She just finished reading Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir and she said she liked it. She finished The Outsider by Stephen King and liked that too. I've noticed that she likes to read books that have already been adapted into TV/movies or are soon to be. For example, she started reading Wool (but didn't finish it) when the show Silo was popular. I appreciate your help.
by Bee-Ly_Dan
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11/22/63 by King
**The Long Walk**?
My mom loves Stephen King and she likes everything by Thomas Olde Heuvelt. Her favorite is Hex
The Green Mile and the Shawshank Redemption are great King books that were turned into pretty decent movies.
Station 11. ~~Hasn’t been adapted that I know of, but might be her style.~~
The Martian, also by Andy Weir.
She might like some books by Ben Elton. Look at Time and Time Again as a start.
Do you have a moment to talk about Dungeon Crawler Carl?
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis is a cleverly written time travel missing object mystery. You’re fiance would probably like it.
Maybe Gone Girl or Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn?
The Ritual by Adam Levine!
Check out stuff by Robert J. Sawyer. He’s got a gift for taking complex topics and writing so that layfolk can understand and appreciate very esoteric subject matter.
These are the ones of his I reread regularly: The Neanderthal Parallax; Calculating God; The WWW Trilogy; Golden Fleece; Starplex; Rollback; End of an Era; Quantum Night.
Added bonus: His novel Flashforward was adapted into a one season TV show.
The Outsider is part of a series. If she hasn’t read the rest of them, that’s what you need.
There’s the Bill Hodges trilogy — Mr. Mercedes, Finders Keepers, End Of Watch.
Holly Gibney is introduced in those, then spins off into her own series.The Outsider, Holly, Never Flinch.
If she just read The Outsider I’d buy the other two Holly Gibney books.
Editing to add, Mr. Mercedes has a TV series.
Murder Bot Diaries by Martha Wells