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Post by thekindercarebear on Apr 3, 2024 3:18:31 GMT
My son is 15 and before I let him into the world making his own decisions, I am making him read Ender's Game.
What 5 books would you have your 15 year old read to send them on their way into the world? I'm thinking on the next 4 now as he is almost done with Ender's Game. |
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Post by thekindercarebear on Apr 4, 2024 17:31:48 GMT
book 2 will be The Martian Chronicles.  hard to go wrong there. :) |
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Post by mikef6 on Apr 7, 2024 4:55:55 GMT
First 5
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (I was 15 or 16 when I read it)
The Lord Of The Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
The Hound Of The Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
Second 5
The Sound And The Fury by William Faulkner (like I first read it, with a guide like Cliff Notes always handy)
My Gun Is Quick by Mickey Spillane (again, as a teenager, one of my first hard-boiled authors)
The Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Third 5
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
Watership Down by Richard Adams
The Little Sister by Raymond Chandler
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Fourth 5
The Stars, Like Dust by Isaac Asimov
The Three Coffins by John Dickson Carr (the greatest of the “impossible” mysteries)
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
The Adventures of Ellery Queen by Ellery Queen (brilliant short stories)
Dune by Frank Herbert
Fifth Five
A Shropshire Lad, by A. E. Housman (story poems based on the Old English Ballad)
The Iliad by Homer
The Oedipus Trilogy by Sophocles
The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
Team of Rivals: The Genius Of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Post by Captain Spencer on Apr 7, 2024 14:45:55 GMT
Perhaps an S.E. Hinton book, like The Outsiders?
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