Book plea!

[eibbil_libbie]

Not for me for...DJ, believe it or not.

Seriously. We came home from seeing The Hunger Games and he decided he wanted to read it. And he did...in a week. Then he asked me to help him get a Fire because he hated carrying books around. I went half with him and boom. He's devouring books like a termite in a wood pile.

Yeah, you read that right. DJ. The gamer.

So! My problem is that I'm running out of things to recommend for him. Right now he's eating up dystopian/post-apocalyptic stuff.

To date, he has read:

Collins' The Hunger Games
Roth's Divergent/Insurgent
Aguirre's Enclave
Lu's Legend

And I think he's starting either Wells' Partials or Dashner's Maze Runner tonight (he's started reading the free samples first - if the first chapter doesn't pull him, he won't continue...and the first victim of the no-pull was Price's Starters.)


Okay, flist. What have you got? Older, newer, hit me up.

Comments

[heinous_bitca]

Was more thinking young boys, not older boys! Lou loves them too! But I wasn't sure if the focus on Cordelia might be off-putting, though she's of course, an amazing woman.

[tryslora]

...I totally didn't read the name on that comment and thus didn't realize that was you I was talking to. *headdesk* Er. Hi. :) Especially funny since I think it's all your fault I finally caved and read the Bujold books after Kev had been bugging me to do so, AND I think y'all recced the Liad books to us.

Since Libbie said I could rec YA with a female protagonist, I figured Cordelia might work out well too.

What do you think of the potential for Sarah's (eBear's) books? Think they'd appeal?

[heinous_bitca]

I am a bad friend and have only read one of Sarah's books. :(

Liaden books are definitely a possibility, though not dystopian or post-apocalyptic. Val Con is great; hmm...not sure if I'd start with Val Con and Miri as I did, or start with the earlier books. Not all the way back to Cantra, of course, but the Conflict of Honors stuff. Hmm.