Books to get teenager boy reading!

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Can anyone recommend books to get a teenage boy regarding again? Done diary of a wimpy kid, Tom Gates. Never liked maze runner alex rider. He does prefer factual books but has to take fiction book into school to read. Many thanks

My DS is a good but reluctant reader. He recently loved The Martian. Lots of science facts even though it’s fiction, and very funny apparently.

Watching this thread with interest as I’m looking for ideas too.

As a teenager I hated reading. But would settle for autobiographies. Do they have any fave musicians or sports stars they'd like to read about?

I will take a look at that one thank you. He loves science so should be good

I did buy him Bradley Wiggins autobiography it was written for younger readers as he loves cycling but he hasn't picked it up! I did think of footballer autobiography but hubby says lots of them have bad language in 😐

Phillip Pullman books for fiction?

Otherwise I don't see why there's any harm in reading autobiographies or other non fiction. At least he is reading something.

Tim Peakes autobiography

My boy loved the Cherub series by Robert Muchamore and currently reading the Gone series by Micheal Grant.

This may help

www.booktrust.org.uk/books/bookfinder/

Bear Grylls books?

How old? Huge range in teens - if 13 or so yes the Cherub series. DS loved them although might have been a bit younger when he read them - 11 or 12.

Hunger Games or Gone series although DS wouldn't read them.

Chris Ryan does some books aimed at that age. And there is. Young James Bnd series I think. Also Anthony Horowitz writes for that age group. Oh - Simon Mayo did one about the Peiodic table - fiction.

DS is 16 and for the last three years or so he has read sports biographies pretty much. I'm sure there might be swearing but they hear that everywhere really.

Holes
Hoot
The Hobbit
Curious incident of the dog in the night time
Hitchikers guide to the galaxy

If you are concerned about bad language I'd maybe preview The Martian. Fab book but pretty sure there's a fair bit of swearing.

Watching with interest. My boy has liked the Varjak Paw books recently

I was going to suggest The Martian as well, DS1 loved it. He's working through Michael Grant's 'Gone' series at the moment.

Wonder
Auggie and me
My ds really liked them.

There's a 'junior' non-sweary edition of The Martian.

How good a reader is he? If he's competent but just doesn't dad I would suggest the Mars series by Kim Stanley Robinson. It start with red Mars.If he's younger some of the Tiffany Aching books by Terry Pratchett's.The main character may be female but there are great male characters too

Perhaps you could try him on books by Ben McIntyre, who writes about espionage and WWII.

My son liked "Rogue Heroes" a history of the SAS, and I've bought "Double Cross" about D-Day spies for him this year.

sorry, "C" and "I" are both lowercase: It's Ben Macintyre

iRobot by Isaac Azimov. Old but a complete classic and feeds into all the AI stuff that is happening right now with self driving cars etc

Books based on heroic escapes in world war two, Escape from Colditz, there is one about the bouncing bomb called, I think, Dam Busters

Freakonomics

The Big Short

Generally look at the Sci Fi genral and fantasy worlds. If he likes cats there is a fantasy series called Warriors that has about 30 stories

DS1 is reading a fab series at the moment. Despite being a great reader he just can't be bothered but has to for school. They are by Chris Bradford...Bodyguard series. He got one out of school library so figured they must be ok for their age group (he's in Y8)

My DS liked the Goosebump books when he was early teens

Ready Player One
1984

how old is he?

Mine are 11 and 12 and love;
Skull duggery pleasant
Spooks
Heroes of Olympus
Anything by David Baddiel
Anything by David Walliams
Harry Potter

Hunger games was a hit in this house - but like most things the book is better than the film...