My nephew is turning ten, what literature should I purchase for him?

While this is true, unless someone presents a helping hand and nudges him a bit, he might never realize that he likes to read. I kinda doubt anyone else would give me a book. I don't know how user does it, but I would wrap it whimsically and tell him as he opens it that this is a special book about pirates, talking birds and gold. Your parents probably don't want you to read this though, it's too advanced for someone so young. At least this is how I was given Treasure Island as a young lad.

The Complete Works of Plato

Cringe

See

Lolita
It will teach him what men are really like and what girls his age really want.

damm sounds like me but with other hobbies

When I was 10, I loved reading:
--Aesop's Fables
--The Tales of Br'er Rabbit
--Just So Stories
I think these will all be winners

blood meridian

Basic Works of Nietzsche
Basic Works of Freud
Das Kapital
The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays
Discipline and Punishment
Industrial Society and Its Future
Prometheus and Atlas

>Anything Le Guin
Disagree. Extremely mediocre writer. Watership Down isn't a bad idea though.

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Tristram was a joke.
You guys are such plebs

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Anything by de Sade, they will help him grow up into a proper 4channelite.

hairy pooper

I'll assume that he's an english speaker.
The Hobbit
Tales From the Perilous Realm
The Chronicles of Narnia
His Dark Materials
The Inheritance Cycle
Dracula

What a great joke. You win the internet today, for today. You're a gentleman and a scholar!

Jesus what is that?

Pre-op Schmetterling.

Idk like Harry Potter? Narnia?

Karl May, Jack London, Aesop

I read Warrior Cats when I was 10 but only the first books because they're kind of boring

The hobbit, LOTR, some basic Greek stuff and Behead all Satans

I read a pretty simplistic prose translation of the iliad when i was about 10 and really enjoyed it.

Unironically a childrens version of the Odyssey

Hey that image is my wallpaper, found it thanks to lovecraft

You can even get it at a grocery store to save yourself the trip

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My uncle gave me Crime and Punishment and The Magic Mountain when I was 16.
I eventually read Crime and Punishment at 19.
I still haven’t read The Magic Mountain.

Sex and Character

Jules Verne books

Some really old Y/A stuff like the original Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, etc. might not be a terrible idea. They were my first independent foray into reading in any case.
Also the Redwall series by Brian Jacques is excellent for children. It's certainly more timeless than Hardy Boys or Nancy Drew. I would just go with Redwall desu.

I LOVED Redwall when I was a lad. Still do, in fact.

Hes not gonna read it lmao, most kids hated that relative that gave them books, but its especially bad with zoom zooms

juliette

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A lot of people have posted Homer, and that’s correct, but if I was 10, I’d want one of those big fucking DK books with machines exploded and thousands of labels all over everything.

I don't get it.

Death In Venice, Doctor Faustus and The Magic Mountain

I'm convinced Behead all Satans isn't even a real book

A Series of Unfortunate Events

Haha what a jokester. I will have to scrutinize your posts for more gags from now on. Thanks for letting us know, we would have never ascertained the deep level of humor hidden underneath the layers. upboat!

Those other posters are bullying you with sarcasm, but I thought it was a really funny joke, personally. :)

Harry pitah

Why do you repeat the same joke?

When my sister turned 10 I got her the Hobbit, she loved it. Narnia is a good suggestion too, but I think Hobbit is superior.

The Hobbit then LotR

i really liked the seeing stone series when i was 10, as well as the lord of the rings. just get him fantasy books with cool swordfights and shit.

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it's real enough, fellow faggot pleb.
kikes keep trying to suppress it, though.

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>The Complete Works of Plato
2nd this. Plato is very accesible and even if he doesn't get it right away it might pique his interest so he reads it later. Plato is definitely approachable for say, a smart 14 year old.
I would also recommend Narnia and Ender's Game.

Some dragon lance or forgotten realms shit. That's what I started on when I was his age. I did a book report in the fifth grade on some dl book that all I remember was lots of acid rain, and some minotaurs fucking. Started reading more.

Pretty sure the kid was like 8 and he bought it George Elliot lmao