['| Book Title | First Name | Last Name | Summary |
', '| The Secret Adversary | ', 'Agatha | ', 'Christie | ', "Book1, WWI timeframe where secret documents were passed on to an American who feign amnesia because she didn't know who to trust this document with |
", '| The Stranger in the Lifeboat | ', 'Mitch | ', 'Albom | ', 'Spiritual story about a boat sinking and a character that mysteriously appears and says he is God |
', '| Light Years from Home | ', 'Mike | ', 'Chen | ', 'a guy and his dad who disappears from modern times and was in an intergalactic war who sends his dad back home who continues to search for his son until his death. The the guy come back to earth to search for the key to the war and of course his family thinks he is nuts |
', '| A Beginning at the End | ', 'Mike | ', 'Chen | ', 'Post apocolyptic/pandemic story written in 2020 where billions have died and the world is still fairly same but there are large changes |
', '| Infinite | ', 'Brian | ', 'Freeman | ', 'A book A book that started off a bit slow about the passing of a mans wife and then he starts getting questioned about killing her when all of the sudden he sees a doppelganger. \xa0The story takes an odd twist when there is discussion of many worlds which is caused whenever a decision is made in your life and the idea is another you and universe is created with an alternate you taking the other path related to another decision. \xa0So many of yous can exist. \xa0He hunts an evil version of him entering various worlds to kill people and get his counterpart in trouble. \xa0Eventually the story takes a twist near the end related to his wifes death. \xa0The book ended pretty good. |
', '| Kiyo Sato | ', 'Connie | ', 'Goldsmith | ', 'Story about a Japanese American and her experience during WWII internment camps |
', '| How to spot a Liar | ', 'Gregory | ', 'Hartley | ', 'How to spot a liar |
', '| The Almanack of Naval Ravikant | ', 'Eric | ', 'Jorgenson | ', 'Stories and quotes from Naval Ravikant who is a successful venture capitalist tech individual born in India |
', '| The Inevitable | ', 'Kevin | ', 'Kelly | ', 'technologies that will shape our future about internet, VR, IOT, technology that shapes our lives |
', '| The Soul of an Octopus | ', 'Sy | ', 'Montgomery | ', "A story about Octopus and how they are highly intelligent. I read this after watching the Netflix movie 'My Octopus Teacher' |
", '| The Stolen Lady | ', 'Laura | ', 'Morelli | ', 'Story about stolen art work the Mona Lisa during WWII Paris and also jumps to Leonardo Da Vincis time in the 1400 and a maiden of a family who asked Leo to paint the mistress Lisa |
', '| With the Old Breed:At Peleliu and Okinawa | ', 'E.B. | ', 'Sledge | ', 'POW story during WWII in the Pacific Theatre |
', '| Adventures of Hucklyberry Finn | ', 'Mark | ', 'Twain | ', 'Adventure in early America |
', '| The Original | ', 'Brandon | ', 'Sanderson | ', 'Future dystopia utopia where one will be auto generated after a crime committed by you with nanites in a body creates a simulated version of your original body and you are tasked to hunt down your original in 4 days time |
', '| Atomic Habits | ', 'James | ', 'Clear | ', 'Atomic habits to free oneself to follow good habits at the atomic level. Follow a system not just goals. Visually see like my planner is easy to keep doing it. Braces are like an atomic habit to not eat much |
', '| Being a Green Mother | ', 'Piers | ', 'Anthony | ', "Book 5 the main subject is Gaia/Green Mother. Orb is searching for the Yano? music's ultimate wonder and most of the book is her as a human (daughter of the 'magician' and ex consort of War and widow of Satan) |
", '| Ark | ', 'Veronica | ', 'Roth | ', 'story about impending apocalypse due to a meteor and plant horticultural person deciding to leave the earth or not |
', "| Nerilka's Story | ", 'Anne | ', 'McCaffrey | ', "Book 8, simultaneous story of Moreta but the story is about Nerilka one of the daughter's of a lord holder who chases her away and she ends up helping Ruatha? hold |
", "| Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore | ", 'Robin | ', 'Sloan | ', 'a person who loses his job at a bagel company in SF and gets a job at a bookstore. Interesting characters visit the store until a parcel is delivered which was a book. Not just a bookstore but also a library one of a few around the world with a secret society for 500 years where member create their own life journal/story vitae something and encrypted. The main book was eventually decrypted by the protaganist by interpretting a fictional font |
