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    Home » Blog » Book Recommendations

    20 Fun Books for Men {That You'll Like, Too}

    Published: Jun 17, 2022 by Tiffany Dahle · This post may contain affiliate links.

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    A collage of 4 photos that husbands and wives will both enjoy reading together

    Looking for fun books for men that you might enjoy reading too? This is a great list of reads for enjoying together and sparking fun conversation over a shared book!

    A collage of 4 books that men will like that you will also like

    Book lovers just love to share their reads with family and friends. Frequently, members of the Peanut Blossom Book Club ask for recommendations for books for men that their husbands would enjoy reading with them.

    When you read the same book as your boyfriend, husband, or special guy in your life, it gives you even more to chat about together.

    My husband and I love to listen to audiobooks during road trips together. It's a great way to spark conversation when you're spending endless hours together on a long drive.

    Sometimes we'll independently read the same book at the same time or sometimes one of us finishes a book we think the other would enjoy and we share after the fact.

    This list of fun books for men was pulled together from recommendations by the other ladies in the book club as well as some my husband personally chose to add to the collection.

    They each have broad appeal for both men and women and span several genres including:

    • sci-fi
    • thrillers
    • historical fiction
    • fantasy

    No matter what you and your guy are interested in, there's sure to be a good fit here.

    Fun Books for Men You'll Enjoy, Too

    The Lincoln Highway

    In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter.

    His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head to California where they can start their lives anew.

    But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden's car.

    Unbroken

    In boyhood, Louis Zamperini was an incorrigible delinquent.

    As a teenager, he channeled his defiance into running, discovering a prodigious talent that had carried him to the Berlin Olympics.

    But when World War II began, the athlete became an airman, embarking on a journey that led to a doomed flight on a May afternoon in 1943.

    Beneath a Scarlet Sky

    Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He’s a normal Italian teenager―obsessed with music, food, and girls―but his days of innocence are numbered.

    When his family home in Milan is destroyed by Allied bombs, Pino joins an underground railroad helping Jews escape over the Alps, and falls for Anna, a beautiful widow six years his senior.

    11/22/63

    My husband and I strongly recommend reading this book in audiobook format. The narration is one of the best we've ever heard.

    SUMMARY:

    Jake's friend Al, who owns the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to the past, a particular day in 1958.

    And Al enlists Jake to take over the mission that has become his obsession—to prevent the Kennedy assassination.

    So begins Jake’s new life in a different world of Ike and JFK and Elvis, of big American cars and sock hops and cigarette smoke everywhere.

    Every turn leads eventually to a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and to Dallas, where the past becomes heart-stoppingly suspenseful, and where history might not be history anymore.

    Time-travel has never been so believable. Or so terrifying

    The Amber Room

    Atlanta judge Rachel Cutler loves her job and her kids, but her life takes a dark turn when her father dies under strange circumstances, leaving behind clues to a secret about one of the greatest treasures ever made by man.

    Forged of the exquisite gem, the Amber Room inexplicably disappeared sometime during World War II.

    Determined to solve its mysteries, Rachel takes off for Germany with her ex-husband, Paul, close behind.

    The Immortalists

    It's 1969 in New York City's Lower East Side, and word has spread of the arrival of a mystical woman, a traveling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the day they will die.

    The Gold children—four adolescents on the cusp of self-awareness—sneak out to hear their fortunes.

    The prophecies inform their next five decades.

    The Immortalists probes the line between destiny and choice, reality and illusion, this world and the next.

    Replay

    Jeff Winston, forty-three, didn't know he was a replayer until he died and woke up twenty-five years younger in his college dorm room; he lived another life.

    And died again.

    And lived again and died again -- in a continuous twenty-five-year cycle -- each time starting from scratch at the age of eighteen to reclaim lost loves, remedy past mistakes, or make a fortune in the stock market.

    Dune

    The best part about reading Dune together is that you could also turn it into a movie night when you're done.

    SUMMARY:

    Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, heir to a noble family tasked with ruling an inhospitable world where the only thing of value is the “spice” melange, a drug capable of extending life and enhancing consciousness.

    Coveted across the known universe, melange is a prize worth killing for....When House Atreides is betrayed, the destruction of Paul’s family will set the boy on a journey toward a destiny greater than he could ever have imagined.

    Us Against You

    A small community tucked deep in the forest, Beartown is home to tough, hardworking people who don’t expect life to be easy or fair.

    No matter how difficult times get, they’ve always been able to take pride in their local ice hockey team.

    So it’s a cruel blow when they hear that Beartown ice hockey might soon be disbanded.

    What makes it worse is the obvious satisfaction that all the former Beartown players, who now play for a rival team in the neighboring town of Hed, take in that fact.

    The Boys in the Boat

    It was an unlikely quest from the start.

    With a team composed of the sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers, the University of Washington’s eight-oar crew team was never expected to defeat the elite teams of the East Coast and Great Britain, yet they did, going on to shock the world by defeating the German team rowing for Adolf Hitler.

