He’s never been much of a reader but wants to try. He’s said the only books he really got into was the Harry Potter series, when he was probably in his 30s.
I’m hoping to find something similar to Harry Potter in reading level. I don’t think it was the plot that he loved, but the ease of reading, and mystery/intrigue. Little to no romance would be best I think, he doesn’t seem to care about things like Hunger Games, because there’s so much love triangle plot stuff.
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If he likes science fiction, The Martian or Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Maybe the Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan
What about an autobiography of someone he likes? My stepdad isn’t much of a reader but will read autobiographies/biographies. The other series he really liked was The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Differently Morphus and Existentially Challenged by Yahtzee Croshaw. Governmental agency involved in the regulation of magic and extra dimensional beings.
If you like fast paced, easy to read but witty prose Walter Mosley, Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammet may be interesting too.
I learned English just by listening/reading and those were the first books I enjoyed, and decades and many English literature classics later still enjoy and admire the writing.
Chronicles of Narnia.
The Scholomance series is my favorite rec for people who liked Harry Potter. It’s a little bit more grown up, a lot more deadly, but it’s got the snarky narrator and the magical school setting. It does have some romance (no more than Harry Potter) so reccomend with that in mind. Another great one is the Mistborn series, easy read but not too juvenile, the Wax and Wayne Series is the same world but 200 years later and it is a fantasy Western, you can skip the first trilogy entirely if you think he’d be more into that.
The Right Stuff
Red Rising series
Dark Matter and Recursion (Blake Crouch)
11/22/63
Into Thin Air (non fiction)
The Murderbot Diaries would be good if he likes high action sci-fi
For fantasy, Brandon Sanderson has a straightforward writing style that might appeal—Tress of the Emerald Sea or the Mistborn Trilogy would be good places to give it a try
How about dead bodies?
MARY ROACH –
“Stiff : the curious lives of human cadavers”
CAITLIN DOUGHTY –
“ Will my cat eat my eyeballs? : big questions from tiny mortals about death”
“ From here to eternity : traveling the world to find the good death”
“ Smoke gets in your eyes : and other lessons from the crematory”
JUDY MELINEK –
“ Working stiff : two years, 262 bodies, and the making of a medical examiner”