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What are your teens reading?

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PurpleLily7 · 11/02/2020 06:49

I need some inspiration for lagging readers, aged 13 and 15. Both good readers, they like apocalyptic/ dystopian fiction and have been through all the Hunger Games/ Maze Runner-type series.
Is there anything your teens have loved?
Also Stephen King but unsure which one to start with...
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pippistrelle · 11/02/2020 11:39

My teen is working her way through the works of John Wyndham. Your older one in particular might enjoy exploring earlier examples of the sci-fi/dystopian genre. Wyndham's concerns are amazingly modern. They've been republished recently with some nice new covers too.

JG Ballard - for more adult dystopia.

The Girl with All the Gifts, and its follow-up The Boy on the Bridge - MR Carey

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

Therealrudolph · 11/02/2020 12:32

My daughter loved Michelle Paver - The Chronicals of Ancient Darkness, she couldn’t put them down and is now re reading them!

BlueChampagne · 11/02/2020 12:37

My Y8 has just finished Stephen King's It. Now got him onto My Family and Other Animals for a bit of a change!

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PurpleLily7 · 11/02/2020 19:55

Good ideas - thanks!
DS loved Michelle Paver, too!
DD started It but couldn't persevere - I've ordered 'Misery' for her.

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Witchend · 11/02/2020 20:03

Ds is just finishing the Dark is Rising Sequence.

Dd was asking me to find Ballet Shoes yesterday.

MAFIL · 11/02/2020 21:36

DS1 (16) is part way through Lord of the Rings. He's recently finished the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy series and is also intermittently making his way through the Don Camillo books, which I guess are a bit of an unusual choice for a teenage boy, but my DH had some from his own childhood.
DS2(14)s current choices are a bit odd too - he's currently into Agatha Christie thrillers, especially the Poirot books. He normally likes biographies and more factual books, especially anything history related.

Troels · 11/02/2020 22:02

Dd 15 is reading some Agatha Christiie books she found in the charity shop.

Bumshkawahwah · 11/02/2020 22:38

There’s a couple of American trilogies that my son got really into - the Scythe Trilogy and the Renegades trilogy. Really worth a read, especially Scythe.

BlueChampagne · 12/02/2020 12:30

Lord of the Flies?

4forkssake · 12/02/2020 17:32

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QueenofLouisiana · 12/02/2020 17:44

1984, Look Who’s Back (about Hitler), biographies: forensic scientists, pathologists, special forces operatives and war reporters. HitchHikers Guide..., Jack Reacher novels, History books: Vietnam/ Korea/ USSR/ World War 2.
All quite dark, but he loves all the history and military stuff.

PurpleLily7 · 12/02/2020 20:01

More good ideas - thank you!

Like the sound of the Scythe books.

'Lord of the Flies' read and enjoyed by both.
DD has requested 'Call me by my name' - no idea if it's any good but I'm delighted that she asked!

They've both enjoyed Sherlock Holmes stories so Agatha Christie is worth a try.

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OhMsBeliever · 12/02/2020 20:06

One is reading The Martian by Andy Weir and The Haunting by Alex Bell.

And the other is reading Dracula.

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