Anonymous
Post 01/15/2026 19:29     Subject: books for 14 year old boy? adventure, mystery, fantasy
Anonymous wrote:Suggestions so far are excellent
More authors:

Jim Butcher - Dresden Files
Kevin Hearne - Iron Druid Chronicles
Ben Aaronovitch - Rivers of London
Catherine Webb - Midnight Mayor series (a woman! Her books are very good and have a lot of suspense and fast moving action)


I read these again recently and didn’t think the early ones held up to more modern stuff. The later ones (like after the t-rex) are still good.
Anonymous
Post 01/15/2026 17:10     Subject: books for 14 year old boy? adventure, mystery, fantasy
My 14 yo loves all of Alan Gratz’s books. He’s read them all multiple times and gets excited when a new one comes out.
Anonymous
Post 01/15/2026 17:09     Subject: books for 14 year old boy? adventure, mystery, fantasy
Anonymous wrote:Whalefall
Novel by Daniel Kraus
Aa teenage scuba diver is swallowed by a whale while searching for his deceased father's remains, leaving him with only an hour of oxygen to escape and confront his guilt. The book is praised as a suspenseful, cinematic adventure that blends survival with an exploration of a difficult father-son relationship; critically acclaimed, appearing on numerous "Best of 2023" lists


This is really good book. (School librarian responding again here) but when I book talked it and kids checked it out, they said it was too much about the technical
Aspects of scuba.
It was pretty emotional too.
I’d say 10-12th grade level or very mature 9th grader.
Personally, I loved it.
Anonymous
Post 01/15/2026 12:52     Subject: books for 14 year old boy? adventure, mystery, fantasy
Suggestions so far are excellent
More authors:

Jim Butcher - Dresden Files
Kevin Hearne - Iron Druid Chronicles
Ben Aaronovitch - Rivers of London
Catherine Webb - Midnight Mayor series (a woman! Her books are very good and have a lot of suspense and fast moving action)
Anonymous
Post 01/15/2026 12:35     Subject: books for 14 year old boy? adventure, mystery, fantasy
The Shrinking Man by Richard Matheson
The Fantastic voyage Isaac Asimov
Anonymous
Post 01/15/2026 12:22     Subject: books for 14 year old boy? adventure, mystery, fantasy
Anonymous wrote:Got this one for xmas:
The Trail a novel
by Ethan Gallogly with illustrations by Jeremy Ashcroft

Published by Sierra Nevada Press

This unusual novel is the story of a hike by two men along the John Muir Trail in the High Sierra in California. What happens to them along the way, who they meet, and how the hike changes them make up the fictional story. Alongside this is a description of the trail and its history and what a hike along it is like. The author skilfully weaves this factual material in with the adventures of the two hikers and the two fit together comfortably.



Sounds good and in the same vein A Walk In the Woods by Bill Bryson