Your boys would do well to read many from this list of timeless classics. Choose your age group:

Top reads for Ages 6 to 10:

• Doctor Seus (a collection of 15)
• The Adventures of Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey
• The Tashi series ( a collection of eight)  by A & B Fienberg & K Gamble
• Famous Five series: (a collection of 15) by Enid Blyton
• Guinness World Records (published annually)
• Most books by Roald Dahl is promoted as the worlds number one story teller)
• Roald Dahl: Danny Champion of the world
• Roald Dahl: Charlie and the chocolate factory
• Roald Dahl: The Twits
• Roald Dahl: Matilda
• Roald Dahl: James and The giant Peach
• Roald Dahl: Charlie and the great  Glass elevator
• Roald Dahl: The BFG
• Roald Dahl: Fantastic Mr Fox
• Roald Dahl: Georges Marvellous Medicine
• Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
• The Winnie the Pooh books by A.A. Milne

• The Spiderwick Chronicles (a collection of five) by DiTerlizzi & Black
• Zac Power (a collection of Eight) by H.I. Larry

Top reads for Ages 9 to 12 :

• The Harry Potter series (a collection of seven) by J.K. Rowling
• The Fire Within by Chris d’Lacey
• Inkheapt by Cornelia Funke
• The Dangerous Book for Boys byGonn & Hal Iggulden
• The James Bond series by Ian Fleming
• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein
• Fungus the Bogeyman by R Briggs
• Rogue Male by G Household
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.C. Lewis
• The Narnia Chronicles
• Kim by Rudyard Kipling
• The Thirty-Nine Steps by J Buchan
• Isaac Asimov – science  fiction
• The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by D Adams

Top reads for over 12’s

• The Kite Runner
• Brave New World by A Huxley
• Animal Farm by G Orwell
• H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, The Island of Dr Moreau
• The Bachman Books, by Stephen King
• The Sherlock Holmes a by Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Lord of the Flies by W Golding
• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein
• Waylander by D Gemmell
• Sourcery by Terry Pratchett
• Mark Twain’s – The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Dads: Reading is to the mind, what exercise  is to the body.