Hey guys,
My husband got really sick. So he has a lot of free time and time for boredom and negative thoughts. I want to gift him some books as audio books so he can relax and liste to some real good books and lighten up his mood and take him away in new worlds. He really doesn’t like fantasy books, isn’t in to YA and coming of age, he is not into romance. He just wants to read/listen to some great stories. He really loved the stand, the road, the expanse, dark tower – some of his recent reads. I don’t usually read books like that so I don’t know a lot of books like that. He likes realistic science fiction, great stories, deep characters. He wants to “meet” people in a new world go on adventures/ an adventure with them and get to know them.
Please help me find some books to brighten his days. Thanks so much!
Edit: He is not into lite RPG and it doesn’t need to be be funny, just good great story’s with good characters.
by Ritamove18
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Dungeon crawler Carl is the best audiobook series I’ve ever listened to! The sub is also really active and fun so if he’s bored he’d likely enjoy that
Try some Tom Robbins. If he likes one get more.
Not sure any of his books would brighten anyone’s day but if he liked The Road, maybe more McCarthy. Pretty much any of them but I’d suggest border trilogy then blood meridian
Has he tried Neal Stephenson? I really like his sci fi and historical fiction.
The Martian. Smart, funny, and pure survival-mode storytelling
I highly recommend 11/22/63 & Fairytale by Stephen King – especially if he has enjoyed The Stand.
I know she is controversial now but JK Rowling’s Harry Potter (read by Jim Dale, GTFO if you’re a Fry lover) and her Cormoran Strike series are good ones as well.
Sherlock Holmes (again, the collection read by Simon Vance, not Fry)
The OG Millennium trilogy
Lonesome Dove (though I find this book beyond over rated on this sub, but it remains popular)
A Gentleman in Moscow.
Has he read the Red Rising series? That’s a good one. It’s sort of like dystopian meets sci-fi. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel.
John Scalzi, The interdependency series. Best read in order: The Collapsing Empire, The Consuming Fire, and the Last Emperox. Sci Fi, such good storyline and characters.
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
i believe he might like blake crouch – wayward pines, recursion, dark matter