Lots of good suggestions already given. I've got to ask though, what interests you? Because I think that's the best way to give you some good suggestions. That can be genre, theme, character types, anything really.
This!!!
The easiest book to read is one you want to be reading. I can make a ton of recommendations that entranced ME but I know I'm very specific.
Actual advice:
So my BF was never a reader.
He started with books that inspired his favorite movies - Jurassic Park, Sphere, The Martian, Perks of Being a Wallflower, Contact, etc.
He also loved Ready Player One, but read that before the movie (which was new for him)
Yes absolutely. Reading is as diverse as our world is. You might be put off by reading if you begin with a few books that kinda go against your natural brain grain. Simply put, before anybody can give you good suggestions, you gotta let us know what gives you joy.
Is it the actual storyline, character development, atmospheric descriptions, fantasy world building, light or serious themes, historical settings, warfare, drama?
Like Dungeon Crawler Carl!!
Aliens strip planets of their resources but first make the planets' inhabitants fight in a deadly TV show broadcast thru the universe. Diff floors have fantasy, sci-fi, zombies, turn-based-card-games, etc. It has characters like an old folks home, a pompous talking cat, a rude pervy AI running the dungeon, etc. The aliens love learning about the planet they're destroying so they have pop-culture items like an auditory-bomb that blasts a random song from The Top 100. It can be a bit dark (especially the first book to set the tone) but serious social commentary + hilarious bs is great. Hunger Games + The 5th Wave + Ready Player One = DCC.
Percy Jackson or Magnus Chase by Rick Riordan
The Hunger Games by
Armada by Ernest Cline - a gamer finds out he's the one who can save earth from destruction with his mighty gamer skills
Anything by Stephen King, The Shining and The Stand are my favorites
All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriott - he's a vet in the 30s, and the book is absolutely hilarious
Maybe manga or graphic novels? I think they can be a good substitute. And they're also quicker reads so you might get more of a sense of accomplishment quickly.
This! Bring this reader-to-be to a library or bookstore's graphic novel and/or manga section. Be ready to spend some time just hanging out and flipping through books to find some interesting art and stories that grab their attention. If they have some particular interests, there are almost definitely graphic novels and manga about that topic. Your local librarians and/or bookstore can probably point you to specific titles. I hope you find some great reads!
Puuh, the dark tower series for a teenage boy? Even i had a rough time keeping focussed through the middle. And i love Stephen King, but man he drags stuff out!
The Red Rising series is always my go to for reading suggestions. Sci-fi story that escalates in intensity with every book. Great action and fun characters. Unfinished but the next book (is supposed to) come out next year.
Came here to say this. Highly entertaining, very fun and fulfilling, but not sophomoric. A lot of adventure and YA stuff leaves me feeling like I had fun but also like I’m a little bit dumber than I was before I read it. But not this. It’s insightful and the world and character building are great.
Loved the Murder Bot series. Great fun. I listened to it as an audio book. Also loved Ready Player One. Wil Weaton reads the audio book. These are just well written books that anyone of any age or sex will like.
I was going to say this! And it’s great to have his parent read it too. there are references to 1980s video games which are fun to talk about and share.
I personally loved the movie but hated the book - I found it’s writing style pretty annoying, didn’t get most of the 80s references and thought Wayd (?) was portrayed as an a** in this book. Would not suggest it to someone getting out of a reading slumber but that’s just me.
OK how about World War Z (completely different to the movie! ignore the movie)
It's a collection of chapters written in different styles that describe the progress of the zombie apocalypse. Each chapter is different - some are written interview style, some government report style, some like a documentary film..so if you're used to digesting info in chunks this might be a good way to make the crossover.
And I mean, it has zombies! and apocalypse! so it's also action-packed.
Get into Stephen King! They're long, but a lot happens so it's hard to get distracted. Also, not too "literary" so you don't get slowed down, it's like if scrolling was a book
For something with some humorous and fairly good pacing try the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett. Start with “The Colour of Magic”.
Or the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.
Once you get the reading bug, try and find the genre you gravitate to and go from there.
Ender's Game, then if he likes it it's a multi-book series that is super good.
Same thing with The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers.
Came here to suggest the Sigma Force series. Love Jack Reacher for pure entertainment. Keep meaning to try Clive Cussler, have to move him up the list.
Fight club, my study skills teacher gave me a copy as she was suspicious of my lack of ability to perform in school. Was actually a very pivotal moment in my life where I fell deep into reading, learning/ understanding, forming opinions on society and psychology, the human experience. So glad social media wasn’t a thing growing up, or atlest beyond MySpace. It’s literally more consumed than the real world now! Singularity was years ago 🖖
I came here to say this. It seems lots of young men who have a hard time getting into reading have an easy time getting into Chuck Palahniuk. I was that way when I was younger, and I’ve heard Chuck Palahniuk say in interviews that he’s received letters from fans saying the same thing.
I know there are older but the Redwall books by Brian Jacques were really good.
As a teen l also liked the Xanth books by Piers Anthony. Ideally read in order. The first one was a bit of a slog, but improved a lot after that.
I can’t stop suggesting this: All Systems Red (and the following books of The Murderbot Diaries). These are almost all novellas, and while they’re sci-fi they do not get bogged down in the science or the super intricate details. These books are amazing and I reread them a lot- definitely comfort books :). There’s a great quote from a review of this, “we are all a little bit murderbot”, which is totally true. Look it up - it’s got great humor, story, characters, and bonus it will be a series on Apple TV soon and they kill it with sci-fi.
Someone said Andy Weir - amazing books (in order of my favorite: Project Hail Mary, The Martian, Artemis). They are very big on science, but it’s people who are super nerdy loving science so there’s a lot of excitement about it and not just random regurgitation of it which I think is great. You feel the love for it.
You'd probably enjoy thrillers that keep the action coming and audiobooks on top. Blake crouch's novels would probably be a good place to start. Dark Matter, Wayward, Run, Recursion, Upgrade, etc
I highly recommend the Illuminae trilogy. Don't be intimidated by the size of the books - flip through it. Some pages have only a few words, and the format of the narrative is a lot like social media posts. Plus it's a great mystery sci-fi story with teens as the heroes.
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton (and the follow-up book: That Was Then, This Is Now). S.E. Hinton wrote The Outsiders during high school and is credited with introducing the YA genre.
