Oh, wow, reading everyone's posts is reminding me of many I forgot the first time!
Harry Potter! Of course! I have all 4 in paperback, reread many times. I'll get 5 when the library has it -- I'm too poor to buy HCs these days.
THE SECRET GARDEN! I reread that so many times when I was a kid! And
A Little Princess too!
Loriel, I think of the Avonlea books as part of the Anne series, and I don't think I'm talking about Emily either... /me tries to remember ... something about a house that she didn't want to move away from?
Did anyone else watch TLTW&TW on BBC?
Didn't watch on the BBC, but they came to the U.S. as Wonderworks episodes. I
loved that show!
XANTH!!! I love those! And also Anthony's Phaze books.
Oh, and I used to read books by Enid Blyghton every time we visited a country that had them (England, Wales, Australia). A bit harder to get them in the States.
Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie! Definitely! Still love mysteries! Favorite current mystery writer is Diane Mott Davidson. Yummy recipes are a bonus!
My favorite Pern book is also my first -- which was
Harper Hall -- my mom left it lying around.
And I have a whole stack of Pern 'zines.
How did I foget Madeline L'Engle?!
Wrinkle in Time was probably my first real SF. And her non-SF books are also amazing!
A Ring of Endless Light is actually one of the Austins books, I believe, Pam. I love those, and the two
Camilla books.
The Westing Game! Pam, Jill, I had forgotten that book! It was GREAT!
Oh, and books by E.L. Konigsburg!
Mixed up Files...,
Scarlet and Miniver,
Jennifer, Hecate...,
Rats of NIMH!
/me is reveling in memories of all these wonderful books
