I kept a book log in 2019, 2020 and 2021.
I read a bunch of books this year. Bewilderment, Riverman and Zero Fail were my favorites. I also started but didn’t finish (yet) at least three books in 2022.
- The Hive – another murder mystery set in the Pacific Northwest
- Hidden in Snow – murder mystery set in a Norway ski resort town
- Alias Grace – historical fiction about a double murder in Canada in the late 1840s.
- Bewilderment – a novel by Richard Powers that explores the edges of the universe and impending political and climate collapse.
- The Hike – a fairly forgettable novel about two sisters and their husbands that go on a day hike that ends in tragedy.
- Smoke: An IQ Novel – the 5th book in the IQ series that I have been enjoying for the last several years.
- The Time Keeper – a 2012 Mitch Albom book. Enjoy the time you have rather than wishing for more or that it will go faster.
- Such a beautiful thing to behold: a novel – a family breaks and reunites during a plague in their small rural town.
- Where the crawdads sing – read the book, haven’t seen the movie.
- The Intangible: a novel – relationships, as challenging or harder than theoretical math, are at the core of this story.
- Running with Sherman: The Donkey Who Survived Against All Odds and Raced Like a Champion – we need animals in our lives and we need to spend time outdoors. Both things will make us physically and mentally healthier and safer.
- The Peacekeeper: A Novel (The Good Lands) – an intriguing book that imagines North America without European colonization as the setting for a murder mystery.
- Rock Island State Park Guidebook – read while serving as a volunteer docent at the restored and amazing Potawatomie Lighthouse.
- Perspectives, Volume I: An Emergency Medicine and Public Safety Anthology – Collection of patients told through the eyes of paramedics, cops, nurses and doctors.
- Riverman: An American Odyssey – true story of Dick Conant and the many people he met and inspired on long-distance canoe trips.
- Sea of Tranquility – time hoping novel from Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station 11.
- Freedom – a series of short books with a book that reflect upon ancient and modern societal meanings of freedom. By Sebastian Junger.
- The Escape Artist – the first book in the Zig and Nola Brown series.
- The Overstory: a novel – We need trees. More importantly we need to stop and listen to the trees.
- Termination Shock – geoengineering to avert climate change disaster in the near future.
- Everyone Communicates Few Connect – read for a John Maxwell book club at work.
- How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be – An excellent book about building and maintaining habits. EMS1 article, inspired by the book, about “anytime resolutions.”
- Sooley – John Grisham writes the fictional story of a basketball prodigy from South Sudan who flew too close to the sun.
- Hi Five (An IQ Novel Book 4) – continue to work my way through the IQ series.
- Death in the Sunshine (the retired detectives club book 1) – a slow moving who dun’it with too much detail. Not likely I’d read a book 2 in this series.
- Among Others – a YA sci fi novel that publisher’s weekly described (aptly) as “turns the magical boarding school story inside out in this compelling coming-of-age tale.”
- The Salt Line – post apocolyptic love story. Instead of a viral illness, zombies or vampires the villan in this story is a tick.
- Zero Fail: the rise and fall of the Secret Service – when the highest profile Secret Service incidents are told in a continuous sequence it makes for edge-of-the seat and borderline terrifying reading.
- Deep Sleep (Devin Gray Book 1) – A vast Russian sleeper cell is conspiring to ruin the U.S. Devin and friends try to stop them.
- Wrecked (An IQ Novel Book 3) – Third book in the mordern day Sherlock series set in SoCal.
- Righteous (An IQ Novel Book 2) – Isiah Quintabe is a modern day Sherlock in Long Beach, California.
