My dad and I are going on a road trip and we need an audiobook to listen to. The issue is that we have very different tastes.
I like fantasy generally more children’s books, books I’ve enjoyed in the past were like wings of fire, nevermoor and the trials of Morigan crow, and the first couple Harry Potter books.
My dad on the other hand is very much nonfiction or nonfantasy he recommended like mobey dick and Charles Hemingway in general. He mostly reads cooking books.
Some stuff we’ve managed to enjoy together were shows like suits, the good place and psych.
I recommended dune or Enders game and had a difficult time trying to explain that it’s not just fantasy but it just turned him away.
Some mystery or low fantasy with absolutely no smut (I do not want to listen to that with my dad) recommendations might be a good start but I’m open to most stuff. Also please add a short summery and genre.
Thank you 🙂
by Dottheangel
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Lonesome Dove . . . (Seriously)
Some nonfiction is so amazing and incredible that it almost “feels” like fantasy to me. Especially if it’s historical.
In the Heart of the Sea: this is the real-life inspiration for Moby Dick, and I think it’s much better and way more exciting. Whaling ship is repeatedly rammed and sunk by a whale and the sailors have to survive for 90 days lost at sea. Total nail-biter that reads like fiction.
Into Thin Air: Jon Krakauer (wrote a bunch of other books, which are also really good) climbed Everest and got stuck up there in a storm that claimed the lives of 6 of his party members. It’s SO freaking good, and will probably make you and your dad talk a lot about why people do weird things like climb Everest at all.
For a fiction rec out of left field, World War Z is an insanely well-produced audiobook. It has dozens of readers, most of whom are well-known actors like Alan Alda, Nathan Fillian and Mark Hamill. It’s a cool format, a zombie apocalypse told in lots of different diary-type entries.
Have you read Harry Potter: A History of Magic? It’s a non-fiction about the real history that inspired Harry Potter. I’ve only read the book which has illustrations and such so not sure how the audiobook translates, but it exists.
If y’all like the good place, y’all might enjoy discworld. It’s basically a comedy fantasy series. Super funny and insightful, and there are fully economic models that get taught in universities that have come from the characters in those books.
The series has like 40 books, in several dif kind of progressions. He might like the city watch and/ or industrial revolution novels best. Most can stand alone, but here are two y’all might wanna start with
Night watch- one of the city watch books- involves a city cop getting involved in a little magic just as a framing mechanism- but it’s mostly about the legacy you leave in the actions you take, and how that can impact the future.
Going postal is a book in the industrial revolution sequence that follows an ex con who gets roped into making the city’s postal service work