I'm a die hard sci-fi/fantasy reader and my wife is mostly "book-tok" type things like Coleen Hoover and whatnot.
She started reading "The Measure" by Nikki Erlick and she asked if I would read it along with her. He had a paperback so I grabbed it on Kindle and we read through it and it was nice to have like a little book club kind of thing going. It was outside genre for me but it only took a few days to read so no biggie.
I'm looking for another book that we can both read and discuss. I am a lot more open to my genres than she is – she is almost all romantic fiction. She can't handle thrillers or mysteries and she isn't fond of violence or any depiction of harm towards animals or children. The Measure worked out because it had a simple premise that drove a few key questions about how we would handle that situation – something like that would be perfect.
Thoughts?
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I’d go with Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley—it’s a mix of different genres so it has something for everyone, but at it’s heart it’s fan-fiction romance. The author found a photo of a hot polar explorer and came up with a story where the polar explorer is sucked into the future to the present day to meet up with a character who seems not entirely unlike the author herself. But it also has enough sci-fi elements and historical fiction for other people.
Vorkosigan saga. Is a page turner, easy to read and is sci fi.
Also xenogenesis by octavia butler. It has parts that would appeal to romance reader while asking some tough questions.
The Clocktaur War duology by T Kingfisher might suit you both. The romance is slow-burn and pretty natural and the fantasy story is a great “suicide mission” by a group of misfits. There’s a bit of violence toward rats through a spell, but all the characters are duly horrified.
Bellwether or Crosstalk, both by Connie Willis, who is a great sci-fi writer, might work also. They’re both basically character-based romances. Bellwether is more science than sci-fi, but is still amazing. There’s only a little more sci-fi in Crosstalk.
my husband and I are both reading Dungeon Crawler Carl and having a blast.