Hi there everyone, since finding this subreddit I am honestly thrilled because (short backstory) I (23F) am an avid reader with a major in English Literature! My partner(23M) on the other hand… He finds it straight up boring!
However, a couple of nights ago we were looking through his old childhood toys and he found stacks of books that he LOVED as a kid.
So in an effort to get him back into reading, here is a list of books he couldn’t put down as a child:
39 Clues
Conspiracy 365
The Hobbit
Into The Wild
Little Princes
Wolven
Please suggest anything that would be in these genres (mystery/thriller I’m guessing?) that specifically have little about love interests and more about the plot!
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*Red Rising* is a bit like the Hunger Games if written from a more “Action figure” viewpoint. First book starts out fairly cookie cutter action/adventure/dystopia but the series becomes a much more interesting read as you go along.
*The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle* by Stuart Turton is filled with manipulative characters and nothing is quite what it seems. A man wakes up without memories and is trying to not only piece together his identity, but also solve a murder in the process! Do yourself a favor and don’t read spoilers on this, just dive in.
*Recursion* by Blake Crouch is a popular book here because it’s a trippy time/dimension hopping adventure. Only thing I’ve read that’s quite like it is another one of this author’s books *Dark Matter.*
*All Systems Red* by Martha Wells is the start of the “murderbot” series. Most all of the entries here are under 200 pages. Fast paced, funny, adventure stories with excellent lead character who is uncovering a sci-fi tinged conspiracy.
*The Rook* is Hellboy meets Blake Crouch. A woman wakes up without memory and surrounded by people she obviously bested in a brutal fight. She finds out she is a powered individual working for a government supernatural agency and someone from within is trying to kill her.
He might like Neil Gaiman. Good Omens, American Gods, or Neverwhere.
If he liked Into the Wild, he might like other Jon Krakauer books, or nonfiction that reads like fiction (David Grann, Erik Larson, Ben Macintyre).
Totally second the Red Rising and Blake Crouch suggestions. Also if he liked Into The Wild, he might love the other Jon Krakauer nonfiction Into Thin Air: a Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster. Unputdownable. And if he likes that, he might go for Buried in the Sky by Peter Zuckerman.