What book should I recommend for book club?

I'am in my schools book club and we've been asked to recommend a book for fourteen-fifteen year old and I was wondering what I should say. Most people wanted to use Northern Lights but I don't like that book.

Any ideas?

50 Shades of Grey

We read that last year :(

The death by asphyxiation numbers skyrocketed, way above our usual number. *sigh* Bad, bad business...

The Illustrated Man

@thespoiler: That's deep...lol

in before someone says Mien Kampf

Mein Kampf

Called it

The Hunger Games?

Blood of Olympus

The 120 Days of Sodom.

Fourteen to fifteen year olds right?

Percy Jackson series and Red Pyramid trilogy by Rick Riodran.

Most anything by John Green

Miss Pengerine's Home of Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher

Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell

Uprooted Naomi Novik

Steelheart (Reckoners series) and The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson.

I do a lot of reading of comics and fiction all across the spectrum (Comics, adult, Ya and otherwise) and hope I was able to help you!

Promote Ghost-God and sa parole is never a bad thing...Kneel before Fantômas .

Ps:His books are in the public domain so you could probably get one for free.

Pilasy:La Voix d'un homme

No.

Pilasy:La Voix d'un homme

@rouflex: Shoo, hater.

@alphaq: @slacker_the_hacker: Very nice list by slakerthehacker.

Alphaq I recommend. Gone by Michael Grant. One day middle of class everyone over 14 disappears, mutation occurs, children's fends for themselves. It's very apocalyptic dystopian book. It's lord of the flies, hunger games, maze runner and ever other dystopian books with steroids. It's for young adult. Most addicting book I have read.

THANKS!

And oh yeah!

If they haven't read the classics they should check out Lord of The Flies (as you mentioned) by Golding, Jane Austen's work like Emma or Pride and Predjudice , maybe some Mark Twain like Tom Sawyer and even Catcher in the Rye.

Never to old to start reading that books of the passed, its good for literary growth, most of all for teens. I'll have to check out Gone by Michael Grant (Looks good), his wife wrote Animorphs if I recall correctly which is already huge points.

Another recommend is obviously certain and old school pulp magazines for the teens and young people of the past (depending which ones)

No.

Pilasy:La Voix d'un homme

@slacker_the_hacker: Did you read heroes of Olympus series also by Rick Riordan? If you did how was it? What are your thoughts on it ? What did you dislike?

I'm afraid I haven't read it, haven't even finished first series yet

I did finish Red Pyramid books though which I very much enjoyed.

@slacker_the_hacker: .... You need to read Percy Jackson it's my second favorite series (behind GONE).

I highly enjoyed the read pyramid trilogy too .

Percy Jackson > or = red pyramid >>> heroes of Olympus

@alphaq:

Do: Cry, The Beloved Country.

Do not: Blood Meridian/The Evening Redness in the West

@alphaq: Anything from Ayn Rand.

@judasnixon said:

@alphaq:

Isn't that book like insanely hard... and about a guy who can predict explosions with his boners?

@slacker_the_hacker@waynewilsonslade@skyroid Wow, thanks for the recommendations and lists! I'll check out those books.

American Psycho or Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

Killer Angels by Michael Shaara. Pulitzer Prize winner from 1975. Novel about the battle of Gettysburg that is historically accurate for the most part and is an immensely exciting book.

Recommending because I read it recently:

Mary Shelley's " Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus "

Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book.

The Killing Joke. That'll be sure to rustle some jimmies.

@impervious: Yea. The graveyard book was amazing.

The graveyard book by Neil Gaiman. It's about a boys life in growing up in a graveyard from little baby to 10yr old or something. Is really good

I don't think I could recommend a book that a 14-15 year old would appreciate.

@alphaq said:

@judasnixon said:

@alphaq:

Isn't that book like insanely hard... and about a guy who can predict explosions with his boners?

@slacker_the_hacker@waynewilsonslade@skyroid Wow, thanks for the recommendations and lists! I'll check out those books.

It is actually a very very very goooood book but I don't think its best to start out with. I do suggest you check out Thomas Pynchon's work but best to start with say Inherit Vice, Crying Lot 49 or V before reading Gravity's Rainbow.

Actually it would help to probably read most of his other stuff before GR just to get a feel for him.

Also as the others above pointed out.

The Martian, Graveyard Book and Frankenstien are all great choices.

Based on your avatar.

I'm guessing you'd be recommending some classic poetry?

@slacker_the_hacker Wow man, you're great for this thread, thanks!

@slacker_the_hacker: I am getting Paradise Lost on Saturday, but I don't think I'd recommend any poetry to kids who hate poetry at this time. Which is a shame. I would only recommend poetry to an avid reader.

@alphaq:

Stand on zanzibar by John Brunner.

Island on the net by Bruce Sterling.

With the old breed: at Peleliu and Okinawa by Eugene B. Sledge.

The old man and the sea by Ernest Hemingway.

The Naked and the dead by Norman Mailer.

Oh its not problem.

:D Just happy I could help (Always great to see people interested in reading books) and could pretty much keep throwing books your way all day, a more recent book which is great for the age group is The Book Thief by Markus Zusak.

Outsiders by S.E Hilton

Another good classic is The Princess Bride by William Golding, Anything by Dumas (mostly Three Musketeers), Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, most anything by H.G Wells, Lovely Bones by Alice Sebhold and a BIG BIG favorite of mine is an autobiography called The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls.

Anyway I'll stop bombarding you XD

But if ever need help with book stuff or anything, I'll be happy to do me best! :D

That's GREAT!

I have't read in years myself but ya know? I think I would recommend poetry to kids. I think it depends what kind and their reading level....well Paradise Lost can be a hard book, I read it very young and so had a a lot trouble but for kids who aren't avid readers to read poetry .....you need a good pitch.

I think you kinda have to like take a subtle approach and pitch in a way the child or teen in question will enjoy and then maybe start them off on something easy and work up to hard stuff.

At the very least its important the teens of today read at least non poetry classics.

@slacker_the_hacker: I know, but it would probably be a waste of time. Telling someone they ought to read a book when most of the time they only read when it's required for a grade. I've been there before hehe.

Frankenstein

@slacker_the_hacker All your posts are really cool 0.0

Lord of the flies.