Saturday, January 1, 2022

2022: The Year in Books

 Here is a list of books (long form works) that I have read for the year. Books will come in many formats: paper (pBooks), audio (aBooks), electronic (eBooks) and possibly even serialized in magazines.

Number of books read (as of December 31, 2022): 171.

Books read (alphabetical by author, then chronological within author):

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Idylls of the King (eBook) (September). 

Poul Anderson: The Technic Civilization 04—Young Flandry (omnibus made up of): Ensign Flandry (eBook) (December). A Circus of Hells (eBook) (December). The Rebel Worlds (eBook) (December).

Isaac Asimov: Foundation Trilogy 03—Second Foundation (eBook) (November). 

Marcus Aurelius: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (aBook) (December). 

Stephen Baxter: Xeelee 01—Raft (pBook) (November). 

Alfred A. Bell, Jr.: A Case from the Notebooks of Pliny the Younger 03—The Corpus Conundrum (eBook) (November). 

Gregory Benford: The Best of Gregory Benford (eBook) (September). Galactic Center 01—In the Ocean of Night (aBook) (September). Galactic Center 02—Across the Sea of Suns (aBook) (October). Galactic Center 03—Great Sky River (aBook) (October). Galactic Center 04—Tides of Light (aBook) (November).  Galactic Center 05—Furious Gulf (aBook) (December). Galactic Center 06—Sailing Bright Eternity (aBook) (December). The Galactic Center Companion (eBook) (December). 

James Blish: Cities in Flight (omnibus): 01—They Shall Have Stars (eBook) (December). 02—A Life for the Stars (eBook) (December). 03—Earthman, Come Home (eBook) (December). 04—The Triumph of Time (eBook) (December). 

John Brunner: Stand on Zanzibar (aBook) (January). 

James Branch Cabell: Figures of Earth (eBook) (February). The High Place (aBook) (April).

John W. Campbell, Jr.: The Planeteers (eBook) (December). 

Becky Chambers: Monk & Robot 01—A Psalm for the Wild-Built (eBook) (June) and (ebook) (December). Monk & Robot 02—A Prayer for the Crown–Shy (eBook) (June) (eBook) (December). To Be Taught, If Fortunate (eBook) (December). 

Tom Clancy: Jack Ryan 02—Red Rabbit (aBook) (May). Jack Ryan 03—The Hunt for Red October (eBook) (June).

Arthur C. Clarke: 2001: A Space Odyssey (eBook) (November). The Fountains of Paradise (eBook) (December). Rendezvous with Rama (eBook) (December). 

James S.A. Corey: The Expanse 00—Memory's Legion (aBook) (December). The Expanse 01—Leviathan Wakes (eBook) (August). The Expanse 02—Caliban's War (eBook) (August). The Expanse 03—Abaddon's Gate (eBook) (August). The Expanse 04—Cibola Burn (eBook) (September). Expanse 05—Nemesis Games (eBook) (October). The Expanse 06—Babylon's Ashes (eBook) (December). The Expanse 07—Persepolis Rising (aBook) (December). The Expanse 08—Tiamat's Wrath (aBook) (December). The Expanse 09—Leviathan Falls (aBook) (December). 

Michael Crichton: The Andromeda Strain (eBook).

Samuel R. Delany: Dhalgren (aBook) (January).

Gordon R. Dickson: Dorsai 01—Necromancer (aBook) (April). Dorsai 02—Tactics of Mistake (aBook) (April). Dorsai 00—Lost Dorsai (aBook) (April). Dorsai 00—The Spirit of Dorsai (aBook) (April). Dorsai 03—Dorsai (aBook) (April). Dorsai 04—Soldier, Ask Not (aBook) (April). 

George Alec Effinger: Marid Audran 03—The Exile Kiss (eBook) (June). 

Warren Ellis: Absolute Transmetropolitan, Volume 01 (pBook) (June). Absolute Transmetropolitan, Volume 02 (pBook) (June). Absolute Transmetropolitan, Volume 03 (pBook) (June). 