', "| Armageddon's Children | ", 'Terry | ', 'Brooks | ', 'Book 1, story of current time collapse and the search for the Gypsy Morph who has been hidding in Seattle. Logan Tom is the new Knight of the Word searching for the Gypsy Morph, Hawk. Another Knight, Angel?, is also heading to the PACNW. The goal is to leave civilization and escape this world from the incoming army of demons and once-men |
', '| The Stars are Legion | ', 'Kameron | ', 'Hurley | ', 'All female space epic about two warring factions and world-ships where one faction is trying to escape. One of the pair, Jade seems to go to the other side to steal the world womb and the arm. The other, Zan was recycled and must climb out of many levels (kinda like dungeons) to help Jade. Found out Zan is lord of the Moxie, 3rd faction. Seems to be a cycle that repeats or just continuous to try to get out of same thing. Finally Zan makes a change and escapes with Jade and changes the outcome to live while the Moxie is reborn |
', '| The Fires of Heaven | ', 'Robert | ', 'Jordan | ', 'Book5, Rand defeats the rogue Aiel group and takes a couple of cities including Andor which was controlled by one of the forsaken. He kills that dude (Gabriel?). Nynaeve and ELaine are trying to escape a city and are in a circus troop. Moraine dies sacrificing herself killing Lanfear into a portal. No talk about Perrin at all |
', '| Lord of Chaos | ', 'Robert | ', 'Jordan | ', 'Book6, Rand controls Andor and start up training of me saidin army with maizim tain; matrim distract with his red palm army; Perrin and lady falcon ruling in that part and meet up with Rand while Mat leads Elaine and Nynaeve to a city with a magical bowl. Egwene becomes Amrylin Seat for the Rebels |
', '| Crown of Swords | ', 'Robert | ', 'Jordan | ', 'Book7, Rand is kidnapped by Aes Sedai supported by the Shaido but is rescued by the Ashaman and Perrin separately. He was pretty hot. Morgidian? the Forsaken was freed by a male chaneling. Hunt for the bowl of winds. Seanchen returns again. Rand attacked by Padan Fain and kills Sammael at the end being helped by a mysterious character. |
', '| Path of Daggers | ', 'Robert | ', 'Jordan | ', 'Book8, Perrin is supposed to hunt down the prophet (Mossimo?) and tell him to stop. The SeanChen are attacking various cities and Nynaeve, Elaine, and Avienda try to escape. Rand is attacked by some dark friends who were his Ashaman. |
', '| All the Weyrs of Pern | ', 'Anne | ', 'McCaffrey | ', "Book11, Where Jaxon and his white dragon help to uncover an AI computer from the 'ancestors' who helps to bring the world back to how things are from back in the day (with more technology) and to also try to stop the fall permanently. |
", '| The Final Empire | ', 'Brandon | ', 'Sanderson | ', "Book1, A world full of mist and ash ruled by the Hero of Ages, Lord Ruler who defeated an unknowned enemy 1000 years ago but now surpresses the SKAA lower caste people while certain higher caste folks are living well. There are folks that hold power called allomancers who can burn metals internally to exhibit superpowers (this is heriditary). Two of the high powered mistborns that are halfskaa plot to overthrow the Lord Ruler but aren't completely successful. The army they put together and Eden (leader) conducts a premature attack which brings down most of their army. |
", '| Crossroads of Twilight | ', 'Robert | ', 'Jordan | ', "Book 10, Sort of slow book with Perrin seeking to rescue Faile. Mat still hanging out with Tuon running away with other. Elaine is getting more bigger (she's pregnant) and Rand is trying to negotiate with the Seanchan. Egwene lays seige to Tar Valon but is captured at the end of the book |
", "| Winter's Heart | ", 'Robert | ', 'Jordan | ', 'Book9, Elaine is at Andor to take over rule. Faile, Alliandre, Megan kidnapped by Shaido Aiel. Galina the Black Ajah is there too. Elaine, Avienda, and Min confront Rand about the three wive situation. Mat is trying to escape Ebou Dar which is controlled by the Seanchan and kidnaps his future wife while escaping. Fadan Pain? try to kill Rand again and the end battle is at Shadoth Ghol where Rand cleanses the taint in men with Nyandra. |
