This blog entry contains a list of the books I have read or listened to since I started logging my books and audiobooks on this blog site in 2021. Links included for the summaries and notes if I added them to my site.

Table of Contents

• Listing of books not included within a series listing
• Listing of audiobooks not included within a series listing
• Jocko Willink Series
• Stephen King Series
• Hap and Leonard Series
• Terminal List / Jack Car Series
• Andy Wier Series
• We are Bob Series
• Slow Burn Series
• Ryan Holiday / Daily Stoic Series
• The Expanse Series
• Murder Bot Series
• Tom Clancy Series
• Michael Crichton Series
• Frontiers Saga
• The Godfather series

Books

Title	Author(s)	Year	Summary
Modern Cybersecurity (Tales from the Near-Distant Future)	Many Authors (see details below)	2021	These seven essays provide a roadmap to guide you through the journey of building a security program and how to put together the teams that will make that possible.
Life Scale	Brian Solis	2021	Lifescale is a journey of self-discovery and growth. It’s about getting back into balance and remastering our destinies.
The Unicorn Project	Gene Kim	2021	The Age of Software is here, and another mass extinction event looms–this is a story about “red shirt” developers and business leaders working together, racing against time to innovate, survive, and thrive in a time of unprecedented uncertainty…and opportunity.
GreenLights	Matthew McConaughey	2021	Drawing on the Academy Award-winning actor’s journals and diaries from the last 40 years, this book presents a uniquely McConaughey approach to achieving success and satisfaction
Accidentally Wes Anderson	Wally Koval	2021	A visual adventure of Wes Anderson inspiration, authorized by the legendary filmmaker himself: stunning photographs of real-life places that seem plucked from the just-so world of his films, presented with fascinating human stories behind each façade.
The Bucket List (1000 Adventures Big & Small)	Kath Stathers	2021	Build your dream vacation with this eclectic and tantalizing collection of 1,000 life-affirming adventures spanning the 7 continents
The illustrated Art of Manliness	Brett Mckay	2021	Distills more than 100 practical skills every modern man should know into an entertaining, easy-to-follow visual format.
Stick Together	Jon Gordon & Kate Leavell	2022	A simple lesson to build a stronger team
Amazing Joy	Melissa Kelly	2023	It took a tragedy for Melissa to truly embrace joy. Through counseling, introspection, and deepening faith, Melissa documents her journey through grief and arriving at a place of gratitude and beyond.
Think Again	Adam Grant	2023	The bestselling author of Give and Take and Originals examines the critical art of rethinking: learning to question your beliefs and to know what you don’t know, which can position you for success at work and happiness at home.
Arkansas Beer - An Intoxicating History	Brian Sorensen	2023	An explosion of breweries around the state has since propelled Arkansas into the modern beer age.
Row the Boat	P.J. Fleck and Jon Gordon	2023	In Row the Boat, Minnesota Golden Gophers Head Coach P.J. Fleck and bestselling author Jon Gordon deliver an inspiring message about what you can achieve when you approach life with a never-give-up philosophy.
Investments Unlimited	9 Authors	2023	A Novel about DevOps, Security, Audit Compliance, And Thriving in the Digital Age
The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living	Ryan Holiday	2023	366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
Hidden Potential	Adam Grant	2024	Adam Grant weaves together groundbreaking evidence, surprising insights, and vivid storytelling that takes us from the classroom to the boardroom, the playground to the Olympics, and underground to outer space. He shows that progress depends less on how hard you work than how well you learn.
Working With Emotional Intelligence	Daniel Goleman	2024	(Stopped reading before completing the book. Just example after example.) Goleman reveals the skills that distinguish star performers in every field, from entry-level jobs to top executive positions.

