Next read for a Pratchett loving young teen?

[Thematic]

Hi, my son has just about finished every Terry Pratchett book. He's a voracious reader and I need suggestions for his next read. He's a very mature 13 year old with a reading age more like 18, so I need exciting, funny and mildly complex books but ideally without too much sex. Probably not kids books as he's ready pretty much everything going. Doesn't have to be fantasy or sci-fi - I don't think specifically that is what he enjoyed about Pratchett, it was more the cleverness and humour. I had thought maybe some Stephen King like the Dark Tower perhaps?

Douglas Adams Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Rivers of London

Inkheart trilogy
We aren't supposed to recommend him but Neil Gaiman
Ray Bradbury and Philip Dick are good sci-fi choices although less humorous

I love Stephen King but the guy doesn't half drone on and on. I think it would be a far cry from what your son is used to.

I would look at Clive Barker and Raymond E. Feist.

Derek Landy?

The Illuminae Trilogy by Jay kristoff & Annie Kaufman is excellent

Definitely Douglas Adams. Personally, I prefer The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series over the Dirk Gently series.

Has he read Good Omens?

If you're Londoners he might enjoy London Underground (Gaiman). TBH it's good even if you don't know London.

How about some Raymond Feist (Magician) or Tolkien (The Hobbit) for some swords and sorcery?

Or CS Forester's Hornblower for some historical fiction. Start with Mr Midshipman Hornblower.

The Redemption of Althalus by David and Leigh Eddings

My 14 year old is similar. He enjoyed good omens and has just started Lord of the Rings.
He also previously enjoyed Dianne Wynne Jones.

Joseph delany spooks books and my alltime favourite by Gareth Pengelly the Brian Helsing series, the Cornish Guardian series also fantastic but much darker so maybe leave that one for a few years

Isaac Asimov's Robot short stories - they're sufficiently dated to be interesting for it

Wodehouse. Then maybe some Dorothy L Sayers to mix it up a bit. Wimsey is like Bertie with brains (and PTSD).

Georgette Heyer is a bit of a wildcard for a teenage boy, may have to wait until after he's read all the Wodehouse and Sayers, then introduce the detective ones first.

ooh, maybe the Falco books? Lindsey Davis, first one The Silver Pigs. Roman PI.

James Heriot. Gervase Phinn. Father Neil Boyd. Chesterton's Father Brown series. Gerald Durrell (My Family and Other Animals).

Ellis Peters' Cadfael books (12-C monk detective). On the surface totally different from Pratchett, but in certain ways I think they go well together.

Haha except for your first paragraph, you’ve described exactly my teenage reading 35 years ago!

I was tapping into my own experience...

I always enjoyed Isaac Asimov for Sci Fi.
Anne McCaffrey for fantasy, especially her dragon rider series.
James Herriot has gentle humour and animals, same as Gerald Durrell.

Edit - apparently I had the same reading youth as two other pp!

Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials

My DS at that age loved Eragon by Philip Paolini. I think there was more than one book in the series. He did also love classic detective fiction especially on audio so some of the above suggestions are also good!

Robert Rankin?

Oh, I loved that one!

Seconded!

Has he read the lesser known TP books, like Strata and Dark Side of the Sun?

@Thematic the first dark tower book is very stitlted in my honest opinion. But the second one....wow!!! Its a very good series, i hope your son enjoys it. Would he like bill Bryson's notes from a small island ? Very dry sense of humour but also funny. Clive cussler does a really good series of adventure stories. My son used to devour them at that age. Enjoy!!

@Thematic also the mortal engine book series might be good too.

James Patterson does some superb young adult books.

Virals by Kathy Reichs is an excellent young adult series. Not so well known as her “Bones” books but definitely great on their own and have that SF element.

Some of my favourite authors as a teen were Clive Cussler, Sidney Sheldon and believe it or not Jeffrey Archer. Not quite the SF that Sir Pterry does so well but great storytellers.

Arc of a Scythe trilogy or the Unwind trilogy by Neal Shusterman.

The Loop trilogy by Ben Oliver.