Suggest me a book for a woman who doesn’t enjoy fiction
I was specifically asked to suggest a book that's either in the Science-Fiction or Horror genre, and that's what's left me scratching my head. I was thinking something from Stephen King like Carrie or Dean Koontz.
I read Demon Seed by Dean Koontz in a day, which is pretty rare for me. It kind of involves >!a woman being forcefully impregnated by a supercomputer that takes over her house’s security system !<, so I’d make sure whoever you’re suggesting a book for is okay with something like that.
Bird_Commodore18 on
The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
Butterball-24601 on
For sci-fi, give Pale Grey Dot, by Don Miasek, a try. Two of the three protagonists are badass women (assuming that’s what you’re looking for).
BasicSuperhero on
Porqué no los dos?
Dead Silence by SA Barnes is a sci fi horror story about a salvage crew finding the space titanic. Ghost ship story in space.
mbutterflye on
Why not something alternate history like The Bear and the Nightingale (and following books, it’s a trilogy) or Jonathon Strange and Mr Norrell? The second one has the bonus of also reading like an actual history book sometimes.
BespectacledZebra on
Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle!
B3tar3ad3r on
My standard advice for getting a non reader into reading is to start with short stories and novellas as the “buy in” is much lower. For science fiction specifically The Murderbot Diaries comes to mind as the series started as a short story, then became novellas, then full on novels. You can read the starting short story(and other sci-fi short stories about the future of work) here: [https://www.wired.com/story/future-of-work-compulsory-martha-wells/](https://www.wired.com/story/future-of-work-compulsory-martha-wells/)
For horror the same rule applies, King has several short story collections(Night Shift is a classic) and some novellas like The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
ClimateTraditional40 on
The Martian, Andy Weir. Believable, hard SF so no BS stuff about FTL, aliens or other fictional stuff.
Or more interesting really, Mars Crossing, Geoffrey Landis.
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I read Demon Seed by Dean Koontz in a day, which is pretty rare for me. It kind of involves >!a woman being forcefully impregnated by a supercomputer that takes over her house’s security system !<, so I’d make sure whoever you’re suggesting a book for is okay with something like that.
The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
For sci-fi, give Pale Grey Dot, by Don Miasek, a try. Two of the three protagonists are badass women (assuming that’s what you’re looking for).
Porqué no los dos?
Dead Silence by SA Barnes is a sci fi horror story about a salvage crew finding the space titanic. Ghost ship story in space.
Why not something alternate history like The Bear and the Nightingale (and following books, it’s a trilogy) or Jonathon Strange and Mr Norrell? The second one has the bonus of also reading like an actual history book sometimes.
Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle!
My standard advice for getting a non reader into reading is to start with short stories and novellas as the “buy in” is much lower. For science fiction specifically The Murderbot Diaries comes to mind as the series started as a short story, then became novellas, then full on novels. You can read the starting short story(and other sci-fi short stories about the future of work) here: [https://www.wired.com/story/future-of-work-compulsory-martha-wells/](https://www.wired.com/story/future-of-work-compulsory-martha-wells/)
For horror the same rule applies, King has several short story collections(Night Shift is a classic) and some novellas like The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
The Martian, Andy Weir. Believable, hard SF so no BS stuff about FTL, aliens or other fictional stuff.
Or more interesting really, Mars Crossing, Geoffrey Landis.
Ditto but not about growing potatoes.