Audiobooks

Title	Author(s)	Year	Summary
Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography	Rob Lowe	pre-2021	A wryly funny and surprisingly moving account of an extraordinary life lived almost entirely in the public eye
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal	Ben Macintyre	pre-2021	Who was Kim Philby?
Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage	Alfred Lansing	pre-2021	For five months, Sir Ernest Shackleton and his men, drifting on ice packs, were castaways in one of the most savage regions of the world
Schneier on Security	Bruce Schneier, Ken Maxon	pre-2021	Presenting invaluable advice from the world’s most famous computer security expert
Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness	Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman	pre-2021	Eat & Run offers an inspirational account of Jurek’s life as a runner and vegan
Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World’s First Digital Weapon	Kim Zetter	pre-2021	The virus now known as Stuxnet was unlike any other piece of malware built before
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa	E. B. Sledge	pre-2021	….
The Second World War: Milestones to Disaster	Winston Churchill	pre-2021	Churchill’s WWII , Book 1
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Signature Performance by Elijah Wood	Mark Twain	pre-2021	….
Tough Sh-t: Life Advice from a Fat, Lazy Slob Who Did Good	Kevin Smith	pre-2021	Profane, honest, and totally real advice from comedian and director Kevin Smith
The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World’s Most Wanted Man	Luke Harding	pre-2021	….
Travels with Charley in Search of America	John Steinbeck	pre-2021	In September 1960, John Steinbeck and his poodle, Charley, embarked on a journey across America
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey	Candice Millard	pre-2021	The River of Doubt brings alive extraordinary events in a powerful nonfiction narrative
House of Nails: A Memoir of Life on the Edge	Lenny Dykstra	pre-2021	Lenny Dykstra spins a tragicomic tale of Shakespearean proportions
Not Alone	Craig A. Falconer	pre-2021	When Dan McCarthy stumbles upon a folder containing evidence of the conspiracy to end all conspiracies - a top-level alien cover-up
Ghost Wars	Steve Coll	pre-2021	The explosive first-hand account of America’s secret history in Afghanistan
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul	Douglas Adams	pre-2021	Dirk Gently , Book 2
Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life	Steve Martin	pre-2021	In the mid-70s, Steve Martin exploded onto the comedy scene. By 1978 he was the biggest concert draw
Einstein: His Life and Universe	Walter Isaacson	pre-2021	Based on the newly released personal letters of Albert Einstein
The Most Wonderful Tales of the Year: Holiday Memories	Audible Narrators	pre-2021	….
The Second World War: Alone	Sir Winston Churchill	pre-2021	Churchill’s WWII , Book 2
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future	Ashlee Vance	pre-2021	Elon Musk is both an illuminating and authorized look at the extraordinary life of one of Silicon Valley’s most exciting, unpredictable
Nevertheless: A Memoir	Alec Baldwin	pre-2021	(NOT FINISHED) Alec Baldwin’s Memoir
Born to Run	Christopher McDougall	pre-2021	Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
History’s Greatest Voyages of Exploration	Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, The Great Courses	pre-2021	Across 24 lectures that unveil the process by which we came to know the far reaches of our planet
Band of Brothers	Stephen E. Ambrose	pre-2021	Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne, from Normandy to Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest
The Pilgrimage	Paulo Coelho	pre-2021	Step inside this captivating account of Paulo Coehlo’s pilgrimage along the road to Santiago.
The Republic of Pirates	Colin Woodard	pre-2021	The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down
The Sword and the Shield	Christopher Andrew, Vasilli Mitrokhin	pre-2021	reveals the most complete picture ever of the KGB and its operations in the United States and Europe.
Kitchen Confidential	Anthony Bourdain	pre-2021	Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos	Jordan B. Peterson, Norman Doidge MD	pre-2021	What does everyone in the modern world need to know? Renowned psychologist Jordan B. Peterson’s answer to this most difficult of questions uniquely combines the hard-won truths
No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy: The Life of General James Mattis	Jim Proser	pre-2021	The first in-depth look at the marine hero who has become one of the most beloved and admired men in America today
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It	Chris Voss	pre-2021	A former FBI hostage negotiator offers a new, field-tested approach to high-stakes negotiations—whether in the boardroom or at home.
Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel	Robin Sloan	pre-2021	A gleeful and exhilarating tale of global conspiracy, complex code-breaking, high-tech data visualization, young love, rollicking adventure, and the secret to eternal life
Ajax Penumbra 1969	Robin Sloan	pre-2021	Young Ajax Penumbra has not arrived in San Francisco looking for free love or a glimpse of the technological future. He is seeking a book….
