My husband often reads to me. It is extremely comforting. I love his voice. I don’t think I’m as articulate as him, but I want to read to him too. And gift him some books to occupy time while he’s recovering from an injury.
I’m not sure what would be the best book to read. I feel like if it has a lot of dialogue it will be hard?
Some books he likes off the top of my head (I’m excluding war/military/martial arts/meditation and philosophy type books which he does read and you are welcome to suggest.. but I don’t think those will be best to read aloud)
Demian by Hermann Hesse
Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Master and the Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Plotters by Unsu Kim
The Fight by Norman Mailer
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I think he likes Demons by Dostoyevsky as well
Kokoro by Natsume Sōseki
A few Hwang Sok-Yong’s books
Human Acts by Han Kang
The Surrendered by Chang-Rae Lee
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima
The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
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Dracula = Some Of Your Blood by Theodore Sturgeon. Instead of letters, though, it’s told through a psychologist’s notes about his patient.
for Into Thin Air you could try Jeff Long’s fiction about climbing. The Wall and his other book The Ascent. I haven’t read them though. I have read two other books by him and they were quite good however.