What was the first novel you read?

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I think the first I read was Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth.
 
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I must have read it about 20 times when I was a kid...

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Still reading it. I enjoy the sarcasm.

Dark Traveller said:
I actually think one of my first books might have been a Catherine Cookson one! My Mam was Cookson fan when I was younger, she had nearly all of them in paperback, I’ve got a vague recollection of sitting with her as I tried to read one.

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I enjoyed the Time Traveler's Wife - I like the author's concept about time travel.
 
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Jane Eyre

Though I also read an Agatha Christie, cards on the table at a similar time
 
Only read comics and sports reports as a kid.

First book was Animal Farm, part of school curriculum.
First book I read by choice was A Clockwork Orange
Currently reading Alistair Darling's Back From The Brink.
 
FC United of Manchester said:
As a nipper I Was hooked on Enid Blyton's 'Famous Five' books so probably one of those but the first serious novel I read was Robert Tressel's 'Ragged Trousered Philanthropist' which my old man got me for my 10th birthday (and I still have it). It was a right of passage in our family, you were taught socialism at an early age :lol:
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Progressed to the Famous 5 from the Secret 7 - enjoyed both sets as a kid.

AB22 Easy Tiger said:
You've got me racking my remaining brain cell now. Where did that come from?
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Out of the blue.
 
riffraff said:
First non bairns one I remember was The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler on holiday from a very early 70s Scarborough b&b library bookcase on the stairs for rained on holiday makers. I’ve loved yer cliched PI novel ever since. Reading a James Crumley atm actually.
Chandler, Cain, Hamnett, Ross Macdonald, John D MacDonald, Crumley, Estleman, Pelecanos etc etc. Love em. I can nivver remember the names of the two modern LA based PI novelists churning em out Atm though, Harry Bosch and Elvis Cole are their private dicks though. Gunter Thingy the 1930s and onwards Berlin PI too. The NI fellers good anarl.
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Harry Bosch novels written by Michael Connelly; Elvis Cole novels written by Robert Crais, Bernie Gunther novels by Phillip Kerr - all top notch stuff. Id throw in The Robert B Parker novels - Spenser, Jesse Stone and Sunny Randall - and the excellent John Connolly books about the haunted Charlie Parker.

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I read all of these plus the Leo Kessler ones about the SS battalion Wotan - think my Dad was a closet Nazi :eek:
 
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Just William was my hero and I kind of followed in his footsteps.
 
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