Do you remember the first story you ever read, and the impact it had on you?
Besides stuff for school, the first story I really liked was Little Lord Fauntleroy (by Frances Hodgson Burnett). I remember thinking that a great children's story with some dark themes (of poverty, death, and loss) is possible.
What are your top five books?
- Noli Me Tangere (Jose Rizal)
- Les Miserables (Victor Hugo)
- the Sherlock Holmes series (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
- Ender's Game in its original novella version (Orson Scott Card)
- Little Women (Luisa May Alcott)
I'm currently loving: the Locke Lamora (Gentlemen Bastards) series (Scott Lynch), the Cormoran Strike books ("Robert Galbraith"), Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children series (Ransom Riggs)
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