I got this meme from Terry Teachout, who got it from Kate's Book Blog:

1. How old were you when you learned to read and who taught you? Just six. I recall spending a lot of time as an old five-year-old earnestly trying to figure out how to read. I was very, very impatient to be able to enjoy books without the parental middleman. I remember sitting in the passenger's seat of our family's old green VW bus, during a move from California to Indiana, trying to get my mother to explain to me how reading worked. She was driving, and I was poring over a battered purple copy of Mouse Tales, determined to get this thing figured out. That was about two months before I started first grade.

2. Did you own any books as a child? If so, what's the first one that you remember owning? If not, do you recall any of the first titles that you borrowed from the library? I was lucky to have lots and lots of books. Often, birthdays and Christmases amounted to stacks of books, and, as I got a bit older, to trips to the bookstore to choose my own stack. Earliest memories of owned books center on the Oz books. I treasured my books, and respected my parents' admonitions not to draw in them or otherwise mutilate them--but at the same time I had a bad streak in me, and I once colored all over a copy of The Wizard of Oz just to see what it was like to do that. It wasn't a great experience, and the parental annoyance that followed wasn't, either. I was four. Not long after, my mother gave me a perfectly stunning copy of Snow White, illustrated by Nancy Ekholm Burkert. I still have it and it is still in perfect condition. And when I look through the pictures, I am still moved by them.

3. What's the first book that you bought with your own money? When I was five, my father endowed me with a weekly allowance of 25 cents (quarters went a lot further in the early seventies than they do now!). I saved and saved, and then bought the little long-playing record of Alice in Wonderland, complete with Disnified picture book and a Tinkerbell signal to turn the page. I have since graduated to John Tenniel's much more interesting illustrations for the Alice books.

4. Were you a re-reader as a child? If so, which book did you re-read most often? Yes. Charlotte's Web and Harriet the Spy were very well thumbed indeed. Later, I read and read and read again the Judy Blume books, especially Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret.

5. What's the first adult book that captured your interest and how old were you when you read it? When I was nine, I read Alex Haley's Roots and Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind in rapid succession. I still remember them vividly--much more so than I remember what I read last month--and I also remember exactly how many pages were in each: My edition of Roots had 759 pages, and my edition of Gone With the Wind had 1029.

6. Are there children's books that you passed by as a child that you have learned to love as an adult? Which ones? That's a tough one. I read everything I could get my hands on as a kid. I was utterly indiscriminate and preferred reading to just about everything else, including being with people. I will say that there are some books I have been able to return to as an adult, and that are renewed in wonderful ways by the change in my own perspective--A Wrinkle in Time, The Phantom Tollbooth, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. And I am a die-hard Harry Potter fan.

1. How old were you when you learned to read and who taught you? Six. Mama, mostly.

2. Did you own any books as a child? If so, what's the first one that you remember owning? If not, do you recall any of the first titles that you borrowed from the library?

I grew up in a houseful of books, but in our house there was not a strong sense that anyone was the 'owner' of a particular volume. Among the first I can remeber borrowing was a regional geography, which I read from cover to cover.

3. What's the first book that you bought with your own money?

I draw a blank.

4. Were you a re-reader as a child? If so, which book did you re-read most often?

Yep, but I do not remember which titles I read the most often.

5. What's the first adult book that captured your interest and how old were you when you read it?

I was partial to reference books, e.g. the Encyclopedia Yearbook. I was about eleven.

6. Are there children's books that you passed by as a child that you have learned to love as an adult?

Would The Little Prince qualify as a children's book? If so, yes.

I will say that there are some books I have been able to return to as an adult, and that are renewed in wonderful ways by the change in my own perspective--A Wrinkle in Time ... From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler...

I chewed up all the Madeleine L'Engle that had been published up to 1975, though with only a cursory look at the poetry. Some I found excellent and some not. I have to say that an attempt about four years ago at some of what she has written since was a disappointment, either because I am thirty years older or because it is less well executed, take your pick. For whatever reason, I much enjoyed Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, tho' the protagonist is not the sort of character a boy in elementary school would ordinarily find appealing. I have never re-read it. Would you recommend?

For my own part, I would like to get my hands on some of the popular science books we had, more as keepsakes than anything else. They were period pieces and most were shed over the years.

1. How old were you when you learned to read and who taught you?

Four, during nursery school at the JCC in New Jersey. We had learned to recognize the alphabet a few months before, so I graduated to "Harold and the Purple Crayon" My mom still has a copy of that lying around our house. She and my father encouraged me and my brother to read through both word and deed--our one television was without cable (and still is), and they doggedly refused to purchase those new-fangled "Nintendo" things every 8-year old boy like my brother wanted.

2. Did you own any books as a child? If so, what's the first one that you remember owning? If not, do you recall any of the first titles that you borrowed from the library?

I only asked for books as gifts. When I was very small, I loved treasuries of fairy tales and fabels--Arnold Lobel's version of Aesop's Fables was a particular favorite. During elementary school, series of books ruled: The Babysitters' Club, The Boxcar Children, Susan Cooper's "The Dark Is Rising" series, etc.

When I was nine, my grandmother died. Cleaning out her house, we found unimagined literary treasures: boxes crammed full of my mother's books, including a huge set of Nancy Drew mysteries and the complete "Cherry Ames Nurse" series.

From the local library, I remember borrowing "The Trumpet of the Swan" by EB White in second grade and "Sideway Stories from Wayside School" by Louis Sachar in third. I owned "A Wrinkle In Time," but could only find its sequels "A Wind in the Door" and "A Swiftly Tilting Planet" at the school library.

3. What's the first book that you bought with your own money?
Probably a Babysitters' Club book, during first grade. All the girls at school collected them and traded during lunch time. Later on, we did the same with RL Stine's "Fear Street" series.

4. Were you a re-reader as a child? If so, which book did you re-read most often? Yes, very much so. I loved all of the Judy Blume books, "From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" and "About the B'nai Bagels" by EL Konigsberg, Kathryn Lasky's "Pageant," "Bridge to Terabithia," "Jacob Have I Loved" by Cynthia Voight, and a book (weirdly) by Anne Morrow Lindbergh called "Travel Far, Pay No Fare." It was about two children who traveled throughout time and space via novels and magazine articles, including "The Yearling" and a 1988 issue of National Geographic. There was no frigate like a book!

5. What's the first adult book that captured your interest and how old were you when you read it?

"Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck, age 10. That year I also read "The Catcher In the Rye," but I was less taken with it than most people, I think. We took a family vacation to Northern California that year, and going to Salinas was really exciting.

6. Are there children's books that you passed by as a child that you have learned to love as an adult? Which ones?
I'm sorry to say that I saw the "Lord of the Rings" movies before reading the books, but I really did enjoy those. During my time in Scotland, in 2005, I discovered both Enid Blyton--wonderful mysteries for very small children--and the "Adrian Mole" series by Sue Townsend. "The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, age 13 3/4" is hysterical and subversive, set in the dreary British Midlands of the Thatcher era: equal parts "Lucky Jim," the Clash's "London Calling" and "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing." Highly recommended!

I visited a very interesting site, they have a vast collection of books which have been categories and are presented to viewers in an easy-to-search format. You should check it out.

http://www.khichdee.com/category-catid-11-paraid-0.htm