Now some people have been reading ever since they were wee people crawling around on the floor. But some of us (ahem, like myself) weren’t the best readers until later in life. I’m asking you to tell me what book got you into reading, if you weren’t one of those people reading since (basically) birth.

What book got me into reading?

I was a really bad reader until high school (16-17 years old). As a kid, I read Harry Potter and maybe one Goosebumps book and that was it. My parents couldn’t get me to read anything else AT ALL.

Finally, when I was older, I decided I wanted to be a reader (yes, I just decided it was something I wanted to be). So I picked up The Odyssey by Homer and A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess and those were my first two books I read officially as a self-proclaimed reader! I vividly remember walking around my high school campus with A Clockwork Orange and my little printed-from-the-internet dictionary for that book (if you haven’t read it, there are a lot of slang words made up by Burgess used in the novel, and you can’t actually comprehend the book well without knowing what the words mean). Looking back, it seems like those were quite ambitious reads for my first two? Nowadays I would have shoved Twilight or something like that at myself.

So now tell me your story about getting into books! I’d love to hear. 

If you can’t really remember specifically what book got you into reading, can you remember one of the first books you read when you became a “reader”? Or have you been reading since forever?