Adult book ideas for nearly 13 year old boy please

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DS is a very prolific reader and has enjoyed all the usual suspects, loves Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, Philip Pullman etc, has read Hunger Games, Watership Down, LOTR, Pratchett and so on but finds it hard to find anything in the 'teen' section at the library, claiming 'they're all either about love or someone is running away from something'!

I've introduced him to SE Hinton (one of my favourites as a teenager) and am now attempting to find less teenage/kid focussed books for him which aren't too unsuitable. (I know he'll find the less suitable stuff of his own accord - I guess I mean full on sex scenes or disturbing violence - but I don't want to be the one who gives it to him, if you see what I mean!). So far he's enjoyed the Sharpe books by Bernard Cornwell, the James Herriot vet books, Gerald Durrell's Corfu sage but he's fast and I'm running out of ideas from my shelves if I haven't reread them recently!

I'm thinking of suggesting Rebecca, The Woman in Black and Cold Comfort Farm which I remember enjoying as a teenager - any other suggestions please?

My nearly 13 year old is currently reading his way through the Shardlake books by CJ Sansome - maybe not the most suitable but I decided that was cancelled out by the historical content, he's doing the tudors in history.

He also really enjoyed 'Across the nightingale floor' series by Liam Hearn. And just read and enjoyed the book thief for school.

I am going to give him SE Hinton on your recommendation!

Has he read any Terry Pratchett's books. I love them all over again every time I read them as an adult but think that they are great for teens too.

Shardlake - yes I think I have read one of those, are they mysteries set in Henry VIII's time? I read Brother Cadfael ones for a while when I was younger - they were similar but medieval.

I've not heard of Liam Hearn, thank you I'll check those out.

@Katescurios Yes he's zoomed through all the Pratchetts at a rate of knots last year!

Another vote for Liam Hearn.

The Woman in White, The Blue Carbuncle, The Aubrey/Maturin series of Naval adventures.

Oh yes, the Aubrey suggestion has reminded me of Hornblower as well, he'd probably like those.

Thinking back to my teen years

Robert Jordan wheel of time series (there are fought 83million books in this series, I enjoyed it but did not complete it because it just kept going and going....)

Trudi canavan
Marian zimmer Bradley - dark over series

All fantasy/sci fi

Not sure if they might be a bit dull for a teenage boy, but I liked the Bless Me Father series by Neil Boyd as a girl, they were similar in style to the James Herriott stories but about a parish priest rather than a vet.

Douglas Adams

Have you considered setting him up with kindle unlimited? £7.99 a month mainly new unknown authors but thousands of free to read books of different genres.

I read a book a day so got it to curb my spending, now I only buy a book occasionally when a favourite author releases a new book rather than scouring the charity shops constantly for new reads.

I used to love Dick Francis.

Good suggestion @ButteredScone but done those! He enjoyed them.

@Katescurios I've wondered about Kindle unlimited but couldn't find much on there that I wanted to read so not sure if he would. I go to the library at least once a week so am happy to order books there. He does like sci-fi and fantasy (he's just finished David Eddings series and 2001: A space Odyssey) so some of your suggestions could be great - I'm not that au fait with those genres.

@AndNoneForGretchenWieners I might check out the Bless me Father books for me!

You could also look at hard reads like brave new world by Aldous Huxley or 1984 by George Orwell. Thought provoking, difficult vocabulary and structure, interesting concepts.

Would he like Kurt Vonnegut do you think? Sci-fi / quite funny in a weird way. Has he read the knife of never letting go trilogy by Patrick Ness? I thought they were quite similar to Northern Lights trilogy in style.

Some other suggestions:
Catch 22
Catcher in the Rye
To Kill a Mockingbird
The oryx and crake trilogy

Milder Stephen King? The Dark Tower, The Stand

Dick Francis devoured at the age

James Herbert I devoured at the age but maybe not for your son.

Terry Pratchett done but Douglas Adams?

Ooh it maybe Dave Eggers? The Circle is quite an easy read with relevant themes about social media.

The Lord of the Flies.

Husbands chipping in now

Richard mathieson classic sci fi stuff like The Incredible Shrinking Woman

Ray Bradbury - Sci fi/horror

Neville Shute

Asimov

Oh a couple of suggestions of Dick Francis - interesting, I will look. I know my uncle read them all.

@Hobbes8 I did pick up the Knife of never letting go in a charity shop for him, and it was one of the few books he hasn't finished, said he got bored with it. I love the others you've suggested but maybe Margaret Atwood not suitable? Can't quite remember but had an idea there were rape scenes in Oryx and Crake books? Maybe I'm being too
protective!

@FiveGoMadInDorset I remember reading bits of Steven King/James Herbert/horror type books in the supermarket (they sold a few chunky paperbacks) whilst waiting for my parents to finish shopping and finding them terrifying! But always going back to them nonetheless. The blurb for one of them always stayed with me - it was about killer slugs that lurked in 'the knee-high grass' - it freaked me out

Has he read the curious incident of the dog...?

DS loved that

Tom Holt
Jasper Fforde
Orson scott Card - all the Ender Books.
Neil Gaimen
Greg Bear

@notanother11plusmum Yes he has

Thank you all for these great ideas

Oh yes to Douglas Adams! Brilliance.

What about ASOIAF? Too adult?