| My Side of the Mountain was one my mom got me that has really stuck with me. About a boy running away from home and living in a tree, so good -> https://shepherd.com/book/my-side-of-the-mountain I loved Robin Hood, and at my local library, I found this amazing book called Bows Against the Barons by Geoffrey Trease. I highly recommend it as I loved it -> https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1719399.Bows_Against_the... Rifles for Watie was another one a librarian recommended me and I read in grade school and loved -> https://shepherd.com/book/rifles-for-watie The classic Dragonlance Chronicles were amazing:
https://www.amazon.com/Vol-1-3-Dragonlance-Chronicles-Set/dp... I loved the Box Car Children, mostly book #1, but the rest were good. Hardy Boys was also a series I adored, but I am not sure how they have aged. My son is 7 and he is reading Harry Potter and just loving it. So I highly recommend that one. I didn't read it until college and it is one of my favorite series. She writes incredible characters and weaves them together so perfectly. As I got to my teenage years...
- Dirk Pitt's adventure books kept me reading all day.
- Snow Crash really blew my mind.
- Catch 22 stood out fo rme.
- Atlas Shrugged and all of her books I liked (but not for the weird cult thing.
- Classic Tom Clancy
- Upton Sinclair The Jungle - Seismic impact on my view of the world.
- Native Son in high school is something I think about to this day and bothers me.
- From The Holy Mountain - Huge influence on me in my early 20s and where I ended up. |