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For The Fellas
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items In this list I’ve created sections to coincide with various posts I’ve made on Instagram and TikTok to allow people to peruse different titles based on category including short descriptions to give you a brief idea of the book. Please feel free to re...
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Books for The Boys: Part 1
Books for The Boys: Part 2
Books for The Boys: Part 3
Lit-Bro Must Reads
Books for The Boys: Part 1
5 books for the fellas who want to read, but don’t know where to start ✊🏼
Ryland Grace wakes up on a spacecraft and is the sole survivor; he doesn’t know who he is, where he is, or what he’s there to do. Slowly, his memories come back, and he remembers that he’s on a mission to save the earth.
Fun premise, lots of person...
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
So many have seen the movie, but not enough have read the book — the book to me is always better, and this one is no exception. I also find the science and the ethical/moral piece very well explored in the book, and it’s much more intense and brutal.
Jurassic Park: A Novel - by Michael Crichton
Red Rising follows Darrow, a miner on Mars who learns his people are enslaved and disguises himself as a ruling Gold to infiltrate their brutal society and spark rebellion.
Red Rising by Pierce Brown
The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson is the first book in The Stormlight Archive. It follows multiple storylines across a war-torn world ravaged by magical storms.
These books are long and somewhat dense, but for someone feeling prepared to dive i...
The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson (The Stormlight Archive, 1)
11/22/63 by Stephen King follows a man who discovers a time portal and attempts to prevent JFK’s assassination, only to learn how altering the past can have devastating consequences.
11/22/63 by Stephen King
Books for The Boys: Part 2
Five books for the fellas who want to read, but don’t know where to start ✊🏼
Every structure on the earth collapses, killing the vast majority of the human population. Entrances open in the surface of the earth where humans can choose to enter the dungeon and fight for their lives on an intergalactic game show — part video ga...
Dungeon Crawler Carl
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch follows a physicist abducted into a parallel world, fighting to get back to his family and the life he lost.m
Banger. Absolute page-turner.
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
Mistborn: The Final Empire tells of a world ruled by an immortal tyrant, where a young street thief discovers her magical powers and joins rebels to overthrow him.
Mistborn: The Final Empire — Brandon Sanderson
The Lies of Locke Lamora is a gritty fantasy about a cunning thief and his band of con artists pulling elaborate heists in a Venetian-style city, until they’re caught in a deadly power struggle.
The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1) by Scott Lynch
Assassin’s Apprentice follows Fitz, a royal bastard trained in the deadly arts of the king’s assassin, as he struggles with loyalty, identity, and dangerous magic in a treacherous court.
Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1) by Robin Hobb
Books for The Boys: Part 3
Five books for the fellas who want to read, but don’t know where to start ✊🏼
Stephen King’s Apt Pupil is about a teenage boy who discovers a Nazi war criminal living secretly in his town.
Apt Pupil by Stephen King
Andy Weir’s The Martian follows an astronaut stranded on Mars who uses ingenuity, science, and grit to survive while awaiting a risky rescue.
The Martian by Andy Weir
Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men is a brutal modern Western where a hunter’s chance discovery of drug money sparks a relentless pursuit by a remorseless killer, leaving violence and moral reckoning in its wake.
No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy
Jack Carr’s The Terminal List follows a Navy SEAL who, after a conspiracy leaves his team and family dead, embarks on a relentless mission of vengeance against those responsible.
The Terminal List by Jack Carr
Joe Abercrombie’s The Blade Itself weaves together a brutal soldier, a crippled torturer, and a cunning wizard in a grim, darkly witty tale of politics, war, and treachery.
The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1) by Joe Abercrombie
Lit-Bro Must Reads
Five literary must-reads for the fellas
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller is a darkly satirical novel about a U.S. bomber squadron in World War II, where soldiers are trapped in a bureaucratic paradox that makes it impossible to escape the war’s madness.
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry is an epic Western about two retired Texas Rangers leading a perilous cattle drive from the Rio Grande to Montana, exploring friendship, loss, and the harsh beauty of the frontier.
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy is a brutal, poetic tale of a teenage drifter known as “the Kid” who joins a scalp-hunting gang in the 1840s Southwest, confronting relentless violence and the enigmatic, terrifying Judge Holden.
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut follows Billy Pilgrim, a soldier “unstuck in time,” as he weaves between his traumatic World War II experiences, alien abduction, and ordinary life, blending absurdity and tragedy to expose the senselessness of wa...
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas is a sweeping tale of betrayal and revenge.
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas