Good books for teenage boys?

Please keep the suggestions coming though fellows, it's is a massive, massive help. I've got to burn through a grand somehow :P

MissLibrarian

Lol whatever you do dont complain about that, your library must pretty good :)

Redwall by Brian Jacques.the_foreign_guy

^This :D

Or, if you want something more literary, try:

The Quest of the Holy Grail (author unknown)
The Three Musketeers (Alexandre Dumas)
The Lord of the Rings (JRR Tolkien)
Dracula (Bram Stoker)
Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy)
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway)

[QUOTE="MissLibrarian"] Please keep the suggestions coming though fellows, it's is a massive, massive help. I've got to burn through a grand somehow :P

Wolls

Lol whatever you do dont complain about that, your library must pretty good :)

Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea Trilogy.Allicrombie

The Catcher in the Rye, The Lord of the Rings, and I read the Hobbit this year and it was pretty good.

Please keep the suggestions coming though fellows, it's is a massive, massive help. I've got to burn through a grand somehow :P

MissLibrarian

Gates of Fire

by Steven Pressfield

I can virtually guarantee that that one will receive an enthusiastic reception from the audience you're targeting.

Gates of Fire

by Steven Pressfield

I can virtually guarantee that that one will receive an enthusiastic reception from the audience you're targeting.

Stesilaus

If its anything like this then the TC should be aware that its kind of gory.

To cater for the sci-fi enthusiasts:

Frank Herbert's "Dune" series

Also, splurging on any of the huge number of books by Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Heinlein, etc. is a pretty easy way to pad your selection.

[QUOTE="Stesilaus"]

Gates of Fire

by Steven Pressfield

I can virtually guarantee that that one will receive an enthusiastic reception from the audience you're targeting.

Teenaged

If its anything like this then the TC should be aware that its kind of gory.

Yes, Gates of Fire is somewhat graphic too, but the book is already well-known as a favorite in high school libraries anyway.

[QUOTE="Wolls"]

[QUOTE="MissLibrarian"] Please keep the suggestions coming though fellows, it's is a massive, massive help. I've got to burn through a grand somehow :P

MissLibrarian

Lol whatever you do dont complain about that, your library must pretty good :)

I think that Stephen King is a good way to get guys to read. I olove his books, and anyone I know who has read one of his books loves them as well. My favorites are It, The Stand, The Shining, The Dark Tower (highly reccomended) Carrie and any of his short story collections. However, most of those books contain strong language, explicit violence (particularly It) and few contain explicit sexual situations. (These are usually infrequent and short though, but I'll tell you ones from the above that contain those. It- 1 explicit scene that I can remember. The Stand- one section of the book talks about a relationship between 2 people that can get very explicit. The Shining has one explicit scene, but it only talks about the beggining and veers away. The Dark Tower usually mentions love making but doesn't actually go into great detail. The book It does have the n- word alot, though.)

The Odd Thomas series is pretty awesome and for what I remember it was teen-appropriate. I read the first book in high school and it was in the school library.

I also recommend Night Train, and while not a book for guys necessarily, I read and really enjoyed the book Speak in high school. Those two were also in the library.

I'm sure a lot of kids would like Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. When I was a teenager I loved reading stuff by H.P. Lovecraft. Also, This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff.

Hunt for the Red October

Bourne Identity

Hunt for the Red October

Bourne Identity

brickdoctor

Another book I read this year, that was good but the movie was terrible, I read the book and then watched the movie I never saw and I was shocked to see how many good scenes in the book they cut out.

Harry Potter, Redwall series, and Lord of the Ring series,Mr_Cumberdale

Harry Potter's okay, and the Lord of the Rings is difficult to comprehend. Personally, I've never read Redwall, but I've heard good things about it.

Discworld?

Nineteen Eighty-Four?

They don't need to be specifically aimed at teenage readers, but obviously I could do without them being particularly offensive, or graphic sexually.

Thank you :)

MissLibrarian

Catcher in the Rye

Well since I am 17 and love reading, maybe I can be of assistance. Im sure that you have most, if not all of these books though.

-I very highly recommend the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. They are my favorite books and are amazing. They might be a little advanced for the younger readers though.

-Eragon and Eldest were great. (haven't read the third one yet.)

-Hungry for Home. (Excellent book about wolves.)

Thats about all I have right now off the top of my head... hope I helped.

I'd recommend any book by Friedrich Nietzsche. They will learn a lot about life, but subtly refine their views eventually.

14 - 18? THAT'S ME!

Given that I myself am an avid reader, I will simply list some of the novel's I've read over the years (whether I liked them or not)

Brave New World by Alduous Huxley
Animal Farm and 1984 by George Orwell
Dune by Frank Herbert
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (not sure how many would be keen on this though)
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Crash by J.G. Bollard
Interview With The Vampire by Anne Rice
Bringing Down The House by Ben Mezrich
Lord of The Flies by William Golding
This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"World War Z" by Max Brooks
"Nineteen Eighty Four" by George Orwell
"House of Leaves" by Mark Z. Danielewski
"Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger
"The Lord of the Rings" by J. R. R. Tolkien
Any selection or anthology of works by H. P. Lovecraft*
"Dracula" by Bram Stoker

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*note: specifically any that include "The Call of Cthulhu", "At the Mountains of Madness", "The Whisperer in Darkness" and "The Shadow Over Innsmouth."

foxhound_fox

The Sword of Truth series. It is an epic fantasy that is written in a way that makes it easy to read but also keeps it mature.

Tarzan of the Apes, by Edgar Rice Burroughs, is always a good story for teens.

I really liked I am Legendfunsohng

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I'd recommend any book by Friedrich Nietzsche. They will learn a lot about life, but subtly refine their views eventually.

Robbler

Tom Clancy, and Dan Brown.

The Cherub series

Get The Book of the Law, Mister B'Gone andJacqueline Ess: Her Will And Testament. Ones about a half burnt demon from one of the 18 levels of Hell who wanders Earth leaving trails of dead babies in his wake while he searches for ways to make life miserable for anyone he encounters on his search for his homosexual love interest. Ones written by Alister Crowley and the last one is about a girl who fails to commit suicide but somehow unlocks a hidden power to weave peoples body shapes with her mind. It's a bit like Stephen Kings Carey except with more carnage, as she likes to torture people and force them to crawl about on broken disfigured joints before finishing them off. It's also got lots of detailed sex in it. Teenage boys will love this stuff. They can read it out in class!

Well not only have you all done me a fantasic service with these recommendations, but you've actually given me the opportunity to browse GS *leagally* at work for the last hour while I ordered all these books! So doubly thanks to all you sterling chaps.

Thanks again!