I need more children’s books that may still be fun for adults to read like little woman or Harry Potter. by Tricky-Objective7446 Related: Books like Red Rising, The Expanse, or Musashi? Nordic thriller books? Looking for techno-thrillers like Tom Clancy’s Ryanverse but not as heavily steeped in political idealism. A novel where the plot or a large part of the plot is about writing a novel or making a film or a play. Historical Fiction like Conn Iggulden’s
-rba- on November 9, 2023 10:03 pm A Wizard of Earthsea and sequels. It’s marketed as YA, but has way more depth than kids are going to (at least consciously) pick up on.
nolifenightaudit on November 9, 2023 10:04 pm Cornelia Funke’s books, I especially enjoy the Inkheart books and Dragon Rider
SHG098 on November 9, 2023 10:05 pm Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials sequence. Much better than the tv/film adaptation.
ThaneOfCawdorrr on November 9, 2023 10:07 pm A Little Princess and The Secret Garden The Railway Children The Melendey Quartet The Mouse and the Motorcycle The Tiffany Aching series of Discworld (“Wee Free Men” and the sequels)
poirotsgraycells on November 9, 2023 10:09 pm The boy the mole the fox and the horse, the little prince, the book thief
RitaAlbertson on November 9, 2023 10:15 pm I mean, I still get a kick out of Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, but that all take you less than 10 minutes to read.
Dense-Shame-334 on November 9, 2023 10:19 pm I still sometimes re-read the On the Run series and the Uglies series. The Uglies is to this day, my favorite book series.
PaintedDoom on November 9, 2023 10:22 pm Just saw this in another thread so stealing it – A Series of Unfortunate Events Second the Uglies Series. Also, Ink Heart and it’s sequels 😊
Granny-Swag on November 9, 2023 10:23 pm The Westing Game. I never read it as a kid, but did for the first time earlier this year. It’s very clever.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
The Graveyard Book by Neal Gaiman.
Anything by Jules Verne
Where The Red Fern Grows – Wilson Rawls
The Hobbit
Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones?
A Wizard of Earthsea and sequels. It’s marketed as YA, but has way more depth than kids are going to (at least consciously) pick up on.
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Cornelia Funke’s books, I especially enjoy the Inkheart books and Dragon Rider
Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials sequence. Much better than the tv/film adaptation.
The little Prince
Shel SIlverstein
A Little Princess and The Secret Garden
The Railway Children
The Melendey Quartet
The Mouse and the Motorcycle
The Tiffany Aching series of Discworld (“Wee Free Men” and the sequels)
The boy the mole the fox and the horse, the little prince, the book thief
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Tom’s Midnight Garden
The Phantom Tollbooth.
I mean, I still get a kick out of Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, but that all take you less than 10 minutes to read.
I still sometimes re-read the On the Run series and the Uglies series. The Uglies is to this day, my favorite book series.
Just saw this in another thread so stealing it – A Series of Unfortunate Events
Second the Uglies Series.
Also, Ink Heart and it’s sequels 😊
The Westing Game. I never read it as a kid, but did for the first time earlier this year. It’s very clever.
The Giving Tree still makes me cry like a baby.