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Book Lists 2022 • Page 4

Discussion in 'Entertainment Forum' started by troyplaysbass, Jan 1, 2022.

  1. sophos34

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    never played myst but ive heard of it and would be very interested in that trilogy
     
  2. OwainGlyndwr

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    They're great on their own for sure. I first read them years ago before I knew anything about the games. Great stuff.
     
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  3. Colby Searcy

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    Looks like they are difficult to find
     
  4. OwainGlyndwr

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    Oof, yeah. Not even ebook copies available. Weird, but I guess they're older and kind of niche.
     
  5. Haven't been doing regular updates in here, but All Quiet On the Western Front was incredible, definitely in the top few books I've read this year.
     
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  6. Donnie Ruth

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    UPDATED list:

    January:
    1. American Elsewhere - Robert Jackson Bennett
    2. Come With Me - Ronald Malfi
    3. The Collective - Allison Gaylin
    4. Local Missing Women - Mary Kubica
    5. Video Night - Adam Cesare
    6. A History of Wild Places - Shea Ernshaw

    February
    8. Twenty Years Later - Charlie Donlea
    9. The Last Thing He Told Me - Laura Dave
    10. In My Dreams I Hold A Knife - Ashley Winstead
    11. The Sanatorium - Sarah Pearce
    12. The Whisper Man - Alex North
    13. The Overnight Guest - Heather Gudenkauf
    14. Kill Creek - Scott Thomas

    March
    15. A Flicker in the Dark - Stacy Willingham
    16. Moon Lake - Joe R. Lansdale
    17. The Night Shift - Alex Finlay
    18. The Nothing Man - Catherine Ryan Howard

    April
    19. The Resting Place - Camilla Sten
    20. Summer of Night - Dan Simmons
    21. Rage - Richard Bachman
    22. My Lovely Wife - Samantha Downing

    May
    23. The Maid - Nita Prose
    24. The Children on the Hill - Jennifer McMahon
    25. Dark Roads - Chevy Stevens
    26. Hidden Pictures - Jason Rekulak

    June
    27. The Perfect Child - Lucinda Berry
    28. Hide - Kiersten White
    29. The Shadows - Alex North
    30. Cujo - Stephen King
    31. The Regulators - Richard Bachman
    32. Boy's Life - Robert McCammon
    33. Seed - Ania Ahlborn

    July
    34. The Final Girl Support Group - Grady Hendrix
    35. The Loop - Jeremy Robert Johnson
    36. Brother - Ania Ahlborn
    37. The Island - Adrian McKinty
    38. Suffer the Children - Craig DiLouie

    August
    39. My Dark Vanessa - Kate Elizabeth Russell
    40. Old Country - Matt Query
    41. Mine - Robert McCammon
    42. American Predator - Maureen Callahan
    43. The Girl Next Door - Jack Ketchum

    September
    44. Clown in a Cornfield 2: Frendo Lives - Adam Cesare
    45. Fairy Tale - Stephen King

    October
    46. The Cotton Candy Massacre - Christopher Robertson
    47. The Exorcist's House - Nick Roberts
    48. Night in the Lonesome October - Richard Laymon

    November
    49. Penpal - Dathan Auerbach
    50. The Traveling Vampire Show - Richard Laymon
    51. Gone to See the River Man - Kristopher Triana
    52. Endless Night - Richard Laymon
     
  7. Garrett

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    Updated. Don't think I'm gonna hit 100 this year for the first time in a few years. Just really got out of the groove of listening to books. May get 1 or 2 more in.
     
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  8. that's it for this year. favorite new book I read was probably Mount Chicago, which I started before the fall semester began and just finished a minute ago. really funny, strange, crushing book. better than Bubblegum, which I also adored
     
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  9. Wasn't sure I'd have time but I did end up finishing Moby Dick today. Good year of reading. My favorites were Harlem Shuffle and Devil House.
     