Richard Feynman: The Character of Physical Law (aBook) (November). 

Bob Forrest-Webb: Chieftains (eBook) (June).

Neil Gaiman and Dirk Maggs: Sandman Act I (aBook) (August).

William Gibson: Sprawl 01—Neuromancer (aBook) (July). Sprawl 02—Count Zero (aBook) (July). Sprawl 03—Mona Lisa Overdrive (aBook) (July). Bridge 01—Virtual Light (eBook) (July). Bridge 02—Idoru (aBook) (July). Bridge 03—All Tomorrow's Parties (aBook) (July). Blue Ant 01—Pattern Recognition (aBook) (July). Blue Ant 02—Spook Country (aBook) (July). Blue Ant 03—Zero History (aBook) (July). Distrust That Particular Flavor (aBook) (July). Jackpot 01—The Peripheral (eBook) (September). Jackpot 02—Agency (eBook) (September). 

Nicola Griffith: Spear (aBook) (December). 

David Halberstam: The Best and the Brightest (aBook) (August).

Peter F. Hamilton: Greg Mandel 01—Mindstar Rising (aBook) (June). Greg Mandel 02—A Quantum Murder (aBook) (June). Greg Mandel 03—The Nano Flower (aBook) (June). 

Dashiell Hammett: Thin Man 01—The Thin Man (eBook) (November). Thin Man 02—Return of the Thin Man (aBook) (November). The Glass Key (eBook) (December). 

Seamus Heaney (Translator): Beowulf (aBook) (December). 

Frank Herbert: Under Pressure (eBook) (May). ConSentiency 01—Whipping Star (eBook) (May). 

"Howard of Warwick": The Chronicles of Brother Hermitage 01—The Heretics of De'Ath (eBook) (March).

Jacob Johnston: The Art of Ron Cobb (pBook) (October). 

Donald Kagan: The Peloponnesian War (pBook) (December).  

Andrew Kessler: Martian Summer—Robot Arms, Cowboy Spacemen and My 90 Days with the Phoenix Mars Mission (eBook) (December). 

Roshanak Khesti: Switched-On Bach (eBook) (July).

Tracy Kidder: The Soul of a New Machine (eBook) (April).

Stephen King: Danse Macabre (aBook) (May). 

Volker Kutscher: Gereon Rath 01—Babylon Berlin (June) (aBook). 

Michael Lee Lanning: Tours of Duty—Vietnam War Stories (June) (eBook).

Ken Layne: Desert Oracle Volume 1—Strange True Tales from the American Southwest (eBook) (November). 

Rob Manning and William L. Simon: Mars Rover Curiosity—An Inside Account from Curiosity's Chief Engineer (eBook) (December). 

George R. R. Martin (editor): Wild Cards 1 (aBook) (January).

James Martin, S.J.: The Abbey—A Story of Discovery (eBook) (June).

Joe McCabe (editor): Hanging Out with the Dream King: Conversations with Neil Gaiman and His Collaborators (pBook) (September). 

Vonda N. McIntyre: Star Trek—The Entropy Effect (eBook) (April).

James McPherson: Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (aBook) (July). 

Tamsyn Muir: Locked Tomb 01—Gideon the Ninth (aBook) (first time, January) (second time, October). Locked Tomb 02—Harrow the Ninth (aBook) (November). 

Linda Nagata: The Red 01—First Light (eBook) (November). The Red 02—The Trials (eBook) (November). 

Larry Niven: The State 01—A World Out of Time (eBook) (November). 

Patrick O'Brian: Aubrey–Maturin 01—Master and Commander (pBook) (March). Aubrey–Maturin 02—Post Captain (pBook) (April). 

K.J. Parker: The Siege 01—Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City (eBook). The Siege 02—How to Rule an Empire and Get Away with It (eBook) (August). 

Elizabeth Peters: Amelia Peabody 002—The Curse of the Pharaohs (aBook) (April). Amelia Peabody 003—The Mummy Case (aBook) (April). Amelia Peabody 004—Lion in the Valley (aBook) (April). Amelia Peabody 005—The Deeds of the Disturber (aBook) (April). Amelia Peabody 006—The Last Camel Died at Noon (aBook) (May). 

