Formative Reads

Updated 7 days ago
46 Books

Capturing titles I recall from my youth that stuck with me. Not necessarily indicative of what I would read today, but the path was paved here. Ordered roughly by when I would have read it.

Position	Details	Rating	Readers Count
#1	Goodnight Moon Margaret Wise Brown	4.1	259 reads
#2	Corduroy Don Freeman	4.28	134 reads
#3	Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Bill Martin Jr. John Archambault	4.04	81 reads
#4	The Very Hungry Caterpillar Eric Carle	4.19	300 reads
#5	Green Eggs and Ham Dr. Seuss	4.13	595 reads
#6	The Monster at the End of This Book Jon Stone	4.45	118 reads
#7	Caps for Sale Esphyr Slobodkina	3.86	49 reads
#8	The Whingdingdilly Bill Peet	4	1 read
#9	Frog and Toad Are Friends Arnold Lobel	0	5 reads
#10	The Official Pokémon Handbook Maria S. Barbo	5	1 read
#11	The BFG Roald Dahl	4.13	473 reads
#12	Charlie and The Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl	4.05	842 reads
#13	Sideways Stories from Wayside School Louis Sachar	4.14	140 reads
#14	Mystery of the Hidden Book Helen Fuller Orton	0	0 reads
#15	Meet the Boxcar Children Gertrude Chandler Warner	3	3 reads
#16	Dinosaurs Before Dark Mary Pope Osborne	3.76	70 reads
#17	Treasure Island Pat Boyette	0	0 reads
#18	The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien	4.29	4,286 reads
#19	Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone J. K. Rowling	4.28	6,443 reads
#20	Shiloh Phyllis Reynolds Naylor	3.56	62 reads
#21	Bridge To Terabithia Katherine Paterson	3.99	448 reads
#22	Hatchet Gary Paulsen	3.64	467 reads
#23	My Side of the Mountain Jean Craighead George	4.05	114 reads
#24	Haunted Ohio: Ghostly Tales from the Buckeye State Chris Woodyard	0	0 reads
#25	Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark: Collected from American Folklore Alvin Schwartz	3.75	120 reads
#26	Holes Louis Sachar	3.97	884 reads
#27	A Wrinkle in Time Madeleine L'Engle	3.76	1,247 reads
#28	House of Danger R.A. Montgomery	2	3 reads
#29	The Lost Years of Merlin T. A. Barron	3.81	42 reads
#30	Mysteries of the Unexplained	5	1 read
#31	Artemis Fowl Eoin Colfer	3.73	803 reads
#32	The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien	4.54	1,385 reads
#33	Airborn Kenneth Oppel	3.95	38 reads
#34	Silverwing Kenneth Oppel	4.15	26 reads
#35	Inkheart Anthea Bell (Translator) Cornelia Funke	3.8	466 reads
#36	Dragon Rider Cornelia Funke	3.88	86 reads
#37	After Francine Prose	4.5	4 reads
#38	Letters from a Nut Ted L. Nancy	3	3 reads
#39	Eragon Christopher Paolini	3.63	1,569 reads
#40	Cirque Du Freak #1: A Living Nightmare Darren Shan	3.25	8 reads
#41	Anthem Ayn Rand	3.48	233 reads
#42	Emails from an asshole John Lindsay	3.8	8 reads
#43	The Perks of Being a Wallflower Stephen Chbosky	4.06	1,451 reads
#44	Gray James Montgomery Pete Wentz	4	5 reads
#45	The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown	3.55	2,190 reads
#46	I Spy: A Book of Picture Riddles Walter Wick Jean Marzollo Carol Devine Carson	5	4 reads