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry	Neil deGrasse Tyson	pre-2021	How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There’s no better guide through these questions than astrophysicist and best-selling author Neil deGrasse Tyson
The X-Files: Cold Cases	Joe Harris, Chris Carter, Dirk Maggs - adaptation	pre-2021	The truth is still out there. The iconic hit that had millions searching for UFOs back in the 90s
Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters	Dick Winters, Cole C. Kingseed	pre-2021	They were called Easy Company, but their mission was never easy
No Country for Old Men	Cormac McCarthy	pre-2021	….
Ready Player One	Ernest Cline	pre-2021	In the year 2045, reality is an ugly place.
New Family Values	Andrew Solomon	pre-2021	Drawing on dozens of intimate audio interviews with families from all across the country, award-winning psychologist and writer Andrew Solomon redefines what it means to be an “ideal family” in America today
The Bullet Journal Method	Ryder Carroll	pre-2021	The Bullet Journal Method: Track the Past, Order the Present, Design the Future
Own the Day, Own Your Life	Aubrey Marcus	pre-2021	Own the Day, Own Your Life: Optimized Practices for Waking, Working, Learning, Eating, Training, Playing, Sleeping, and Sex
Armada: A Novel	Ernest Cline	pre-2021	Zack Lightman has never much cared for reality.
The Godfather: 50th Anniversary Edition	Mario Puzo	pre-2021	brilliant and brutal portrayal of the Corleone family
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life	Walter Isaacson	pre-2021	(NOT FINISHED) Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us
Shoot for the Moon: The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11	James Donovan	pre-2021	(NOT FINISHED) For the 50th anniversary, the epic story of Apollo 11 and the astronauts, flight controllers, and engineers who made it happen
The Rise of the Ultra Runners	Adharanand Finn	pre-2021	Once the reserve of only the most hardcore enthusiasts, ultra running is now a thriving global industry
Mindhunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit	John E. Douglas, Mark Olshaker	pre-2021	(NOT FINISHED) Discover the classic behind-the-scenes chronicle of John E. Douglas’ 25-year career in the FBI Investigative Support Unit
Deliverance	James Dickey	pre-2021	The smash-hit best seller that inspired the acclaimed 1972 film starring Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, and Ronny Cox
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing	Marie Kondo	pre-2021	(NOT FINISHED) Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo takes tidying to a whole new level, promising that if you properly simplify and organize your home once, you’ll never have to do it again
After the End	Amy Plum	pre-2021	World War III has left the world ravaged by nuclear radiation. A lucky few escaped to the Alaskan wilderness
The Unicorn Project: A Novel About Developers, Digital Disruption, and Thriving in the Age of Data	Gene Kim	pre-2021	In The Unicorn Project, we follow Maxine, a senior lead developer and architect, as she is exiled to the Phoenix Project, to the horror of her friends and colleagues, as punishment for contributing to a payroll outage
Empire of the Summer Moon	S. C. Gwynne	pre-2021	Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
On the Road: 50th Anniversary Edition	Jack Kerouac	pre-2021	(NOT FINISHED) Few novels have had as profound an impact on American culture as On the Road. Pulsating with the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, illicit drugs, and the mystery and promise of the open road
The Last Tribe	Brad Manuel	pre-2021	Fourteen-year-old Greg Dixon is living a nightmare. Attending boarding school outside of Boston, he is separated from his family when a pandemic strikes. His classmates and teachers are dead
One Ranger: A Memoir	H. Joaquin Jackson, David Marion Wilkinson	2021	When his picture appeared on the cover of Texas Monthly, Joaquin Jackson became the icon of the modern Texas Rangers
Greenlights	Matthew McConaughey	2021	I’ve been in this life for 50 years, been trying to work out its riddle for 42, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last 35
How to Train Your Mind: Exploring the Productivity Benefits of Meditation	Chris Bailey	2021	(NOT FINISHED) For each minute you spend meditating, you’ll earn around nine minutes back, as Chris Bailey - author of The Productivity Project and Hyperfocus - will show in this candid and counter-intuitive guide to the productivity benefits of meditation
The Essential Dogen: Writings of the Great Zen Master	Kazuaki Tanahashi - editor, Peter Levitt - editor	pre-2021	(NOT FINISHED) This is the first book to offer the great master’s incisive wisdom in short selections taken from the whole range of his voluminous works. The pithy and powerful readings, arranged according to theme
Extinction Series: The Complete Collection	James D. Prescott	2021	(NOT FINISHED) Geophysicist Jack Greer believes he may finally have found the resting place of the meteorite that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. A few miles off the Yucatán coast, Jack and a team of scientists tow an aging drilling platform over the impact crater