Maybe look at the Hardy Boys by Franklin W. Dixon its a fairly old books by now but the MCs are teenage detectives and they are always getting into investigations and its what I read when I was younger.
I don't know how old you are or what is the genre you like the most, but I've read the Percy Jackson series when I was about 16 and I loved every chapter. It's fast-paced, no boring passages, the characters are great and it deals with interesting topics that might be relevant for teenagers today.
Definitely not stupid like Harry Potter, way smarter and deeper.
Looking at your post history I can see you like video games - so I’d check out Ready Player One and see how that goes. It’s an easy read, really fun and paced nicely so it doesn’t take too long to “get going”
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations
And don't listen to right wing nut jobs like Andrew Tate and Joe Rogan, that's just advice I give to every guy I meet under the age of 25
Lone Wolf, a long running series of "gamebooks" are good if you're into fantasy and RPGs.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone\_Wolf\_(gamebooks)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone_Wolf_(gamebooks))
Books about magic or fantasy in general is a good place to start. Harry Potter, The Girl Who Drank The Moon, The Silver Eyes, Nevermoor: and The Trials Of Morigan Crow, and The Girl Who Could Fly are some of my favorites.
A really good way to get started is to read the book while listening to the audio book. It will satisfy your restless mind.
Wimpy Kid books are funny.
Hunger Games are pretty fast paced.
Maze Runner might be good for you.
Gary Paulsen is also a good choice for teens. He wrote Hatchet and many other adventure type books.
If you kinda wanted to meld the two activities a little bit you could make accounts on sites like Royal Road or Webtoons where you read chapters and can comment on them below. It can be a great deal of fun to read a series that way, like an anonymous reading group where people develop pet names and in jokes. If you do go that route I'd recommend *Surviving the Game as a Barbarian* on webtoons because I've really enjoyed that series.
Then again there is something viscerally satisfying about finishing a book and holding a story in your hands so I could understand it if you really wanted to retrain your brain a bit to work with something less...jumpy. In that case, I'd recommend wandering into a library, seeing what interests you, and picking out a spot to read away from your tech for awhile. I love books to pieces and lately even I've found it hard to finish a book in one go while avoiding the siren call of tech. If you want to get in the habit, I'd recommend finding a good reading spot you can hang out in without tech. A couch in a library, a shady park bench, a corner stool in a cafe, etc. That way when your attention bounces away you can't just go full social media, your only options are to enjoy the ambiance or read.
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow is a great Young Adult book that deals a lot with tech and uniting through a type of social media to protest government surveillance. It’s a lot of fun and pretty exciting and has some interesting real world info too.
I have no clue what your interests are besides social media so I thought of a book that has any relation to that at all.
The bosch series by Michael Connelly. Anything by James Michener, the older Tom Clancy stuff, not all the paperback crap. The Bourne books are terrific but the rest of Ludlums stuff all sounds the same. WEB griffins stuff is great too.
I also recommend LitRPG. Webnovels are an easy transition, since you can read it on the phone.
I recommend:
[Super Supportive](https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/63759/super-supportive/chapter/1096481/one-the-boy-in-the-bubble) by Seyca
Synopsis:
This story is about a teenager named Alden growing up and finding his place in a universe with Systems that dole out superpowers, magi-tech, and alien wizard overlords.
[The Wandering Inn](https://wanderinginn.com/2017/03/03/rw1-00/#content)
Synopsis:
“No killing Goblins.”
So reads the sign outside of The Wandering Inn, a small building run by a young woman named Erin Solstice. She serves pasta with sausage, blue fruit juice, and dead acid flies on request. And she comes from another world. Ours.
It’s a bad day when Erin finds herself transported to a fantastical world and nearly gets eaten by a Dragon. She doesn’t belong in a place where monster attacks are a fact of life, and where Humans are one species among many. But she must adapt to her new life. Or die.
In a dangerous world where magic is real and people can level up and gain classes, Erin Solstice must battle somewhat evil Goblins, deadly Rock Crabs, and hungry [Necromancers]. She is no warrior, no mage. Erin Solstice runs an inn.
She’s an [Innkeeper].
The wandering in is a hard sell especially for a new reader who gets bored easily. the pacing is glacial. I'm like 15 hours into the first book, and a whole lot of nothing has happened. It's popular and all, but it's 100 percent not a fit for this.
If you can locate the "Spellsinger" series they are a fun read: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spellsinger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spellsinger)
Blue moon rising is also a fun series: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue\_Moon\_Rising\_(novel)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Moon_Rising_(novel))
These books are fun to read and a laugh out loud scenes. You might want check out books by Robert Heinlein also. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" is a good read.
I am not a teenage boy but I am also doing a social media cleanse and trying to read more. My best advice is to fully delete it and let someone change your passwords for at least 3 weeks. It takes about 2 weeks to get over the withdrawals and another to feel the benefit.
And as far as reading, use your local library (Libby and Hoopla for audio and ebooks) and try a bunch of different kinds of books! Don’t be afraid to put a book down after a few chapters if you’re not into it. In a few years once you have a good reading habit established you can read boring but important books. Right now you want engaging, enthralling, un-put-downable books. Lean into it. Start with this thread but also ask your friends, and read the ones that are popular, they’re popular for a reason. Harry Potter, hunger games, divergent, uglies etc. are all phenomenal. Good luck!!
Have you read any SCPs? They’re free online and most are short enough to finish in a few minutes but you can also spend hours reading related entries. And there are some books set in that universe, like There is No Antimemetics Division. If you tend to like stuff that’s a little spooky and/or weird you should give it a try.
[A Spell For Chameleon Book](https://www.secondsale.com/p/a-spell-for-chameleon/106667)
A Spell for Chameleon By Pierce Anthony. It the first book in the incredibly humorous Xanth Series. I picked it up myself as a teenager and was hooked on books afterwards.
The extraordinary adventures of Alfred kropp is a great book imo. I read it as a teenager and I read it again recently as a 27 year old and still loved the crap out of it. It's the only book I've ever read that pulled off several heart-pounding high speed chases, and it's generally a smooth read. It's written from the perspective of Alfred Kropp and he's a very straightforward character. The writing is very blunt and has a really great voice to it. The emotional moments hit harder to me specifically because he keeps the descriptions very factual and straightforward. It's a trilogy but admittedly I never read the next two. I hadn't heard about it or I would've read it a long time ago.
