/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.18951814]

What's a book teenagers 12-16 should read? I'm planning to give my little cousins some books since they've liked to kill a mocking bird alot and asked me then to give them more things to read.

Any suggestions /lit/?

[Anonymous No.18951898]

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

[Anonymous No.18951920]

>>18951814
Confessions

[Anonymous No.18951955]

>>18951814
The Hobbit if they're into fantasy
If they're not, then tell them they can go fuck themselves.
The unabridged history of Sneed's Feed and Seed (Fromerly Chuck's)

[Anonymous No.18951958]

>>18951920
I blame my autism for reading Confessions in my teens

[Anonymous No.18951962]

>>18951958
I read Spinoza's Ethics when I was 15, it did not do me any good and only served to make me even more confused than I already was.

[Anonymous No.18952098]

Off the top of my head:
>The Star Diaries (Lem)
>Frankenstein
>War of the Worlds
>any collection of H.P Lovecraft stories
>The Illustrated Man
>The Count of Monte Cristo
>Lord of the Rings
>Different Seasons (Steven King)
>Crime and Punishment
>Starship Troopers
>20k Leagues Under the Sea
>I, Robot

[Anonymous No.18952109]

>>18951962
Wanting to be a schizo desert father by immediately isolating socially and self-sabotaging in order to make it difficult to join the military or enter a college probably wasn't a good early-teens decision lmao

[Anonymous No.18952212]

All the books from Kenneth Oppel
>fantasy, adventure, heart touching stories
>no faggotery, and no LGBT nonsens and progressive ideas which are pushed upon kids
>all the characters have a good personality, you can relate to them and get easily attached
>books are for kids and teenager and have awsome and well descripted atmosphere

I used to read his books back in high school and i recently bought all of his books. Some of his books almost made me cry when i was kid.

https://www.kennethoppel.ca/books

[Anonymous No.18952988]

>>18951814
Discworld books are good for teens. The ones about the guardsmen were my favorite back in the day.

Maybe try other short classics if they liked To Kill a Mockingbird. Lord of the Flies, Of Mice and Men. Do not give them philosophical or religious texts.

[Anonymous No.18953000]

>>18951814
Unironically the Tales of Dunk and Egg, or A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (a collection of the novellas with sketches). It's light hearted knight errant tale, but it has such a breath of optimisms in ASOIAF's world, which is usually just dread. You don't need any knowledge of the main series, its a cute story, with a good message of having a good heart even in a cruel world and humbling yourself.

[Anonymous No.18953067]

>>18952988
If you're in America they either have read these books for school or will, and even if not, they aren't cool, they're "school" books. If you want to give them a short classic, give them something with some sort of "cool" or masculine factor, like Hemingway or The Stranger.

My 17 y/o cousin really likes Mishima and Blood Meridian, he probably gets his book recs from pewpiepie or something. When I was a teen I liked By Night in Chile and The Savage Detectives.

[Anonymous No.18953107]

>>18953067
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas would be good for the niche you're talking about. And Inherent Vice.

[Anonymous No.18953118]

>>18951814
Flowers for Algernon is my go to recommendation for kids who just started reading. It's simultaneously entertaining for them and introduces some more unorthodox writing techniques. Plus it's main theme is something close to them at that age.

[Anonymous No.18953140]

>>18951814
Radicalize him/her:

Life 3.0.
Sapiens.
God's Delusion.

[Anonymous No.18953182]

>>18951814
I enjoyed reading Journey's End for school at this age (ok its a play but whatever). Assuming you're American it's probably not a 'school' book there.

[Anonymous No.18953192]

>>18951920
desu Confessions are great because the sooner you realize how much of a faggot Augustine was (imagine feeling bad over eating pears and getting pussy) the sooner you can write off all the nonsense that derived from it.

[Anonymous No.18953197]

Kurt Vonnegut books are great for early high school, I devoured everything he ever wrote back then.

[Anonymous No.18953215]

>>18951814
Recently found out my dumbass divorcee sister gave my 12 year old niece a copy of “ The Hate U Give “.
Decided to order an illustrated hardcover copy of the hobbit for her because she read the Narnia series and really enjoyed it.

[Anonymous No.18953235]

>>18953192
Most based take on Gay-ustine ever

[Anonymous No.18953528]

>>18953140
Why would he want to blue pill his cousins?

[Anonymous No.18953534]

>>18953192
Nice try Lucifer

[Anonymous No.18953543]

>>18951814
Catch-22 was my favorite in high school. It’s got the literary quality you’re looking for but there’s enough sex and violence to keep a teenager invested. Plus the whole theme about rebelling against authority is catnip for teenagers.

[Anonymous No.18953569]

>>18951958
Are you me? I was 15 or 16 when I became autistically obsessed with the book for some reason.

[Anonymous No.18953572]

>>18951814
>since they've liked to kill a mocking bird alot

[Anonymous No.18953583]

>>18951962
Not him, but I have a similar story. It was a great decision; now I have a successful career on 4chan.

[Anonymous No.18953664]

I found Michael Morpurgo's Private Peaceful to be a very sweet book when I was a kid.

[Anonymous No.18953803]

Great book would recommend for anyone to read

[Anonymous No.18953809]

>>18953803

[Anonymous No.18953857]

slaughterhouse 5
grapes of wrath
canterbury tales (modern english)
percy jackson
feed
frankenstein
great gatsby
catcher in the rye
treasure island
the hobbit
robinson crusoe
adventures of huckleberry finn
anything by jules verne
Aesop’s fables (10/10 this one is)
strange tales from a chinese studio
the golden pot and other tales
the penguin shortened 1001 nights
Fahrenheit 451
the secret garden
letters to a young poet
leaves of grass
pickwick papers
psmith in the city
anne of green gables
silas marner
zorba the greek
alice in wonderland
narnia
lord of the rings

[Anonymous No.18953906]

>>18953569
When I was that age I became autistically obsessed with the Iliad, and that's why I'm cooler than you.

[Anonymous No.18953916]

>>18953906
Ok, now you've got me.

[Anonymous No.18953991]

>>18953569
Oh and as a side note, if my comment sounded like I was reminiscing on a self that I've left behind (which is faggorty, considering children are wiser than all of us), on the contrary, I still love Augustine with my heart and soul....though lately I've been thinking the Jesuits were right about literally everything

[Anonymous No.18954015]

>>18951814

[Anonymous No.18954127]

Give them The Jungle Books. There are two of them and both are good.

[Anonymous No.18954282]

>>18951814
Michael Crichton and Dan Brown were a lot of fun as a teenager.

[Anonymous No.18954289]

>>18954282
How does Dan Brown actually hold up? I read the Da Vinci Code when I was 8 or 9 and hold it responsible for much of my later interest in mythology, religious history, symbolism etc. I remember thoroughly enjoying it but I most people I know think it's not that good

[Anonymous No.18954294]

>>18954015
He rapes his sister, Phoebe.

[Anonymous No.18954344]

>>18954289
I don't think it would hold up well as an adult unless you never really advanced as a reader