Trying to get my boyfriend into reading books
I’m looking for a novel preferably fantasy to get my boyfriend into reading. He wants something either from a male perspective or third pov. He reads some manga and plays a lot of video games like Zelda and Destiny. Does anyone have any suggestions for something he might be in to? Ideally relatively short books, my 600+ page romantasy books scare him hahaha
by HouseAggravating1489
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A lot of guys like the Jack Reacher series of novels by Lee Child. There’s a lot of action and the good guy always wins. The first of the series is “Killing Floor” though the books are all stand alone and don’t need to be read in order. If he saw and enjoyed the TV series on Reacher he might like the novels.
Maybe The hobbit, or Lord of the rings if the page count isn’t scaring him off
My son isn’t into reading that much but his girlfriend got him The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and he loved it. He also read The Martian & liked it.
Yahtzee Croshaw, funny author with great characters. The author is a popular video game reviewer, so your boyfriend may already be familiar with his work.
Differently Morphus and Existentially Challenged – Governmental agency involved in the regulation of magic and extra dimensional beings. Urban Fantasy.
Mogworld – Main character is undead. Hijinks ensue.
The Traveler’s Gate Trilogy by Will Wight. Magic is used by calling energy and creatures from other worlds called territories. People who can draw from their territories are called travelers. The first book in the series is House of Blades. This is a pretty action heavy series. If he likes the first one then it makes the choice for the next 2 books pretty easy.
Cradle by Will Wight is the ultimate book for anime/manga lovers. The series is 13 books and I read them in 9 days this year they are like crack.
Perhaps some David Gemmel books, if he likes one of them he’ll like pretty much all of them.
Codex Alera by Jim Butcher.
Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
The Martian or Project Hail Mary, both by Andy Weir
Check out some A. Lee Martinez. A lot of his stories are fantastical, short, and loaded with humor.
Automatic Detective is very pulpy, so robots, mutants, anthropomorphic gorillas who drive taxis. Sort of Noir-ish.
Emperor Mullosk vs the Sinister Brain. Alien takes over the world then feels bad about it and protects it from more outside influence.
To introduce him to some romantasy concepts without the in depth descriptions, Gil’s All Fright Diner(Vampire & werewolf find a portal to hell) & A Nameless Witch(woman protagonist though, goes on a quest to save the world)
The Stormlight Archives by Brandon Sanderson, beginning with The Way of Kings
Epic fantasy, easily readable style, multiple main perspectives, but 2 of the main 3 or 4 are male.
If he likes manga good chance he likes this – some of the climaxes in these books are straight up anime fights.
My husband isn’t into reading but he LOVED the Silo series. Bonus it’s on Apple TV as a FANTASTIC series.
All Systems Red by Martha Wells. The POV is a cyborg. Only 160 pages.
He can change, I am sure of it
Just give him an audible account and have it ready with Project Hail Mary