Suggestions for 16/17 yo boy

[Todayissunny]

I've given him Brave new world, 1984, Lord of the flies, A clockwork orange, but those are books I read at 16 that I thought he might enjoy.

We aren't in the UK so he doesnt have set books to read for English.
Are there any books your 16/17 yo boys have enjoyed reading?

MY 15 yr old is really enjoying Human Universe by Brian Cox. He's not much of a reader so I'm reading it with him. We're having fab chats about it.

My 17 yr old is enjoying the classics at the mo. Definitely started as a poser thing, but has been surprised by how enjoyable some of them are - especially Dracula, and Dorian Grey.

My 14 year old son has just read Douglas Adams books and loved them.

Books I loved as a teenager which could appeal: Lian Hearn's "Tales of the Otori" and Michelle Paver's "Chronicles of Ancient Darkness".

DS(15) is reading the Lord of the Rings books. He's always liked fantasy fiction.

My recently turned 16yr old just read and loved The World According to Garp. It was a break from his usual fantasy fiction, but he said it was great and he stayed up til 4am finishing it in the Xmas holidays.

Other recent favourites

• Patrick Rothus ‘Name of the Wind’ and sequel
• The expanse series
• Children of Time
• the rangers apprentice series (favourite from when he was younger and I think a comfort read nowadays)
• The Scythe and sequels
• Hunger Games
• catch 22
• Robin Hobb
• Brandon Sanderson

he has read the ones you mention and his favourite was probably Brave New World

You beat me to it. Excellent choice.😀

My 15-year-old nephew is reading Stephen Fry's autobiography Moab is my Washpot, and loving it. At his age, I loved Roald Dahl's autobiography Boy.

I'd recommend the following for an intelligent young person just getting into reading:

George Orwell: Down and Out in Paris and London
Robert Graves: Goodbye to all That
H. G. Wells: Science Fiction stories
Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
Steinbeck: Of Mice and Men
Salinger: Catcher in the Rye
D. H. Lawrence: Sons and Lovers
J. G. Ballard: The Empire of the Sun

Also, try The Sherlock Holmes books, read by Stephen Fry. Wuthering Heights, Emma, The Picture of Dorian Gray and even Woolf's Orlando or Dickens' David Copperfield are all very readable. We underestimate young people.

You also want to encourage a love of language. Kipling is perfect for this. The Jungle Book and Just So stories on audiobook are great. P. G. Wodehouse is another writer whose language sparkles. Stephen Fry has recorded a lot of Wodehouse on audiobook.

If he has a sciency brain, then Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything. Even though I'm very bad at science, this is my all-time favourite book.

Richard Dawkins Magic of Reality is aimed at younger readers.

Carl Sagan's Cosmos is wonderful. He might find it heavy going in places, but it's the perfect book for a young person.

And anything by Douglas Adams.