The hobbit. Hands down. First actual pleasure book I read that wasn't involved with school.

Slaughterhouse-Five

Atlas Shrugged I was also 19

Bunnicula by James & Deborah Howe. I was in second grade and got it as a birthday gift. Loved it so much I convinced my teacher to add it to the curriculum...which happened again in AP English junior year of high school with Chuck Palahniuk's Invisible Monsters.... 😂 https://image.nostr.build/93...

Gold Steps, Stones Steps by Paul Margulies. It's a childrens' book, it was one of the very first I ever checked out with my very own library card. I loved the book. The illustrations were phenomenal. I was 6? By the time I was 10, I had The Great Gatsby, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, A...