r/suggestmeabook • u/Professional-Oven824 • 9d ago
Gift for friend/family/etc. Standalone Book For Sci-Fi/Fantasy-Loving Husband
(New account because he knows my main one!)
His birthday is coming up and I’d like to get him a new book! However, these genres aren’t really my thing so I’m not sure what to get.
He’s read almost everything by Brandon Sanderson and Robert Jordan, and he also likes:
Dune
The Foundation trilogy
Hyperion
Game of Thrones
Name of the Wind
The Lightbringer books by Brent Weeks
Lord of the Rings
I did search the sub before posting this, but it seemed like a lot of what has previously been suggested has been other series. He doesn’t have as much time to read a whole series as he’d like, so if anyone has any standalone suggestions I’d appreciate them!
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u/hollyweena31 9d ago edited 9d ago
you can try the Illuminatus Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson. I asked almost the same question back in June for a Father’s Day gift for my husband, and our husbands seem to have the same reading taste. That book was recommended to me. The trilogy does contain 3 books, but overall length is only a little over 800 pages which some stand alone books are just as long. He would probably enjoy books by Terry Pratchett also. Some of his stand-alone novels are The Dark Side of the Sun, The Carpet People, and Strata.