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There are different answers from different parts of my life. The first book that really changed my life was probably Harry Potter. This might seem a bit cliched, but the first book came out when I was seven, and it was the first time I'd experienced a book series in that sense as a sort of life-consuming phenomenon. Everything I'd read before then had been just an individual story or a set of loosely connected books in a series. As much as I enjoyed reading, I don't think I realised up until that point just how captivating fiction could be.
Later, Lord of the Rings resulted in me conducting a thirty page project for school on it when I was eleven. Sophie's World really encouraged me to think about the world around me during my gap year while I was stuck in my (miserable) home town. More recently, reading Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close lifted me out of a deep depression. There are plenty of others that have had a profound effect on my life, but these are some of the most important ones!
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