Math textbooks. Did you know that you can just buy math textbooks which are “several years too advanced for you”? And that due to economies of scale and the objectivity of their subject matter, they tend to be of both high and consistent quality? Not getting my parents to do this at that age is something I still regret decades later.
Or did you specifically mean fiction? If so, you’re asking for fiction recommendations on the grew-up-reading-HPMOR website, we’re obviously going to recommend HPMOR (especially if they’ve already read Harry Potter, but it’s still good if you only know the broad strokes).
Doesn’t matter, because HPMOR is engaging enough on a chapter-by-chapter basis. I read lots of books when I was a kid when I didn’t understand the overarching plot. As long as I had a reasonable expectation that cool stuff would happen in the next chapter, I’d keep reading. I read “Stand On Zanzibar” repeatedly as a child, and didn’t understand the plot until I reread it as an adult last year. Same with the detective novel “A Deadly Shade of Gold”. I read it for the fistfights, snappy dialogue, and insights into adult life. The plot was lost on me.
Math textbooks. Did you know that you can just buy math textbooks which are “several years too advanced for you”? And that due to economies of scale and the objectivity of their subject matter, they tend to be of both high and consistent quality? Not getting my parents to do this at that age is something I still regret decades later.
Or did you specifically mean fiction? If so, you’re asking for fiction recommendations on the grew-up-reading-HPMOR website, we’re obviously going to recommend HPMOR (especially if they’ve already read Harry Potter, but it’s still good if you only know the broad strokes).
HPMOR has quite a complex story, not sure I would have been able to follow/enjoy it at 11.
Doesn’t matter, because HPMOR is engaging enough on a chapter-by-chapter basis. I read lots of books when I was a kid when I didn’t understand the overarching plot. As long as I had a reasonable expectation that cool stuff would happen in the next chapter, I’d keep reading. I read “Stand On Zanzibar” repeatedly as a child, and didn’t understand the plot until I reread it as an adult last year. Same with the detective novel “A Deadly Shade of Gold”. I read it for the fistfights, snappy dialogue, and insights into adult life. The plot was lost on me.