Hi!
My husband has never been a reader. Barely did required reading for high school and then read absolutely nothing in the 10+ years between graduating high school and meeting me.
He's a sci-fi/fantasy nerd to the extent that he can be with absolutely no foundational fiction knowledge. After much badgering from my end, I finally got him to try audiobooks and he loves them. He's been tearing through series almost as fast as I can recommend them.
Can you help me compile a list of series that he would've been exposed to if he'd read books in school like the rest of us nerds? I'm trying to help him play catch-up!
On my list so far:
– the Edge Chronicals
– Literally everything by Tamora Pierce
– the Eragon series
– the Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind, maybe
– the Dragonriders of Pern (which he's just starting)
– Harry Potter
– Ender's Game
– Dune
He just finished the Abhorsen series by Garth Nix and he's listened to basically the entire Cosmere by Brandon Sanderson twice becaus ehe liked it so much, lol.
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Asimov, especially the robot stuff, was a huge one for me.
As a fantasy/ sci fi loving child of that era:
A Wizard of Earthsea
Animorphs
His Dark Materials trilogy
Abhorsen trilogy
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
The Enchanted Forest Chronicles
Bunnicula
The Chronicles of Prydain
The Dark is Rising
The Giver
Diana Wynne Jones
So You Want to Be A Wizard
Bartimaeus
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C Clarke
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein
The Stainless Steel Rat by Harry Harrison
A Wrinkle in Time
Chronicles of Narnia
Chronicles of Prydain
Time Warp Trio
Redwall
Percy Jackson
Going out on a limb here and adding Throne of Glass by Sarah J Maas, it’s YA high fantasy, they are just now releasing in Graphic Audio, but the Elizabeth Evans narration is popular, too.
I was a fan of the Deltora Quest series by Emma Rhodda when I was a kid.
Inkheart (or anything by Cornelia Funke)
The Magic of Xanth series by Piers Anthony is a ton of fun but it started in 1977.