re: What hooked you on reading & what is the first book you remember reading?

The Hobbit is what hooked me on reading when I was 10. I remember my mom telling me about this book series about magic rings and magic and pure awesomeness then I begged her to go buy me a copy. I devoured that book and Middle-earth is still my favorite book universe. To this day I still read the Lord of the Rings trilogy once every year/year and a half.

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The first book I remember really liking is The Hatchet

But I'm going to be that guy... Harry Potter got me into reading much more regularly.

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I agree with both of these.

I also remember an Animorphs book that I had and a novel called Dragonhome. Story was the world had people with special powers and the main character's power was she could talk to and control animals telepathically. Her brother could control people telepathically.