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  10. Vivatoto

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    Novels

    1.) Paradise Lost - John Milton, David Scott Kastan
    2.) The Sum of All Men (The Runelords #1) - David Farland
    3.) The Scarab Path (Shadows of the Apt #5) - Adrian Tchiakovsky
    4.) Wit'ch Storm (The Banned and the Banished #2) - James Clemens
    5.) Build Your House Around My Body - Violet Kupersmith
    6.) Revelation (Mass Effect #1) - Drew Karpyshyn
    7.) The Blacktongue Thief (Blacktongue #1) - Christopher Beuhlman
    8.) The Last Watch (The Divide #1) - J S Dewes
    9.) The Mime Order (The Bone Season #2) - Samantha Shannon
    10.) The Sea Watch (Shadows of the Apt #6) - Adrian Tchaikovsky
    11.) Cibola Burn (The Expanse #4) - James S A Corey
    12.) Wit'ch War (The Banned and the Banished #3) - James Clemens
    13.) Darkness, Take My Hand (Kenzie & Gennaro #2) - Dennis Lehane
    14.) The Song Rising (The Bone Season #3) - Samantha Shannon
    15.) The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires - Grady Hendrix
    16.) Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass #1) - Sarah J Maas
    17.) Heirs of the Blade (Shadows of the Apt #7) - Adrian Tchiakovsky
    *18.) Gwendy's Final Task (The Button Box #3) - Stephen King & Richard Chizmar
    19.) Crown of Midnight (Throne of Glass #2) - Sarah J Maas
    20.) Lullaby - Chuck Palahniuk
    21.) The Mask Falling (The Bone Season #4) - Samantha Shannon
    22.) Gai-Jin (Asian Saga #3) - James Clavell
    23.) Magician: Master (The Riftwar Cycle #2) - Raymond E Feist
    24.) The Air War (Shadows of the Apt #8) - Adrian Tchiakovsky
    25.) Nemesis Games (The Expanse #5) - James S A Corey
    26.) The War Within (The Great God's War #2) - Stephen R Donaldson
    27.) City of Stairs (The Divine Cities #1) - Robert Jackson Bennett
    28.) Silverthorn (The Riftwar Cycle #3) - Raymond E Feist
    29.) The Tomb (The Adversary Cycle #2) - F Paul Wilson
    30.) A Darkness At Sethanon (The Riftwar Cycle #4) - Raymond E Feist
    31.) War Master's Gate (Shadows of the Apt #9) - Adrian Tchiakovsky
    32.) Second Child - John Saul
    33.) Wit'ch Gate (The Banned and the Banished #4) - James Clemens
    34.) Beneath the Rising (#1) - Premee Mohamed
    35.) Self Portrait: 100 Poems from the Pandemic and Life Lived Anyway - Garrett Lemons
    36.) God's Demon (#1) - Wayne Barlowe
    37.) The King's Justice - Stephen R Donaldson
    38.) Howling Dark (Sun Eater #2) - Christopher Ruocchio
    39.) Daughter of the Empire (The Riftwar Cycle: Empire Trilogy #5) - Raymond E Feist & Janny Wurts
    40.) City of Golden Shadow (Otherland #1) - Tad Williams
    41.) When True Night Falls (Coldfire #2) - C S Friedman
    42.) Old Man's War (#1) - John Scalzi
    *43.) Crown of Shadows (Coldfire #3) - C S Friedman
    44.) The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War #2) - John Scalzi
    45.) Servant of the Empire (The Riftwar Cycle: Empire Trilogy #6) - Raymond E Feist & Janny Wurts
    *46.) The Discord of Gods (A Chorus of Dragons #5) - Jenn Lyons
    47.) The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth #2) - N K Jemisin
    48.) Star Wars: The Old Republic: Revan - Drew Karpyshyn
    49.) Mistress of the Empire (The Riftwar Cycle: Empire Trilogy #7) Raymond E Feist & Janny Wurts
    50.) River of Blue Fire (Otherland #2) - Tad Williams
    51.) The King's Blood (The Dagger and the Coin #2) - Daniel Abraham
    52.) The Sleepwalker (The Nosferatu Conspiracy #1) - Brian James Gage
    53.) Prince of the Blood (The Riftwar Cycle: Krondor's Sons, A Prelude to the Serpentwar #8) Rayond E Feist
    54.) Father of Lies - Brian Evenson
    55.) The Tyrant's Law (The Dagger and the Coin #3) - Daniel Abraham
    56.) Nothing But Blackened Teeth - Cassandra Khaw
