I genuinely believe there is a book for everyone!!
My BF doesn’t read and he’s going to be stuck at home for a week with nothing to do. I have Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings, and a stack of dystopian fiction books that he hasn’t touched.
Movies/shows he likes:
Game of Thrones (until the end)
Interstellar
Black Mirror
Swiss Army Man
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Genres:
-Sci-fi and fantasy
-disturbing, shocking, unpredictable, mindfucks
by neofrogs
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Enders game. Fast paced, twisty sci Fi. Better than the movie
Ready Player One if he’s a gamer at all – otherwise, heartily second Ender’s Game. World War Z is also an incredible audiobook if you think he’d do better in that format
For contemporary urban fantasy, I highly recommend the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher. Also, the Monster Hunters International books by Larry Correia.
For Sci Fi, the Dune novels are amazing.
For good sword and sorcery, the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. Also anything by David Eddings, like the Belgariad, or the Sparhawk series.
He may be the type that enjoys discovering new things about the world around him. Don’t count out non-fiction.
*I Contain Multitudes* —Ed Yong
Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk
For disturbing and shocking, Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk (pretty much most Chuck Palahniuk fits the bill for that).
Murderbot. The series starts with All Systems Red, and the first 4 are fast-paced novellas, so they’re short but very engaging reads. The audiobooks are fantastic (Kevin Free as narrator, I haven’t listened to the full-cast versions).
Red rising series, they even have dramatic audio books of the first few
For like Interstellar/Black Mirror/mindfucks vibes, *Annihilation* by Jeff Vandermeer or *The Strange* by Nathan Bellingrud were both really good at pulling me into the story. Andy Weir—*The Martian* or *Project Hail Mary* specifically—also sound like they might be good picks.