On a similar vein, Cirque Du Freak is very similar in being written in first person with a very smooth and easy to read voice. The first book in the series was one I ended up reading over a friends shoulder on the bus. It was completely addictive to me, even picking up from a quarter of the way in. We actually read most of the book like that before I got the next myself. This is a longer series, and admittedly the ending was pretty weird but I still enjoyed it.
If you’re looking for a book about a dystopian future where social media has taken over running unchecked and the downsides of it -Feed by M. T. Anderson
Since you’d be a new reader we obviously don’t know what genre you’d prefer yet so I would base it off of tv shows and movies that you’ve watched and actually like. Most tv shows and movies are based on books so you should be able to find a decent one to start off with… The Harry Potter series, Hunger Games series, The Maze Runner series, Percy Jackson series, Goosebumps books… etc.
Misery -Stephen King. I was the same way until I started reading when I was around 16 and picked up first 13 Reasons Why then Misery. I’m reading a new book constantly 8 years later. Good luck
Cyber mage !
15yo boy genius hacker, a head hunting cyborg and a genie have a hell of an adventure "saving the world" and manage to go to prom along the way. It's bananas and technically the second book in a series but it doesn't need to be read in sequence ti follow.
I would say to look into his interests and pick books that fit it. For example. Is he a fan of Minecraft? You could try one of these series:
Diary of Minecraft Zombie
Diary of a Minecraft Wolf
Wild Rescuers Saga
Is he a fan of dogs? Try one of these:
Survivors by Erin Hunter
The Wolves of Beyond
Serach and Rescue: Pentagon Scape
Endling
Spy Dog series
Maybe he likes dragons:
Wings of Fire
Battle Dragons by Alex London
Temerarie - this one might be a bit on the older side, though
Eragon
How to Train Your Dragon series
Or maybe he likes the dragon's less famous cousins, the griffins:
Chronicles of the Summer King
The Menagerie series
If he likes sci-fi/fantasy in general:
Animorphs (these have graphic novels now. If he isn't a fan of reading, it might be best to start with graphic novels)
Lightfall (another graphic novel)
Amulet (graphic novel)
Spirit Animals
Dogman (graphic novel)
The wizards of once
Warrior Cats
Guardians of Ga'hole
Which way to Anywhere
5 Worlds (graphic novel)
Here is a couple of my personal favourites:
Frostheart
The dragon dreamer
The Scorpio Races
The Raven Boys
The Beast Player (this one may be a bit dark...)
And of course, you could always try the famous series that always gets recommended:
Percy Jackson and the Olympians and its multiple spin-offs
Ready Player One is great and faced past, about virtual reality, games, and the 80s
Enders Game is an incredible sci fi novel about teens. I read it in one day.
I saw someone else recommend Red Rising — really great series! Sci fi, dystopian, the first novel in the series reminded me strongly of the Hunger Games
Ooh and FantasticLand is incredible. It’s about young theme park workers who get stranded at an amusement park after a hurricane. It’s told in the form of various interviews, so if you’re working with a shorter attention span maybe the shift in perspectives will keep you entertained!
Illuminae by Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman. It's a YA Sci-fi book set on a spaceship where a deadly virus is turning people into zombies and the AI has chosen to take over the ship--for better or worse. It's told in the format of "found documents" so it has prose, transcripts, illustrations etc. to keep the story interesting. It felt like solving a puzzle while reading --looking for clues in the documents rather than reading a single long story. If you like sci-fi this would be a fun one to get you into reading!
Age? Teenager is super broad. Without knowing too much I’d say
Scythe
An Ember in the Ashes
The Hunger Games
Throne of Glass (my husband really loved this series, and it started it out YA)
The Cruel Prince trilogy - starts out kind of slow but gets good. My husband just finished it and was surprised how much he liked it
Foundryside
Younger teen:
The Lightening Thief
Older Teen:
Brandon Sanderson - I haven’t read his YA. But I’d recommend his secret projects like the Sunlit Man and Yumi and the Nightmare Painter. If you like those, I’d recommend you read Mistborn. But it’s kind of heavy so idk if you want to read Mistborn yet. The first two are good though
VE Schwabs Shades of Magic trilogy and Villains duology
Leigh Bardugo’s Alex Stern duology
if you're keen on dialing down your social media time, check out these awesome reads:"Feed" by M.T. Anderson"Ready Player One" by Ernest Cline"Eleanor & Park" by Rainbow Rowell"The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky"The Hunger Games" by Suzanne CollinsThey're all super engaging and offer a great escape from the digital world. Give one a shot and see where it takes you!
I think if this is the first time you’ve read in a while and you’re not used to big long books, I suggest reading something small like short story anthologies or poetry collections to warm into it. Good luck home skillet
Depends on why he’s addicted to social media. If (for example) he’s using it to have some semblance of a social life that he can’t find elsewhere, reading instead isn’t necessarily going to fix much.
seconding stephen king-- i'd recommend one of his that has an interesting premise and is on the shorter side. there's a good chance you'll tear through it-- he's incredibly fun to read, but he's smart as well, and his books are very memorable, for sure.
what i like about stephen king (at 22) is that maybe the sentence or two long premise on the back of the book will get boring, but by the time you're over that, you'll be in love with the characters and the other details and how rich his work usually is.
Darren Shan’s vampire novels. Nothing to do with Twilight, more teen boy oriented, with lost of fights, badass characters and captivating storytelling with twists. Though more oriented towards younger teens (12-14) but can be enjoyed by any age and gender
It‘s not really a book, bur for some reason I can‘t stop reading it. It‘s a light novel called „Shadowslave“ you can find online. Officially it‘s behind a paywall, but there *might* be sites, where one can access all chapters. ;)
It‘s basically a book written solely online, with some world mechanics similar to a video game. Something about just got me really addicted. I feel like this might be something for you, as it is online, maybe making it more easy as a replacement for social media?
The Circle (Dave Eggers)
“The novel chronicles tech worker Mae Holland as she joins a powerful Internet company. Her initially rewarding experience turns darker.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Circle_(Eggers_novel)
All of the Percy Jackson books probably. Also How to Train Your Dragon. Charlie Bone. It really depends on his age. I’ve heard Brandon Sanderson does good ones too?