River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana’s Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon	Buddy Levy	2021	(NOT FINISHED) In 1541, the brutal conquistador Gonzalo Pizarro and his well-born lieutenant Francisco Orellana set off from Quito in search of La Canela, South America’s rumored Land of Cinnamon
It	XXXX	pre-2021	….
Work Clean	Dan Charnas	2021	The first organizational book inspired by the culinary world, taking mise-en-place outside the kitchen.
Can’t Hurt Me	David Goggins	2021	He shares his astonishing life story and reveals that most of us tap into only 40% of our capabilities. Goggins calls this The 40% Rule, and his story illuminates a path that anyone can follow to push past pain, demolish fear, and reach their full potential.
The Way I Heard It	Mike Rowe	2021	A memoir crammed with recollections, insights, and intimate, behind-the-scenes moments drawn from Mike’s own remarkable life and career.
Yeager	Chuck Yeager	2021	General Chuck Yeager, the greatest test pilot of them all – the first man to fly faster than the speed of sound
For the Love of Europe	Rick Steves	2021	After 40+ years of writing about Europe, Rick Steves has gathered 100 of his favorite memories together into one inspiring collection
Gravity	Tess Gerritsen	2021	An experiment on micro-organisms conducted in space goes wrong. The cells begin to infect the crew with deadly results. Emma Watson struggles to contain the deadly microbe while her husband and NASA try to retrieve her from space, before it’s too late.
Arrival	Ryk Brown	2021	Three generations, born and raised on a starship hurtling through space. To never know an open sky. To never feel the wind on their face. To never witness the sun rise or set.
American Serengeti	Dan Flores	2021	(Not Finished) In a work that is at once a lyrical evocation of that lost splendor and a detailed natural history of these charismatic species of the historic Great Plains, veteran naturalist and outdoorsman Dan Flores draws a vivid portrait of each of these animals in their glory–and tells the harrowing story of what happened to them at the hands of market hunters and ranchers and ultimately a federal killing program in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
On the Road	Jack Kerouac	2021	A quintessential novel of America & the Beat Generation On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac’s years traveling the N. American continent with his friend Neal Cassady.
Extinction Code	James D. Prescott	2021	Geophysicist Jack Greer believes he may finally have found the resting place of the meteorite that wiped out the dinosaurs sixty-five million years ago.
Contact	Carl Sagan	2021	If you want to read about a “first contact” with an alien intelligence in a form as “real” as possible, this is your novel.
River of Darkness	Buddy Levy	2021	In 1541, the brutal conquistador Gonzalo Pizarro and his well-born lieutenant Francisco Orellana set off from Quito in search of La Canela, South America’s rumored Land of Cinnamon, and the fabled El Dorado, “the golden man.”. Riveting history and a breathtaking adventure that will sweep readers along on an epic voyage unlike any other.
Orphans of the Sky	Robert A. Heinlein	2022	Hugh had been taught that, according to the ancient sacred writings, the Ship was on a voyage to faraway Centaurus. But he also understood this was just allegory for a voyage to spiritual perfection.
First Blood	David Morrell	2022	This remarkable novel pits a young Vietnam veteran against a small-town cop who doesn’t know whom he’s dealing with—or how far Rambo will take him into a life-and-death struggle through the woods, hills, and caves of rural Kentucky.
Impact Winter	Travis Beacham	2022	Audible Original featuring a brilliant British cast. It’s the near future and seven years since a comet hit the earth and blotted out the sun
Tales from the Trail	Louis L’Amour	2022	Kim Sartain is an easygoing, peace-loving drifter
By Water Beneath the Walls: The Rise of the Navy SEALs	Benjamin H. Milligan	2022	A gripping history chronicling the fits and starts of American special operations and the ultimate rise of the Navy SEALs from unarmed frogmen to elite, go-anywhere commandos
Ready Player Two	Ernest Cline	2022	Days after winning Oasis founder James Halliday’s contest, Wade Watts makes a discovery that changes everything.
Space: 1969	Bill Oakley	2022	Nancy Kranich (played by Emmy-nominated actress Natasha Lyonne of Russian Doll and Orange Is the New Black) is a night nurse on an orbiting space station. But Nancy hates her job, is sick of space, and longs to find adventure and a safe place to smoke cigarettes that won’t blow everyone up.
Born to Run	Christopher McDougall	2022	Christopher McDougall sets off to find a tribe of the world’s greatest distance runners and learn their secrets, and in the process shows us that everything we thought we knew about running is wrong.
Greenlights	Matthew McConaughey	2022	I’ve been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud.
World War Z	Max Brooks	2022	The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children
Walking the Nile	Levison Wood	2022	Starting in November 2013 in a forest in Rwanda, where a modest spring spouts a trickle of clear, cold water, Levison Wood set forth on foot, aiming to become the first person to walk the entire length of the Nile.
