Favorite Book Series as a Teen/Kid

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What book series/books did you read as a kid? It weird to think about even though I'm only 21, but I'm having a hard time recalling just what did I read as a kid, I read so much.

Silverwing Series
I know I read them all, but I've mostly forgotten the names of any of the characters from it, I do however vividly remember reading Darkwing, the last book in the series in 2007, but it was only a prequel. I still remember liking it more than all the other though, since it did take place 65 million years ago and my love of deep time. I remember a bit of Firewing as well, the third book, mostly just imagery though, as it took place in Bat Hell. I don't recall anything about Silverwing and only a little about Sunwing, something about a temple. I heard this book series is actually part of the Canadian education system of require books. Cool, makes sense since Kenneth Oppel is Canadian.

The Rangers Apprentice Series
I remember this one quite well actually because I read them all up to The Emperor of Nihon-Ja in highschool. I never read the Emperor one though because it had just come out and my library didn't have nor would have it for quite some time. I heard two more have come out as well, I might just read all three of them still. I also heard there is probably going to be a movie made about the series, I quite skeptical of the idea, they'll probably get it wrong like so many other children novels to movies in the past. This series is basically a fusion of A Song of Ice and Fire and The Lord of the Rings. They were a dark book series, but not too adult in nature.

The Airborn series
Another book series by Kenneth Oppel(also Silverwing). If I didn't already know or think about it at that point, this book series actually taught me gender equality. I don't really remember much about this series either besides Cloud Cats and Airships. I do remember Star Climber very well though, it came out it 2008. Part of that book actually explores womens suffrage.

Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Not a surprise really, I think everyone that liked to read this one as well as Harry Potter. I think I started reading these when the 4th one came out in 2008. I enjoyed them, the movie adaptation was garbage though.

Harry Potter
Of course, I actually can't remember when I started reading these, Probably 2001 actually, right after the first movie came out. My brother had all the books up to the goblet of fire so I read those. Then I think I went out and read the rest as they came out on my own.

Animorphs
I read some if not all of them? All I remember is one of them was trapped in the morph of a hawk.

The Hatchet Books
I love the outdoors these days and I wont deny these books did have something to do with it

The Inheritance Cycle
A book series I'm just angry at now, I loved them growing up, it's basically just Star Wars in a Lord of the Rings universe. Movie was terrible.

I also read a bunch of unrelated books by Nancy Farmer:
The Eye, the Ear, and the Arm
The House of the Scorpion
The Sea of Trolls

I heard The House of the Scorpion got a sequel, I'm really interested in this actually because this book was actually really dark. The Sea of Troll apparently is a series now with two sequels, I might read them.

I know I read Holes, I just don't remember much, most of my memory of it is obscured by the film.

The White Fox Chronicles, just found out Gary Paulsen wrote this one to, must have been why I read it.

The Transall Saga
Just found out the name of this book, which I could vividly remember, but for the life of me couldn't recall the name of, turns out Paulsen wrote that one to.
I think I should read more books by Gary Paulsen.

The Road, I read this one at some point before the 2009 nine film adaptation, which was superbly done. Not a children book, glad I read it so young though.

I know I read some Goosebumps book, but I can't recall anything specific.

To Kill a Mocking Bird, a book we had to read, but I loved it.

Great Expectations, another book we had to read, I remember not being able to read it though, so I had to listen to it.

Of Mice and Men, another book we had to read but I liked it.

The Metamorphosis, the last book I remember having to read, read it my senior year of high school actually. Hit me hard, it's about a young man who turns into a cockroach and is abandoned by his family.

I listened to a couple of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy books as well, would just have them playing on my cassette player I had and fall asleep listening to them. I'd get them from the public library and just rotate through them or renew the set of tapes I had.

Some fantasy book series that I can't even recall the name of. It had a vertical column of different colored jewel on the binding. I recall nothing else about it, does anybody remember what it was called?

I've probably read some other books, but I can't remember anything else right now.

Hey Feyokien.

When I was young, I read the Redwall series and The Cat Who books.

Cool, I read the first Redwall book as well, I'd forgotten about it. It's coming back to me now sort of, Mathias the rodent and his quest for the legendary Sword and Shield so he could fight the snake. I think we had to read it in middle school if I recall correctly, I wanted to read the whole series afterwards, but the library didn't have all the sequels including the second book so I never did. I've never heard of "The Cat Who" series, I'll have to read up on it.

Honestly, I don't remember much about Redwall...just that the author always had descriptive paragraphs about the food they ate lol. The Cat Who books are great for those who are interested in detective/mystery type genres.

Goosebumps.

I still have the first original 50 books, all in perfect condition.

Now that is a feat

I've read a bunch of series, but the only ones I can recall right now are below.

Goosebumps
Fear Street
Cirque du Freak: The Saga of Darren Shan
St. Clare's
Shopaholic
Temperance Brennan series
Earth's Children

......I didn't put that there?

