<p>My son was never a science fiction fan. He enjoyed Jon Krakauer, John Irving, and Pat Conroy at that age. Those along with “Catcher in the Rye,” “On the Road,” “Flowers for Algernon,” “Catch-22,” “The Autobiography of Malcolm X,” and “The Kite Runner” are still among his “favorite books” picks on his Facebook page. (Along with, I’m happy to say, the books I read to him when he was a toddler: “The Little House,” “Where the Wild Things Are” and “Chicka-Chicka-Boom-Boom.”)</p>