The novel is nearly forgotten because the movie is a classic, but that shouldn’t be: it is beautifully written, spare, and a throwback to a time when heroes were expected to be heroic.Ģ0,000 Leagues Under The Sea, by Jules Verne The Western is an all-American art form, and Shane is the highest literary version of that form. Appropriate for ages 12 and up, depending on the translation. A great film version of the book was split into two movies, The Three Musketeers (1973) and The Four Musketeers (1974), with Michael York, Oliver Reed, Frank Finlay, Richard Chamberlain, Raquelle Welch, Faye Dunaway, and Charlton Heston, among others. The story of D’Artagnan and his companions Athos, Porthos, and Aramis gallivanting around pre-revolutionary France, attempting to navigate the dangerous worlds of international and domestic politics, is simply un-put-downable – and unlike a lot of older literature, it’s eminently readable.

The book’s simply a swashbuckling classic – juicy and fun and exciting.

The Three Musketeers, by Alexander Dumas With that in mind, here are 11 books all boys should read. Which means that if you want boys to read, you have to give them material that excites them, that fascinates them, that rivets them. But I see that my son, now five, won’t sit still long enough to read: he’d prefer to build things or run around or bother his sisters. I’m an exception to that rule – I’ve read incessantly since childhood.

Ben 10 books to read