Books for boys can be hard to find, but when I asked the young men in our family which ones they couldn’t put down, here were their answers:
My Grade School Brothers’ Favorite Books
- Redwall Series
- Boxcar children
- Hardy Boys
- My Side of the Mountain Series
- Ranger’s Apprentice Series (very popular for many years at home)
Middle School Brothers’ Favorite Books
- Hatchet
- Trumpeter of Krakow
- Outlaws of Ravenhurst
- The Hidden Treasure of Glaston
- Ransom of Red Chief (short story)
- The Purloined Letter
- The Black Pearl
- King Solomon’s Mines
- Johnny Tremain
- The Princess Bride
- The Candy Bombers
- Legend of sleepy hollow
- Journey to the Center of the Earth
- Around the World in 80 Days
My High School Brothers’ Favorite Books
- Great Expectations
- Old Man and the Sea
- Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkein
- 20,000 leagues Under the Sea
- Sherlock Holmes
- Les Miserables (This one surprised me, but Landon was a big fan)
- Dracula
- The Virginian
- The Count of Monte Cristo
- Screwtape Letters
- Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Murder on the Orient Express
- 11th grader cheekily recommends the dictionary