A friend recently asked me for some book recommendations for her teenage son. She was thinking about C. S. Lewis’ Space Trilogy (which I recommended highly) but wanted some other titles as well.
“What books did you read–or wish you had read–in your teenage years?” she asked me.
“Great question,” I said.
Many of the books came from my AP Literature class. Others came from classes I attended in college. Still others as recommendations from friends. I consider them indispensable to my current reading preferences, my writing style, and my worldview in general.
In order to avoid placing importance to the order, they are presented alphabetically by the author’s last name.
- The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
- Matilda by Roald Dahl
- Myths of the Norsemen by Roger Lancelyn Green
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper…
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Daniel F. Bowman 