We’ve got 15 books and series here, so there should be something to love for almost every reader (although we need some traditional fantasy page turners – send us some recommendations in the comments please)! Plus, at the end of the episode we each rank our personal top 3.
We intentionally excluded YA and military sci-fi books, although those are often also page-turners - look out for episodes about each of those soon!
Brent’s brother, Alex, joined us for this episode, and brought us a whole new batch of books (and frankly a couple new subgenres) to enjoy. LitRPG / progression fantasy just keep getting more popular, and we can see why – the books we’ve picked up have all been so, so fun to read (although it probably helps we’ve been reading Alex’s recommendations so far, the best of the best from the hundreds of LitRPG books he’s read).
No spoilers anywhere in this episode.
This episode is sponsored by Quinto’s Challenge by Peter McChesney
All the books we recommend, plus timestamps:
- 00:00 Intro
- 02:48 Sponsor – Quinto’s Challenge by Peter McChesney
- 03:26 Silo by Hugh Howey
- 5:06 Mother of Learning by Domagoj Kurmaic
- 7:19 Murderbot by Martha Wells
- 9:10 Beware of Chicken by Casualfarmer
- 12:26 Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
- 14:49 Mark of the Fool by J.M. Clarke
- 18:18 Project Hail Mary and The Martian by Andy Weir
- 19:40 Iron Prince by Bryce O'Connor
- 22:33 Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
- 24:04 He Who Fights With Monsters by Shirtaloon
- 28:47 Daemon by Daniel Suarez
- 31:07 The Perfect Run by Maxime J. Durand
- 33:39 The Bobiverse by Dennis E. Taylor
- 36:24 Eight by Samer Rabadi
- 38:37 Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
- 46:18 Rankings: Top 3 page turners