', '| For Love of Evil | ', 'Piers | ', 'Anthony | ', 'Incarnation of Evil aka Satan. As normal the first part if the story of the individual when they were a human then as they became an incarnation. He was a singer and the story is a bit erotic. Satan gives up his incarnation after marrying his love and singing to God. Damned after 700 years as an incarnation but is able to get his role of Satan back with some help |
', '| Knife of Dreams | ', 'Robert | ', 'Jordan | ', 'Book 11, The last book fully written by Robert Jordan before he passed away. Multiple storylines: Perrin is still working to rescue Faile; Egwene and the Rebel Aes Sedai working to deal with her kidnapping; Mat is dealing with his situation with Tuan while running away. Elaine almost gets taken by the Black Ajah but Brigetta, Windriders and the Loyalist rescue her |
', '| The Well of Ascension | ', 'Brandon | ', 'Sanderson | ', "Book2, Defending the Capital while trying to find the Atium the superpower metal to burn. The world has changed since the death of the Lord Ruler and Vin is trying to discover what is going on. More short snippets from the Hero of Ages (Elendi), Rashk the packman (Lord Ruler) and Rashk's uncle (Kwaan) who asked him to kill the Hero of Ages. Elend loses the role of King after Luthadel is besieged by three armys but then regains it. The Well of Ascension is in Luthadel and Vin gives all the power from the well up AND a spirit is released. |
", '| Emergency Skin | ', 'NK | ', 'Jemisin | ', 'Story about a group that left Earth at some point because the population was dying due to Earth changes and seem to think that the world and population would destroy itself. The alien/person who returned in order to retrieve a substance and noticed something interesting. |
', "| The Chronicles of Pern: First Fall (The PERN Survey, The Dolphin's Bell, The Ford of Red Hanrahan, The Second Weyr, Rescue Run) | ", 'Anne | ', 'McCaffrey | ', 'Book12, A bunch of short stories starting with an initial survey of P.E.R.N; then one with the dolphins of pern; then one where a new Weyr is being stood up with some dragonriders going to the new Weyr; An high tech earth group receives the distress signal from Pern and investigates. They end up rescuing a part of the group that broke away from the others and did a half-a** job searching for other folks and ended up leaving the planet without realizing other folks were still there. |
', '| Thrawn:Alliances | ', 'Timothy | ', 'Zahn | ', 'Book2, Two storylines one when Thrawn is Grand Admiral and is on a mission with Darth Vader (who actually knows him from the next story). The Second story is in the past where General Anakin Skywalker is out to find and rescue Padme and runs into Thrawn they work together. |
', '| The Gathering Storm | ', 'Robert | ', 'Jordan | ', 'Book 12, First of 3 books written by Brandon Sanderson with notes from Jordan. The book was originally planned to be one book. Rand and team tries to get information from the captured Semirhage. Egwene tries to hold the tower together while demoted to a student and eventually become the Amyrlin Seat after an attack by the Seanchan. Rand is captured with a male adam by Semirhage (Forsaken) and escapes using the true power, a dark power which seems to have changed Rand in a dark way. Rand finally sees the light by understanding love. |
', '| Emergency Skin | ', 'NK | ', 'Jemisin | ', "Story about a group that leaves the Earth because of impending destruction of the Earth but this doesn't happen and the group comes to Earth and uses an Emergency Skin during a mission to retrieve something needed and more often than not, end up staying |
", '| The Pirate King | ', 'RA | ', 'Salvatore | ', "2nd book after the Orc King where Drizzt and Regis helps to take Luskar with Drizzts old Captain Deuderant who becomes Governor of the city but continues to fight 'high pirate captains' and the thought dead Lich while the city is starved. Jarlaxle and his crew played a part in the saga and are shown at the end. |
", '| Light from Uncommon Stars | ', 'Ryka | ', 'Aoki | ', 'A lady (Ms. Shizuoka Satomi) who looks for violin students who will give up their souls to become great violin players with a magic/cursed bow. There are also intergalactic aliens who are part of the story to try and help the 7th soul (Katrina) and also collect energy from the earth. |