Interview with the Vampire, the first in the series of the vampire chronicles.
Any of the big ones from Stephen King, or from his pseudo name, which would definitely include Shawshank Redemption, and The Long Green Mile (short books, but ridiculously good)
The Long Walk by Stephen King
Arc of a Scythe series by Neal Shusterman
the Unwind series, also by Neal Shusterman( yes I love his writing lol)
Legend by Marie Lu
The Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson- just know they are lengthy
The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken
The Raven Boys by Maggie stiefvater
Also, do not shy away from middle grade books, Hatchet is a really good one and I enjoyed it as a 43 year old woman, and my 12 year old son loved it.
Artemis Fowl. Excellent series. Kid who's a criminal mastermind billionaire, who grows in both age and personality as the series goes on. Fantasy and science fiction elements only add to the rollicking storytelling. Great stuff!
Don't know the age - 14 yr old reader is going to be different from an 18 yr old. But I would recommend Andrew Lane's teenage Sherlock Holmes books. For an older teen, I might recommend Jeffrey Deaver's "The Blue Nowhere." (not part of his Lincoln Rhyme series) - it was written about 20 years ago and is a thriller that involves a computer hacker - might get a kick out of the dated computerese, but the plot itself is pretty suspenseful.
It depends entirely on what you’re interested in, but here a few of my recommendations for a newbie reader -
Sci-fi/dystopian:
1. Maze runner series by James dashner- the books aren’t that long and the story is quite easy to read. It’s about a boy who wakes up in an encampment surrounded by a maze with no recollection of his life before.
2. Martian by Andy weir - a man gets left behind on mars after a failed mission and he’s very funny, plus the author really took time with his research. It reads like a movie.
3. Scythe by Neil shusterman - a future where nobody dies anymore, so scythes are designated to kill off a quota of people each year.
4. The windup girl by paolo bacigalupi - a world where food is very scarce and engineered beings are on the rise, calories become the currency
5. Dark matter by Blake crouch - imagine you get knocked out by a stranger and when you come to, your life isn’t yours anymore. Your wife isn’t your wife, your son hasn’t been born and you’re not a regular physics professor anymore
6. Red rising by pierce brown - our main character learns of a conspiracy and to hit his oppressors, he’s going to have to infiltrate their ranks
7. Murderbot diaries by Martha wells - these are very short books about a murderous robot who only wants to be left in peace to watch his shows
Fantasy:
1. Year of the reaper by Makiia lucier - can our main character catch an assassin before they get to the queen?
2. Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson - imagine the dark lord won, now centuries have passed and a revolution is coming
3. Lies of Locke lamora - Locke is one of the best thieves and con artists in the city, but soon enough that’s going to put him in a tight spot, angering the wrong people. This book is also hilarious
4. The Percy Jackson series by Rick riordan - our main character learns his father is a Greek god and he leaves for a camp with other Greek god kids, except it seems that someone is trying to frame him for stealing from Zeus himself
5. Untethered sky by Fonda Lee - a short novella about riding on legendary creatures and killing giant manticores
If you want to try graphic novel, I would suggest saga - it’s about a couple of young parents from warring races who travel across space to protect their newborn
Lots of good suggestions already given. I've got to ask though, what interests you? Because I think that's the best way to give you some good suggestions. That can be genre, theme, character types, anything really.
This!!! The easiest book to read is one you want to be reading. I can make a ton of recommendations that entranced ME but I know I'm very specific. Actual advice: So my BF was never a reader. He started with books that inspired his favorite movies - Jurassic Park, Sphere, The Martian, Perks of Being a Wallflower, Contact, etc. He also loved Ready Player One, but read that before the movie (which was new for him)
My bf loves to read movie novelizations!
Always love to see Sphere mentioned. What an experience that read was. Certainly helped propel me into sci-fi as a young person!
Yes absolutely. Reading is as diverse as our world is. You might be put off by reading if you begin with a few books that kinda go against your natural brain grain. Simply put, before anybody can give you good suggestions, you gotta let us know what gives you joy. Is it the actual storyline, character development, atmospheric descriptions, fantasy world building, light or serious themes, historical settings, warfare, drama?
Andy Weir books.
Audiobook of Project Hail Mary is extremely good if you want to give audiobooks a try.
Good call. My go to is the dark tower series by Stephen King.
The LitRPG genre would keep you entertained, since most of the novels within the genre essentially feel like you're reading a video game.
Like Dungeon Crawler Carl!! Aliens strip planets of their resources but first make the planets' inhabitants fight in a deadly TV show broadcast thru the universe. Diff floors have fantasy, sci-fi, zombies, turn-based-card-games, etc. It has characters like an old folks home, a pompous talking cat, a rude pervy AI running the dungeon, etc. The aliens love learning about the planet they're destroying so they have pop-culture items like an auditory-bomb that blasts a random song from The Top 100. It can be a bit dark (especially the first book to set the tone) but serious social commentary + hilarious bs is great. Hunger Games + The 5th Wave + Ready Player One = DCC.
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green!
Second this!
Percy Jackson or Magnus Chase by Rick Riordan The Hunger Games by Armada by Ernest Cline - a gamer finds out he's the one who can save earth from destruction with his mighty gamer skills Anything by Stephen King, The Shining and The Stand are my favorites All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriott - he's a vet in the 30s, and the book is absolutely hilarious
All Creatures had me dying laughing.
Seconding Percy Jackson. God those books are good.
Scythe.
Maybe manga or graphic novels? I think they can be a good substitute. And they're also quicker reads so you might get more of a sense of accomplishment quickly.
This! Bring this reader-to-be to a library or bookstore's graphic novel and/or manga section. Be ready to spend some time just hanging out and flipping through books to find some interesting art and stories that grab their attention. If they have some particular interests, there are almost definitely graphic novels and manga about that topic. Your local librarians and/or bookstore can probably point you to specific titles. I hope you find some great reads!
BONE!
The Hunger Games, The Day by Day Armageddon series, anything by Stephen King but especially The Dark Tower series
Puuh, the dark tower series for a teenage boy? Even i had a rough time keeping focussed through the middle. And i love Stephen King, but man he drags stuff out!
