Since I’ve been looking for exactly this type of info, I’m noting this here so I can reference it later and get a few of these from the library and review them.
Dear Book Lover: Recommendations for Teenage Boys – WSJ.com.
- 500 Great Books for Teens (Silvey)
- The Ultimate Teen Book Guide (ed. Hahn, Flynn, Reuben)
- Paper Lion (Plimpton) – also Out of My League, The Bogey Man, Shadow Box
- The Lonesome Dove (McMurtry)
- The Big Sky and The Way West (Guthrie)
- The Frontiersman (Eckert)
- High Fidelity (Hornby) – also About a Boy
- This Boy’s Life (Wolff)
- Rules of the Bone (Banks)
- Black Swam Green (Mitchell)
- The Book of Joe (Tropper)
- Swim the Fly (Calame) – also search for “top 10 funny teen boy books” article, which recommends the following
- various books by Douglas Adams
- Spud (J. van de Ruit)
- Jack Tumor (McGowan)
- Election (Perrotta) – also The Wishbones featuring “a protagonist who might have inspired a saying sometimes applied to me: ‘You’re only young once, but you can be immature forever.'”
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