This requires thinking back half a century. Maybe "Tom Sawyer".

The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe.then the whole Narnia sarga. That was a long time ago

Watership Down, Where the red fern grows, God bless you Mrs Rosewater, A brief history of time.

I don't remember the exact first book that turned me on, really. I was 6 when I started reading non-stop, I swallowed the books that I could get my hands on. Home situation wasn't the best, and books were my escape. They still are to this day. But for me, I am pretty sure it was a collection of fairy tales.

I don't remember a specific book, anything by Stephen King.

When I was 7 I got bored with the hoard of Dr. Suess books we had, so I sat down and decided to read the dictionary from cover to cover. After that around 5th grade or so I started reading Shakespeare, of course not really understanding what I was reading, but it got me into reading literature. Here recently even though he's a YA author, his books are really well written, but I've become a huge fan of John Green. If you're looking for more adult humor with a hint of mystery I would suggest to you the John Dies at the End series by David Wong.

This is terrible, but here it is. The Mad Magazine. I loved drawing the pictures and reading the stories. I never got that good at drawing. I did get screwed up from reading the magazine.

Kontiki by Thor hyrdohl

Gone with the Wind, I was 9, it was that or one of my Dad's Louie Lamour westerns. I went with the southern belle with issues.

Well, as a child it was Charlotte’s Web.

A Brave New World both fascinated and terrified me.

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

The "How and Why?" Wonder Book of dinosaurs. I've just bought it off eBay for my grandson

I can't remember the title, but it was a collection of SF stories by Isaac Asimov. The stories were short enough to get through but completely fulfilling. Then I started to read his longer stories and I was away

Good topic! I don't read as much these days as I might like, but I think what got me reading in the first place was "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" in the third grade. Its religious imagery was lost on me at the time, but I found the story engaging (and, later, the other books from The Chronicles of Narnia). As I got older, I was captivated by the writings of Mark Twain and Isaac Asimov.