Suggested books for a non-reader

Link, at 86 I might....

Maybe an audio book would be better for her.
There are also lovley illustrated books for more young people or even grown ups
where the text leads you into a very special world.

Seconding Saab's audiobooks recommendation.

Also, according to WIKI

She's not too old for graphic novels and such:
I read several on this list.
Nine Graphic Novels Every Girl Should Read

Can't recommend Ms Marvel enough. I've read all current six volumes.

Perhaps, the young adults genre of "coming of age novels" would be of interest. "Coming of age" could be put into a public library search field? Or the search field in an online bookstore?

I'm not an immediate help, but wait, maybe. I have been almost lifelong interested in sports myself, still am, but I'm a million years old, compared to your daughters; still I might dig up a suggestion that worked for me as a teen; way out of sinc now, but it could be modified.

I was catapulted from a city next to Chicago when I was about to turn 14, from a place I played with other kids I still remember, to a place I knew nobody but my cousins/other family. My good luck was that my father was interested in sports. He wasn't with me when I saw Swaps, the horse I picked, win the Kentucky Derby, as that was at a Chicago friends house, but .. that made me start reading the sports page.

When I got to California (we had lived there before, but not lately), one of the first places my mother took me was to the library. Soon enough, I started reading some sports series books, such as Sports Stories of 1943, or similar. I read the sports pages. At some point, I got a mad crush on a football player, Heisman Trophy winner at Notre Dame, thus getting interested in football.

My father and uncle taught us cousins pitch and put golf, and took us to see a US Open at Rancho, our area city park. I saw most of the bigs of that time.

As an old adult I now have big questions about football, but I still like it. I went to a university that won a lot in Basketball, UCLA... in the years they were winning. Of course I read the news, not to mention The Bruin.

I don't know what the equivalent would be now, for your daughter re sports and books, given the ease of the internet, but maybe there still are good books out there. Well written sports stories grabbed me back then and I hope people are still writing them, by now including more girls and women.

I'll add, has she been tested for dyslexia? I figure that is not the problem, as there are other reasons not to like reading besides that, and you likely have considered that.

I have a cousin who had major problems in school from it, and managed to get through school and uni with a tape recorder, back around 1960. She had lowish scores in the SAT test for verbal, and a perfect score for math.

Those old library books, 1943 old to me too - I wonder if anyone saved any of them.

My children were the same. Neither enjoyed reading and still don't, as adults. Fortunately, our little grandchild loves books.

If your daughter enjoyed "Wonder," she might enjoy "Holes" by Louis Sachar and its sequel, "Small Steps."

Heya Linkat: I have been working in a library for the last five years - here's my suggestion. Go to "Goodreads.com" and type in "Wonder". Then check for 'read-alikes'. You can do this on your library website, too. Or just google that information. It really depends on what she liked about the book. You can also type in author + readalikes" for people who write similarly. Your library also likely has "Books recommended by teens" on their website.

how about comic books?

Thanks I think this is helpful. She does well in school (right now has all As) so it isn't a matter of any learning ability . ..she simply thinks reading is boring. But she also said how much she enjoyed reading Wonder. So I thought if I could find similar books I'd get her those to encourage this over things like her phone and TV.

I have given her books about sports but I still have to encourage her to read them . Wonder is the first book she just read without prompting (of course after it was assigned in school). She read it way ahead of the rest of the class.