Hi! Any suggestions welcome, and I really thank everyone in advance. I read a ton, usually cozy fantasy dabbled with random popular mystery books, but open to whatever. If someone recommends me a book, I’ll usually give it a go.
My husband doesn’t read. He’s very intelligent but after 12 years, I haven’t seen him read a book ever. I’m thinking his last books were Harry Potter or LoTR.
I’d love to pick up 2 of a book that he and I can read separately but come together and chat about it.
Anybody out there have suggestions for couples to read? I’d say action/adventure might be best, and nothing too terribly long.
Thanks!
by Lex_Loki
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i think you both can enjoy mysteries and fantasies. do you know what type of movies your partner likes to watch? that’ll help with the recommendations. also books you really enjoy
my husband never really read books either and it turned out the issue was medium, i turned him onto audiobooks and now hes almost constantly reading a book just like me! maybe see if audiobooks work for your husband
im just going to list some books and series my husband and i have enjoyed reading together, we are primarily fantasy and sci fi readers, maybe one of these will seem interesting for you two
Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
Beware of Chicken by Casual Farmer
Ten Thousand Stitches by Olivia Atwater
Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
Cradle by Will Wight
Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove
Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames
Tress of the Emerald Sea, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter, and Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson
“I’ll Never get out of here Alive,” by Steve Earle.
Is, IMO, a fine book and it reads well aloud.
h{{A Brothers Price by Wen Spencer}}
Guards, Guards by Terry Pratchett. Satirical fantasy in a large multispecies city. Intelligent, hilarious, subversive, heartwarming.
Dog Stars by Peter Heller
1. **The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri** – fantasy, excellent world-building, interesting mix of magic and politics, lots of strong women
2. **A Touch of Blood by Sajni Patel** – fantasy, Persephone retelling mixed with Indian mythology (really unique world), good character development
3. **Theft of Swords by Michael J. Sullivan** – fantasy, fun characters and plot, good world-building
4. **Foul Lady Fortune by Chloe Gong** – mystery, historical, spies and assassins, bit of sci-fi/fantasy
5. **The Red Palace by June Hur** – mystery, historical, bit of slow burn romance
6. **I’ll Stop the World by Lauren Thoman** – coming of age, mystery, darker themes but fulfilling ending
Have you read any of the Reacher books by Lee Child? They are pretty quick reads and include a lot of action, a little mystery, and usually a small amount of “romance”(Reacher hooking up with whatever female happens to be in the town he’s currently drifting through). They are fun books and Lee wrote 23 or 24 of them before his brother took the series over. The books are mostly stand alone and can be read in any order. You could also watch the series on Amazon Prime if you have that. They made a pretty solid adaptation, in my opinion.
Ilona Andrews Innkeeper Chronicles –A magic Inn, space werewolves and vampires, a lot of really unique aliens, mystery, romance, action, a fun and humorous series
The Night Agent by Matthew Quirk. It’s a mystery/thriller which moves quickly. Bonus is that you can watch the show in Netflix when you’re done. First season is pretty true to the book.
You guys might enjoy the Riyria Revelations series by Michael J. Sullivan, starting with **Theft of Swords (The Crown Conspiracy/Avempartha)**. It follows a ‘rogues-for-hire’ duo in a classic-feeling fantasy world, who take on a job and are pulled into an adventure they couldn’t have imagined. A great cast of characters, rich world building, lots of fun banter/dialogue, adventure, and plenty of twists and ‘revelations’ along the way. It starts off fairly light/low stakes, and eventually turns into quite an epic little series, broken down into six fairly bite-sized novels (published two per volume). Imo it’s a perfect type of fantasy for someone who enjoyed LOTR years ago but doesn’t want anything *too* heavy.