Terry Pratchett: Discworld 01—The Color of Magic (aBook) (November). Discworld 00—The World of Poo (eBook) (December). 

Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, and Jack Cohen: The Science of Discworld 02—The Globe (eBook) (December)

Olga Ravn: The Employees (eBook) (October).

Alastair Reynolds: Revelation Space 00—Galactic North (eBook) (November). Revelation Space 00—Diamond Dogs/Turquoise Days (eBook) (November). The Prefect 01—Aurora (eBook) (November). 

Kristine Kathryn Rusch: Retrieval Artist 01—The Disappeared (aBook) (February). 

John Scalzi: The Kaiju Preservation Society (eBook) (March).

Uwe Schutte: Kraftwerk—Future Music from Germany (eBook) (November).

Clifford D. Simak: A Choice of Gods (eBook) (December). 

Iain Sinclair: White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings (eBook) (November). 

Clark Ashton Smith: The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith 01—The End of the Story (eBook) (April). The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith 02—A Vintage from Atlantis (eBook) (July). 

Neal Stephenson: The Baroque Cycle 07—Currency (aBook). The Baroque Cycle 08—The System of the World (aBook) (February).

Alvin Toffler: Future Shock (eBook) (July). 

J.R.R. Tolkien and Christopher Tolkien (Editor): The Silmarillion (eBook) (September). Beren & Luthien (eBook) (September). The Children of Hurin (eBook) (September). The Fall of Gondolin (eBook) (September). 

Ian Toll: War in the Pacific 03—Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 (eBook) (November). 

E.C. Tubb: Dumarest of Terra 01—The Winds of Gath (eBook) (November). Dumarest of Terra 02—Derai (eBook) (November). Dumarest of Terra 03—Toyman (eBook) (December).

Barbara Tuchman: The Guns of August (eBook) (July). 

Jack Vance: Dying Earth 01—The Dying Earth (eBook) (September). 

A.E. van Vogt: Slan (eBook) (December). 

Various: Star Wars Omnibus—A Long Time Ago (Volume 01) (eBook) (January).

Hugh Walters: Chris Godfrey of U.N.E.X.A. 01—Blast Off at Woomera/Blast Off at 0300 (eBook) (July). Chris Godfrey of U.N.E.X.A. 02—The Domes of Pico (eBook) (August). Chris Godfrey of U.N.E.X.A. 03—Operation Columbus/First on the Moon (eBook) (August). Chris Godfrey of U.N.E.X.A. 04—Moon Base One (eBook) (August). Chris Godfrey of U.N.E.X.A. 05—Expedition to Venus (eBook) (December). 

Martha Wells: Murderbot 01—All Systems Read (eBook) (September). Murderbot 02—Artificial Condition (eBook) (September). Murderbot 03—Rogue Protocol (eBook) (September). Murderbot 04—Exit Strategy (eBook) (October). Murderbot 05—Fugitive Telemetry (eBook) (October). Murderboth 06—Network Effect (eBook) (October). 

Gene Wolfe: The Book of the New Sun 05—The Urth of the New Sun (pBook) (July).

Bob Woodward: Fear (eBook) (September). 

Timothy Zahn: The Thrawn Trilogy 01—Heir to the Empire (eBook) (February).

Roger Zelazny: Amber 01—Nine Princes in Amber (eBook) (March). Lord of Light (eBook) (May). Creatures of Light and Darkness (eBook) (June). Amber 02—The Guns of Avalon (eBook) (September). Amber 03—Sign of the Unicorn (eBook) (September). Amber 04—The Hand of Oberon (eBook) (September). Amber 05—The Courts of Chaos (eBook) (September). Amber 06—Trumps of Doom (eBook) (September). Amber 07—Blood of Amber (eBook) (September). Amber 08—Sign of Chaos (eBook) (September). Amber 09—Knight of Shadows (eBook) (September). Amber 10—Prince of Chaos (eBook) (September). Amber 00—Seven Tales in Amber (eBook) (September). Amber 00—Roger Zelazny's Visual Guide to Castle Amber (with Neil Randall) (pBook) (September). A Night in the Lonesome October (aBook) (September). 

