Literary Compass has compiled a list of 30 Must-Read Classics for Teenage Boys. Making the cut is a nice selection of 16 genre fiction titles:
- Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
- Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
- The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
- Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
- The Belgariad by David Eddings
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- The Once and Future King by T.H. White
- The Book of the Dun Cow by Walter Wangerin, Jr.
- Flatland by Edwin Abbott
- The Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov
- The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov
- Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
- The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Time and Again by Jack Finney
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Posted by John DeNardo at Monday May 21, 2007 at 12:07 AM
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It occurs to me that I read almost all of those when I was a teenage girl. (The only one I don't recognize is The Book of the Dun Cow.)
Posted by Tracey on Monday May 21, 2007 at 2:47 AM at 2:47 AM
The Foundation Series? Come on! That's bored the pants off many a grown man.
Posted by Derek on Monday May 21, 2007 at 5:55 AM at 5:55 AM
That's some serious Ray Bradbury love. I was never much of a fan of his though I read all his books listed except Dandelion Wine. I prefered Heinlein and Asimov. I agree with Derek though. I read the first novel in the Foundation series as an adult, and it bored me to death. Reading about someon sitting and waiting is pretty boring. I heard later books get more action, but I wasn't inspired to move beyond the first which is sad because I've read most of his sci fi novels I could get my hands on.
Posted by Kristen on Monday May 21, 2007 at 12:55 PM at 12:55 PM
Where is Lord of the Rings?
That trilogy was the only set of novels that I ever remember the boys ever talking about back then. Of those that actually read anything.
Posted by SciFiChick on Monday May 21, 2007 at 2:40 PM at 2:40 PM
Eddings? Eddings? No Heinlein, Norton, Anderson, Schmitz, Drake, Haldeman, etc., but we get Eddings?
Eddings?
Oh my aching head.
Posted by Fred Kiesche on Monday May 21, 2007 at 9:10 PM at 9:10 PM
And Animal Farm? I can see reading that, sure, eventually, but for fun as a teenager? Urk.
Posted by Pete Tzinski on Monday May 21, 2007 at 11:26 PM at 11:26 PM
I agree with Tracey - why teenage boys? I also read most of those when I was a teenaged girl. Why with the sexism people? Why not just have one list titled "16 Must-Read SF/F Classics for Teens"?
Posted by Naz Parker on Tuesday May 22, 2007 at 5:25 AM at 5:25 AM
Well, blame Literary Compass, not SF Signal for the "boys" label. I would point you towards Baen Books, which does have its own list of books for teens (of either sex).
Again: Eddings? Eddings? Oh my aching head.
Posted by Fred Kiesche on Tuesday May 22, 2007 at 8:25 AM at 8:25 AM