Do you remember the first novel you ever read?

Question

the novel could be either be fiction or non-fiction.

My first novel was "Small town Girls" by Pamela Wallace.

for fiction that includes: scifi, fantasy, comdey, drama, romances, horror, suspense/thriller, mysteries

Answer 1

Five go on a camp by enid blyton

Answer 2

Junie B. Jones and the Yucky Blucky Fruitcake by Barbara Park. I don't know if that's considered a novel, but that's the first book with more words than pictures I rememeber reading.

Answer 3

The first (real) novel I read was The Outsiders by S.E Hinton. Fiction, and still one of my favorites today.

If you count smaller children's novels like 'The Babysitters Club' and "Sweet Valley High', then I have no idea... I've read too many books to remember.

Answer 4

How well I remember. Your question calls to mind one of my favorite Christmas memories.

I was in the third grade. My mother was hospitalized, not expected to live. I was staying with relatives while my father worked away from home in order to cover the large, unexpected medical expenses. But he kept me for a week at Christmas time. He took me to the city, to visit my mother in the hospital and to choose my Christmas presents (my first year without Santa Claus). I was confused or downhearted, so I simply browsed all afternoon and could choose nothing.

Finally, my dad had to select something without my asking. One of the gifts (the only one I remember) was a book. He said he meant to give me The Three Musketeers, but instead when I opened the package it was a western by Will James called The Three Mustangeers. My father loved westerns, so I've always suspected his mistake was actually an unconscous selection on his part.

The story, written in a dialect that was difficult for me to read, told of three young men who were rustlers. They tried to go straight, earning their living by catching and "breaking" (taming) wild mustangs on the western plains. They made it for a while, but eventually turned back to their outlaw ways.

It was a serious book for me to be reading at a serious time in my life. I read it slowly and thoughtfully, knowing it probably would not have a happy ending. (It didn't.) The parts that I read each day, my father would read that night. We would talk about it together. It was probably the closest I ever was to my father. We buried our own loneliness and concerns in our mutual concern for these "mustangeers."

I have repressed most of my memories from those unhappy two years of my childhood, but that Christmas gift I shall never forget.

(And, by the way, my mother recovered and lived to be 83. During all my young years, my father read the same books I was reading, after I was asleep at night. But none ever meant as much to me as The Three Mustangeers.)

Answer 5

"Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens.....actually I had to read it simply because the then school authorities made it compulsory to our class....though it was an abridged version at that time; but still the plot grabs me like anything....and later when I entered the college life, I got the novel in its original form which turned as unforgettable experience of sheer joy in reading.

Answer 6

The very first was Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. It was followed almost immediately by Hucklelberry Finn.

Answer 7

Five on Kirrin Island
one of the famous five books by Enid Blyton!!!!

Answer 8

'The Three Fat Men' by Olesha
I was 4 years old and much impressed. By then I'd only read short stories and fairy-tales.

Answer 9

when I was in 4th grade someone called me stupid so I read PT109 by Robert Donovan about the heroics of John F. Kennedy in WW2. for a book report so no one could call me stupid anymore.
That was the 1st of the hundreds of wonderful stories I have read throughout my life.
I think back now and i wonder if that kid never called me stupid...would I ever have picked up that book and fell in love with reading?
I wish I could thank him for calling me stupid.
;-)

Answer 10

Matilda by Roald Dahl. I saw the movie first.