', '| The Hero of Ages | ', 'Brandon | ', 'Sanderson | ', "After elen venture became mistborn. Multiple stories: Vin and Elen continue to work to capture various cities. Spook doing some spying and almost caught but gains some mistborn skills after gaining pewter skills to complement his tin skills (which shouldn't be). Tenshin the condra tries to escape after failing to persuade his kind. Saizid still lost faith but is working to help his people the terrace? (story tellers?) and Vin. The struggle ultimately leads to the battle between Ruin the god the fooled Vin (and many others to free it) and Preservation. The final battle occurs with a bunch of secrets discovered by the Lord rulers creatures, koloss, kandra, inquisitors. The true Hero of Ages is revealed at the end with a few deaths too. |
", '| The 5th wave | ', 'Rick | ', 'Yancey | ', "Book 1: A Post apocalyptic YA book about aliens releasing an Electronic Magnetic Pulse to stop all electronics and vehicles but also attacking from within (maybe a parasite into the bodies of young). Cassie escapes a murder squad who took kids away and seemed to be military (but were actually aliens). They took her brother Sammy who passed the 'sorting' and joined a military like boot camp. Sammy was renamed Nugget to process dead bodies and was training to become a killer. He was rescued by another kid who was initially brain washed but escaped and discovered what was going on (he actually was a high school crush of Cassie) and Evan an alien possessed human who fell in love with Cassie and sacrificed himself to help Cassie escape. |
", '| Towers of Midnight | ', 'Robert | ', 'Jordan | ', "13th book from Wheel of Time, 2nd book written by Brandon Sanderson; Mat is in Andor meeting with Elayne and helping her and the Golum continues to hunt him. Perrin is also on his way to Andor and runs into the Whitecoats led by Galad claiming murder of whitecoats by Perrin. Perrin is fighting Slayer in the dream world (Lord Jake?). Nynaeve tests to finally become Aes Sedai. Gawyn hunts down Seanchan assassins trying to kill Egwene. Rand isn't as dark and has calmed down and everyone are noticing this. Avienda to work through Riadion and become a wise one meeting Nakomi a mysterious lady. Mat, Thom, and Noel rescue Moraine and Mat gives up his eye. |
", '| Norse Mythology | ', 'Neil | ', 'Gaiman | ', "A bunch of stories related to our favorite folks: Odin, Loki, Thor: 1st is about Loki trying to get hair back for Thor's wife after he removed it as a joke; 2nd if the gods against a 'person' who claims to build a wall that seems impossible (he was a giant); 3rd is about the children of Loki who are half giant and the giants want to give them up; Stolen Mjonir (Thor's hammer) and the Ogre who stole it was the King of the ogres and asked for Freya's hand in marriage before return so Thor dressed up as Freya to get his hammer back; Then elixir was made by dark elves (aka dwarves) from a body of someone and this gave knowledge in poems?; Thor loki and human in jotterheim and run into trickster giant who challenges them all and wins create mountains, tides, and such; then kidnapping of apples of immortality and person gods turn old and Loki rescues Eman? and other tales. Ends with Ragnorok. |
", '| The Alloy of Law | ', 'Brandon | ', 'Sanderson | ', 'Book 4, New story set 300 years after the first trilogy. Main protagonist is Wax a rare twinborn who can use Allomancy and Feruchemy and Wayne adventures. Sherlock Holmes and Watson in the Victorian ages. Battling against Miles an ex-lawman who is also a twinborn but can heal quickly and abundandtly |
', '| Memory of Light | ', 'Robert | ', 'Jordan | ', 'Book 14 last book written by Brandon Sanderson, After rescue of moraine Meeting of nations and 3 requests sign pact destroy runes and ? Black tower riff raff then last battle. Rand persuades the Sean chan to join the pact and there are 4 battles with 4 great generals who are compulsed to make bad decisions discretely. Rand battles the dark one, faile tries to retrieve the horn of Valere but end in blight, Tam takes control of the armies, Perrin hunts for slayer in the dreamworld. Rand defeats Evil by not being the same as him and dies. |
