mum Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 My kids seem to be going through a dry spell of finding good books. I would love a recommendation or two (or more) of books that 18+ year old boys and girls would like. (We are conservative Christian, just to give you a frame of reference). Dd likes Pride and Prejudice, we have all the Jane Austen. Ds really struggles to find things that challenge his mind and are really well written, he won't tolerate 'twaddle'. Actually, I could use some recommendations for Dd 14 also. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MamaBearTeacher Posted October 19, 2013 Share Posted October 19, 2013 Have they read Dickens? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mumto2 Posted October 19, 2013 Share Posted October 19, 2013 I agree with the Dickens suggestion. Here are some other fairly clean ideas for your dds. My dd 15 is working on these series and I have been reading and enjoying them also. All are mysteries. These are not great works of literature simply enjoyable stories... Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winsper and the Daisy Dalrumple series by Carola Dunn are quite interesting. Both series focus on young women in Britain after WWI who are finding a place for themselves in a changed society. Maisie is by far the better written and more serious topic wise. Another series that we just started is the Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes books by Laurie R. King. The first one was great. Some other ideas are Tolken and CS Lewis. Dd just read and loved Til We Have Faces by Lewis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Word Nerd Posted October 19, 2013 Share Posted October 19, 2013 Good books for adults are in many cases also good books for late teens. Goodreads and other sites offer book suggestions based on titles that a reader enjoyed or rated highly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheryl Posted October 19, 2013 Share Posted October 19, 2013 Interested here too! Keep ideas coming. OP, when you have your list, would you kindly msg. me with it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-rap Posted October 19, 2013 Share Posted October 19, 2013 I would definitely recommend Dickens as well! You could start with David Copperfield. Tale of Two Cities was a favorite too. At that age, my son read a lot of Mark Twain, and also a lot of biographies of explorers, etc. One of my daughters is reading the Maisie Dobbs series right now, too! Also, my girls enjoyed the Mrs. Pollifax mystery series. We enjoyed biographies and memoirs of people living during historical periods such as WWII. I got a lot of book ideas from the Sonlight Homeschool catalog. They have a lot of great listings, such as the book about the real Anna from the movie The King and I. If you google classic literature, you will get a lot of ideas, such as The Three Musketeers, Les Miserables, The Mask, Moby Dick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spy Car Posted October 19, 2013 Share Posted October 19, 2013 My Bondage, My Freedom by Frederick Douglass. Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephanier.1765 Posted October 19, 2013 Share Posted October 19, 2013 12 Years a Slave looks to be a good read and is on my and my son's to-do list. It also looks to be a good movie that's just recently out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostSurprise Posted October 19, 2013 Share Posted October 19, 2013 I second Til We Have Faces by CS Lewis. As a Christian I found Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe to be an interesting counterpoint to the missionary experience. I found just trying hard things at that age to be exciting and fun, even if I didn't finish them. Ditto lots of things about other cultures and people who weren't familiar. Infinite Jest? Cloud Atlas? In the Name of the Rose? The Magic Mountain? Blood Meridian? An Anthropologist on Mars? Wild Swans: Three Women of China? The Sound and the Fury? Whether an 18 year old would like these or not depends a lot on the personality of the 18 year old. None of them are twaddle though, all of them are challenging books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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