[msaerfen]

Enid Blyton of course, Anne of Green Gables, What Katy Did, Chronicles of Narnia. As a teenager Stephen King, James Herbert, anything a bit scary. I've always had to have a book to read, my mum liked Agatha Christie so I read all those. Mandingo and Drum- I forget the author. I cant understand how my daughter isnt that interested in books, I used to spend hours reading. Its a shame,I think shes really missing out.

[Lanfear]

My mother is an avid reader, and passed her love for books onto me.

As a young child, I read Roald Dahl (The Witches was my favourite and used to scare me to death).

From ten to fifteen I was reading Virginia Andrews, Stephen King, teen romance fiction, Christopher Pike (teen horror with a thick streak of philosophy) and anything with vampires in it. Strangely, though, I couldn't get through Interview with a Vampire, though I was obsessed with Vampires as a teen. I do love Anne Rice's Mayfair Witches trilogy though - beautiful!

[Lanfear]

Oh, and The Silver Brumby series, Judy Blume, and the Faraway Tree. I also read a lot of Hans Cristian Anderson, which I didn't enjoy as much.

I disliked most of the classics as a child, but have grown to love some of them now.

[Sonja Ravenscroft]

My first memory of a "series" was the Fighting Fantasy series by Jackson and Livingstone-where you pencil dice and "gamed" your way through a story.

Also "The Hardy Boys" was a big series I picked up and avidly read

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[The Void]

Oh my...
I picked fiction for the first time when I was in my second year college. I couldn't remember any school assignment to read any book as a whole, usually just some portion of it, five pages at most. Or just to pick a short story in local magazine then write something about it to submitted to the teacher. I doubt the teacher read most of the students' submission.

Edit: If you consider second year college as my childhood fiction reading stage, it would be Robin Hobb's Farseer Triligy.

[E. S. Lark]

My exposure began with C. S. Lewis and then grew into Mercedes Lackey, Andre Norton, Piers Anthony and R. A. Salvatore from my teens up until now. Sadly, I have very little time to read these days (not as much as I'd like) and am sure I've missed some of the newer authors.

[chongjasmine]

For me, as a child, I mainly read Enid Blyton and Roald Dahl books.

When I was a teenager, I read Hardy Boys and Oliver Twist and R.L Stine and Christopher Pike.