    The emotional heart of the tale lies with Joe Rantz, a teenager without family or prospects, who rows not only to regain his shattered self-regard but also to find a real place for himself in the world.

    Artemis

    Jasmine Bashara never signed up to be a hero. She just wanted to get rich. 

    Not crazy, eccentric-billionaire rich, like many of the visitors to her hometown of Artemis, humanity’s first and only lunar colony.

    Just rich enough to move out of her coffin-sized apartment and eat something better than flavored algae.

    So when a chance at a huge score finally comes her way, Jazz can’t say no.

    Sure, it requires her to graduate from small-time smuggler to full-on criminal mastermind.

    But Jazz has never run into a challenge her intellect can’t handle.

    The Name of the Wind

    My name is Kvothe. I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon.

    I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in.

    I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day.

    So begins a tale unequaled in fantasy literature—the story of a hero told in his own voice.

    It is a tale of sorrow, a tale of survival, a tale of one man’s search for meaning in his universe, and how that search, and the indomitable will that drove it, gave birth to a legend.  

    Redshirts

    My husband insists any Star Trek fans out there need to read this!

    SUMMARY:

    Ensign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid, flagship of the Universal Union since the year 2456.

    Life couldn’t be better…until Andrew begins to realize that (1) every Away Mission involves a lethal confrontation with alien forces, (2) the ship’s senior officers always survive these confrontations, and (3) sadly, at least one low-ranking crew member is invariably killed.

    Unsurprisingly, the savvier crew members belowdecks avoid Away Missions at all costs.

    Then Andrew stumbles on information that transforms his and his colleagues’ understanding of what the starship Intrepid really is…and offers them a crazy, high-risk chance to save their own lives.

    Inferno

    My husband loved this modern retelling of Dante's Inferno.

    SUMMARY:

    After being thrown out the window of his luxury apartment, science fiction writer Allen Carpentier wakes to find himself at the gates of hell.

    Feeling he's landed in a great opportunity for a book, he attempts to follow Dante's road map.

    Determined to meet Satan himself, Carpentier treks through the Nine Layers of Hell led by Benito Mussolini, and encounters countless mental and physical tortures.

    As he struggles to escape, he's taken through new, puzzling, and outlandish versions of sin—recast for the present day.

    John Dies at the End

    STOP. You should not have touched this flyer with your bare hands.

    NO, don't put it down. It's too late. They're watching you. 

    My name is David. My best friend is John. Those names are fake. You might want to change yours.

    You may not want to know about the things you'll read on these pages, about the sauce, about Korrok, about the invasion, and the future.

    But it's too late. You touched the book. You're in the game. You're under the eye.

    From the Corner of His Eye

    His birth was marked by wonder and tragedy. He sees beauty and terror beyond our deepest dreams. His story will change the way you see the world. 

    Bartholomew Lampion is born on a day of tragedy and terror that will mark his family forever.

    All agree that his unusual eyes are the most beautiful they have ever seen.

    On this same day, a thousand miles away, a ruthless man learns that he has a mortal enemy named Bartholomew.

    He embarks on a relentless search to find this enemy, a search that will consume his life.

    This Is Going to Hurt

    Welcome to 97-hour weeks.

    Welcome to life and death decisions.

    Welcome to a constant tsunami of bodily fluids. Welcome to earning less than the hospital parking meter.

    Wave goodbye to your friends and relationships.

    Welcome to the life of a first-year doctor.

    Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights, and missed weekends, comedian and former medical resident Adam Kay’s This Is Going to Hurt provides a no-holds-barred account of his time on the front lines of medicine.

    Angels & Demons

    An ancient secret brotherhood. A devastating new weapon of destruction.

    When world-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a mysterious symbol—seared into the chest of a murdered physicist—he discovers evidence of the unimaginable: the resurgence of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati...the most powerful underground organization ever to walk the earth.

    The Last Kingdom

    Another fun book to television date night idea!

    SUMMARY:

    This is the exciting—yet little known—story of the making of England in the 9th and 10th centuries, the years in which King Alfred the Great, his son and grandson defeated the Danish Vikings who had invaded and occupied three of England’s four kingdoms.

    The story is seen through the eyes of Uhtred, a dispossessed nobleman, who is captured as a child by the Danes and then raised by them so that, by the time the Northmen begin their assault on Wessex (Alfred’s kingdom and the last territory in English hands) Uhtred almost thinks of himself as a Dane.

    Peace Like a River

    Enger tells the story of eleven-year-old Reuben Land, an asthmatic boy who has reason to believe in miracles.

    Along with his sister and father, Reuben finds himself on a cross-country search for his outlaw older brother who has been controversially charged with murder.

    Their journey is touched by serendipity and the kindness of strangers, and its remarkable conclusion shows how family, love, and faith can stand up to the most terrifying of enemies, the most tragic of fates. 

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