Into Africa; Africa by Motorcycle	Sam Manicom	2022	A liberating motorcycle journey through Africa with descriptions of the amazing people and places, the joy of big skies and the open road, and the sometimes harrowing events that would shape destiny.
Alien: Out of the Shadows	Tim Lebbon and Dirk Maggs	2023	There was evil, hibernating and waiting for suitable prey. Their only hope lies with Ellen Ripley, the last human savior of the salvage ship Nostromo.
Wayward Galaxy	Jason Anspach and J.N. Chaney	2023	The future isn’t whay they expected. A company of Army Rangers is sent on an interstellar colony ship to secure a foothold on a dangerous, alien planet.
Rambo: First Blood Part II	David Morrell	2023	The most dangerous man in the world is back. Rambo must return to the Vietnamese prison camp from which he escaped and find the missing Americans rumored to be prisoners there.
Wayward Galaxy 2	Jason Anspach and J.N. Chaney	2023	Their foothold established, Reach and the soldiers sent to secure Amir have only begun to repair the destruction inflicted on them by hostile neighbors when a terrifying new threat emerges from the deep woods and dark jungles of Amir
The Hobbit	J.R.R. Tolkien	2023	Introduction to the hobbit Bilbo Baggins, the wizard Gandalf, Gollum, and the spectacular world of Middle-earth recounts of the adventures of a reluctant hero, a powerful and dangerous ring, and the cruel dragon Smaug the Magnificent.
Project Kawayan	Randy Ribay	2023	(Not Finished) You wake up floating. Not in the air, but horizontally in a coffin-sized chamber filled with blue gelatinous fluid. You do not remember what this is. You do not remember why you are here. You do not remember who you are….
The Interpretation of Dreams	Sigmund Freud	2023	(Not Finished) First published by Sigmund Freud in 1899, The Interpretation of Dreams considers why we dream and what it means in the larger picture of our psychological lives
Unf*ck Your Anger	Faith G. Harper PhD LPC-S ACS ACN	2023	(Not Finished) Unf*ck Your Anger: Using Science to Understand Frustration, Rage, and Forgiveness
Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection	Arthur Conan Doyle	2023	(Not Finished) Sherlock Holmes , Book 1-6
Godzilla	Greg Keyes	2023	Follows the heroic efforts of the cryptozoological agency Monarch as its members face off against a battery of god-sized monsters, including the mighty Godzilla, who collides with Mothra, Rodan, and its ultimate nemesis, the three-headed King Ghidorah.
Four Years in the Rockies	James B. Marsh	2023	(Not Finished) Four Years in the Rockies: Or, The Adventures of Isaac P. Rose, of Shenango Township, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania
The Silence of the Lambs	Thomas Harris	2023	A serial murderer known only by a grotesquely apt nickname—Buffalo Bill—is stalking women. He has a purpose, but no one can fathom it, for the bodies are discovered in different states.
Hannibal	Thomas Harris	2023	Years after his escape, posing as scholarly Dr. Fell, curator of a grand family’s palazzo, Hannibal lives the good life in Florence.
Fight Club	Chuck Palahniuk	2023	Fight Club’s estranged narrator leaves his lackluster job when he comes under the thrall of Tyler Durden, an enigmatic young man who holds secret boxing matches.
Halloween Party	Agatha Christie	2023	At a Hallowe’en party, Joyce – a hostile thirteen-year-old – boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no-one believes her, she storms off home. But within hours her body is found.
Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life	Arnold Schwarzenegger	2023	The seven rules to follow to realize your true purpose in life—distilled by Arnold Schwarzenegger from his own journey of ceaseless reinvention and extraordinary achievement, and available for absolutely anyone.
Going Postal	Terry Pratchett	2024	Moist von Lipwig was a con artist and a fraud and a man faced with a life choice: be hanged, or put Ankh-Morpork’s ailing postal service back on its feet.
Extraterrestrial	Avi Loeb	2024	Harvard’s top astronomer lays out his controversial theory that our solar system was recently visited by advanced alien technology from a distant star.
Death on the Nile	Agatha Christie	2024	The tranquility of a cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the head
All Secure: One Delta Force Operator’s Fight From the Battlefield to the Homefront	Tom Satterly, Steve Jackson	2024	As a senior non-commissioned officer of Delta Force, the most elite and secretive special operations unit in the U.S. military, Command Sergeant Major Tom Satterly fought some of this country’s most fearsome enemies.
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store: A Novel	James McBride	2024	In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well.
Wool: The Silo Saga, Book 1	Hugh Howey	2024	The world outside has grown toxic, the view of it limited, talk of it forbidden. The remnants of humanity live underground in a single silo.
This is How They Tell Me the World Ends	Nicole Perlroth	2024	Cautionary tale of cyber weapons, underground markets, state sanctioned cyber-attacks, and the West’s vulnerability in an increasingly interconnected digital world

