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Your first book that made you read

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We've all read books. Most of us were reading since our childhood. But there's always that one book which made us fall in love with reading.
So, what's that one book that made you want to explore more possibilities?
For me, it was Twilight by Stephenie Meyer. That book blew my thirteen year old mind.
Tell me what book made you want to explore. I want to try reading more books that made people fall in love with reading.
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It's definitely Harry Potter for me. It came at exactly the right name. We both had the same last name. It was a match made in heaven. Read all of those books voraciously while slowly branching out as well.
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That's hard. I started reading when I was really young, but if I have to choose an inflection point I'll say Tirya Series by Alain Surget and The Roman Mysteries by Caroline Lawrence. I read them when I was seven years old and make me love reading.
And if we talk about when I was a little older, without a doubt it'll be Harry Potter and Percy Jackson. From that moment I read everything that I can.
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I think it's Harry Potter for me.
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The Famous Five books by Enid Blyton are the ones that set me off, but it was when my mum convinced me to read Harry Potter that I really started devouring books.
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For me, it was La Emperatriz de los Etéreos by Laura Gallego García. I remember this was the first book I read that wasn't for an assignment. It was really wonderful for little old me.
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I think I've always been a reader. I remember reading a lot short stories from my workbooks as a kid, but the first book that I bought was Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. It was for a book review project for school, but since then, I wanted to get more books and read more.
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

And then after I finished all seven parts. I stopped reading for some years.

Then the Paulo Coelho books made me start all over again. Never stopped since.
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Twilight. My opinions over the years have changed about the book though
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I think 'Fault in Our Stars by John Green' or 'The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak' was the first book that made me read.
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Harry Potter, but then I read The Chronicles of Narnia and Twilight as well. There was no stopping after that.
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