Wednesday, November 1, 2017

Books Read in 2017

As I've previously done in the past for anyone interested in seeing what I read myself in my spare time, below are the titles of the books I've read so far this year. With only two months left in 2017, I probably won't get a chance to read any more. Writers of the Future and work are keeping me pretty busy. As usual, I won't say anything about which were good and which were bad; those opinions are always highly subjective -- one man's trash and all that. Looking forward to reading more after the holidays. Have any good stories you'd recommend?

Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child – White Fire (audiobook)
Robert Ludlum – The Sigma Protocol (audiobook)
Dean Koontz – Deeply Odd (audiobook)
Richard Matheson – I Am Legend (audiobook)
Lincoln Child – The Forgotten Room (audiobook)
Dean Koontz – Odd Thomas (audiobook)
Dean Koontz – Breathless (audiobook)
Stephen King – Delores Claiborne (audiobook)
Clive Cussler and Thomas Perry – The Tombs (audiobook)
Dean Koontz – Forever Odd (audiobook)
Dean Koontz – Saint Odd (audiobook)
Dean Koontz – Odd Interlude (audiobook)
Stephen King – The Dark Tower Book I The Gunslinger (audiobook)
Stephen King – The Dark Tower Book III The Waste Lands (audiobook)
Stephen King – The Dark Tower Book IV Wizard and Glass (audiobook)
Michael Finkle – The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit (audiobook)
Stephen King – The Dark Tower Book V Wolves of the Calla (audiobook)
Stephen King – The Dark Tower Book VI Song of Susannah (book)
Stephen King – End of Watch (audiobook)
Dan Brown – The Lost Symbol (audiobook)
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child – Crimson Shore (audiobook)
Dean Koontz – What the Night Knows (audiobook)
Dean Koontz – Brother Odd (audiobook)
David Baldacci – The Hit (audiobook)
Orson Scott Card – Xenocide (audiobook)

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