Occasionally, my wife and I get a request for a reading list–not for books we read, but for books our kid reads. It’s not because he’s such a voracious reader. Just the opposite, really. He’s fussy, quickly bored, and thoroughly tactless when I give him something he doesn’t like.
So, when someone asks us what books our kid is reading, they’re not expecting a high-fiber, impress-other-parents list of commendable literature that will enrich little minds. They want books that are fun and fast for their own fussy, easily-bored kids.
That’s why, after a prodigious amount of nagging from my wife, I’ve collected a list of books that our kid has read and enjoyed recently. Maybe your kid (or you!) would like to read something here, too.
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Science fiction
Kid Vs. Squid
Greg van Eekhout
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Science fiction
The Boy at the End of the World
Greg van Eekhout
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Post-apocalyptic
Series
Among the Hidden (Shadow Children)
Margaret Peterson Haddix
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Post-apocalyptic
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The 5th Wave
Rick Yancey
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Mystery
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Robbie Forrester and the Outlaws of Sherwood St.
Peter Abrahams
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Dystopian
Ready Player One
Ernest Cline
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Dystopian
Little Brother
Cory Doctorow
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Thriller
Series
Whales on Stilts
Pals in Peril series
M.T. Anderson
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Dystopian
Monument 14
Emmy Laybourne
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Thriller
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I Hunt Killers
Barry Lyga
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Going Bovine
Libba Bray
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Dystopian
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Divergent
Veronica Roth
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Comic
Educational
Super Scratch Programming Adventure!:
Learn to Program By Making Cool Games
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Comic
Series
Frankie Pickle and the Closet of Doom
Eric Wight
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The Strange Case of Origami Yoda
Tom Angleberger
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Fake Mustache: Or, How Jodie O’Rodeo and
Her Wonder Horse (and Some Nerdy Kid)
Saved the U.S. Presidential Election
from a Mad Genius Criminal Mastermind
Tom Angleberger
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Adventure
Mystery
Series
The Case of the Case of Mistaken Identity
Brixton Brothers series
Mac Barnett
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Post Apocalyptic
Series
Mortal Engines
Predator Cities series
Phillip Reeve
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Series
100% Wolf
Jayne Lyons
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Series
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney
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Dystopian
Series
Maze Runner
James Dashner
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Zombie
Series
My Rotten Life
Nathan Abercrombie, Accidental Zombie
David Lubar
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The Homework Machine
Dan Gutman
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Zombie
Post-apocalyptic
Thriller
Series
The Enemy
Charlie Higson
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Series
Nerds
Michael Buckley
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Series
Dragon breath
Ursula Vernon
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