Top Ten Tuesday: 9 Books I Wish I'd Read As A Child

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and The Bookish and currently hosted by Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl.

Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Books I Wish I'd Read As A Child

 This week's TTT is all about books we wish we'd read as a child/preteen/teen (I'm bending things a little). Most of these I honestly didn't read at the time because I read mostly YA Contemporary novels as a preteen/teen. I don't think I started reading fantasy until whichever year A Court of Mist and Fury came out... and by then I was in my 20s. So without further delay...

1.The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

I know everyone loves these books and they came out when I was in the 7th grade... but at the time I was more interested in reading about romance and boys. haha.

2. A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L'Engle

 I think a teacher tried to read this to the class once, I just didn't pay too much attention to it. 

3. Artemis Foul by Eoin Colfer

4. Eragon by Christopher Paolini 

I never liked books narrated by male characters when I was younger. Most of the time I still don't. 

5. Coraline by Neil Gaiman

6.The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

I saw a lot of people reading these when I was in elementary/middle school but it never appealed to me.

7. I Know What You Did Last Summer by Lois Duncan

You know, I love the movie adaptation but I never got around to reading the book. I have read other books by Lois Duncan though and enjoyed them. 

8. Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead

I think the first one of these came out around the same time as the first Twilight book but for some reason I never picked up on it.

9. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz

These were popular when I was in elementary school but I was a total scaredy cat.

What books were popular when you were a kid that you skipped or missed out on?
In my defense, I read the major ones that were popular as I was growing up... Harry Potter, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Twilight, all of those terribly depressing books where the dog or the best friend dies that school make required reading, the middle grade books meant to teach about the holocaust... the ones listed above were just ones I either was scared to read (I Know What You Did Last Summer, Coraline, Scary Stories) or didn't like the genre of when I was younger.  
Let me know  in the comments & drop me a link to your TTT!

Happy Reading Bookdragons!