The foundation trilogy! And the “I, robot” novels in smaller part.

I loved how everything Asimov write about had rational explanations, how every action had a cause and a consequence. I also loved the idea that no single person can change the fate of a society, but only big societal movements can determine history. I now find fun how he gives his own counter example in the Mule plot, thus showing that something extraordinary can sometimes happen.

In this thread, I really show my age… Most of the books talked about here came out when I was “too old” for them and I didn’t enjoy them much.

Animorphs rocked my world as a kid. It was a scifi series marketed to children but dealt with really dark topics. The lighter topics were what is family when stuff like divorce and aliens replacing your family members. Then some of the books delved into serious moral questions like, what does it mean to spare a life if that person is at risk of betraying you and your team, to should we drag an unrelated species into our war even if it’s against their values. The whole overall plot follows child soldiers who were unwittingly drafted into a intergalactic war that they cannot tell anyone else about and the trauma that brings about. The series surprisingly didn’t try and lighten the weight of the moral choices presented too much. While the protagonists were always “in the right”, they were constantly forced to cope with the consequences of their choices.

Harry Potter. Practically grew up with the series.

Rincewind was my favorite character. So the Discworld series was my favorite fantasy series. But only books that included and focused on Rincewind. I only started to appreciate the series as a whole when I got older and reread them.

Eragon!

Percy Jackson, Metro, ASOIAF, the TERF's books, The Letter for the King, Dragonrider (Cornelia Funke)...

My Side of the Mountain (https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/41667)

Mid 40s and I still read it at least once a year.

The Hound of the Morrigan by Pat O Shea. Pure elemental Irish fantasy from the 80s. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hounds_of_the_Morrigan

Ghosts Who Went To School, I'm about to buy it now to read it again after 35 yrs.

Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy.

I enjoyed "the trumpet of the swan" the first time I read it, but then I had to read "the elements of style" also by E B White and it made me not like it by association.

And I was voracious for "the box car children", I wanted to be them.

I was a huge fan of the Harry Potter series growing up. Order of the Phoenix was my absolute favourite.

I was big into Artemis Fowl for a while, but sort of fizzled out after the 3rd book.

Was really fun to read them as they came out though!

The Spooksville series, I couldn't wait for the holidays to come around so I could buy myself a new installment.

Sally, one of the characters from it, introduced me to sarcasm, I used to wonder why she spoke like that, since no one I knew used sarcasm at all.

I remember really liking a book called The Alchymists Cat, which I had no idea was part of a series lol. Also I have no idea if it holds up today or not, but as a kid I was all over that.