I read a lot from 2016-2021. Then I stopped reading in 2023.
I started reading during the final year of my primary school when I transferred to SMIC International school, that was the best year in my life so far. During my middle school years, I was in a class heavily specialized in math competition with huge gender imbalance, and there weren't enough extracurricular activities. I did not have a mobile phone until just after graduation. I literally had a second childhood from reading. See this post in 2018: My Journey in Reading, it roughly started with Junie B (Autumn) -> Ready Freddy -> Magic Tree House (Winter, Spring) -> BSC/2 Narnia (Spring) -> A to Z/Nancy Drew/Martin(other novels) (Summer), then I entered middle school. I read 366 books total in 2016, then Barbara Park(other novels) -> Harry Potter -> Percy Jackson -> Other Fantasies in 2017, then Blume in 2018, then it became more diversified. I made countless visits to Shanghai foreign language bookstore, knowing each section of each floor. I frequently went on Goodreads and FantasticFiction. When I traveled to America or UK, Barnes & Nobles and Waterstones and other bookstores were my favorite spots. English books were a world I inhabited, but I was an introvert and there was no clubs in my school, nobody to discuss English books with. I did not read many hard classics though. I read far more English than Chinese. I use English primarily for my blogs and journals (over 200k words now) I use English as the primary language and think in English for many years despite living in China. When I traveled to the US, I did not feel any language barriers at all.
My Bookshelf
I read every book here. There are many other books in my house that I did not read, or books that I read but borrowed from a library or thrown away.
Grid 1
Aesop
Aesop's Fables
Barrie
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens and Peter and Wendy
Baum
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Blume
Fudge Series (5)
Going, going, gone
Friend or Fiend
Then Again, Maybe I Won't
It's Not the End of the World
Just as Long as We're Together
Here's to You, Rachel Robinson
In the Unlikely Event
Forever
Bond
A Bear Called Paddington
Paddington's Guide to London
Brown
Flat Stanley (4)
Grid 2
Chew
No Such Thing as a Witch
Christie
And Then There Were None
Cleary
Ramona's World
Collins
The Hunger Games
Catching Fire
Dahl
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
Going Solo
The BFG
Danny the Champion of the World
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Boy
Matilda
The Magic Finger
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Esio Trot
The Twits
George's Marvelous Medicine
The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me
Defoe
Robinson Crusoe
Dessen
Along for the Ride
DiCamillo
The Tiger Rising
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
Dickens
A Christmas Carol
Gilbert
Eat Pray Love
Green
The Fault in Our Stars
Looking for Alaska
Le Guin
The Wizard of Earthsea
Haddon
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea
A Farewell to Arms
Keene
Nancy Drew: Girl Detective (6)
Nancy Drew Mystery Stories (2)
Nancy Drew Diaries (1)
Kinney
Diary of a Wimpy Kid (7)
Klein
Ready Freddy (27)*
Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird
Lewis
The Chronicles of Narnia (7)
Grid 3
London
The Call of the Wild
Lowry
Number the Stars
The Giver
Martin
The Doll People (3)
Main Street (5)*
A Dog's Life
On Christmas Eve
Here Today
Everything for a Dog
Better to Wish
Because of Shoe and Other Dog Stories
Ten Rules for Living with My Sister
Ten Good and Bad Things About My Life (So Far)
Rain Reign
Meyer
Twilight (4)*
O'Brien
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
Osborne
Magic Tree House (56)*
Magic Tree House Super Edition (1)
Magic Tree House Merlin Missions (1)
Palacio
Auggie & Me: Three Wonder Stories
Wonder
Park
Skinnybones
Almost Starring Skinnybones
Rosie Swanson: Fourth-Grade Geek for President
My Mother Got Married (And Other Disasters)
Don't Make Me Smile
The Kid in the Red Jacket
Mick Harte Was Here
Junie B. Jones (26)
Junie B. Jones: These Puzzles Hurt My Brain!
Junie B.'s Essential Survival Guide to School
Riordan
Percy Jackson & the Olympians (5)
Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard: The Sword of Summer