Jocko Willink Series (Books)

Title	Author(s)	Year	Summary
Extreme Ownership (How U.S. Navy Seals Lead and Win)	Jocko Willink & Leif Babin	2021	What’s the secret to being a great leader? Whether you’re in a warzone or on the front lines of a corporate battle, Extreme Ownership argues that the best leaders take full responsibility for their actions and decisions, their teams, and their failures.
Discipline Equals Freedom (Field Manual)	Jocko Willink	2021	Discipline Equals Freedom covers it all, including strategies and tactics for conquering weakness, procrastination, and fear, and specific physical training presented in workouts for beginner, intermediate, and advanced athletes, and even the best sleep habits and food intake recommended to optimize performance.
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success	Carol S. Dweck	2021	she shows how success in school, work, sports, the arts, and almost every area of human endeavor can be dramatically influenced by how we think about our talents and abilities.

Stephen King Series (Audiobooks)

Title	Author(s)	Year	Summary
It	Stephen King	2021	They were just kids when they stumbled upon the horror of their hometown
Later	Stephen King	2021	The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary child. Born with an unnatural ability his mom urges him to keep secret
The Stand	Stephen King	2021	When a man escapes from a biological testing facility, he sets in motion a deadly domino effect, spreading a mutated strain of the flu that will wipe out 99 percent of humanity within a few weeks.
Bag of Bones	Stephen King	2021	Four years after the sudden death of his wife, forty-year-old bestselling novelist Mike Noonan is still grieving. Unable to write, and plagued by vivid nightmares
The Shining	Stephen King	pre-2021	Jack Torrance’s new job at the Overlook Hotel is the perfect chance for a fresh start
Doctor Sleep	Stephen King	pre-2021	novel about the now middle-aged Dan Torrance

Hap and Leonard Series (Audiobooks)

Title	Author(s)	Year	Summary
Savage Season	Joe R. Lansdale	2021	(Hap and Leonard #1) Hap Collins and Leonard Pine, white and black, straight and gay, are the unlikeliest duo in crime fiction. Savage Season is their debut.
Mucho Mojo	Joe R. Lansdale	2021	(Hap and Leonard #2)
The Two-Bear Mambo	Joe R. Lansdale	2021	(Hap and Leonard #3)
Bad Chili	Joe R. Lansdale	2022	(Hap and Leonard #4) Hap Collins has just returned home from a gig working on an off shore oil rig. With a new perspective on life, Hap wants to change the way he’s living, and shoot the straight and narrow. That is until the man who stole Leonard Pine’s boyfriend turns up headless in a ditch and Leonard gets fingered for the murder.
Rumble Tumble	Joe R. Lansdale	2022	(Hap and Leonard #5) Bouncing at a local club by night and living by the grace of his best friend Leonard Pine and his good woman Brett Sawyer by day, Hap Collins is down but a long throw from out. And he’ll need all his strength for the quick rescue of Brett’s daughter Tillie – a drugged-out, trick-turning prodigal who doesn’t care to be found.
Captains Outrageous	Joe R. Lansdale	2022	(Hap and Leonard #6) Hapless chicken-plant guard Hap Collins gets into trouble when he takes his best friend Leonard on a Caribbean cruise. The two find themselves abandoned in Mexico, saved from armed attackers by a geriatric fisherman and his lovely daughter, who’s currently having to fend off a Mexican mobster.
Vanilla Ride	Joe R. Landsdale	2022	(Hap and Leonard #7) Hap Collins and Leonard Pine, the kings of East Texas mischief and mayhem, return in this full-throttle thriller to face off with the Dixie Mafia.

Terminal List / Jack Car Series (Audiobooks)

Title	Author(s)	Year	Summary
The Terminal List	Jack Carr	2018	(Terminal List #1)
True Believer	Jack Carr	2019	(Terminal List #2) In acclaimed author Jack Carr’s follow-up to The Terminal List, former Navy SEAL James Reece’s skill, cunning, and heroism put the US government back in his debt and set him on another path of revenge.
Savage Son	Jack Carr	2020	(Terminal List #3)
The Devil’s Hand	Jack Carr	2021	(Terminal List #4) It’s been 20 years since 9/11. Two decades since the United States was attacked on home soil and embarked on 20 years of war. The enemy has been patient, learning, and adapting. And the enemy is ready to strike again.
In the Blood	Jack Carr	2022	(Terminal List #5) A woman boards a plane in the African country of Burkina Faso. Two minutes later, her plane is blown out of the sky. Reece enlists friends new and old across the globe to track down her killer, unaware that he may be walking into a deadly trap.
Only the Dead	Jack Carr	2023	(Terminal List #6) With the odds stacked against him, James Reece is on a mission generations in the making.
Red Sky Morning	Jack Carr	2024	(Terminal List #7) A storm is on the horizon. America’s days are numbered. A Chinese submarine has gone rogue and is navigating towards the continental United States

