Writers/books suitable for boys in the 8-14 age range include:

- A. E. van Vogt
- Ambrose Bierce
- Arthur C. Clarke
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Clarence E. Mulford
- Edgar Allen Poe
- Edgar Rice Burroughs
- G. A. Henty
- H. G. Wells
- H. H. Munro
- Henry Clay Lewis
- Herman Melville
- Howard Pease
- Howard Pyle
- James Fennimore Cooper
- John Collier
- John D. MacDonald
- John Myers Myers
- Joseph A. Altsheler
- Jules Verne
- Leslie Charteris
- Mark Twain
- Max Brand
- Nathanial Hawthorne
- Nordhoff and Hall
- P. C. Wren
- P. G. Wodehouse
- Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
- Robert Heinlein
- Somerset Maugham
- Washington Irving
- Zane Gray