I wouldn't say I hyperfixated, but Lord of the Rings was my first in a long line of fantasy crushes 😁

Kingkiller Chronicles taught me why one should never do this.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, I still read or listen to the five part trilogy about once a year.

Lord of the Rings which is why I now have a 850 sq ft garden in the back, and a side yard filled with trees and bushes. I'm trying to grow an entire year of fruits and veggies. Feels very Hobbit-coded

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Ender's game, followed immediately by an unhealthy and unrealistic fixation on the power of intelligence

Growing up I loved the Dragonriders of Pern books

The Discworld!

And Hitchhikers guide (the 3), tolkien & the hobbit, loads of sci-fi & fantasy... And when that was used up; Eco, Kundera, Bulgakoff, ...

Growing up? Why not more recently?

the Amber chronicles

George's secret key to the universe. I wanted to become a scientist, but then I found out how little they get paid.

Dragonlance saga by Weis and Hickman, plus all the secondary books in the series.

A lot of Star Trek novels, always wanted to live in a post scarcity utopian society exploring the universe

Hahaha

ALL OF THEM

Goosebumps when I was really young, and Redwall until around grade 5 or 6. Then the golden compass/his dark materials books in grade 5. Then just a bunch of different fantasy books in grade 5 through 8, I read the Hobbit a bunch of times during this period too, then high school was lord of the rings and then wheel of time.

Alfred Hitchcock and The Three Investigators series. Followed by the Lord of the rings with the Hobbit and the Silmarillion.

Wheel of time, me and my siblings would reread all the previous books when a new one was coming out.

Harry potter, Eragon (Inheritance Cycle), and Pendragon

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The mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley...read it when i was sixteen

Not fantasy, but there was a book about this weird entity eating a raven, followed by increasingly larger things like donkeys and children etc. It was all written in a poetic way.

I do remember the happy ending when the thing wanted to eat an old grandma whole along with her food, so she asks protagonist to wait until some food is ready, and then she stabs them in their sleep with a knife.

There is another, unrelated book by the same name that's more popular so searching online was pain. I could not find any pdfs, but here's the cover jpeg in low resolution and the author's name if anyone wants to continue from there.

Oburcuk by Selçuk Taykutgül.

I remember in the fourth grade I crushed an escape sci fi fantasy series written by Bruce Coville. I can't remember the titles of the books, or even any significant plot points... but bizarrely the authors name is still right there.

Conan - I read all the novels by L. Sprague DeCamp, some multiple times. Elf quest. Belgariad. Lensmen and other EE Doc Smith stuff. Tons of comics. X-Men freak. Michael Moorcock stuff. Foundation. Robotech, so much Robotech. Had all the novelizations, vinyl album, movies, comics, art books... And one toy (which was actually Jetfire from transformers).

Lotr, xanth, dragonlance, foundation, the dark tower... hard to pick just one

Wraeththru Chronicles

Percy Jackson was my shit growing up

I didnt read much, but I did really enjoy Enders Game and Raptor Red growing up.

hitchhikers guide to the galaxy

I got my first Dragonlance novel around age 10 or 11 and read every book they published up until the late '90s.

Most of my reading now is more learning (either the actual material or something in a language I'm learning more related to my level than the genre/content).

The Venus Equilateral series.

Basically, electrical engineers saving the solar system.

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Definitely LoTR. I was reading that during the great war between Ballantine Books and Ace Books.

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Hitichikers Guide to the Galaxy.

Travel, wit, and digital watches. What's not to wish you could escape into?