
CO
Robinson Crusoe
The Confessions of Saint Augustine

>>9120456
>Finn Family Moomintroll
Patrician spotted

>>9122543
>Oscar y el león de correos

que bien illo mi primer libro

>58
>Brownsville
>Tom Sawyer
>Bleeding Edge

21
Australia
Captain Underpants
Beauty and Sadness by Yasunari Kawabata

>19
>Ireland
>The Emperor's new clothes
>Thinking fast and slow
Yes I'm hopelessly middle class

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>22
>DC
>A children's book of parables
>Huckleberry Finn

>>9120418
27
Los Angeles
First book...I have no fucking idea. The giving tree?
The Prince

26
Mid-West United States
Something about a squirrel gathering nuts for the winter, I think?
This Book is Full of Spiders

>>9120418
18
Florida
Some book where the main character was a young girl who would often say "mind your own beeswax"
Mein Kampf, not memeing

I have never come onto /lit/, Im looking over the recommended reading list but can anyone tell me what would be a good book to start with after Im done with this one?

>>9124544
Actually no, now Im remembering a book about a hedgehog and a book about bulldog puppies, and the whole kitten/mitten books...

>>9120418
23
The Holy Bible
Crucible of War by Fred Anderson

>>9124597
I'm from North America btw.

>>9121731
Yo where in KY?

>>9120418
>20
>LONDON
>Biff and Chip
>The count of Monte Cristo

>>9120418
26
Pennsylvania
The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

>>9124703
>>9121731
Another Kentucky anon here. Where are you all at?

Anyway:

>20
>Kentucky
>a picture book about a car wash
>War and Peace

>>9120418
33
San Diego
The Haunting Of Cabin 13
Lincoln in the Bardo

25
NY
A goosebumps book as a kid idk
On The Road by Jack Kerouac

>>9120418
>22
>Santiago, Chile
>The Holy Bible, or a book about the universe
>Ulysses; Othello

>>9123459
Got a couple of pages into the silmarillion, but decided it read like a bible.. maybe i'll start it up again eventually

19
Seattle
Dinosaur anatomy book
The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil

I don't have anyone specific I want to reply to but thanks for posting everyone, this is a comfy thread to scroll through.

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25
Austin
The Stinky Cheese Man
Lanark: A Life in Four Books

>>9120418
>20
>nevada
>First remember reading shel silverstein books and scary stories to tell in the dark
>currently readind on the road the original scroll

20
Budapest, Hungary
My father's copy of Animal Farm because I thought it's a fable
Memed into Alissa Nutting - Tampa

>>9120418
28
Italy
The wind singer by William Nicholson
The peregrine by J. A. Baker, The Spirit of the Laws by Montesquieu

20
Argentina
don't know. something they gave us at school maybe?
quijote

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>>9120418
19
Paris
Le petit prince de St Exupéry
Dubliners

>>9120418
>21
>Portland
>Goodnight Moon
>Indeh

>>9120418
19
Portugal
Metamorphosis by Kafka
Bloodmeme by McCarthy

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30
Michigan
The Monster at the End of This Book, but the first book that I remember discovering on my own and loving was The House in the Snow when I was around 8 years old.
Pan by Knut Hamsun

20
Melbourne
some picture story book called Mythological Monsters (and so began my years long obsession with mythology)
Brideshead Revisited

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19
Croatia
Children's Bible
Claw of the conciliator & Die welt als labyrinth for college