<p>I’d try to find out what his interests and passions are and to get interesting books related to them.</p>
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<p>Speaking as a male and someone who remembered hearing many complaints about some of the listed titles above…those may not be the best choices.</p>
<p>Gone With The Wind is good for Civil War…especially Southern “Lost Causers” and romantic buffs, but the romantic parts and long length (Over 1000 pages) can be offputting to most adolescent males and those who haven’t read for a while. This book is something I’d only recommend to adolescent boys with an unusually large tolerance for romantic themes and willingness to read an exceedingly lengthy work. </p>
<p>I read the Great Gatsby and while I liked parts of it, many classmates, especially male classmates found the romantic parts and the life in higher SES '20s society to be annoying and/or unrelatable. </p>
<p>Also, while Jane Austin is a great writer, many adolescent boys during my HS days dreaded having to read her works for HS class because it was so centered on romance and human relationships and lacked enough action and technology to keep us interested. Some titles like Jane Eyre are so depressing that it adds to this sense of dread…as I found from my own experience reading it for English lit. </p>
<p>Granted, it’s a few notches better than reading Henry James’ Turn of the Screw. No sir/ma’am…I didn’t enjoy it. </p>