Redwall
Harry Potter (I read the last book in 2 long days)
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen
Narnia (all 7)
LOTR and The Hobbit
Artemis Fowl (and then The Supernaturalists)
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
His Dark Materials

[Favourites]
One series/trilogy I really like were the Garth Nix Old Kingdom books.
Mortal Engines (I realise now this may fall in to the modern definition of steampunk, maybe not)
Discworld

There are probably loads I can't recall quite now. And thank you, thank you very much indeed. Now I've going to have to go back and read all of these again.

Impressive list , was wondering if this thread was going to actually take off. I think I read the Deathly Hollows in 2 days as well. Something that has always bothered me about Harry Potter though is the huge public hype. Harry in a sense is kind of like one of us, they love him, but we're even monsters to some people. The neglected unpopular child who goes to a magical location where he can converse with people of his own kind, sound familiar
If you're really up to the challenge and a book full of big words, I suggest the Silmarillion or at least the Children of Hurin. They're part of Tolkiens extended universe, hard to read, but if you can keep track of all the names and locations then they become a truly rich reading experience.
That reminds me I can add another one to my list

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Final Battle
For some reason I only ever read this one, I think I actually own all 7, I'll have to fetch them next time I return home and read them all properly. I think I'll rent those audiotapes from the library again this Christmas break and listen to hitch hikers again, reading would be fine, but I've got the narrators voice stuck in my head now and that's how the characters sound to me.

Oh yes, I also read very much since I was a child. I am 21, too now. It's funny that I even sometimes go to the library, find a book, think: „Oh, that sounds interesting" and then find out that I have already read it a while ago.


I liked that, too. I started to read the books after I had watched the movie. After that I prefered the books to the movie. I agree with you that it was garbage. I have finally seen the second movie this year and I think it is even worse than the first one.


I know I started with Harry Potter in 2001 because my aunt gave the first book to me as a birthday present in that year. Over the years I got all the other books either as a present or I bought them myself.


I read only a few of them because I never bought one of the books of the series, but just read those from the library in my town. There were only about five of them. I don't know how many books the series actually has, but it is definitively much more than that. I remember that the boy who is a hawk is called Tobias. Furthermore there was an alien, called Ax. Okay, that's all I still know.


I totally agree with you. I really liked it, but then my mind changed. I read the last book only to complete the series and didn't like it. I have only read that one once. I have said that about the Star Wars and Lord of the Rings universe, too. I think the funny thing was that I read those books before I have seen Star Wars. When I had seen it I thought: "That's a lot like the Inheritance Cycle. But Star Wars is older, so it's just the same, it's like the author just stole it and put it into a Lord of the Rings universe." Then I really started to become angry at it.


I read some of them, too.


I have only read one book of that series, but don't even remember the title.


I read a few of the Fear Street books and still like the Temperance Brennan series.


That reminds me that I have still not read all of the books about Artemis Fowl, but wanted to do it for a while. But I have read LOTR, The Hobbit and His Dark Materials. I especially liked His Dark Materials.

Furthermore I read and liked or still like the following books and series that weren't already mentioned:
- The Famous Five series by Enid Blyton
- The Three Investigators (German authors added more stories over the years after the original books were published in Germany and became popular. There are a lot of books now and I have read many of them. It was one of my favourite series over many years.)
- Bille & Zottel (the only books that included a lot about horses and riding that I liked)
- The Wave Walkers and the Wolkenvolk (cloud people; haven't found an official english translation and don't know if it was published in English) trilogies by Kai Meyer
- various books by Cornelia Funke

Okay, that's a lot, and I probably don't even remember everything.


Yes, I think I have to do that, too.

Your welcome

I wish I'd read the Hobbit and LOTR as a kid, I didn't actually get around to doing that till I was 19. Well technically I heard an abridged version of LOTR, my father read them to my brother and I when we were pretty young when the movies came out.
You mentioned Cornelia Funke and that got my brain juices flowing and I just remembered something else

I read the Inkheart Trilogy, good good books, don't know how I forgot about them. I do want to read those again at some point.

chronicles of chrestomanci
castle in the sky
eragon series
hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
redwall
all of the artemis fowl books
inkheart trilogy
basically everything ever written by diana wynne jones
and harry potter of course

i still love a lot of these

Yes! yes! I LOVE Diana Wynne Jones [especially Fire and Hemlock, Dogsbody, Hexwood, the Howl trilogy, The Darklord of Derkholm and Year of The Griffin]! !!
I still read Harry Potter and the Silverwing series and LOTR! The ending of Firewing made me cry...
Oh, and I read The Infernal Devices as well, along with a truly massive list that encompasses most of the books on my shelf!
By the way, has anyone read Seraphina and Shadow Scale? They're great books about dragons.

I remember the ending of Firewing now, yeah it made me cry too.

Another book for my list:

The City of Ember, good book.

Poul Anderson's The Last Viking trilogy.