Andy Wier Series (Audiobooks)

Title	Author(s)	Year	Summary
The Martian	Andy Weir	2011, 2021, 2023	Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive—and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive.
Artemis	Andy Weir	2017
Project Hail Mary	Andy Weir	2021	Part scientific mystery, part dazzling interstellar journey, Project Hail Mary is a tale of discovery, speculation, and survival

We are Bob Series (Audiobooks)

Title	Author(s)	Year	Summary
We Are Legion (We Are Bob)	Dennis E. Taylor	2022	(We are Bob, Book #1) Bob wakes up a century later to find that corpsicles have been declared to be without rights, and he is now the property of the state. He has been uploaded into computer hardware and is slated to be the controlling AI in an interstellar probe looking for habitable planets.
For We Are Many	Dennis E. Taylor	2022	(We are Bob, Book #2) Bob and his copies have been spreading out from Earth for forty years now, looking for habitable planets. But that’s the only part of the plan that’s still in one piece.
All These Worlds	Dennis E. Taylor	2022	(We are Bob, Book #3) Being a sentient spaceship really should be more fun. But after spreading out through space for almost a century, Bob and his clones just can’t stay out of trouble.

Slow Burn Series (Audiobooks)

Title	Author(s)	Year	Summary
Zero Day	Bobby Adair	2022	A new flu strain has been spreading across Africa, Europe, and Asia. Disturbing news footage is flooding the cable news channels. People are worried. People are frightened. But Zed Zane is oblivious.
Infected	Bobby Adair	2022	All three have all been infected but have not succumbed to the most pernicious symptoms of the virus.
Destroyer	Bobby Adair	2022	Destroyer finds Zed saying goodbye to one friend and pressing forward with two new ones to whom we are introduced in Book 2 – Infected.
Dead Fire	Bobby Adair	2022	Dead Fire picks up following an infected attack on Sarah Mansfield’s fortified house, during which 3 people seek shelter with the Zed Zane and his fellow survivors.
Torrent	Bobby Adair	2022	Following his none-too-soon reunion with his friends at the safe house, Zed is hoping things can finally fall into a stable routine, but in post-virus Austin, things are far from stable.
Bleed	Bobby Adair	2022	Zed and Murphy are trying to find their surviving friends to finally get out of Austin and head west to safety, away from the zombie hordes.
City of Stin	Bobby Adair	2022	In the aftermath of the battle for Monk’s Island, Murphy has been nursing Zed back to health in a remote house at the west end of the lake.
Grind	Bobby Adair	2022	It’s time for revenge. Zed’s animosity toward Mark has been simmering through the deaths of too many of his friends.
Sanctum	Bobby Adair	2022	With both the Naked Horde and the Survivor Army destroyed, Zed and Murphy make their preparations and head to College Station

Ryan Holiday / Daily Stoic Series (Books and Audiobooks)

Title	Author(s)	Year	Summary
The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living	Ryan Holiday	2023	366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
Stillness is the Key	Ryan Holiday	2023	Holiday draws on timeless Stoic and Buddhist philosophy to show why slowing down is the secret weapon for those charging ahead
The Obstacle Is the Way	Ryan Holiday	2023	The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph. This book reveals that formula for the first time—and shows us how we can turn our own adversity into advantage.
Discpline is Destiny	Ryan Holiday	2023	It is what prevents us from risk and catastrophe. What helps us maintain our habit, our flow, even our savings. Discipline keeps us in check to do the right.
Ego is the Enemy	Ryan Holiday	2023	filled with cautionary tales of those who let their egos run amok and were eventually undone by the resulting damage, as well as stories of those who practiced restraint and sobriety, and found success in their endeavors.
Courage is Calling	Ryan Holiday	2023	Now, in the first book of an exciting new series on the cardinal virtues of ancient philosophy, Holiday explores the most foundational virtue of all: Courage.

