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Realistically, I have no idea. I started acquiring paperback books fairly early, but many were movie tie-ins and did I even begin reading the more serious ones then? Perhaps not. And I'm compelled, in reading a few other posts, to think that my mom's copy of
Gone With the Wind or a few of my parents' Readers Digest Condensed books were indeed among the first that I seriously picked up and read straight through. My own paperback of
To Kill a Mockingbird would have been a fairly early read, too.
(Interesting how those of us of a certain age have certain titles in common, ain't it?)
I'm also trying to remember what the first "adult" books were that we were exposed to in school. I know that as of sixth grade, we were still in the young adult books (a favorite was
The Lion's Paw), but the junior high grades are kind of a blank. Our high school English teachers definitely got us into some classics.
