How did you become a bookworm?

Tell us how you got into reading, what or who inspired you. Was it a book you read one day, a mentor, teacher? etc...

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Answers363

Readers145

Details	Rating	Readers Count
The big big big book of Tashi Anna Fienberg	5	1 read
The Witching Hour Anne Rice	3.68	123 reads
Homeland R. A. Salvatore	3.93	224 reads
Eleanor: Crown Jewel of Aquitaine, France, 1136 Kristiana Gregory	3.5	11 reads
Wizard's First Rule Terry Goodkind	3.69	400 reads
The Stone Prince Gena Showalter	3.33	5 reads
The Complete Maus Art Spiegelman	4.66	514 reads
Dragonflight Anne McCaffrey	3.8	253 reads
Harriet the Spy Louise Fitzhugh	3.94	90 reads
First Term at Malory Towers Enid Blyton	4.09	22 reads
Victoria: May Blossom of Britannia, England, 1829 Anna Kirwan	3	6 reads
The Thief Lord Cornelia Funke	4.01	137 reads
The wizard of Oz L. Frank Baum	3.88	18 reads
In the Hand of the Goddess Tamora Pierce	4.11	170 reads
A Pocket for Corduroy Don Freeman	4.3	27 reads
Norwegian Wood Haruki Murakami Jay Rubin	3.91	927 reads
Junie B. Jones Collection Barbara Park	3.7	30 reads
Red Rising Pierce Brown	4.14	1,604 reads
Ubik Philip K. Dick	3.99	351 reads
The Return of the King J.R.R. Tolkien	4.57	1,199 reads
Pippi Longstocking Astrid Lindgren Florence Lamborn (Translator)	4.01	175 reads
The Knife of Never Letting Go Patrick Ness	3.9	274 reads
The Quest of Ewilan, Vol. 1 The Quest of Ewilan, Vol. 1 Lylian	3	1 read
The Redemption of Althalus Leigh Eddings David Eddings	3.83	46 reads
Big Nate Goes for Broke Lincoln Peirce	4.25	7 reads
Il rumore dei tuoi passi Valentina D'Urbano	4.5	2 reads
The Boxcar Children Gertrude Chandler Warner	3.88	126 reads
Better Hate than Never Chloe Liese	3.79	15 reads
The Dancers at the End of Time (Dancers at the End of Time, #1-3) Michael Moorcock	3.56	12 reads
Cleopatra: An Egyptian Princess's Diary, AD 57 Kristiana Gregory	4.35	24 reads
The Shadow Thieves Anne Ursu	3.43	7 reads
Jason and the Golden Fleece Claudia Zeff	5	1 read
Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales: A Selection Hans Christian Andersen L.W. Kingsland (Translator)	4.18	91 reads
They Cage the Animals at Night Jennings Michael Burch	4.25	7 reads
Elizabeth I, red rose of the House of Tudor Kathryn Lasky	3.7	18 reads
The Magician's Nephew C. S. Lewis	3.85	809 reads
Wild Magic Tamora Pierce	4.24	121 reads
The Bungalow Mystery Carolyn Keene	3.35	32 reads
I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You Ally Carter	3.72	131 reads
The Wishing Spell Chris Colfer	4.01	109 reads
Le Feu dans le ciel Anne Robillard	3	15 reads
Sŏndŏk Sheri Holman	2.5	4 reads
Anastasia: The Last Grand Duchess, Russia, 1914 Carolyn Meyer	4.17	25 reads
Pawn of Prophecy David Eddings	3.89	287 reads
Dragon Rider Cornelia Funke	4	17 reads
The Squire's Tale Gerald Morris	4	15 reads
Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh	3.76	101 reads
Hush, Hush Becca Fitzpatrick	3.34	293 reads
Crave	3.4	135 reads
Mistborn: The Final Empire Brandon Sanderson	4.45	2,652 reads
The Tower Treasure Franklin W. Dixon	3.44	48 reads
The Woman Who Rides Like a Man Tamora Pierce	3.96	157 reads
Vampires Don't Wear Polka Dots Debbie Dadey Marcia Thornton Jones	4.25	9 reads
Fun with Dick and Jane Penguin Young Readers	0	1 read
Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy Richard Pevear (Translator) Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)	4	596 reads
Magic by the Lake Edward Eager N.M. Bodecker	4.11	12 reads
Vampire Academy Richelle Mead	3.7	383 reads
Artemis Fowl Eoin Colfer	3.75	658 reads
The Silver Chair C. S. Lewis	3.71	502 reads
Squire, His Knight, and His Lady Gerald Morris	4.3	11 reads
The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien	4.54	1,283 reads
House of Earth and Blood Sarah J. Maas	4.26	654 reads
Silverwing Kenneth Oppel	4.11	25 reads
Flowers in the Attic V. C. Andrews	3.33	41 reads
The Hidden Staircase Carolyn Keene	3.8	52 reads
Tell Me Your Dreams Sidney Sheldon	3.77	34 reads
Sailor Moon, Vol. 6 Naoko Takeuchi	4.25	24 reads
Bridge To Terabithia Katherine Paterson	3.99	433 reads
The Shining Stephen King	4.12	1,346 reads
Night of the Living Dummy R.L. Stine	3.25	69 reads
Quarter Share Nathan Lowell	4.1	52 reads
Kristina Carolyn Meyer	3.75	7 reads
The Blue Sword Robin McKinley	4.02	91 reads
The Search for WondLa Tony DiTerlizzi	3.83	26 reads
A Short History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson	4.23	535 reads
Ready! Set! Read! Mary Pope Osborne	0	0 reads
Dragon Ball, Vol. 1: The Monkey King Akira Toriyama	4.02	56 reads
The Perks of Being a Wallflower Stephen Chbosky	4.06	1,360 reads
Lioness Rampant Tamora Pierce	4.03	150 reads
Storm Front Jim Butcher	3.7	1,043 reads