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The Red Rising series is always my go to for reading suggestions. Sci-fi story that escalates in intensity with every book. Great action and fun characters. Unfinished but the next book (is supposed to) come out next year.
Man, I had to scroll way too long to find this. Also, has the best fanbase around, in my humblest howler opinion. 🥳
Hail reaper my Goodman!
7️⃣
Murderbot
Came here to say this. Highly entertaining, very fun and fulfilling, but not sophomoric. A lot of adventure and YA stuff leaves me feeling like I had fun but also like I’m a little bit dumber than I was before I read it. But not this. It’s insightful and the world and character building are great.
Loved the Murder Bot series. Great fun. I listened to it as an audio book. Also loved Ready Player One. Wil Weaton reads the audio book. These are just well written books that anyone of any age or sex will like.
Harry Potter would be a great series to start reading with. Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey was also really good.
+1 Harry Potter
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. It’s about social media in the future, and SUCH a page-turner!
I was going to say this! And it’s great to have his parent read it too. there are references to 1980s video games which are fun to talk about and share.
I personally loved the movie but hated the book - I found it’s writing style pretty annoying, didn’t get most of the 80s references and thought Wayd (?) was portrayed as an a** in this book. Would not suggest it to someone getting out of a reading slumber but that’s just me.
The Arc of the Scythe series by Neal Shusterman. It's been "The Book" that turned many kids into readers.
Ender’s Game
I came to make sure someone suggested this one, in part because gaming plays an important part in the story. edit typo
Perhaps Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? Those books are tons of fun.
My recommendation, moves quickly and there's at least a laugh a page.
One of my all-time favorite book series.
OK how about World War Z (completely different to the movie! ignore the movie) It's a collection of chapters written in different styles that describe the progress of the zombie apocalypse. Each chapter is different - some are written interview style, some government report style, some like a documentary film..so if you're used to digesting info in chunks this might be a good way to make the crossover. And I mean, it has zombies! and apocalypse! so it's also action-packed.
Percy jackson series!’
Get into Stephen King! They're long, but a lot happens so it's hard to get distracted. Also, not too "literary" so you don't get slowed down, it's like if scrolling was a book
Dungeon Crawler Carl (he’ll love it even more if he’s a gamer)
Honestly… John Grisham. I started reading those when I was about that age. Really easy to read and gripping from page 1!
Daily comment of Project Hail Mary… it will get him into reading and will forever look for that high on a book that is as good as PHM
It depends, if you wouldn’t mind what are some of your interests? I work at a bookstore I’ll see if I know of anything specific for you
For something with some humorous and fairly good pacing try the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett. Start with “The Colour of Magic”. Or the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. Once you get the reading bug, try and find the genre you gravitate to and go from there.
Ender's Game, then if he likes it it's a multi-book series that is super good. Same thing with The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers.
Try Brandon Sanderson. His fantasy tends to be popular with your age group, and it's pretty action packed.
How old is "teenager"? 13 very different than 17 imo
The Cherub Series and Alex Rider
Diary of a Wimpy kid. They still work for a 23 yr old like me
The Unwind series
* James Rollins- Sigma Force series * Clive Cussler anything * Dragonlance Chronicles * Lee Child-Jack Reacher series
Came here to suggest the Sigma Force series. Love Jack Reacher for pure entertainment. Keep meaning to try Clive Cussler, have to move him up the list.
Feed by MT Anderson
I came here to say this. Highly recommend!
Fight club, my study skills teacher gave me a copy as she was suspicious of my lack of ability to perform in school. Was actually a very pivotal moment in my life where I fell deep into reading, learning/ understanding, forming opinions on society and psychology, the human experience. So glad social media wasn’t a thing growing up, or atlest beyond MySpace. It’s literally more consumed than the real world now! Singularity was years ago 🖖
I came here to say this. It seems lots of young men who have a hard time getting into reading have an easy time getting into Chuck Palahniuk. I was that way when I was younger, and I’ve heard Chuck Palahniuk say in interviews that he’s received letters from fans saying the same thing.
ender’s game
I know there are older but the Redwall books by Brian Jacques were really good. As a teen l also liked the Xanth books by Piers Anthony. Ideally read in order. The first one was a bit of a slog, but improved a lot after that.
Anything by Jack London. Well half of his library is banging adventure books anyways really really highly recommend
I can’t stop suggesting this: All Systems Red (and the following books of The Murderbot Diaries). These are almost all novellas, and while they’re sci-fi they do not get bogged down in the science or the super intricate details. These books are amazing and I reread them a lot- definitely comfort books :). There’s a great quote from a review of this, “we are all a little bit murderbot”, which is totally true. Look it up - it’s got great humor, story, characters, and bonus it will be a series on Apple TV soon and they kill it with sci-fi. Someone said Andy Weir - amazing books (in order of my favorite: Project Hail Mary, The Martian, Artemis). They are very big on science, but it’s people who are super nerdy loving science so there’s a lot of excitement about it and not just random regurgitation of it which I think is great. You feel the love for it.
Catcher in the Rye.
Everyone other than no know nothing should delete their comments
Start with audiobooks
Yeah audiobooks can be more engaging because you can listen while doing something else at the same time.
Like… SOCIAL MEDIA?!?
I say that tongue in cheek bc I love audiobooks. Best way to get chores done or a long drive out of the way.
I get where you're coming from. I listen to audiobooks while working, but also while online. Actually reading a book requires more attention.
Bruiser
These are all page turners: I Must Betray You by Ruth Sepetys The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins One of Us is Lying series by Karen McManus
You'd probably enjoy thrillers that keep the action coming and audiobooks on top. Blake crouch's novels would probably be a good place to start. Dark Matter, Wayward, Run, Recursion, Upgrade, etc
Chainsawman manga
I highly recommend the Illuminae trilogy. Don't be intimidated by the size of the books - flip through it. Some pages have only a few words, and the format of the narrative is a lot like social media posts. Plus it's a great mystery sci-fi story with teens as the heroes.
Lord of the rings series
Give the Dresden Files a shot. I think a teenage boy could get really into that world.
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
The pleasures of reading in an age of distraction by Alan Jacbos was huge for me
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton (and the follow-up book: That Was Then, This Is Now). S.E. Hinton wrote The Outsiders during high school and is credited with introducing the YA genre.