    57.) The Widow's House (The Dagger and the Coin #4) - Daniel Abraham
    58.) The Loop - Jeremy Robert Johnson
    *59.) The Spider's War (The Dagger and the Coin #5) - Daniel Abraham
    60.) Liberty's Crusade (Starcraft #1) - Jeff Grubb
    61.) Sons of Darkness (The Raag of Rta #1) - Gourav Mohanty
    62.) The Croning - Laird Barron
    63.) The King's Buccaneer (The Riftwar Cycle: Krondor's Sons, A Prelude to the Serpentwar #9) - Raymond E Feist
    64.) Geek Love - Katherine Dunn
    *65.) Speaking Bones (The Dandelion Dynasty #4) - Ken Liu
    66.) The Summer Is Ended and We Are Not Yet Saved - Joey Comeau
    67.) The Tiger and the Wolf (Echoes of the Fallen #1) - Adrian Tchaikovsky
    68.) One Bloody Thing After Another - Joey Comeau
    *69.) Wit'ch Star (The Banned and the Banished #5) - James Clemens
    70.) No Sanctuary - Richard Laymon
    71.) The Tower of Fools (Hussite Trilogy #1) - Andrzej Sapkowski
    72.) Among the Missing - Richard Laymon
    73.) Ship of Fools - Richard Paul Russo
    74.) Shadow of the Xel'Naga (Starcraft #2) - Gabriel Mesta
    75.) A Crown for Cold Silver (The Crimson Empire #1) - Alex Marshall
    76.) Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies - John Langan
    77.) [poem] Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came - Robert Browning
    *78.) The Last Emperox (The Interdependency #3) - John Scalzi
    79.) Out Are the Lights - Richard Laymon
    80.) Speed of Darkness (Starcraft #3) - Tracy Hickman
    81.) Shadow of a Dark Queen (The Riftwar Cycle: The Serpentwar Saga #10) - Raymond E Feist
    *82.) Seal of the Worm (Shadows of the Apt #10) - Adrian Tchaikovsky
    83.) Uprising (Starcraft #0.5) - Micky Neilson
    84.) Fairy Tale - Stephen King
    85.) Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death - Kurt Vonnegut
    86.) Rise of a Merchant Prince (The Riftwar Cycle: The Serpentwar Saga #11) - Raymond E Feist
    87.) The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut
    88.) Ghoul - Brian Keene
    89.) Player Piano - Kurt Vonnegut
    90.) Cage of Souls - Adrian Tchaikovsky
    91.) Rage of a Demon King (The Riftwar Cycle: The Serpentwar Saga #12) - Raymond E Feist
    92.) The Wehr Wolf - Alma Katsu
    93.) The Midnight Club - Christopher Pike
    94.) Horus Rising (Warhammer 40k: The Horus Heresy #1) - Dan Abnett
    95.) Shards of a Broken Crown (The Riftwar Cycle: The Serpentwar Saga #13) - Raymond E Feist
    96.) Echo - Thomas Olde Heuvelt
    97.) False Gods (Warhammer 40k: The Horus Heresy #2) - Graham Mcneill
    98.) Krondor: The Betrayal (The Riftwar Cycle: The Riftwar Legacy #14) - Raymond E Feist
    99.) Mother Night - Kurt Vonnegut
    100.) Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture #1) - Adrian Tchaikovsky
    101.) Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury
    102.) Fire & Blood (A Targaryen History #1) - George R R Martin
    103.) Galaxy in Flames (Warhammer 40k: The Horus Heresy #3) - Ben Counter
    104.) Krondor: The Assassins (The Riftwar Cycle: The Riftwar Legacy #15) - Raymond E Feist
    105.) Ball Lightning - Cixin Liu (translated by Joel Martinsen)
    106.) Krondor: Tear of the Gods (The Riftwar Cycle: The Riftwar Legacy #16) - Raymond E Feist
    107.) The Flight of the Eisenstein (Warhammer 40k: The Horus Heresy #4) - James Swallow
    108.) Honored Enemy (The Riftwar Cycle: Legends of the Riftwar #18) - Raymond E Feist & William R Forstchen
    109.) Children of Ruin (Children of Time #2) - Adrian Tchaikovsky
    110.) The Lost Metal (Misborn Era 2: Wax and Wayne #7) - Brandon Sanderson
    111.) Guns of the Dawn - Adrian Tchaikovsky
    112.) Murder in LaMut (The Riftwar Cycle: Legends of the Riftwar #19) Raymond E Feist & Joel Rosenberg
    113.) Fulgrim: Visions of Treachery (Warhammer 40k: The Horus Heresy #5) - Graham McNeill


