I know of a 15ish year old boy who's having to fly to Hawaii next week. He'll be traveling for something like 14 hours, but won't have a phone or other electronics, so the call has gone out to donate a few books to help him stay occupied.

What are some good suggestions for interesting books that this a 15 year old boy might enjoy?

(Unfortunately, there are no details available on what specific type of books he likes.)

Starship Troopers

Dune

We Were Soldiers Once and Young

"The Tripods" trilogy. Whoops. There are actually four books.

The Murderbot Diaries. 4 short books out right now. Fun and not a lot of fluff. Definitely keeps the interest going.

Not a book, but there are usually some good articles in Playboy magazine that he may find interesting to read.
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Louis Lamour western

Hmm. I wonder if he wants serious knowledge type books or more relaxing fun easy books.

I just back from Knoxville,TN and I raided McKays used book store.

I have been re-reading the old Mac Bolan/Stony Man
adventure series books that I read when I was in 6-8th grade. I bought a ton of them for .50 to 1.00.

They are action packed, easy reading and fun.

I am also a fan of the Robert Ludlum books. The Jason Bourne Series are found at about any used book stores and/or libraries. Appeals to all ages especially with the action.

Good book series that is a little more for adults. My son 14 loves the whole series
Terry Mancour's spell monger series
https://www.goodreads.com/seri...5883-the-spellmonger

Craig Alsonson's Expeditionary Force series

https://www.goodreads.com/sear...on&search_type=books

David Weber's Honor Harrington series.
https://www.goodreads.com/sear...or+harrington+series

Hunt for Red October

The Walking Drum Louis L'Amour

Bazil Broketail series by Christopher Rowley

Halo series

R. A. Salvatore Icewind Dale Trilogy to start with, although I love every book he's written...

Heinlein - Methusaleh's Children. or any book

Crichton - Timeline, or Prey, or Jurassic Park

Jack Reacher books

A. Bertran Chandler - John Grimes book series

The Chronicles of Narnia:
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Prince Caspian
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
...there's seven books

Conrad - heart of darkness
Salinger - catcher in the rye

“The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings” (three volumes), both by J. R. R. Tolkien, are good reads for boys of any age.

The first chapter of “The Hobbit” is my favorite chapter of all fictional literature.

Lord of the Flies

A Day No Pigs Would Die

Catcher in the Rye

The Chronicles of Narnia

15YO? Something with lots of sex and violence would be well-appreciated! "having to fly to Hawaii?" poor baby!

If he is kind of geeky/dorky/intellectual, a Neal Stephenson might do the trick, if perhaps a little on the heavy side. I just re-read "In the beginning, there was the command line" a treatise/examination of Windows vs. macOS vs. Unix vs. BeOS from an early-2000's perspective. Very interesting, but probably only to OS geeks. "Snow Crash," "The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O." or "Cryptonomicon" might be better for one's first Stephenson.

There is a reason the "action" genre sell so well in airports, they can make time and the miles fly by. The Stephen Hunter Bob Lee Swagger/Earl Swagger novels are entertaining, with a fair amount of firearms content. Other entertaining authors in this genre include, Matthew Reilly, Brad Thor, and Vince Flynn.

You can't go wrong with historical fiction, especially Patrick O'Brien's Aubrey/Matarin sea-going novels.

Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch novels also deserve a mention, nice tie in to recent media releases as well.

And, I cannot fail to mention "Unintended Consequences" by John Ross.

As an idea, buy him a cheap Android tablet, or Amazon Fire, and load it up with books. A lot more variety is possible, and a lot less to carry.

My 14 year old son consumes books like water. I will ask him for some titles that the kids his age are into now.

I've found the Daniel Silva books recently, specifically Gabriel Allon's character. Spy novels, very little sex and language - mostly spy and state-sponsored murder of those really needing it.

You might find a used book on eBay.
"The Way Things Work"

https://www.amazon.com/Way-Thi...rk-Now/dp/0544824385

Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz and Michener's Centennial. Those two will keep him occupied for quite some time, and he will enjoy them.