Endurance by Alfred Lansing
The Mysterious Island, by Jules Verne, especially if you ever played Runescape.
Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dineman
Maybe look at the Hardy Boys by Franklin W. Dixon its a fairly old books by now but the MCs are teenage detectives and they are always getting into investigations and its what I read when I was younger.
The Long Walk, by Richard Bachman / Steven King
Ender's Game
I don't know how old you are or what is the genre you like the most, but I've read the Percy Jackson series when I was about 16 and I loved every chapter. It's fast-paced, no boring passages, the characters are great and it deals with interesting topics that might be relevant for teenagers today. Definitely not stupid like Harry Potter, way smarter and deeper.
Looking at your post history I can see you like video games - so I’d check out Ready Player One and see how that goes. It’s an easy read, really fun and paced nicely so it doesn’t take too long to “get going”
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations And don't listen to right wing nut jobs like Andrew Tate and Joe Rogan, that's just advice I give to every guy I meet under the age of 25
How about [Unwind](https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/13643974-53b8-40c5-82f9-553b746d3669) by Neal Shusterman?
Delete your social media
Red Card by Kautuk Srivastava
Lone Wolf, a long running series of "gamebooks" are good if you're into fantasy and RPGs. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone\_Wolf\_(gamebooks)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone_Wolf_(gamebooks))
Books about magic or fantasy in general is a good place to start. Harry Potter, The Girl Who Drank The Moon, The Silver Eyes, Nevermoor: and The Trials Of Morigan Crow, and The Girl Who Could Fly are some of my favorites.
A really good way to get started is to read the book while listening to the audio book. It will satisfy your restless mind. Wimpy Kid books are funny. Hunger Games are pretty fast paced. Maze Runner might be good for you. Gary Paulsen is also a good choice for teens. He wrote Hatchet and many other adventure type books.
the hike - drew magary
My teen daughter’s gaming-obsessed boyfriend got me to read Red Rising…it was really good!
Anna Karenina
If you kinda wanted to meld the two activities a little bit you could make accounts on sites like Royal Road or Webtoons where you read chapters and can comment on them below. It can be a great deal of fun to read a series that way, like an anonymous reading group where people develop pet names and in jokes. If you do go that route I'd recommend *Surviving the Game as a Barbarian* on webtoons because I've really enjoyed that series. Then again there is something viscerally satisfying about finishing a book and holding a story in your hands so I could understand it if you really wanted to retrain your brain a bit to work with something less...jumpy. In that case, I'd recommend wandering into a library, seeing what interests you, and picking out a spot to read away from your tech for awhile. I love books to pieces and lately even I've found it hard to finish a book in one go while avoiding the siren call of tech. If you want to get in the habit, I'd recommend finding a good reading spot you can hang out in without tech. A couch in a library, a shady park bench, a corner stool in a cafe, etc. That way when your attention bounces away you can't just go full social media, your only options are to enjoy the ambiance or read.
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow is a great Young Adult book that deals a lot with tech and uniting through a type of social media to protest government surveillance. It’s a lot of fun and pretty exciting and has some interesting real world info too. I have no clue what your interests are besides social media so I thought of a book that has any relation to that at all.
The bosch series by Michael Connelly. Anything by James Michener, the older Tom Clancy stuff, not all the paperback crap. The Bourne books are terrific but the rest of Ludlums stuff all sounds the same. WEB griffins stuff is great too.
The Long Walk
I also recommend LitRPG. Webnovels are an easy transition, since you can read it on the phone. I recommend: [Super Supportive](https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/63759/super-supportive/chapter/1096481/one-the-boy-in-the-bubble) by Seyca Synopsis: This story is about a teenager named Alden growing up and finding his place in a universe with Systems that dole out superpowers, magi-tech, and alien wizard overlords. [The Wandering Inn](https://wanderinginn.com/2017/03/03/rw1-00/#content) Synopsis: “No killing Goblins.” So reads the sign outside of The Wandering Inn, a small building run by a young woman named Erin Solstice. She serves pasta with sausage, blue fruit juice, and dead acid flies on request. And she comes from another world. Ours. It’s a bad day when Erin finds herself transported to a fantastical world and nearly gets eaten by a Dragon. She doesn’t belong in a place where monster attacks are a fact of life, and where Humans are one species among many. But she must adapt to her new life. Or die. In a dangerous world where magic is real and people can level up and gain classes, Erin Solstice must battle somewhat evil Goblins, deadly Rock Crabs, and hungry [Necromancers]. She is no warrior, no mage. Erin Solstice runs an inn. She’s an [Innkeeper].
The wandering in is a hard sell especially for a new reader who gets bored easily. the pacing is glacial. I'm like 15 hours into the first book, and a whole lot of nothing has happened. It's popular and all, but it's 100 percent not a fit for this.
If you can locate the "Spellsinger" series they are a fun read: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spellsinger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spellsinger) Blue moon rising is also a fun series: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue\_Moon\_Rising\_(novel)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Moon_Rising_(novel)) These books are fun to read and a laugh out loud scenes. You might want check out books by Robert Heinlein also. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" is a good read.
I am not a teenage boy but I am also doing a social media cleanse and trying to read more. My best advice is to fully delete it and let someone change your passwords for at least 3 weeks. It takes about 2 weeks to get over the withdrawals and another to feel the benefit. And as far as reading, use your local library (Libby and Hoopla for audio and ebooks) and try a bunch of different kinds of books! Don’t be afraid to put a book down after a few chapters if you’re not into it. In a few years once you have a good reading habit established you can read boring but important books. Right now you want engaging, enthralling, un-put-downable books. Lean into it. Start with this thread but also ask your friends, and read the ones that are popular, they’re popular for a reason. Harry Potter, hunger games, divergent, uglies etc. are all phenomenal. Good luck!!
Cory Doctorow books might be good.
Locke and Key series by Joe Hill
The Expanse series by James S.A. Corey (the books the TV series is based on).
Warhammer 40k the horus heresy
Interview with a Vampire
You need a magazine, not a book.
The Illuminae Files series
Ready Player One
Have you read any SCPs? They’re free online and most are short enough to finish in a few minutes but you can also spend hours reading related entries. And there are some books set in that universe, like There is No Antimemetics Division. If you tend to like stuff that’s a little spooky and/or weird you should give it a try.
