Books for well-read 13 year old boy?

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WeakandWobbly · 16/10/2020 16:01

My ds is an avid reader. Any suggestions for book series I can get him for Christmas? He has read all the jk Rowling, Philip Reeve, Robert muchamore, but doesn't like Terry pratchett or jrr Tolkien. Help!!

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CeramicGuineaPig · 16/10/2020 17:49

Enders Game/ Speaker of the Dead/ Xenocide/ Children of the Mind. Or just the first one.
The Once and Future King
The Dark is Rising series
At that age I was working my way through all the Dick Francis thrillers, and the works of Stephen King, Asimov and Arthur C Clarke, I cant guarantee how suitable they are though!

tinierclanger · 16/10/2020 17:45

If he also likes realistic stuff
The Hate U Give
The Boxer
The Outsiders
The Universe Vs Alex Woods

all ones that have gone down well here

nancybotwinbloom · 16/10/2020 17:38

Hunger games books
Divergent series books

PersephonePromotesEquanimity · 16/10/2020 17:34

Gormenghast - a trilogy by Mervyn Peake. Quite extraordinary.

Any and everything by Alan Garner.

All the Richard Hannay books by John Buchan. + The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers.

Not a series but he might like From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg.

Maybe some P. G. Wodehouse for light relief?

Sorry - not terribly modern, but books I return to again and again over decades.

And Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez - of course.

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