I enjoy Kate DiCamillo. Her stories are simple enough for children to read, but the symbolism within the stories is deep enough to be incomprehensible for even some adults.
“The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.” - "Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them."
This is a hard read. You really have to have your head in it.
QUEEN OF SASS
It's like, I just love a cowboy
You know
I'm just like, I just, I know, it's bad
But I'm just like
Can I just like, hang off the back of your horse
And can you go a little faster?!
Stuart Gibbs, Rick Riordan, Carl Hiaasan, and Eoin Colfer
Nice Stuart Gibbs, I assume you're referring to Belly Up?
I liked Riordan and Colfer, but I don't think TeeJay should use them for his class since they're really aimed at young adults. Then again, Navi's right, reading random books isn't going to exponentially increase his vocabulary. Time Paradox is still one of my favorite books though (but what I've read of Atlantis Complex is pure garbage!).
As for me, I would recommend anything by Robert Cormier. His style is such that most of his books are hardly preferable to one another and if you like one, you'll love them all.
Shakespeare Dashiell Hammett Stephen King Edgar Allan Poe H. P. Lovecraft Walt Whitman Mark Twain Kurt Vonnegut Truman Capote Frederick Douglass Neil Gaiman
Here are some; Douglas Adams Eoin Colfer Edgar Allen Poe (I'll think of more later)
Bram Stoker (Dracula) DJ MacHale (Pendragon) Pittacious Lore (I am Number four) JRR Tolkien Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park) Frank Peretti (The Oath AMAZING BOOK. I SUGGEST!)
Thank you I was trying to remember who wrote Pendragon and Dracula. All that's left is Harry Potter and Eragon
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Taiko by Eiji Yoshikawa - the true Japanese historical epic. Brilliant book.
Otherwise, most of the books suggested by people are pretty good. I'll throw H.P Lovecraft into the mix too. He's pulpy, but entertaining, and there's a creativity in his work that you don't see elsewhere.
Raymond Chandler is good fun too. Again it's pulp, but it's well written pulp.
Nick Cave's two novels are safe bets if you're into the weird and macabre, too.
Given you said you were looking to learn to love books again, I'd suggest well written fun over "literature," to start with.
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