While we don't all love Valentine's Day, we do love books. So in honor of our lit loves, we thought it time to follow up Our First Book Loves with you and reveal the books you once fell for - and the crushes you can't help coming back to!
My Book Crush: I remember the first time I listened to Dolores Claiborne by Steven King. It's so awesome, and the person who reads it is spot on. I could not get enough. Just as good is Misery. They were my first audiobooks and from then on I was hooked. (Corey)
My Book Crush: When reading Jane Eyre in the middle of the night, I hid in the bathroom so I could read by light. I was at the part where Jane has gone upstairs once and for all to find Grace Poole - stairs are dark, maniacal screaming is heard... I'm lost to the world around me, deeply absorbed in Jane's safety and mystery, when the bathroom door suddenly opens. My screams woke up everyone in the house! My mother stood there in total shock. Pretty funny now, back then it was "you're busted". (Marcia)
My Book Crush: The Tender Bar is a book about a boy growing up who relied on his bartender uncle and the crowd in his bar for the male father figures he didn’t have at home. It was a beautifully told story. I go back to certain passages again and again because it really captured what it felt like to be a kid. (Steve)
My Book Crush: I must have been 14 or 15 when I read Gone with the Wind the first time. I listened to it (via Audible) as an adult with kids...and I just wanted to slap some sense into Scarlett. (Kerry)
My Book Crush: Not my first crush but I remember reading Rosemary's Baby when I was 11 or 12. I could only read it during daylight hours because I was too scared to read it at night. (Ruth)
My Book Crush: Definitely Outlander by Diana Gabaldon.... and the whole series. :-) (Keely)
My Book Crush: The Secret Life of Bees - best, first audio!!! (Mary Jo)
My Book Crush: Haunting, suspenseful, spiritual, tragic and ultimately optimistic, The Last Child reminded me of the The Green Mile by Stephen King. (Narelle)
My Book Crush: Oh! Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, I read it again every year! (Rhonda)
My Book Crush: It took me forever to get into Wuthering Heights, but once I did I was engorged by it. I loved the untamed weather and how it framed the background to the story's turmoil. (Anne)
My Book Crush: I unfortunately wasn't much of a reader as a kid, but I do remember this book and really liking it. I think I read it in grade school. Funny now I love detective stuff of all kinds—I always thought I'd make a good detective! (Cathy)
My Book Crush: Way before I ever fell in love with Harry Potter, I fell in love with Anne of Green Gables. A strong, fiery, determined heroine living in the age before television and Internet. She taught me the pleasures of imagination. (Heather)
My Book Crush: Shogun had me going all night. I read The Last Lion about Winston Churchill while I was supposed to be studying. I, Claudius. So many more... (Teresa)
My Book Crush: While I loved many books while growing up (Pollyanna, Bambi, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Black Stallion series), the first book which really kept me up reading through the night was in high school—The Hiding Place. (Katie)
My Book Crush: I think my favorite book to re-listen to would be Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. I first fell in love with the story because of its witty and clever dialogue, and of course, the love story! (Joy)
My Book Crush: I got glasses in the third grade, and all of a sudden, I could READ!!! I never looked back and read everything I could get my hands on. The first book I remember reading over and over and over was The Black Stallion by Walter Farley. Loved it then, love it now fifty years later. (Virginia)
My Book Crush: George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones...and the whole series. (Ian)
My Book Crush: Harriet the Spy is my all-time favorite book as a kid, but there were so many others: The Pink Motel, All-of-a Kind Family, The Boxcar Children, My Side of the Mountain, From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, A Wrinkle in Time, Judy Blume, Paula Danzinger, Norma Fox Mayer, A Day No Pigs Would Die - I lived in books. (Melissa)
My Book Crush: So many, but I'm a sucker for the Far East so I'll have to say the Far Pavilions by M.M. Kaye and Shogun by James Clavell. (Beth)
My Book Crush: I'd love to pretend it was something heady but it's probably Encyclopedia Brown. I loved those books. I loved trying to figure out who "done it" and have never really outgrown that aspect of books. I can't get enough of a good mystery, that anticipation that comes with them! (Leslie)