Books read (in chronological order, master list): 001: Wild Cards 1 (Martin). 002: Dhalgren (Delany). 003: Stars Wars—A Long Time Ago (Various). 004: Stand on Zanzibar (Brunner). 005: Gideon the Ninth (Muir). 006: Heir to the Empire (Zahn). 007: The Disappeared (Rusch). 008: Figures of Earth (Cabell). 009: Currency (Stephenson). 010: The System of the World (Stephenson). 011: Nine Princes in Amber (Zelazny). 012: The Heretics of De'Ath (Howard of Warwick). 013: Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City (Parker). 014: Master and Commander (O'Brian). 015: The Kaiju Preservation Society (Scalzi). 016: The Andromeda Strain (Crichton). 017: The Soul of a New Machine (Kidder). 018: Star Trek—The Entropy Effect (McIntyre). 019: Amelia Peabody 002—The Curse of the Pharaohs (Peters). 020: Post Captain (O'Brian). 021: The High Place (Cabell). 022: The Mummy Case (Peters). 023: Lion in the Valley (Peters). 024: The Deeds of the Disturber (Peters). 025: Necromancer (Dickson). 026: Tactics of Mistake (Dickson). 027: Lost Dorsai (Dickson). 028: The Spirit of Dorsai (Dickson). 029: Dorsai (Dickson). 030: The End of the Story (Smith). 031: Soldier, Ask Not (Dickson). 032: Danse Macabre (King). 033: The Last Camel Died at Noon (Peters). 034: Red Rabbit (Clancy). 035: Lord of Light (Zelazny). 036: Whipping Star (Herbert). 037: Under Pressure (Herbert). 038: Chieftains (Forrest-Webb). 039: Creatures of Light and Darkness (Zelazny). 040: Absolute Transmetropolitan, Volume 01 (Ellis). 041: The Hunt for Red October (Clancy). 042: Absolute Transmetropolitan, Volume 02 (Ellis). 043: Babylon Berlin (Kutscher). 044: Absolute Transmetropolitan, Volume 03 (Ellis). 045: Tours of Duty—Vietnam War Stories (Lanning). 046: The Abbey—A Story of Discovery (Martin). 047: The Exile Kiss (Effinger). 048: Mindstar Rising (Hamilton). 049: A Quantum Murder (Hamilton). 050: The Nano Flower (Hamilton). 051: Neuromancer (Gibson). 052: The Urth of the New Sun (Wolfe). 053: Count Zero (Gibson). 054: Mona Lisa Overdrive (Gibson). 055: Virtual Light (Gibson). 056: Idoru (Gibson). 057: All Tomorrow's Parties (Gibson). 058: Pattern Recognition (Gibson). 059: Spook Country (Gibson). 060: Zero History (Gibson). 061: Blast Off at Woomera/Blast Off at 0300 (Walters). 062: Switched-On Bach (Khesti). 063: Battle Cry of Freedom (McPherson). 064: Future Shock (Toffler). 065: Distrust That Particular Flavor (Gibson). 066: A Vintage from Atlantis (Smith). 067: The Guns of August (Tuchman). 068: Leviathan Wakes (Corey). 069: The Domes of Pico (Walters). 070: Sandman: Act I (Gaiman and Maggs). 071: The Best and the Brightest (Halberstam). 072: Operation Columbus/First on the Moon (Walters). 073. How to Rule an Empire and Get Away with It (Parker). 074: Moon Base One (Walters). 075: Caliban's War (Corey). 076: Abaddon's Gate (Corey). 077: Cibola Burn (Corey). 078: The Silmarillion (Tolkien). 079: Beren & Luthien (Tolkien). 080: Hanging Out with the Dream King (McCabe). 081: A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Chambers). 082: A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Chambers). 083: The Children of Hurin (Tolkien). 084: The Fall of Gondolin (Tolkien). 085: Fear (Woodward). 086: Idylls of the King (Tennyson). 087: The Dying Earth (Vance). 088: The Guns of Avalon (Zelazny). 