The Chalkbox Kid, because I read it when I was 10 and it was the first real book I read from cover to cover which wasn't a small children's book. It's a good st

The Chalkbox Kid, because I read it when I was 10 and it was the first real book I read from cover to cover which wasn't a small children's book. It's a good story, too. More recently, the short novel The Machine Stops blew me away with its prescience.