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>>25066169

Lives of the Saints

What happend to his parents?

>>25066185
My sister a new life with her new husband, who sees my nephew as a burden, and the child's father disappeared when he was a baby. Its up to me now as my parents doesn't want to raise him.

>>25066181
Based, I will add him to the list.

>>25066169
I recommend any cheap encyclopedia you could get, especially the ones ordered by topic instead of alphabetically. There's something magical about having a rough guide to all the majors fields of knowledge and culture, internet will never replace the sense of awe that skimming this kind of text can convey
>11 year old
The Number Devil - Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Maybe some graphic novel adaptation of H. P. Lovecraft (idk if there's a good one, i liked the Chamber's King in Yellow adaptation)
>13 year old, or at least one year from now
Sophie's World - Jostein Gaarder

>>25066169
Focus on Math, History, and Poetry right now. Not Philosophy or novels.

>>25066233
>Poetry
I don't think he wants him to be faggot, unless...?

>>25066169
Plato - Symposium

>>25066169
The most valuable book for understanding literature is the King James Bible. I’d really encourage him to read and study that even if neither of you are religious. It’s an incredible literary resource if that’s your jumping off point then you’ll understand the greater themes and intent of 80% of Western authors. Beyond that, he’s 11. Give him stuff that is written for children
>Dickens
>Once and Future King
>Ender’s Game
But also be sure to educate him about history. Start with war. It’s very interesting.
>Shelby Foote’s Civil War
>Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
>Rick Atkinson (mainstream history guy but well researched)
>anything that is pro founding fathers of the US
When he’s mid teens have him read Tom Weiner so he knows about glowies.

>>25066169
Redwall
Conan the Barbarian
Jurassic Park

>>25066253
>The Bible
Push your good goy manual elsewhere.

Anyway this is probably too extensive, but if I were to build a cultured lad:

Start with the Greeks. Find some nice YA style introductions to the myths. The give him the Iliad, Odyssey, Argonautica, Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, the Anabasis of Alex & the Persion Expedition, Pindar and then the dramatists.

From there, move onto Rome, the subsequent christian dark ages, the age of migration, Germanic myths, the Arthurian cycle and then material on the renaissance and some art history.

Then cover the age of European (& American) expansion, the great lives of adventurers, commanders, soldiers and industrialists and their will to power.

Then cover the tragedy of the 20th century and the pall of defeat covering the west ever since 1945.

>>25066306
And some specific recs:
Shakespeare (tell him to read it out loud at times)
Paradise Lost (the only "christian" book you need, but the devil is the interesting one)
Flashman
Kipling
LoTR, Hobbit
Early genre fiction like Haggard, HG Wells, Sherlock

>>25066253
I plan to give him a Christian education. KJV is mandatory to any young man. Thank you anon.
>>25066306
>Germanic myths, the Arthurian cycle and then material on the renaissance and some art history.
I appreciate your contribution anon but i dont want him near pagan shit

Blood Meridian

>>25066191
You're American right?

>>25066344
WASP

>>25066331
raising him to be a turbofag but the apple doesn't fall far since you also seem like one

The Story of the Eye

>>25066331
You’re doing a good thing, anon. Follow through and he will turn out a good man.

>>25066359
Why are we like that?

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>>25066169
>11 years old

He is too old to learn how to read.

Get him some audiobooks and tell him to listen to them while he plays videogames. You also seem autistic and already too biased to be trusted with providing a sincere education. Just make him aware that reading will make him a better person than everybody else, and that he can read while playing videogames or doing anything else thanks to audiobooks. Later, he'll pick up actual reading.

Remember: reading is less about information, and more about status-seeking and improving one's mental acuity. The virtues of writing in refined English and understanding the written language cannot be underestimated.

Do not give him Madame Bovary, he will grow to learn by himself of the nature of women. A single Tiktok by the average woman of 2020s will make Bovary as desirable as Helen of Troy.

>>25066331
>Arthurian lit
>pagan shit
Christcucks, not even once

>>25066820
give him Schopenhauer then

>>25066822
quiet, Kyle

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>>25066253
He is approaching puberty, and you want him to read the Bible? He will not understand half of it, and the other half he'll take at face value. That is, if he reads it at all (which I am skeptical of, he is already 11 years old. That is too old).

He should come to his own realization of God and read the Bible once he is above 18 and have at least read something else before. The Bible is not an easy read, and the tales told require some good-will from the reader to set aside what is useful.

If you force him into christianity, he will become the greatest atheist you will ever meet. And it will be your fault.

>>25066169
A beat up old copy of Swiss Family Robinson and a family KJV. When he has twenty years you can give him the Loeb edition of Cyropaedia with all the english pages torn out.

Give him easy books about stories you're familiar with and show genuine excitement about them when you speak about them. The "Yesterday's Classics" series is great for boys his age.

>>25066872
> When he has twenty years

French/ Spanish ESL- gtfo

>>25066920
That is how Cyrus would have called it. You can't boss me around either, as you are no King Cyrus. I have no need to take your abuse.

Comic books & audiobooks and take him to the library

I beg you, dont listen to anons here, youre on fucking 4chan.
Anyway, Mark Twain is good, also Harry Potter books. Kid is a 11yo boy, dont go buying greek pederast shit for him. Dont listen to these anons.