Help please - If my teenager loved Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer...

[Ladydepp]

what else might he like?

He read and liked Touching the Void, but recommendations don't have to be mountain climbing related. Non-fiction essential though!

He doesn't read much and I'm keen to find him some decent new books.

[Sadik]

How old is he? Very different, but my 15 y/o liked Into thin Air, and also enjoyed The Dark Net by Jamie Bartlett. (Not really suitable for younger teens though!)

[WomanWithAltitude]

The Climb is a much more accurate book than Into Thin Air, and is about the same events on Everest. He may be interested in reading someone else's take on the story.

[Lokisglowstickofdestiny]

Another one by Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild.

[TresDesolee]

Shackleton books - the original account of the expedition by Alfred Lansing is properly jaw-dropping

Tom Wolfe, The Right Stuff (about experimental supersonic jets and early astronauts)

[Ladydepp]

He’s 16.

Some great ideas, thanks! He does love jets so the Tom Wolfe book is a great shout.

I’ve listened to the Shackleton book on audio, and it’s brilliant.

[MrsDarcy99]

I wish my 16 year old DS would read

He's not remotely interested in anything other than Twitter or Snapchat. It's really sad as I love reading. I've tried all sorts of genres but no. He will maybe read half an autobiography (Sports related) on holiday and that's it.

[lifeislife]

The beckoning silence by joe Simpson

[TresDesolee]

My 15yo DS will only read Da Vinci Code books and Jack Reacher novels - i’d be ruddy delighted if he read Into Thin Air! (Da Vinci Code might be worth a shot lifeislife - anything that sells that many copies is guaranteed to at least be a page-turner I think)

[Aloneinacrowd70]

What about Wild by Cheryl Strayed? Pretty compelling. Note there are drug references.

[TresDesolee]

Oops sorry MrsDarcy not Lifeislife

[Ladydepp]

My ds just never reads fiction any more, such a shame.

He likes dipping in and out of books, but he really seemed to engage with Into Thin Air. It’s that or Calvin and Hobbes comics!

Beckoning Silence looks promising. Not sure about Into the Wild, perhaps a bit too harrowing?

The Right Stuff is in my basket...

[Ladydepp]

I’ve got Wild waiting on my kindle, I’ll check it out.

Actually I’ve just remembered he quite liked the first bit of Seveneves which is definitely fiction! Unless the moon has blown up and I’ve missed it .

[csmudge]

I'm not a teenage boy, but Into thin air is my fave book ever.

My recommendation would be The Martian by Andy Weir about an astronaut being stranded on Mars. It's fiction (obviously) but reads like a first person adventure. It's funny, clever and gripping. And there's a decent film of it with Matt Damon to watch afterwards.

[GinIsIn]

No Way Down - Life and Death on K2 by Graham Bowley
The two books by Ben Fogle and James Cracknell about them crossing the Atlantic and racing to the Pole
Levison Wood’s books
The new autobiography by Anthony Middleton

[TimbuktuTimbuktu]

Definitely he needs to read The Climb. Really interesting alternative perspective on the tragedy.

[TheMildManneredMilitant]

The Death Zone by Matt Dickinson also covers the same tragedy as part of a wider story about leading a film production team accompanying Brian Blessed up the North Face. The title sounds a bit sensationalist but I couldn't put it down.

[EmmaGrundyForPM]

Alive by Paul Piers Read had me gripped as a young teen. Quite harrowing though.

My son loved The Dyatlov Pass Incident. I don't think it's that well written but it's fascinating subject matter.

[CommanderDaisy]

The Climb - Anatoli Boukarev - awesome combo with Into Thin Air

This game of ghosts - Joe Simpson

The Perfect Storm - Sebastien Junger ( movie about it, but book is great- way more in depth about deep sea fishermen, ship wrecks , the actual storm and rescue swimmers etc)

Chickenhawk - Robert Mason -vietnam war, helicopter assault pilot - very good story and harsh look at the nature of war.


Maybe one of those might work.

[Rainbowqueeen]

Every single book I came on to recommend has been recommended!!!,

I'll keep thinking

[juneau]

Yes, me too Rainbowqueeen, although I have a ton of non-fiction stuff so how about:

Blood River: Tim Butcher
The Lost City of Z: David Grann
Pretty much anything by Bill Bryson
Krakatoa: Simon Winchester
In Siberia: Colin Thubron

or a fiction choice that he might be interested in:
The Martian: Andy Weir

[juneau]

Sorry - I see The Martian was already recommended. It reads like non-fiction though - I had to keep reminding myself that actually humans haven't been to Mars yet!

[Ladydepp]

Thanks all!

He’s seen the Martian in cinema so not sure he’d also want to read it.

I bought him the Right Stuff, only just delivered but hopefully he’ll like it.

Lots of recommendations for the Climb so I’ll definitely get that.

Blood River - looks fab, I think I’ll read it too!

Ben Fogle books are a good idea, although he’s definitely read something of his, I’ll peruse his bookshelves tomorrow.

I bought him the Levison Wood Himalayas book twice, once in hardback and then stupidly again in paperback. The Nile one looks good too but I need to check if he liked the Himalayas one.

[Arapaima]

How about Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Aron Ralston? It’s the book that the film 127 Hours is based on.

[capercaillie]

Naked and marooned by Ed Stafford - he took himself off to desert island for 60 days with nothing. V thought provoking and easy to read.

[Ladydepp]

Thanks - 2 more to add to the list, both look good. DS was a big fan of Bear Grylls a year or two ago so these seem right up his street.