2022 Books

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This blog entry contains a list of the books I read or listened to in 2022. Links included for the summaries and notes if I added them to my site.

Books

Title Author(s) Summary
Stick Together Jon Gordon & Kate Leavell A simple lesson to build a stronger team


Audiobooks

Title Author(s) Summary
Orphans of the Sky Robert A. Heinlein 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.
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) Dennis E. Taylor (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 (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 (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.
First Blood David Morrell 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.
Bad Chili Joe R. Lansdale 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 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 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.
Ready Player Two Ernest Cline Days after winning Oasis founder James Halliday’s contest, Wade Watts makes a discovery that changes everything.
In the Blood Jack Carr 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.
True Believer Jack Carr 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.
Space: 1969 Bill Oakley 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 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.
Vanilla Ride Joe R. Landsdale 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.
Greenlights Matthew McConaughey 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 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
Zero Day Bobby Adair 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 All three have all been infected but have not succumbed to the most pernicious symptoms of the virus.
Destroyer Bobby Adair 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 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 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 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 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 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 With both the Naked Horde and the Survivor Army destroyed, Zed and Murphy make their preparations and head to College Station
Walking the Nile Levison Wood 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 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.