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Read Aloud, Age Twelve And Up

Books that survive being read out loud badly, which is the only test that matters.

a list by Margaret Iyer7 books

  1. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

    Chapter one is a five minute set piece. Never failed.

    Douglas Adams

    1
  2. Mistborn

    Brandon Sanderson

    2
  3. Siddhartha

    Hermann Hesse

    3
  4. The Hobbit

    Chapter five. Every single time.

    J. R. R. Tolkien

    4
  5. Charlotte's Web

    Younger, but nobody ever objected.

    E. B. White

    5
  6. Northern Lights

    Philip Pullman

    6
  7. Holes

    Short chapters and a plot that clicks shut. Ideal.

    Louis Sachar

    7