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Recommendations for 15 year-old boy

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Libra · 02/06/2009 12:39

Please help!

DS1 is 15. He is an avid reader - getting through around 12 books a week - but the teenage section in our (small) local library no longer has anything he hasn't read, and we are finding it difficult to find suitable books for him in the adult section.

He loves Terry Pratchett and has read everything he has written. As far as teenage novels are concerned, he likes Robert Muchamore, Anthony Horowitz, Eoin Colfer, Michelle Paver, Angie Sage, Derek Landy.

This sort of book is not really my style and so I am having difficulty recommending similar adult authors.

Can anyone make any suggestions please?

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Juwesm · 02/06/2009 13:09

Have seen lots of David Eddings and Terry Goodkind on the same friend's shelves!

Juwesm · 02/06/2009 13:07

I would go through the 'customers who bought this item also bought...' section for one of the Jordan books. That should pick up loads of similar series.

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Libra · 02/06/2009 12:58

Robert Jordan looks very suitable for him - will definitely recommend.

Read him the Douglas Adams some years' ago I am afraid!

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Juwesm · 02/06/2009 12:56

Robert Rankin.
Gene Brewer - K-PAX trilogy

A friend who loves Fantasy books recommends the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan.

Douglas Adams of course!

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Libra · 02/06/2009 12:55

Pagwatch - yes, I should try him on something different.
I bought him Catcher in the Rye for his birthday, and although he did read it, he was not too keen ('guy whines a lot')

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Libra · 02/06/2009 12:54

Juwesm - thanks, he has read all of the Abhorsen series and the Keys to the Kingdom one.

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Libra · 02/06/2009 12:53

That looks a good list lljkk - he has read some of the books mentioned but not all, so I will email it to him.

Thanks!

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pagwatch · 02/06/2009 12:52

Hi
Perhaps he especially loves those and has got into a bit of a rut.
Ds1 was on hols recently and loved -
One flew over the cukoos nest
The world according to Garp
Catch 22
and some of the James Bond books ( can't remember the titles.)

Juwesm · 02/06/2009 12:52

I would recommend the Abhorsen series by Garth Nix. That should be up his street, though this is still more teenage than adult. Also the Keys to the Kingdom series by same author, though these have an even younger 'feel'.

lljkk · 02/06/2009 12:49

Futurama?
Paul Zindel, SE Hinton, Philip Pullman, Arthur C. Clarke, Ray Bradbury, Robert Westall, Joseph Conrad, Jack London, George Orwell, Ursula Leguin.

Anything on this list?

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Libra · 02/06/2009 12:45

He has tried some Asimov, but claims that he doesn't like science fiction.

I think that the stuff he likes is more fantasy fiction.

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GeneHunt · 02/06/2009 12:43

My ds greatly enjoys all the StarWars novels. They seem to be written by various authors but I can have a hunt for some if you think he would like that type of thing.

Has he read any Asimov or Bradbury?

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