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Book suggestions for high schooler son
Posted on 10/15/25 at 7:42 pm
Posted on 10/15/25 at 7:42 pm
My son has been enjoying random John Grisham like books but now that he’s read a couple like that, what is something you’d love to read again for the first time? Looking for a top 3-5 from pure enjoyment perspective.
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Posted on 10/15/25 at 7:44 pm to gobuxgo5
The Jack Ryan series.
Posted on 10/15/25 at 8:52 pm to gobuxgo5
Red Rising Series
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Pierce Brown
By
Pierce Brown
Posted on 10/15/25 at 9:23 pm to lsugorilla
Alas Babylon by Pat Frank.About nuclear war in late 50s. Great book!
Posted on 10/15/25 at 10:09 pm to gobuxgo5
The 5 people you meet in heaven
Posted on 10/15/25 at 11:21 pm to gobuxgo5
Dune. For "Science Fiction", there' virtually no science to it. It's all about the human condition. It may well be the ultimate modern coming of age story for young men.
Posted on 10/15/25 at 11:27 pm to gobuxgo5
This may seem like an odd recommendation but my high school son who was not a big reader learned about this book and decided to read it without telling me or my wife.
It blew his mind and he gave it to me to read because he wanted/needed to discuss what he had just read.
I then read it and he and had long discussions about fate, good and evil, whether bad people can be redeemed and really deep conversations about the nature of the books main antagonist.
It also got him into books and he started reading more.
The book:
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
It blew his mind and he gave it to me to read because he wanted/needed to discuss what he had just read.
I then read it and he and had long discussions about fate, good and evil, whether bad people can be redeemed and really deep conversations about the nature of the books main antagonist.
It also got him into books and he started reading more.
The book:
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Posted on 10/16/25 at 12:35 am to gobuxgo5
The Jack Reacher series was one of my favorites
Posted on 10/16/25 at 8:50 am to gobuxgo5
Every young man should read Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield.
Posted on 10/16/25 at 10:21 am to Rudy40
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Alas Babylon by Pat Frank.About nuclear war in late 50s. Great book!
I read this on the recommendation of a high school English teacher. She saw me reading Clancy one day, and said “I’d know a book you’d like. Its called Alas Babylon”. You see people talking about good teachers that inspire students and push them to new heights. When I think “Good Teacher”, I think of her. She let me do a book report on Dune (Which I had seen in the Library and became curious about) after she saw I was completely unenthusiastic about a book list that included To Kill A Mockingbird and Wuthering Heights.
Posted on 10/16/25 at 10:46 am to gobuxgo5
Hitchhiker's Guide to Galaxy - First book series I found in high school that I read through without putting down.
Posted on 10/16/25 at 11:36 am to gobuxgo5
I wish I could go back as a high school kid and read all of these. Would've really got me into reading much sooner than adulthood.
Harry Potter series
Bartimaeus Trilogy
Agatha Christie for crime/mystery
Jumper series from Steven Gould
The Greatest Game Ever Played (golf book)
The Count of Monte Cristo
Chronicles of Narnia
Ender's Game
The Hunger Games series
Harry Potter series
Bartimaeus Trilogy
Agatha Christie for crime/mystery
Jumper series from Steven Gould
The Greatest Game Ever Played (golf book)
The Count of Monte Cristo
Chronicles of Narnia
Ender's Game
The Hunger Games series
Posted on 10/16/25 at 12:37 pm to gobuxgo5
Get him to read Project Hail Mary before the movie comes out. My daughter (10th grade) enjoyed that one. I haven't read it yet, but I did enjoy The Martian. Like the movie, much of it is written in first person journals by the title character.
Posted on 10/16/25 at 9:46 pm to gobuxgo5
Space Cadet by Heinlein. Not a long book.
Posted on 10/16/25 at 10:00 pm to gobuxgo5
Murakami
Posted on 10/17/25 at 1:19 pm to S
I was coming to say Ender's Game and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Both offer continuations if he likes them enough to explore the worlds beyond each of those.
A handful of Stephen King novellas I really enjoyed were The Body (the movie Stand By Me), Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, and The Long Walk.
Animal Farm was another one I liked at that age (still do).
One that I always thought sucked was Catcher in the Rye.
A handful of Stephen King novellas I really enjoyed were The Body (the movie Stand By Me), Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, and The Long Walk.
Animal Farm was another one I liked at that age (still do).
One that I always thought sucked was Catcher in the Rye.
Posted on 10/19/25 at 9:14 pm to gobuxgo5
Harry Bosch series
Anything by Dan Brown
Recursion by Blake Couch
Burr by Gore Vidal
The Grey Man
Slaughterhouse 5
Ready Player One
Brave New World
Anything by Dan Brown
Recursion by Blake Couch
Burr by Gore Vidal
The Grey Man
Slaughterhouse 5
Ready Player One
Brave New World
Posted on 10/21/25 at 8:41 pm to gobuxgo5
If he likes John Grisham, have him read some Scott Turow books.
The Burden of Proof and Presumed Innocent are two excellent ones.
The Burden of Proof and Presumed Innocent are two excellent ones.
Posted on 10/22/25 at 3:07 pm to gobuxgo5
Elric
Hitchhiker's Guide
Clancy
Tolkien
Hitchhiker's Guide
Clancy
Tolkien
Posted on 10/23/25 at 7:03 am to gobuxgo5
John Leclarre Smiley series
CS Lewis Mere Christianity & screwtape letters, his sci Fi trilogy.
Huckleberry Finn
Childhood's End
2001 a space Odyssey
The old man and the boy Robert Ruark
CS Lewis Mere Christianity & screwtape letters, his sci Fi trilogy.
Huckleberry Finn
Childhood's End
2001 a space Odyssey
The old man and the boy Robert Ruark
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