Hi all! This is a follow-up to this week’s CONTEST MONDAY, in which I asked what was the first book you remember loving. Several people asked afterward for a list of the results. So here they are, along with my first favorites.

The first book I remember loving that was read to me was “Old Hasdrubel and the Pirates.” I mean pirates, treasure, and a guy dressed up in an alligator skin saving the maiden who was tied to a tree? What more could you ask for?

And the first book I remember loving that I read myself was Pippi Longstocking. Oh, how I wanted to be Pippi and have her absolute freedom and independence. (And hair. And horse. And house. I wanted all of it!)

So what was the top choice?

But just one point beneath them was:

Check out all of the answers left on FB and Twitter. There are a lot of classics and some surprises!

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Tess of the D’urbervilles, by Thomas Hardy
Miles to go, by Miley Cyrus
Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
Hop on Pop, by Dr Seuss
The Secret Garden, (4 votes)
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
The Babysitters’ Club series (4 votes)
Fly Away Peter, by David Malouf
Matilda, by Roald Dahl (2 votes)
Harry Potter (13 votes)
Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
A book of letters that the reader’s grandfather wrote her grandfather while he was away at war. (sigh!)
Twilight (12 votes)
Aztec by Gary Jennings
Breaking Dawn
The Tales of Peter Rabbit
Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
City of Bones, by Cassandra Clare
The Fever series, by Karen Marie Moning
Super Fudge by Judy Blume
Moby Dick & collection of Jules Verne lesser known stories
Othello, by Shakespeare
Key of Light, by Norah Roberts
Tomorrow When the War Began, by John Marsden
The Worst Witch
The Magic Faraway Tree series, by Enid Blyton (4 votes)
Mio my Mio, by Astrid Lindgren
The Power of One, by Bryce Courtenay
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, by Eleanor Coerr
The Old Man And The Sea, by Ernest Hemingway
The Monster at the end of this book, starring Grover
Battle Royale, by Koushun Takami
Iron King, by Julie Kagawa (2 votes)
Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, by Roald Dahl (2 votes)
Keeper, by Mal Peet
Charlotte’s Web (2 votes)
Alice in Wonderland (2 votes)
Anne of Green Gables (3 votes)
When Ghosts Speak, by Mary Ann Winkowski
The Devil Rides, by Dennis Wheatley
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (5 votes)
Careless Whispers (A Sweet Dreams book, no. 216)
Way of the Peaceful Warrior, by Dan Millman
Die For Me (3 votes. ah, flattery)
The Thief Lord, by Cornelia Funke
A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L’Engle (2 votes)
The Eleventh Hour
Guitar Girl, by Sarra Manning
The Stars are Upside Down, by Gabriel Alington
Avi The Good Dog
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, by C.S. Lewis (2 votes)
The Nancy Drew mysteries (2 votes)
The Wicked Lovely series, by Melissa Marr
The Little Creature series
If You Loved Me by Marilyn Reynolds
The Pokey Little Puppy
The Series of Unfortunate Events, by Lemony Snickett
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lingrin
This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen
Gone with the Wind
R.L. Stine’s books
The Little House on the Prairie series, by Laura Ingalls Wilder (2 votes)
The Giving Tree by Shel Sliverstein (3 votes)
Vampire Academy, by Richelle Mead
The Outcast, by Louise Cooper
Summer of My German Soldier
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
The Tiger Who Came for Tea
A Summer to Die
The Brothers Lionheart
The Lord of the Rings
Ella Enchanted (2 votes)
The Bearenstein Bears (2 votes)
The Replacement, by Brenna Yovanoff
Hamlet by Shakespeare
Never Spit on Your Shoes by Denys Cazet
The Diary of Anne Frank
The Outsiders by S.E Hinton
Dragon Rider By Cornelia Funke
The Land of the Unicorns by Bruce Coville
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
Vampire Diaries
The original Winnie the Pooh series
The Count Of Monte Cristo
Red Riding Hood Puffin Books Edition
The Magicians’ Guild by trudi canavan
Blister Lamb by Ethel Barrett
Georges Marvelous Medicine by Roald Dahl
She’s Come Undone by Waly Lamb
The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
The Foot Book by Dr. Seuss
Start Girl by Jerry Spinelli
Peter Pan and Wendy
I love you this much
Tubby and the Lantern by Al Perkins
The Velveteen Rabbit
Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish
Angus, Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging
The Mediator Series by Meg Cabot
Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis
The Witches by Roald Dahl
Emily of New Moon
Dragonsong by Anne McCaffrey
Clifford the Big Red Dog
The Last Unicorn
THE GOLDEN COMPASS by Phillip Pullman
The Percy Jackson Books
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Harriet the Spy
Battle Royale