I’m 15, I used to read books a lot as a kid but in revision, homework games and friends I stopped over the years, I looked through my mums books and enjoyed the gladiator by Simon scarrow, but I don’t seem to like much else she has. so any recommendations would be great, they don’t have to be similar to that, just books that’d be worth reading. (I don’t mind bigger books either.)
by Affectionate_Egg9433
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The Ranger’s Apprentice series by John Flanagan
Mitch Albom books were a hit with my son.
Sci-fi: Enders Game and Ready Player One; Hunger Games and Red Rising and Battle Royale have similar themes, the Scythe series
Fantasy: Lies of Locke Lamorra, Six of Crows, any Robin Hobb like Assassins Apprentice trilogy
Side quest into audiobooks: Dungeon Crawler Carl is very fun
A great book that reads like a technothriller movie is Daemon by Daniel Suarez, along with its sequel Freedom TM. An AI set loose by a dead billionaire game designer starts killing people and creating a darknet conspiracy that works like a videogame. Great fun, and if AI controlled motorcycle drones with samurai swords chasing people up the stairs sounds like your jam, you’ll love it! But it actually builds into big, world changing science fiction, delving into how to deconstruct late stage capitalism by using technology to decentralize, and empower individuals instead of government or corporations.
The Long Ships. An epic, wry, bloody Viking saga. Lots of fun.
Have you read the *Harry Potter* series? Why not start there?
Jurassic Park is a fun page-turner that spawned a whole bunch of movies