Can you give me your book suggestions please for sons kindle? He turns 28.

[EmailsaysOOO]

I need to suggest a book for my son's kindle. His gf is arranging for his birthday and I think because they are moving to France in the summer. She's asking lots of people. Husband and I each asked to give her a request plus a message, ( and I don't know how or what she's going to do with messages).

So he is going to be 28. Racking my brains to remember books I know he's read. The fiction I know he's read includes Ian Mc Ewan, Haruki Marukami, also had a spell of reading buddhist kind of things, I think Siddartha is along those lines. I know he has read at least one book by Matt Haig and I was thinking of suggesting the Midnight Library so I'd be particularly keen to know if anyone's husband or sons etc have read it as I know the central character is female. So is it going to be relatable for a man?

I might be able to sneakily find out via his GF which Ian Mc Ewan books he hasn't read but I feel they are all so variable. I think that would be more risky.

Can I please have your ideas?

CJ Sansom winter in Madrid
thrillers…. DS and I read loads…. Daniel Silva, Tom Brady, Le Carré,
almost anything by William Boyd.

The Midnight Train by Matt Haig has a male main character.

The Martian or Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir - dont have to be into Sci fi to enjoy them.
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman
Hitch hikers guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Ian Banks has written loads of good ones.
Bill Bryson books

The whole Dungeon Crawler Carl series if he is into video games at all.

You beat me to it! I was coming to suggest the same.

Thanks very much. I will look those up. Was given an audible subscription so I've probably got time to download some and try them myself..

I've read some William Boyd and did wonder about those. The plots are usually great. Thanks again 😁

Hitch Hikers guide might be right up his street. I'll look into Neil Gamann too,- I thought he was more for young adults or younger bods..many thanks 🙏

My 28 year old DS likes Lee Child's Jack Reacher novels, pacy thrillers.
Tim Weaver, Neil Gamen.

For interesting sci fi vibes I recommend There is No Anti Memetics Division (idk the author), China Mieville books and The Three Body Problem series

@DoAWheelie and @BloodandGlitter thanks for this. Sounds interesting although I don't hear about him on using video games so much these days. Got a feeling the GF might have got him to give them up. Cheers though 😁

Wahoo! Thanks for letting me know this. So chuffed. off to Amazon to see what they say..Many thanks 😁

My DS is 28 and a great reader. He lives with his girlfriend and reads on Kindle so I don't know many of the books he's read recently but I know he's enjoyed:
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
The Secret History
Project Hail Mary
The Grapes of Wrath
Wild Dark Shore.
Pompeii (Robert Harris)
In Memoriam

If he likes McKewan, he likes good, intelligent fiction.
Has he read any of the more recent American greats? I'm thinking Philip Roth - The Human Stain is magnificent but there are lots of others. Jonathan Franzen. Richard Powers - I adore him, he's a genius IMHO. Don DeLillo. Paul Auster.
There are loads really but that's a good place to start if he hasn't ventured into US fiction, and there are lots from the above from the male POV. It's a whole other world.

I quite like the Maigret books. The first ones were published in the 1930s so they aren’t modern but I still think they’re a good read.

Oh yes they all sound interesting. Good stuff 👌 😁

Oh my husband's always waxing lyrical about those ..Nice idea 💡

NO to The Midnight Library by M Haig! Utter rubbish!!!

I think get him Murakami either The Wind-up Bird Chronicle or 1Q84, probably less known but a great read.
I'd also suggest the Mary Renault Alexander the Great Trilogy...
Octavia Butler also has some interesting books SiFi books....

Or get hin a 12 months Kindle unlimited subscription.

Ooh I'm going to have to steal these for me. think I might have heard him say something about DonDe Lillo but I could be wrong. many thanks 😁

@RubyPowderPuff thanks for this. I read the Midnight Library and loved it and gave to my youngest who said she did too. can I ask what you thought of it ? Did it seem a bit too repetitive, like he was following a formula ?

Yes my husband might choose Marukami for his suggestion . I think he might have mentioned IQ 84 - hope that wouldn't be too long. I just assume everyone is like me and scared of long books. Thanks for those other 2 suggestions as well 😁

Wow! You might have hit on something with the Secret History, that's Donna Tart, isn't it ? Loved that and he'd be interested in the social dynamics of all the students after the crime comes out. Thanks a million for this ! 😁

Pp said Midnight Train not midnight library.
My son of similar age enjoyed the Robin Hobbs books ie The Assassin's Apprentice

@EmailsaysOOO yes, I found it very repetitive, predictable and boring...
1Q84 is actually a long book - print length is about 950 pages- but once you get into in the story and enjoy it, that's irrelevant! Plus, I like books & characters that will be there for a while when I come home from work or spend a few afternoons reading.... it's a bit of a comfort thing and escapism. Only problem is, these types of book need to be very well written

@MrsMist hi, please can I ask if you know anyone who's read the Midnight Train ?.

Thanks I'll look into Robbin Hobbs ☺️

No I don't, i just pointed it out after @RubyPowderPuff said the Midnight Library was terrible. Though I have googled Midnight Train and it sounds like the might be similar.

I'm not sure my son would have liked Midnight Library but I loved it.

The Robin Hobbs books are epic!

If he enjoyed Siddhartha, maybe some other Hermann Hesse? Lots of his work incorporates Buddhist influences, though not all equally obviously. The Glass Bead Game and Narcissus and Goldmund are the ones I have loved, though others may have read others and be able to recommend them. Hesse is more intellectually demanding than most of the suggestions so far, but fits the books you have said he has enjoyed.

Other suggestions (based mostly on his reading Murakami) are Kurt Vonnegut and ths short stories of Jorge Luis Borges.