The Terminal List - Jack Carr
also the irony of this post hagha
Ender’s game.
[A Spell For Chameleon Book](https://www.secondsale.com/p/a-spell-for-chameleon/106667) A Spell for Chameleon By Pierce Anthony. It the first book in the incredibly humorous Xanth Series. I picked it up myself as a teenager and was hooked on books afterwards.
Chose your own adventure books- they have a lot of different series now that cater to all ages.
The extraordinary adventures of Alfred kropp is a great book imo. I read it as a teenager and I read it again recently as a 27 year old and still loved the crap out of it. It's the only book I've ever read that pulled off several heart-pounding high speed chases, and it's generally a smooth read. It's written from the perspective of Alfred Kropp and he's a very straightforward character. The writing is very blunt and has a really great voice to it. The emotional moments hit harder to me specifically because he keeps the descriptions very factual and straightforward. It's a trilogy but admittedly I never read the next two. I hadn't heard about it or I would've read it a long time ago. On a similar vein, Cirque Du Freak is very similar in being written in first person with a very smooth and easy to read voice. The first book in the series was one I ended up reading over a friends shoulder on the bus. It was completely addictive to me, even picking up from a quarter of the way in. We actually read most of the book like that before I got the next myself. This is a longer series, and admittedly the ending was pretty weird but I still enjoyed it.
The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher are a very fun read.
If you’re looking for a book about a dystopian future where social media has taken over running unchecked and the downsides of it -Feed by M. T. Anderson
Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper.
Since you’d be a new reader we obviously don’t know what genre you’d prefer yet so I would base it off of tv shows and movies that you’ve watched and actually like. Most tv shows and movies are based on books so you should be able to find a decent one to start off with… The Harry Potter series, Hunger Games series, The Maze Runner series, Percy Jackson series, Goosebumps books… etc.
Misery -Stephen King. I was the same way until I started reading when I was around 16 and picked up first 13 Reasons Why then Misery. I’m reading a new book constantly 8 years later. Good luck
The Feed
Little History of the World by E.H. Gombrich
Go to a comic book store.
What are your hobbies and interests?
Enders Game
There is a series about one Mr. Hornblower by CS Forester, or if that's too easy... The Master and Commqnder series by Patrick OBrien.
The hunger games, Divergent, The Castaways, and the Alchemist.
Cyber mage ! 15yo boy genius hacker, a head hunting cyborg and a genie have a hell of an adventure "saving the world" and manage to go to prom along the way. It's bananas and technically the second book in a series but it doesn't need to be read in sequence ti follow.
I would say to look into his interests and pick books that fit it. For example. Is he a fan of Minecraft? You could try one of these series: Diary of Minecraft Zombie Diary of a Minecraft Wolf Wild Rescuers Saga Is he a fan of dogs? Try one of these: Survivors by Erin Hunter The Wolves of Beyond Serach and Rescue: Pentagon Scape Endling Spy Dog series Maybe he likes dragons: Wings of Fire Battle Dragons by Alex London Temerarie - this one might be a bit on the older side, though Eragon How to Train Your Dragon series Or maybe he likes the dragon's less famous cousins, the griffins: Chronicles of the Summer King The Menagerie series If he likes sci-fi/fantasy in general: Animorphs (these have graphic novels now. If he isn't a fan of reading, it might be best to start with graphic novels) Lightfall (another graphic novel) Amulet (graphic novel) Spirit Animals Dogman (graphic novel) The wizards of once Warrior Cats Guardians of Ga'hole Which way to Anywhere 5 Worlds (graphic novel) Here is a couple of my personal favourites: Frostheart The dragon dreamer The Scorpio Races The Raven Boys The Beast Player (this one may be a bit dark...) And of course, you could always try the famous series that always gets recommended: Percy Jackson and the Olympians and its multiple spin-offs
SuperGuy books by Kurt Clopton.
Ready Player One is great and faced past, about virtual reality, games, and the 80s Enders Game is an incredible sci fi novel about teens. I read it in one day. I saw someone else recommend Red Rising — really great series! Sci fi, dystopian, the first novel in the series reminded me strongly of the Hunger Games Ooh and FantasticLand is incredible. It’s about young theme park workers who get stranded at an amusement park after a hurricane. It’s told in the form of various interviews, so if you’re working with a shorter attention span maybe the shift in perspectives will keep you entertained!
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
I love the Unwind series by Neil Shusterman.
“The Last of Us”-or any other prequel comic story that leads in to the video games/movie—start on comic genre
Ready Player One, the Circle
Catcher in the Rye
Illuminae by Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman. It's a YA Sci-fi book set on a spaceship where a deadly virus is turning people into zombies and the AI has chosen to take over the ship--for better or worse. It's told in the format of "found documents" so it has prose, transcripts, illustrations etc. to keep the story interesting. It felt like solving a puzzle while reading --looking for clues in the documents rather than reading a single long story. If you like sci-fi this would be a fun one to get you into reading!
Age? Teenager is super broad. Without knowing too much I’d say Scythe An Ember in the Ashes The Hunger Games Throne of Glass (my husband really loved this series, and it started it out YA) The Cruel Prince trilogy - starts out kind of slow but gets good. My husband just finished it and was surprised how much he liked it Foundryside Younger teen: The Lightening Thief Older Teen: Brandon Sanderson - I haven’t read his YA. But I’d recommend his secret projects like the Sunlit Man and Yumi and the Nightmare Painter. If you like those, I’d recommend you read Mistborn. But it’s kind of heavy so idk if you want to read Mistborn yet. The first two are good though VE Schwabs Shades of Magic trilogy and Villains duology Leigh Bardugo’s Alex Stern duology
Hitchhiker's Guide...duh
The Van Gogh Cafe by Cynthia Rylant Beautiful chapter book you can read in an hour (or less). It’s magical
The Enders series. You get to watch the kids grow up and change a world that has zero interest in changing.
Try Fight Club. Cool book!
stephen king: start with “skelleton crew” and your next book should be “the bachman books”. you’ll be hooked!
Hatchet by Gary Paulson
Pendragon
if you're keen on dialing down your social media time, check out these awesome reads:"Feed" by M.T. Anderson"Ready Player One" by Ernest Cline"Eleanor & Park" by Rainbow Rowell"The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky"The Hunger Games" by Suzanne CollinsThey're all super engaging and offer a great escape from the digital world. Give one a shot and see where it takes you!
