12 rules for life by Jordan Peterson is good.

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Jan 5, 2025
10:40:42pm

dfudge All-American

A bit dense for a high schooler perhaps, but I enjoyed the audio version.

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If you made a list of top ten books you'd want your high school boy to read

Goliath

Jan 5, 9:54pm

Sapiens

NYCougz

Jan 5, 9:58pm

Honestly don’t understand why this book gets the love it does …

grosven

Jan 5, 10:27pm

You are certainly entitled to you opinion.

NYCougz

Jan 5, 10:36pm

East of Eden.

NYCougz

Jan 5, 10:37pm

That is the correct answer. Sapiens??? Really?

toadie

Jan 6, 8:06am

Nah, for young people I’d stick with Of Mice and Men. Don’t throw long books at youth unless your goal is for them to

Hank Rearden

Jan 6, 8:58am

Sapiens is a great read. East of Eden is the best Steinbeck book I have read.

NYCougz

Jan 6, 12:58pm

You’re in good company, but I still much preferred Grapes of Wrath.

Hank Rearden

Jan 6, 9:03pm

Agree on the ones you suggested

NYCougz

Jan 5, 9:59pm

The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum, The Bourne

Nikomedes

Jan 5, 9:59pm

Are the sequels good after the author changed?

wannnacruise

Jan 5, 10:02pm

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Joe Banks

Jan 5, 10:03pm

How to win friends and influence people.

Captain Rex

Jan 5, 10:04pm

To Kill a Mockingbird, The Adventures of Huck Finn, Of Mice and Men.

Hank Rearden

Jan 5, 10:06pm

No Atlas Shrugged??? Disappointed Hank

Johnny Vatos

Jan 5, 10:14pm

Haha, I read it at 30 with a Masters Degree and was still probably too young to fully appreciate. But I was also young

Hank Rearden

Jan 6, 7:30am

Do the Work, Essentialism

Zedhead

Jan 5, 10:07pm

Not sure how you get a high school kid to read 10 non fiction books. I’d go with fiction classics.

Joe Banks

Jan 5, 10:07pm

I only read non-fiction in high school and after

2FarGone

Jan 5, 10:09pm

Underground Railroad

Tare

Jan 5, 10:10pm

Either Goggins book

ordinary tri guy

Jan 5, 10:10pm

Jesus the Christ, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Screwtape Letters, 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens, A Man Called Ove,

byujacob

Jan 5, 10:11pm

How to win friends and influence people

Idacoug

Jan 5, 10:14pm

The Long Walk, Ender's Game

Turd Ferguson

Jan 5, 10:16pm

Not sure. TNT never learned how to read

TNT

Jan 5, 10:16pm

“How will you measure your life” by Clayton Christensen

UVCoug

Jan 5, 10:20pm

I second this suggestion. Easy read and so important. Great book!

dfudge

Jan 5, 10:38pm

Nothing to add, but from your list 100% The Screw tape Letters over the others

vagabonder

Jan 5, 10:21pm

My list for my 13 yo.

Honkietrizzle

Jan 5, 10:26pm

Some of mine…

supersteve

Jan 5, 10:28pm

You read my mind in a couple

cajuncoug

Jan 5, 10:35pm

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Plantagenet

Jan 5, 10:36pm

I read this, my favorite quote was “the bell rings and I must go among the grave

BaseCoug

Jan 6, 12:47am

Goosebumps needs to be on there

maxpowers

Jan 5, 10:38pm

12 rules for life by Jordan Peterson is good.

dfudge

Jan 5, 10:40pm

Crime and punishment

NYCougz

Jan 5, 10:41pm

Another good choice!

dfudge

Jan 5, 11:01pm

One of the few books I have read multiple times.

NYCougz

Jan 5, 11:03pm

Book of Mormon

KYU

Jan 5, 10:43pm

Why Buddhism is true.

NYCougz

Jan 5, 10:46pm

A Short History of Nearly Everything; Guns, Germs, and Steel; One Hundred Years

Japan Coug

Jan 5, 10:52pm

Honorable Mention: East of Eden; Sapiens; Don Quixote; The Divine Comedy; 1491;

Japan Coug

Jan 5, 11:27pm

Falconer by Cheever, Fair Game by Benes & Tropic of Cancer (possibly Capricorn)

Emmett Fitz-Hume

Jan 5, 11:36pm

How will you measure your life — Clayton Christensen

MotorCityCoug

Jan 6, 3:23am

Atomic Habits

greatbam

Jan 6, 3:37am

A tale of two cities

44C

Jan 6, 6:57am

The Anatomy of Peace

GFCougar

Jan 6, 8:52am

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