Summer reading of Teens

[Anonymous No.11316234]

I am looking for some help to develop a list of books that my cousins should read over the summer. They are two; one is in 7th grade and the other 8th grade. I am thinking of the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Slaughterhouse Five, Catcher in the Rye, and Clockwork Orange. I am also looking at the charts but I don't know what they would be ready for.

[Anonymous No.11316252]

>>11316234

[Anonymous No.11316268]

it's considered one of fitzgerald's weaker works on here, and i can't say i disagree, but for younger readers i would really recommend the great gatsby. it's a fairly surface level book for grasping the concept of motifs and authorial intent, because fitzgerald basically lays out the book in such a way that each motif has a pretty specific, easily discernible meaning and retains that unwavering meaning throughout.

[Anonymous No.11316270]

>>11316234
Mien Kampf, the Stalag or Ford editions. It's a good read for youngsters, and it shares a good message. My father gave me that book when I was a boy and it changed me for the better.

[Anonymous No.11316280]

>>11316268
Fuckoff Shatsby shill

[Anonymous No.11316297]

>>11316280
Okay will do.

[Anonymous No.11316312]

>>11316280
do you want to give a meaningful response or just be contrarian? the book is the most cookie cutter american classic there is, but it's an easy read and a good introduction to american literature and the concept of motifs and symbolism in books, because the motifs and symbolism are some of the easiest to grasp out of any book i've ever read. there's a reason it's in 99% of american ela curriculums, and it's not because it's an outstandingly mind-blowing book.

[Anonymous No.11316326]

>>11316312
It sucks
Terrible characters awful setting stupid plot.

[Anonymous No.11316336]

What have they read before? Also, do they do anything characteristically not digital in their lives?

[Anonymous No.11316338]

>>11316252
Is behead all Satan’s worth reading? I always see people on here recommend it but there aren’t any in depth reviews or anything online

[Anonymous No.11316361]

Isnt it time to redo that chart? Last time we kinda fucked it.

[Anonymous No.11316365]

>>11316338
yes, it works. if you've got amazon prime you can read 60 pages and decide whether you like it or not.

[Anonymous No.11316409]

>>11316338
>people
It's the guy who published it. I'm amazed he's still going at it. It's been what, a year? Two? Three? Guess the mods just got tired of banning him

[Anonymous No.11317416]

>>11316409
Or maybe he's a mod?

[Anonymous No.11318589]

>>11316234
Just trying to remember what I was reading in grades 7 & 8. O. Henry, Thurber, Edgar Allen Poe, Lovecraft, Vonnegut, loads of sci-fi classics, Asimov, Heinlein, Bradbury, etc. Read my first Hemingway, Old Man and the Sea back then. I was big into Greek and Roman mythology, too. I forget the publisher, but there was a series of biographies of famous people of history. All the founding fathers of America, scientists, astronauts, military figures, etc. Find their interests and work from that. That's the best way to keep them reading, and away from the smart phones and vidya games.

[Anonymous No.11320058]

bump

[Anonymous No.11320082]

>>11316234
You can disregard any list with pynchon in it.

[Anonymous No.11320232]

>>11320082
summers are supposed to leave after they're defeated by pynchon, why are you still here

[Anonymous No.11320269]

>>11316234
Does 7th grade mean ~13 years old?
If so,
>Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy
>Lord of the flies
>The day off the jackal/ the Cobra/ the fist of God
>unironically A Song of Ice and Fire
>Going Solo (Roahld Dahl autobiography)
>A couple of Shakespeare's "lesser" plays, preferably Merchant of Venice and Julius Caesar
>Some of Wodehouse's books
At the age of 13, I think it's too much to expect them to read high literature, and more important to make them read and like a large variety of books that they would enjoy, with more action or comedy than depth. They will still have a lifetime to read more intellectually stimulating works after all

[Anonymous No.11321229]

>>11320269
great picks

[Anonymous No.11321444]

>>11320269
Thanks my dude.

[Anonymous No.11321455]

>>11321444
whoa

[Anonymous No.11321870]

[Anonymous No.11321938]

One Hundred Years of Solitude
Iliad
Siddhartha
Dubliners
As I Lay Dying
The Trial

[Anonymous No.11322592]

Behead All Satans
The Tainted Turd
The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs
Faster Than the Speed of Love
Wish It, Want It, Do It

[Anonymous No.11323150]

Brave New World and 1984. Ask them which speculation they think was closer.

People here shit on Sanderson, but if they like fantasy you can't go wrong with Mistborn. Started reading him around 13, was immediately hooked.

[Anonymous No.11323670]

>>11316234
I'm thinking of Catch-22.

[Anonymous No.11323774]

>>11316326
Agreed, tried into Tender is the Night

For his time period and style I understand how he could write so "fashinably" but find it a bit over the top.

I'd take Hemingway all day tho

[Anonymous No.11324384]

>>11321938
Good picks.

[Anonymous No.11324419]

>>11316234
Iliad
Lord of The Flies
Animal Farm
Alchemist
Dante's Inferno
Farenheit 451
Macbeth
Tao Te Ching
The War of Art (not sun tzu)
Antigone

[Anonymous No.11324457]

Have them read The Master and Margarita

[Anonymous No.11325667]

>>11316234
Found this a while back on here

[Anonymous No.11325676]

>>11325667

[Anonymous No.11325708]

If they’re not nuts about reading, don’t force them to do too many in a summer, or they’ll grow to hate it, just a few shorter ones that they’ll be able to connect with.

There’s been a lot of great suggestions on here. I’d suggest:

Lord of the Flies
Ender’s Game
The Catcher in the Rye
Fahrenheit 451
The Great Gatsby
then maybe The Hobbit, if they haven’t read it already.

I know most of he above books are genre fiction, but kids love that shit, and they’ll gobble through it in no time and stay excited about it. Again, if they don’t like books much, don’t push to get through a whole list. Just make it about having fun.

[Anonymous No.11325765]

>>11316234
Don't forget this shit.

[Anonymous No.11326228]

>>11316234
OP I think all the books you posted will be ideal for them in 2-3 years. Given their ages I think
>Huck Finn
will largely go over their heads, especially the younger one
>Slaughterhouse Five
alright, I guess, though they'll have more fun with soft sci-fi like Fahrenheit 451
>Catcher in the Rye
all about a dude with teenage angst. They read that at 15 or 16 they'll get it. Now, I don't think it'll mean much.
>Clockwork Orange
Unless you get them a copy with the glossary, there's no way 12/13 year olds will be able to maintain their interest through the course of the whole novel with the made up language. I read it at 15 and LOVED it, but at 13 I cannot imagine making the effort. They will probably hate you for it, even if they'd love the story on its own.

>>11316270
Hello, my Aryan brother.

[Anonymous No.11326573]

>>11316234
banned books to peak there interest

[Anonymous No.11327952]

Some of these, maybe?

[Anonymous No.11328982]

>>11316234
Those you mentioned might be great. Anyways, if you want some recs, these are some books I would have loved at 14:

>Fear and Loathing
>Naked Lunch
>The Picture of Dorian Gray
>Les Fleurs du Mal (implying they like poetry already)
>Getting Even
>Story of the Eye
>The Savage Detectives
>On the Road
>Lolita

Also, if you're a spanish speaker, 'Estrella de la Calle Sexta' is an insanely funny novel that might appeal to someone of that age --and anyone who's older--.

[Anonymous No.11329393]

>>11316234

[Anonymous No.11329402]

>>11329393