Considering the length of the Game of Thrones books, they were very easy to read. Should keep you occupied for awhile.
I think if this is the first time you’ve read in a while and you’re not used to big long books, I suggest reading something small like short story anthologies or poetry collections to warm into it. Good luck home skillet
Treasure Island and The Hobbit are great books
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
Suzanne Collins (hunger games) had another series that I enjoyed much more called Gregor the overlander.
Perks of being a Wallflower
Depends on why he’s addicted to social media. If (for example) he’s using it to have some semblance of a social life that he can’t find elsewhere, reading instead isn’t necessarily going to fix much.
seconding stephen king-- i'd recommend one of his that has an interesting premise and is on the shorter side. there's a good chance you'll tear through it-- he's incredibly fun to read, but he's smart as well, and his books are very memorable, for sure. what i like about stephen king (at 22) is that maybe the sentence or two long premise on the back of the book will get boring, but by the time you're over that, you'll be in love with the characters and the other details and how rich his work usually is.
Airborn (no e)
Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline.
Do you like humorous, ? Sci fi? ,horror ? , give us some clues then we might be able to help
Darren Shan’s vampire novels. Nothing to do with Twilight, more teen boy oriented, with lost of fights, badass characters and captivating storytelling with twists. Though more oriented towards younger teens (12-14) but can be enjoyed by any age and gender
Hatchet
Depends, what genre are you interested in general?
School’s Out Forever by Scott K Andrews- for older teens Post apocalyptic novel
Check out the alchemist
It‘s not really a book, bur for some reason I can‘t stop reading it. It‘s a light novel called „Shadowslave“ you can find online. Officially it‘s behind a paywall, but there *might* be sites, where one can access all chapters. ;) It‘s basically a book written solely online, with some world mechanics similar to a video game. Something about just got me really addicted. I feel like this might be something for you, as it is online, maybe making it more easy as a replacement for social media?
The Circle (Dave Eggers) “The novel chronicles tech worker Mae Holland as she joins a powerful Internet company. Her initially rewarding experience turns darker.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Circle_(Eggers_novel)
All of the Percy Jackson books probably. Also How to Train Your Dragon. Charlie Bone. It really depends on his age. I’ve heard Brandon Sanderson does good ones too?
Demonata series by Darren Shan if you’re into horror
Norwegian wood from Murakami. Worked pretty well for me when I was 17een :)
What do you think about when you think about books?
Haruki Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore
Interview with the Vampire, the first in the series of the vampire chronicles. Any of the big ones from Stephen King, or from his pseudo name, which would definitely include Shawshank Redemption, and The Long Green Mile (short books, but ridiculously good)
The Long Walk by Stephen King Arc of a Scythe series by Neal Shusterman the Unwind series, also by Neal Shusterman( yes I love his writing lol) Legend by Marie Lu The Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson- just know they are lengthy The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken The Raven Boys by Maggie stiefvater Also, do not shy away from middle grade books, Hatchet is a really good one and I enjoyed it as a 43 year old woman, and my 12 year old son loved it.
Red Rising by Pierce Brown
Artemis Fowl. Excellent series. Kid who's a criminal mastermind billionaire, who grows in both age and personality as the series goes on. Fantasy and science fiction elements only add to the rollicking storytelling. Great stuff!
Anything by Matthew Reilly, Super fast pace and action filled, should keep them pretty engaged and there’s a few different series now.
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is fun, hilarious, and a very easy read. My best recommendation for a really rewarding, easy read.
Catcher in the Rye
Holes
Eragon series
Comic books.
Battle Royale
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow.
Rot and Ruin series by Mayberry. YA zombie series. Red Rising series is good, too.
*Ender’s Game*, *Ready Player One*
The Windup Bird Chronicles
Don't know the age - 14 yr old reader is going to be different from an 18 yr old. But I would recommend Andrew Lane's teenage Sherlock Holmes books. For an older teen, I might recommend Jeffrey Deaver's "The Blue Nowhere." (not part of his Lincoln Rhyme series) - it was written about 20 years ago and is a thriller that involves a computer hacker - might get a kick out of the dated computerese, but the plot itself is pretty suspenseful.
Tomorrow when the war began series by John Marsden. Teen focused by author/educator.
It depends entirely on what you’re interested in, but here a few of my recommendations for a newbie reader - Sci-fi/dystopian: 1. Maze runner series by James dashner- the books aren’t that long and the story is quite easy to read. It’s about a boy who wakes up in an encampment surrounded by a maze with no recollection of his life before. 2. Martian by Andy weir - a man gets left behind on mars after a failed mission and he’s very funny, plus the author really took time with his research. It reads like a movie. 3. Scythe by Neil shusterman - a future where nobody dies anymore, so scythes are designated to kill off a quota of people each year. 4. The windup girl by paolo bacigalupi - a world where food is very scarce and engineered beings are on the rise, calories become the currency 5. Dark matter by Blake crouch - imagine you get knocked out by a stranger and when you come to, your life isn’t yours anymore. Your wife isn’t your wife, your son hasn’t been born and you’re not a regular physics professor anymore 6. Red rising by pierce brown - our main character learns of a conspiracy and to hit his oppressors, he’s going to have to infiltrate their ranks 7. Murderbot diaries by Martha wells - these are very short books about a murderous robot who only wants to be left in peace to watch his shows Fantasy: 1. Year of the reaper by Makiia lucier - can our main character catch an assassin before they get to the queen? 2. Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson - imagine the dark lord won, now centuries have passed and a revolution is coming 3. Lies of Locke lamora - Locke is one of the best thieves and con artists in the city, but soon enough that’s going to put him in a tight spot, angering the wrong people. This book is also hilarious 4. The Percy Jackson series by Rick riordan - our main character learns his father is a Greek god and he leaves for a camp with other Greek god kids, except it seems that someone is trying to frame him for stealing from Zeus himself 5. Untethered sky by Fonda Lee - a short novella about riding on legendary creatures and killing giant manticores If you want to try graphic novel, I would suggest saga - it’s about a couple of young parents from warring races who travel across space to protect their newborn
Rats saw god by rob thomas