<p>Last summer my 19 year old son read Confederacy of Dunces. He could not put the book down. It truly is one of the great comedic works of fiction.</p>
<p>Beaches are full of attractive, practically naked people of whatever gender tickles the 19-year-old’s fancy.</p>
<p>Why would he want to read a book?</p>
<p>Any David Sedaris book.</p>
<p>my dog loving son loved the art of racing in the rain (cant remember the author) I also second pat conroy</p>
<p>I second “The Art of Racing in the Rain” by Garth Stein. Great book if you like dogs. Narrated by the dog, kind of a tear jerker but worth reading.</p>
<p>Fiction/Thriller: Dan Brown’s books</p>
<p>Non-Fiction: The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind (amazing true story about a 14 year old boy with little education in Africa who built a windmill and brought electricity & water to his village.)</p>
<p>Classic: Lord of the Flies (S is reading this now)</p>
<p>I have read ***Catcher in the Rye ***and ***Catch 22 ***every summer for years. I don’t even remember how I got started. I think they are good beach reads because they are easy reading and I have read them so many times the characters are like old friends.</p>
<p>I still look forward to reading them every year.</p>
<p>“Joplin’s Ghost,” is a wonderful book by a marvelous writer. Last year, i introduced one of my twentysomething friends to her writing, and he dropped what he was reading to read her book. </p>
<p>[Joplin’s</a> Ghost](<a href=“http://www.tananarivedue.com/Joplin’s%20Ghost.htm]Joplin’s”>http://www.tananarivedue.com/Joplin’s%20Ghost.htm)</p>
<p>And if he likes books that are true and also teach one about how to live life, “Man’s Search for Meaning” by Viktor Frankl about Frankel’ experiences as a teen in a concentration camp.</p>
<p>“Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant… Yet one of the main features of human existence is to rise up above such conditions, (as biology, psychology, and sociology), to grow beyond them. Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.”–Frankl</p>