', '| The Circus Infinite | ', 'Khan | ', 'Wong | ', "A person, Jes, with special powers escapes from a lab environment to a pleasure type world and joins the circus and finds a job there to help as an assistant to one of the leaders. Blackmailed to use empathic skills and telekenisis by a crime syndacate boss who figures out he is an escapee from a famous lab. Jes eventually gets the crime boss thrown in jail with the help of the Circus. The circus folks help Jes when the scientist who 'bought' Jes wants him back |
", '| The Morning Star | ', 'Pierce | ', 'Brown | ', 'Book 3, Reaper escapes with the help of his Red family. Ragnar died by Aja and Cassius captured. Hope of obsidian lost but Ragnar sister joins and brings obsidian after killing mother since she lied about gold gods then reaper gives up sons of ares in outer rim? To get gold support. His uncle is killed by jackal after capture and then final battle occurs with some folks switching sides and nuclear bombs blowing up on the moon. They are able to persuade Cassius to join their side (by showing the Sovereign killed his family) and are prisoner but able to kill the Sovereign and stop some of the nuclear attack. |
', '| Iron Gold | ', 'Pierce | ', 'Brown | ', "Book 4, 10 years after the battle but war is still going on. The Reaper needs to run away because he didn't tell all that the Ash Lord wanted to barter during the previous war. They end up releasing a gold from prison. Cassius and the Soveriegn's grandkid is out roaming space when they run into rim folks who had a treaty with Reaper and his folks. Reaper and Sevro continue the hunt for the Ash Lord while there is another storyline related to the kidnapping of Reaper & Sevro kids back on Luna. The Ash Lord is ill and has been so for the past 3 years, his last daughter has been running his troops. Reaper and Sevro has been duped and never should have left Luna. |
", '| Dark Age | ', 'Pierce | ', 'Brown | ', "Book 5, Darrow/Reaper is battling various folks fighting Lysander, Ajax and other. Back on Luna the Sovereign is up for a vote to help the Reaper but the opposition poisons a bunch of senators and a mob of protestors attack Mustang, Sevro and others. They cannot help Reaper. Dax and Electra kids of leaders are held by the queen of Obsidian but seem OK. They both escape with the help of Ephraim. Victra trying to trade Lyria and Vulga who were her prisoners with Ephrain but attacked by obsidian Sefi new enemies Vesum Far. Victra about to give birth run into red hand folks led by Harmony. Red hand kill Ulysses newborn to Victra. They all 3 rescue Electra's mother, Victra, although Electra's newborn was killed by the Red Hand. Ephraim eventually succumbs to the killer of Sefi the Obsidian queen who trusted the wrong person a white who was help Sefi's so called father, Vesum Far. Lysander captured by reaper who doesn’t know who he is and is trying to escaped Atlantia blockade. Final battle between Lysander who Reaper finally figures out who he is with a reappearance of Cassius who thought dead in Heliopolis. Vulga, adopted daughter of Ephraim, but actual granddaughter of Vesum Far and daughter of Sefi sacrifices herself by going to Vesum Far to save Mars. |
", '| The Stranger in the Lifeboat | ', 'Mitch | ', 'Albom | ', 'A story about a boat sinking with a stranger who appears and says he is God. |
', '| Fearless | ', 'Eric | ', 'Blehm | ', 'a Navy Seal who had to overcome a lot of obstacles in life especially drugs. |
', '| Unfettered | ', 'Terry | ', 'Brooks | ', 'A fantasy anthology |
', "| Shifty's War | ", 'Marcus | ', 'Brotherton | ', 'A Band of Brothers autobiography |
', '| Brothers in Battle, Best of Friends | ', 'William | ', 'Guarnere | ', 'A Band of Brothers autobiography |
', '| Beyond Band of Brothers | ', 'Dick | ', 'Winters | ', 'A Band of Brothers autobiography |
', '| The Great book of Amber | ', 'Roger | ', 'Zelazny | ', 'Story of 9 brothers, actually pretty good. I thought this was a continuation of the City of Ember book! |
', '| DynOMite | ', 'Jimmie | ', 'Walker | ', 'Autobiography of Jimmie Walker a standup comic from Good Times |
', '| Journey to the Center of the Earth | ', 'Jules | ', 'Verne | ', 'Fantasy story of a journey to the center of the Earth from Greenland? |
', '| 20 thousand Leagues under the Sea | ', 'Jules | ', 'Verne | ', "Fantasy story of a 'sea creature' that terrorizes the high seas |
", '| The Mysterious Island | ', 'Jules | ', 'Verne | ', 'Fantasy story about a The Mysterious Island |
