EVERYONE Has Read This but Me - The Catch-Up Book Club discussion

To Kill a Mockingbird Every couple of years I reread this marvelous book and fall in love with reading all over again! Thank you Mrs. Grant, my 7th grade English teacher who assigned this book.

Beautiful sweet book

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Death on the Nile
fantasy and mystery. that was always it. :)

I used to read it 5 or 6 times a year. I read it two years ago to my oldest son and he loved it as well.

The Phantom Tollbooth
The Secret Garden

(These always come to mind first, but there are certainly others I'll add if I remember.)

Obviously Harry Potter, but was a favorite of both me and my sister growing up. My sister would return the book at the library only to grab it again. I still giggle at its stupidity.

Island of the Blue Dolphins
Where the Red Fern Grows
Hi Fella

The Secret River. this edition:
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But the new one is excellent, too:
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The Ramona books, and the Mouse and the Motorcycle books, by Beverly Cleary.

Greer reminded me of Where the Sidewalk Ends and A Light in the Attic!! I absolutely adored them then, and when I reread them as an adult I get a lot more out of them then I did back then.

No link because I’m typing on the phone, sorry!

Daniela wrote: "Obviously Harry Potter, but The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales was a favorite of both me and my sister..."

I LOVED this book growing up.

Where the sidewalk ends
The phantom toll booth
The grinch
And the golden compass series

The BFG! Anything Roald Dahl

All the Winnie-the-Pooh books. I can't remember when I first read them, and I love the original black and white (not Disney) illustrations and have sevaral framed on my walls.

I have read To Kill a Mockingbird so many times after being set it as one of my study books aged 15. It's had a huge influence over me/my life but I don't count 15/16 as being my childhood and also it's not a children's book as such (in my opinion )

I am much too old to have read Harry Potter as a child but have enjoyed the books as an adult and re read some of them. But personally I have a soft spot for Lemony Snicket and have read all the books at least once and enjoy listening to the audio books on any long journey I take.

Anything by R.L.Stevenson, from Black Arrow through his stories and everything really.

A Wrinkle in Time- I think I read this book for the first time at the right time. Even now, as an adult, it always seems to say something I need to hear when I reread it.

The Secret Garden- I loved the movie as a kid, and when I finally read the book in fourth grade I enjoyed it just as much. Its still a favorite.

The Chronicles of Narnia- While I wasn't as big a fan of some of the later books, I do still love this series.

Harry Potter (the first four anyway)- I read Sorcerer's Stone just a few months after its release and I was in immediately in love. I didn't care for book 5 much, and gave up halfway through 6 and never read 7. I had friends who finished reading the series fill me so I know how it all ends and I know I wouldn't have enjoyed reading it.

The Wide Awake Princess
Without a doubt. It's been about 8 years since I read it the first time, and I read it about 2 weeks ago. Love it

charlotee's web, stuart little

Second Charlotte's Web !

Also..
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

And...

New Treasury of Children's Poetry

by
Joanna Cole

I lugged this hardcover around everywhere. It was destroyed by water damage over a decade ago.

I would have love to read Harry Potter when I was a teen. It was still good as an adult though.

I should add most of the comic books that I read back then and that I still love today: Astérix, Tintin, Peanuts, Lucky Luke.

The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald

Totally agree with Lemony Snicket, A Wrinkle in Time, Ramona and related books, and Tintin. I also loved Mary Poppins and Artemis Fowl.

I loved A A Milne's poems - When We Were Very Young and Now We are Six There is a poem called King John's Christmas which I loved as a child and still find poignant as an adult - I think it is one Milne wrote for the grownups!

Michael Crichton - Prey
Prey

I was very impressed when I red

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn;
Harriet the Spy

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
My husband was a reluctant reader growing up wild in L.A. But he did read this in school. And decades later he still refers to it as his favorite book.

I read and reread Adventure series by Enid Blyton,Nancy Drew and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

Amazing books! They take me back into the times... :)

I first read White Fang by Jack London when I was 5 or 6 years old. It was an illustrated and adapted edition. But I loved it so much that I re-read it so much times and then re-read the original edition... And I really fell in love with Jack London's writing style so I read The Call of the Wild and other books from the Klondike. And then I discovered Martin Eden, I was 17. It's my favorite book ever! While at the university, I decided to write a dissertation / memoir on Jack London! I just feel so close to his writing, to his characters,... When I met my husband, he had never read Jack London, so I had to make him read one of his books! He started with White Fang too, and loved it. And he also loved the Klondike stories. And can't believe it, but his favorite book is... Martin Eden too! His favorite read for 2017 and his favorite in general!

Matilda - a book I reread every couple of years as a kid. Liked the musical as well :)

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
and
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

The Dark is Rising: The Complete Sequence is a big favorite of mine. I recently re-read it and still loved it!

Thanks for that recommendation, Kirsten. I missed that one.

I can read the Earthsea series by Ursula Le Guin over and over again. The first one is A Wizard of Earthsea and I remember as a kid it took me three times to get into it. Finally it clicked and I was hooked.

I also can't help but love Sarah Dessen's That Summer. It is more of a teenage novel than a child's but it takes me back to being younger. The narrative voice is just spot on.

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster.
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

Alice in Wonderland

How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found

I found this on sale at a Scholastic Book Fair at my elementary school, and for a long time I read it at least once a year. I think about this book often.

meg cabot books were my favourite growing up!!!

Harry Potter for sure!!!

Tom's Midnight Garden
Stig of the Dump

I just love them!

Wizard of Oz
Anne of Greene Gables
Heidi
White Fang
Call of the Wild
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Hobbit
Little Women
The Indian in the Cupboard
Beverly Cleary anything

Animal Farm

The Great Alone by Janet Dailey

Huh. I guess the title doesn't say that it had to be a kid's book... if you were precocious and read a romance then and still love it, more power to you! The Great Alone

The Chronicles of Narnia

I loved Doctor Doolittle as a kid... but haven't re-read it. I should try.

From my pre literate days there was a wonderful photo/picture book from the movie:
The Red Balloon

For my Birthday one year (age 5 or 6?) I got
Happy Birthday to You!
They gave it to me just as I was getting up. Bad Idea. I took it to be a schedule of My days events!

Of Course any and all Winnie the Pooh.

The first books I got and paid for myself:
The Mike Mars Series.
Mike Mars, Astronaut

From elementary school to middle school. I love "The Diary of a Wimpy Kid" series, and Raina Telgemeier's graphic novels "Smile" "Sisters" "Guts" and "The Babysitters Club".

Ella Enchanted, The Secret Garden, The City of Ember, and pretty much anything from Tamora Pierce, but especially The Circle of Magic series.