089: Sign of the Unicorn (Zelazny). 090: The Best of Gregory Benford (Benford). 091: The Hand of Oberon (Zelazny). 092: The Courts of Chaos (Zelazny). 093: Trumps of Doom (Zelazny). 094: Blood of Amber (Zelazny). 095: Sign of Chaos (Zelazny). 096: Knight of Shadows (Zelazny). 097: Prince of Chaos (Zelazny). 098: Seven Tales in Amber (Zelazny). 099: Roger Zelazny's Visual Guide to Castle Amber (Zelazny and Randall). 100: The Peripheral (Gibson). 101: Agency (Gibson). 102: In the Ocean of Night (Benford). 103: All Systems Read (Wells). 104: Artificial Condition (Wells). 105: Rogue Protocol (Wells). 106: Exit Strategy (Wells). 107: Across the Sea of Suns (Benford). 108: Nemesis Games (Corey). 109: A Night in the Lonesome October (Zelazny). 110: Fugitive Telemetry (Wells). 111: Network Effect (Wells). 112: Gideon the Ninth (Muir). 113: Great Sky River (Benford). 114: The Art of Ron Cobb (Johnston). 115: The Employees (Ravn). 116: Harrow the Ninth (Muir). 117: First Light (Nagata). 118: Raft (Baxter). 119: The Thin Man (Hammett). 120: Return of the Thin Man (Hammett). 121: Kraftwerk—Future Music from Germany (Schutte). 122: Galactic North (Reynolds). 123: Desert Oracle (Layne). 124: Tides of Light (Benford). 125: 2001: A Space Odyssey (Clarke). 126: Second Foundation (Asimov). 127: A World Out of Time (Niven). 128: The Character of Physical Law (Feynman). 129: The Trials (Nagata). 130: Diamond Dogs/Turquoise Days (Reynolds). 131: White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings (Sinclair). 132: Twilight of the Gods (Toll). 133: The Corpus Conundrum (Bell). 134: Aurora (Reynolds). 135: The Winds of Gath (Tubb). 136: Derai (Tubb). 137: The Color of Magic (Pratchett). 138: The World of Poo (Pratchett). 139: Toyman (Tubb). 140: The Globe (Pratchett, Stewart and Cohen). 141: Expedition to Venus (Walters). 142: The Fountains of Paradise (Clarke). 143: The Peloponnesian War (Kagan). 144: A Psalm for the Wild-Built (again) (Chambers). 145: A Prayer for the Crown–Shy (Chambers). 146: Mars Rover Curiosity (Manning and Simon). 147: Rendezvous with Rama (Clarke). 148: Babylon's Ashes (Corey). 149: Beowulf  (Heaney). 150: To Be Taught, If Fortunate (Chambers). 151: The Planeteers (Campbell). 152: Slan (van Vogt). 153: The Glass Key (Hammett). 154: Ensign Flandry (Poul Anderson). 155: A Circus of Hells (Anderson). 156: The Rebel Worlds (Anderson). 157: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (Aurelius). 158: They Shall Have Stars (Blish). 159: A Choice of Gods (Simak). 160: A Life for the Stars (Blish). 161: Furious Gulf (Benford). 162: Sailing Bright Eternity (Benford). 163: The Galactic Center Companion (Benford). 164: Persepolis Rising (Corey). 165: Tiamat's Wrath (Corey) 166: Leviathan Falls (Corey) 167: Memory's Legion (Corey). 168: Earthman, Come Home (Blish). 169: Spear (Griffith). 170: The Triumph of Time (Blish). 171: Martian Summer (Kessler). 

Paper Books: 011. 

Electronic Books: 103.

Audiobooks: 057.

For this year, many of the books were read as I synchronized between the audiobook version and the electronic book version. The count was "awarded" to the category where I "read" the most of the book. As you can see, I did a lot of walking this year, so a large chunk of books were consumed while on those walks.

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