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Next read for a Pratchett loving young teen?

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Thematic · 03/05/2025 21:38

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?

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Gremlinsateit · 04/05/2025 02:14

Garth Nix, but not A Confusion of Princes - too old for him.

T Kingfisher’s Minor Mage but not her other books for the same reason.

Jasper Fforde The Last Dragonslayer series, though book 4 was less good.

Diana Wynne Jones, especially The Ogre Downstairs.

Douglas Adams above all :)

BeachRide · 04/05/2025 09:23

shellyleppard · 03/05/2025 23:18

@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!!

Notes From a Small Island was the first book that made me cry with laughter on a train. Love all his books!

BunnyRuddington · 04/05/2025 10:04

Some great suggestions on here already. I’d just like to add in Day of the Triffids. At tgat age I used to pick up a lot of my DF’s books and loved some of the Tom Sharpe ones.

Bibbitybobbitybo · 04/05/2025 11:39

Loads of good recommendations here. I'd add Chris wooding - the haunting of alaizabel Cray was excellent, and the Montmorency series by Eleanor updale.

Thematic · 05/05/2025 19:52

GingerLiberalFeminist · 03/05/2025 21:57

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 was thinking Gaiman, but there's quite a weird sex bit in American Gods I remember, so I was thinking maybe the adult books weren't quite suitable? He's only just 13.

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GingerLiberalFeminist · 05/05/2025 20:37

Thematic · 05/05/2025 19:52

I was thinking Gaiman, but there's quite a weird sex bit in American Gods I remember, so I was thinking maybe the adult books weren't quite suitable? He's only just 13.

Yeah but Neverwhere, Anansi's Boys, Stardust are good. Plus Good Omens.

My godson is 12 and adores all the Percy Jackson books, and other stuff Rick Riodan has done. No sex in those.

jennylamb1 · 05/05/2025 20:48

Rick Riordan is very good and the classics, The Hobbit, C.S. Lewis, Alan Garner.

Nellodee · 05/05/2025 21:05

Jasper Fforde - he has a similar sense of the ridiculous to Pratchett and Adams.

redastherose · 05/05/2025 21:06

Ben Abramovich the Peter Grant books or Jasper Fforde the Thursday Next books. I’m a massive Terry Pratchett fan and these are some of my favourites since we lost TP!

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