The Expanse Series (Audiobooks)

Title	Author(s)	Year	Summary
Leviathan Wakes	James S.A. Corey	2023	(The Expanse #1) Humanity has colonized the solar system—Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond—but the stars are still out of our reach. Jim Holden is XO of an ice miner making runs from the rings of Saturn to the mining stations of the Belt. When he and his crew stumble upon a derelict ship, the Scopuli, they find themselves in possession of a secret they never wanted.
Caliban’s War	James S. A. Corey	2024	(The Expanse #2) In the vast wilderness of space, James Holden and the crew of the Rocinante have been keeping the peace for the Outer Planets Alliance.
Abaddon’s Gate	James S. A. Corey	2024	(The Expanse #3) For generations, the solar system - Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt - was humanity’s great frontier.
Cibola Burn	James S. A. Corey	2024	(The Expanse #4) Cibola Burn sees the crew of the Rocinante on a new frontier, as the rush to colonize the new planets threatens to outrun law and order and give way to war and chaos.

Murder Bot Series (Audiobooks)

Title	Author(s)	Year	Summary
All Systems Red	Martha Wells	2024	In a corporate-dominated space-faring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. For their own safety, exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids.
Artificial Condition	Martha Wells	2024	It has a dark past–one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself “Murderbot.” But it has only vague memories of the massacre, it wants to know more.
Rogue Protocol	Martha Wells	2024	SciFi’s favorite antisocial A.I. is again on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCris Corporation is floundering
Exit Strategy	Martha Wells	2024	Murderbot wasn’t programmed to care. So, its decision to help the only human who ever showed it respect must be a system glitch, right?
Network Effect	Martha Wells	2024	When Murderbot’s human associates (not friends, never friends) are captured and another not-friend from its past requires urgent assistance, Murderbot must choose between inertia and drastic action.

Tom Clancy (Audiobooks)

Title	Author(s)	Year	Summary
Dead or Alive: A Jack Ryan Novel	Tom Clancy, Grant Blackwood	pre 2021	It is The Campus. Secretly created under the administration of President Jack Ryan
Without Remorse	Tom Clancy	pre 2021	John Clark , Book 1
The Hunt for Red October	Tom Clancy	2021	Somewhere under the Atlantic, a Soviet sub commander has just made a fateful decision. The Red October is heading west. The Americans want her. The Russians want her back.

Michael Crichton (Audiobooks)

Title	Author(s)	Year	Summary
Jurassic Park: A Novel	Michael Crichton	pre-2021	An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered.
The Lost World	Michael Crichton	pre-2021	It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park.
Dragon Teeth: A Novel	Michael Crichton	pre-2021	Two paleontologists pillage the Wild West, hunting for dinosaur fossils while surveilling, deceiving, and sabotaging each other in a rivalry that will come to be known as the Bone Wars
The Andromeda Strain	Michael Crichton	pre-2021	The United States government is given a warning by the preeminent biophysicists in the country: current sterilization procedures applied to returning space probes may be inadequate

Frontiers Saga (Ryk Brown Series - Audiobooks)

Title	Author(s)	Year	Summary
Arrival	Ryk Brown	pre-2021	The Eden Project was a dream. To start the first extra-solar colony… To avoid the mistakes of our past… To start anew
Aurora: CV-01	Ryk Brown	pre-2021	Frontiers Saga, Book 1
The Rings of Haven	Ryk Brown	pre-2021	Frontiers Saga, Book 2
Freedom’s Dawn	Ryk Brown	pre-2021	Frontiers Saga, Book 4
Rise of the Corinari	Ryk Brown	pre-2021	Frontiers Saga Series, Book 5
Head of the Dragon	Ryk Brown	pre-2021	Frontiers Saga Series, Book 6
The Expanse	Ryk Brown	pre-2021	The Frontiers Saga, Book 7
Celestia CV-02	Ryk Brown	pre-2021	The Frontiers Saga, Book 8
Resistance	Ryk Brown	pre-2021	Frontiers Saga, Book 9
Liberation	Ryk Brown	pre-2021	The Frontiers Saga, Book 10
Born of the Ashes	Ryk Brown	pre-2021	The Frontiers Saga, Book 11

The Godfather Series (Audiobooks)

Title	Author(s)	Year	Summary
The Family Corleone	Ed Falco	2021	An exhilarating and profound novel of tradition and violence, of loyalty and betrayal, The Family Corleone will appeal to the legions of fans who can never get enough of The Godfather, as well as introduce it to a whole new generation.
The Godfather Returns	Mark Winegardner	2021	It is 1955. Michael Corleone has won a bloody victory in the war among New York’s crime families. Spellbinding story of America’s criminal underworld at mid-century and its intersection with the political, legal, and entertainment empires.
The Godfather’s Revenge	Mark Winegardner	2021	The third, and final, installment in Mario Puzo’s epic chronicle of the Corleone crime family