10 Books I'd Read by Age 10
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By the time I was ten, I'd read comic books, daily strips, encyclopedias, album liner notes and every book on Dinosaurs I could dig up. I'd read about two characters called "See Threepio" and "Artoo Detoo" in paperback long before seeing them in a movie. My first empathetic classroom experience was following along as our teacher read Helen Keller's autobiography. I've lost count of all the books, short stories and abridged Literature I had read in school and on my own but I'll never forget the following ten books.
- Story of My Life (Helen Keller) Non-Fiction
- The Diary of Anne Frank (Frank) Non-Fiction
- Moe Howard and the Three Stooges (Moe Howard) Non-Fiction
- Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (Rudyard Kipling) Fiction
- Doctor No (Ian Fleming) Fiction
- Batman from the 30′s to the 70′s (E. Nelson Bridwell, Bill Finger, Carmine Infantino, Neal Adams)
- The Complete Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (24 Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) Fiction
- Star Wars / Adventures of Luke Skywalker (George Lucas & Alan Dean Foster) Fiction
- Rocky (Sylvester Stallone & Julia Sorel) Fiction
- Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Stevenson) Fiction
* 5 MORE TITLES * for 15 BOOKS I'D READ BY AGE 15:
Animal Farm (George Orwell) Political Satire
From Russia With Love (Ian Fleming) Fiction
The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne) Fiction
The Doors: No One Here Gets Out Alive (Jerry Hopkins) Non-Fiction
Planet of the Apes (Pierre Boulle) Science-Fiction
Posted by Aaron Webster
Writer - Psychological Thriller Novels Set in Britain:- The Blue House, The Actor, Shadowlake, I Never Knew You, A Family by Design.
7 年An impressive list of books for a 10 yr old boy, with some big themes! Although there is no need to understand everything in a book at that age; just getting to grips with the plot and language can be satisfying enough. Nowadays they all want to read Jacqueline Wilson, Michael Morpurgo & David Walliams. I enjoyed your post.
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7 年That's a good list, especially Anne Frank, Kipling, Fleming and Batman. Stories of great heroes. I hope the kids of today are reading about and being inspired by heroes.
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8 年And well by age 15, I'd read three Ian Fleming novels, Animal Farm and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? aka Blade Runner, and the novelizations of First Blood and Raiders of the Lost Ark.