Kickstarter lets people complain in advance. It's great. :3

Get some Goethe. Faust is weird and interesting. The Sorrows is kind of dull in content, but framed as letters.

Safran Foer makes books weird. Words printed on top of words so you can't read them. Sudden clipbook-pages. Optional cyphers to solve!

Nonfiction works on people with other interests.

All the ones Max just mentioned (although I really disliked The Chocolate Wars). Maze Runner series. Percy Jackson series. The first three Maximum Ride books (the other seven(?) books are awful). Thirteen Days To Midnight. Fahrenheit 451, and everything else written by Bradbury. I don't even read v...

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^ Reynard-Miri tell joke with questionable marks. :3

^ 9th grade? Like 14 years. Uh, I think some of my friends read about cars. I remember reading about armoury. Generally, books and magazines with pictures and diagrams to break the text got more attention.

I think Terry Pratchett and generic fantasy were moderately popular.

^ Good old Ose.

He also mentions Ricco Harbor from Super Mario Sunshine. Maybe the Mario and Animal Crossing games take place far in the future where animals have evolved the ability to speak human languages and other strange abilities. Makes you wonder why E. Gadd's greatest inventions were a squirt gun, a vacuum...

^ You're still "lords", at best. At least kill eachother for power, first. :3

^ Commencing reign of terror.