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I would also recommend Brandon Sanderson's Alcatraz series, which is his middle grade books starting with Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians. I have read all four books in the series.
Personally, I would recommend the Redwall series by Brian Jacques, which was my first gateway to fantasy, which I discover and read at the time starting with Redwall.
Also The Hobbit or The Chronicles of Narnia are both not a bad idea either.

I was completely fascinated with the first three books as a kid and couldn't count how many times I reread them.
Brandon Sanderson has the Alcatraz series. I read the first one and thought it was fun. At around the age of 10 I would likely have considered it one of the coolest things ever. :)
You might also consider checking out some of Gaiman's YA books. Coraline, Odd and the Frost Giants, The Graveyard Book, MirrorMask. He also co-wrote a sf book with Michael Reaves called InterWorld that was rather good. (This is not a typical Gaiman book)


Then there's Her Highness, Darth Gwendolyn, the Tiny Tyrant. Sometimes she deigns to allow me to read to her. Sometimes.
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I listen to the Flanagan books on audio - they're great, I think he'll enjoy those :-)
I'd also like to recommend The Shamer's Daughter, The Shamer's Signet, The Serpent Gift and The Shamer's War. The main character is a girl, but from book 2 and forward, she takes turns with her older brother to narrate a chapter, and they're great to read aloud too.

Also anything done by Lloyd Alexander, especially his The Chronicles of Prydain starting with The Book of Three. The second book was even made into a disney animated film back in 1985.
The Sword in the Stone and Mistress Mashams Repose by T.H. White
The Dark Is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper
The City of Ember series by Jeanne DuPrau
The Norby Chronicles by Janet Asimov

I'm assuming that your son is a child and not a young adult.

He does enjoy the "book club experience" in that I have read at least half of all these books with him, either in person or on my own and we've talked about them.
In no particular order:
The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
The Fablehaven Series by Brandon Mull (*****really***** recommended by my son), he then followed it by the start of the Beyonders Series by the same author, but Fablehaven is MUCH better IMO.
The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart (good "smart kids save the world" books, again highly recommended.)
My son read ALL the Encyclopedia Brown books when he was younger, but your son is likely past those books now.
The Secret Series by Pseudonymous Bosch, The Name of This Book Is Secret is book 1.
We are also partially into the John Carter of Mars books by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
He also is getting a lots of fun out of starting the first Dragonlance trilogy by Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman. (The Dragons of Autumn Twilight.)
He enjoyed the Hunger Games, but we really started those when the movie was big. But, he will tell you the book (series) is much better.
Lastly, he inhaled the Brian's Saga by Gary Paulsen during reading time at school.(Book one is Hatchet.)
My son has a goodreads account now. So, maybe someday I can talk him into checking this post out with me and adding on to the list.
Thanks for the post and good reading!

Mortal Engines, first book of The Hungry City Chronicles. I haven't read the rest but I imagine if he likes the first he'll want more.
The Old Kingdom series by Garth Nix, starting with Sabriel. They're a bit dark but if your son read the last couple Harry Potter books he'll be fine. Nix has a few other YA series but I'm not as familiar with them.
The Obernewtyn Chronicles, starting with Obernewtyn, are like post-apocalypse fantasy versions of X-Men (or more precisely, take the central ideas from The Chrysalids and expand them to epic length).

The Maze Runner by James Dasner 3 books in the series, dystopian scifi
Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld also 3 books in the series, this one is more of a steampunk middle grade book.
Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld also 3 books in the series, this one is more of a steampunk middle grade book.

Anything by Nancy Farmer
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins
The Pendragon Series by D.J. MacHale
Anything by Jane Yolen
The Fairy-Tale Detectives by Michael Buckley
The Spiderwick Chronciles by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black
Anything by Philip Pullman

The Rick Riordan books were enjoyed by my 9 year old.
The Pern books by Ann McCaffrey are quite good too as are the robot books by Asimov.

For some darker reads that are thought-provoking, maybe check out The House of the Scorpion and Shade's Children. I loved Shade's Children because Nix refuses to patronize children. However, the future in this book is grim, so you may want to read it first.
The Giver ~ This book was incredibly popular in the late 90's, but I'm seeing fewer and fewer students who have read it in the past five to ten years. Love the conversations this book promotes.
If you think he might like mixing up some sci-fi with some historical fiction, then I'd recommend looking at Walker of Time and The MIssing Series by Margaret Peterson Haddix. Found is the first book in that series.
And someone else had posted this list from Wired. I can't remember who posted this originally, so I apologize. I bookmarked it and I've referred to it a few times. "67 Books Every Geek Should Read to Their Kids Before Age 10. "http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/03/...

Also, The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak is a good one to break up the SF/F. If you want to get technical, I call it paranormal historical fiction because it's the story of a girl growing up in Nazi Germany told from the perspective of Death as he pops into and around her life. I discovered it in my early teens and was surprised at how dark it got, but if your son got through The Hunger Games and all their gore then The Book Thief should be no problem for him.

H. Beam Piper wrote a lot of good stuff, which would be good beginning SF for a kid. The Fuzzy stories are great. So is Lord Kalvan of Othewhen, lots of derring do in an alternate world. You might avoid Space Viking because it is built around murder and vengance.
And anything by James H. Schmitz is great. Lots of cool adventures, many with girls as protagonists, just to keep things interesting.


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My tastes tend to run into more of the Joe Abercrombie, Scott Lynch, Brent Weeks type of things, with an occasional side of Lovecraftia or Scifi people recommend to me. So YA is unfamiliar territory for me.
So, given all this, can anyone give me some recommendations for books I can read with my son?