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.

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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