    Comics

    1.) Fine Print (or how a divine contract may not be the best cure for a broken heart #1) - Stjepan Šejić
    2.) Batman: One Bad Day: The Riddler - Tom King & Mitch Gerads
    3.) Hellraiser: Hell Hath No Fury (#3) - Clive Barker, Mark Miller, & Janusz Ordon

    This was the year of Adrian Tchaikovsky for me. And Riftwar, but that's going to be next year too.

    Although I didn't include the new comics I'm reading, since I read those by issue, I did feel the need to add Batman:One Bad Day: The Riddler. Its like 80 pages, so sort of in between, but the reason I added it is because it was one of the best comics I have ever read. An absolutely brilliant look at Batman and the Riddler when the games are done, written by the best goddamn Batman writer ever. It's a perfect story.
     
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  11. Garrett

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    For a series I’ve never heard of, Riftwar is massive.
     
  12. Vivatoto

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    I think you'd dig it too. The main world is very Tolkien. Some of the other series focus on other worlds, like the empire trilogy is straight up Eastern Feudal, so you get a lot of variety. If you were inclined, the first 4 books (sometimes combined as a trilogy) tell a full story on their own. He just keeps on building.
     
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  13. Garrett

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    I’ll keep it in mind for after I tackle Malazan
     
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  14. Vivatoto

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    That should always be priority, haha.
     
  15. Garrett

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    I think I’m gonna start it in April/May. I’ve got a list of audiobooks I’m trying to work my way through. There are ~16 ahead of it.
     
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  17. Colby Searcy

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    Books

    1) The Inheritance Games-The Inheritance Games #1 by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
    2) Memento-The Illuminate Files #0.5 by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff
    3) Five Total Strangers by Natalie D. Richards
    4) A Line To Kill-Hawthorne & Horowitz Investigate #3 by Anthony Horowitz
    5) Murder Of Crows-Lethal Lit: A Tig Torres Mystery by K. Ancrum
    6) The Hawthorne Legacy-The Inheritance Games #2 by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
    7) The Woods Are Always Watching by Stephanie Perkins
    8) You'll Be The Death Of Me by Karen M. McManus
    9) Dear Evan Hansen by Val Emmich, Steven Levenson, Benj Pasek & Justin Paul
    10) The Mary Shelley Club by Goldy Moldavsky
    11) Camp Murderface by Josh Berk & Saundra Mitchell
    12) A Good Girl's Guide To Murder by Holly Jackson
    13) I Know Your Secret by Daphne Benedis-Grab
    14) The Puzzling World of Winston Breen by Eric Berlin
    15) Sellout by Dan Ozzi
    16) The It Girl by Ruth Ware
    17) Death and The Conjurer by Tom Mead
    18) Clown In A Cornfield 2:Frendo Lives by Adam Cesare
    19) All Good People Here by Ashley Flowers
    20) The Final Gambit-The Inheritance Games #3 by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

    Graphic Novels

    1) Stray Dogs
    2) Jonna And The Unpossible Monsters Volume 1

    My favorites for the year are The Inheritance Games trilogy and Death And The Conjurer. Last book in Inheritance Games is pretty convoluted though. My comics/graphic novel reading definitely slowed but what I did read was fantastic, really loved both of those series.

    My goal for 2023 is to catch up on my reading that I've been wanting to get to from the past year or so. I feel like this is ALWAYS the plan though haha
     
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