Father’s Day presents are difficult for some daddies– you can just purchase a male a lot of ties, tools, and tech toys. But if Dad’s a big reader, you’re in luck. Obviously, the best book for your father depends on his enthusiasms, so we offer a vast array of titles to help you pick the perfect read simply for him.
Fiction
The Three-Body Problem, by Liu Cixin
Let your daddy choose which is much better– book or TV program– by sharing the impressive novel about an alien invasion that influenced the latest Netflix series.
This Is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
Set your father off on an experience through time and space with this fantastical Romeo-and-Juliet-style time-travel tale. 2 representatives from different warring factions fall in love amidst a time war– and make gutsy decisions that might affect the past, present, and future for them and the whole universe.
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, by Gabrielle Zevin
For the dad who’s into video gaming, consider this book that made a multitude of finest of 2022 lists, about a set of friends who develop an epic computer game called Ichigo– and the three-decade ebbs and flows of their complicated relationship.
The Shards, by Bret Easton Ellis
The most recent book by Less Than Zero and American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis is simply a bit meta. Embed in the 1980s, he himself is the primary character– a budding author working on his very first book– as he and his circle of good friends are alarmed by a serial killer nicknamed the Trawler.
Manhunt, by Gretchen Felker Martin
If your papa’s a fan of The Last of Us and other apocalyptic fare, provide him this smart (and gory) twist on the end times that was on many leading 10 lists in 2015. In the novel, anybody with too much testosterone ends up being a feral monster– and the remaining routine folk must go to extreme lengths to keep their levels.
Just Like Home, by Sarah Gailey
They state you can’t go home again, however lead character Vera must– despite the fact that her daddy was a serial killer and there’s lots of eerie things still occurring there. This spooky book is best for the father who enjoys a creepy haunted house ambiance, and a page turner that’ll keep him reading well past his bedtime.