', '| Sigh Gone | ', 'Phuc | ', 'Tran | ', 'Story of immigrants from the Vietnam war and growing up in the US |
', '| The Heart of Buddhas Teaching | ', 'Thict Nhat | ', 'Thanh | ', 'Inspirational stories based off of Buddhas teachings |
', "| Gulliver's Travel | ", 'Jonathan | ', 'Swift | ', 'Classic Fantasy of Gulliver to many odd worlds |
', '| Slumdog | ', 'Vikas | ', 'Swarup | ', 'Story that the move Slumdog Millionaire is based off of. Poor boy from India who enters a game show (I think?) |
', '| Is this Anything | ', 'Jerry | ', 'Seinfeld | ', 'Biography and jokes |
', '| Yes Chef | ', 'Marcus | ', 'Samuellson | ', 'Biography about African Chef (I forgot which country) who is adopted and grows up in a scandanavian country |
', '| Divergent | ', 'Veronica | ', 'Roth | ', 'Three books, youth distopia in the future. Kids are placed in training facility where skilled ones fight/train to become best? I seem to recall a bunch of rebel groups outside of the training teens. One teen has multiple abilities which is rare, I think |
', '| The Atlantis Gene | ', 'AG | ', 'Riddle | ', 'A virus is to be released to take out mankind or folks that do not have a certain gene. The story jumps across multiple timelines |
', '| Stars | ', 'Mike | ', 'Resnick | ', 'Sci-fi based anthology. This was pretty good if I remember right |
', '| The World at the End of Time | ', 'Frederik | ', 'Pohl | ', 'A plasma? based alien that had the power to live for a long amount of time powering suns. I think there were also a couple of space soldiers who are almost immortal because of their veteran skills gained from battle and being placed in deep sleep while moving from battle to battle until the end of time. Pretty good book. |
', "| The Mote in God's Eye | ", 'Larry | ', 'Niven | ', "2 book series about aliens discovered and then try to escape their world to attack earthlings. 1) The Mote in God's Eye & 2) The Gripping Hand. |
", "| Lucifer's Hammer | ", 'Larry | ', 'Niven | ', 'An incident in space caused an apocolyptic natural change to earth |
', '| Code Girls | ', 'Liza | ', 'Mundy | ', "Story of gals who worked for the gov't during WWII coding and working in the crypto world for the US |
", '| Easy Company Soldier | ', 'Don | ', 'Malarkey | ', 'Band of Brothers autobiography |
', "| Marvel's Advengers: Infinity War: Thanos | ", 'Barry | ', 'Lyga | ', 'Story of Thanos |
', '| Fortune Cookie Chronicles | ', 'Jennifer | ', 'Lee | ', 'History and Stories related to asian immigrant restaurants |
', '| The Good Guy | ', 'Dean | ', 'Koontz | ', 'One man who makes a choice which affects many things |
', '| Star Wars Riptide | ', 'Paul | ', 'Kemp | ', 'I dont remember this book much but related to escaped clones and healing them but being chased by SITH |
', '| When Breath becomes Air | ', 'Paul | ', 'Kalanithi | ', 'Inspirational stories from a Doctor who is dying by cancer? and experience with Cancer |
', '| Codebreaker | ', 'Walter | ', 'Isaacson | ', 'A difficult listen since this was highly technical related to genetics, DNA, CRISPR. I actually thought this was a WWII cryptography book |
', '| Benjamin Franklin: An American Life | ', 'Walter | ', 'Isaacson | ', 'The semi biography of Ben Franklin. Interesting story about Ben and his family relations. |
', '| Unbroken | ', 'Laura | ', 'Hillenbrand | ', "WWII story about Louis Zamperini's experience during the war |
", '| The Storyteller | ', 'Dave | ', 'Grohl | ', 'Dave Grohls life story |
', '| Just Listen | ', 'Mark | ', 'Goulston | ', 'Teaching one how to listen |
', '| The Lost World | ', 'Arthur Conan | ', 'Doyle | ', 'Classic Fantasy world about dinosaurs that still exist |
', '| Saving Lucas Biggs | ', 'Marisa | ', 'De Los Santos | ', 'Time travelling story about something that occurred in the past which affected current time. |
', '| Astrophysics for People in a Hurry | ', 'Neil | ', 'Degrasse Tyson | ', 'Physics information |
', '| Seven Habits of Highly Efficient People | ', 'Stephen | ', 'Covey | ', 'Efficiency guidance |
', '| Influence | ', 'Robert | ', 'Cialdini | ', 'Influence guidance |
', '| A Beginning at the End | ', 'Mike | ', 'Chen | ', 'Post apocolyptic (pandemic) story written in 2020 where billions have died and the world is still fairly same but still large changes |
', '| Light Years from Hom | ', 'Mike | ', 'Chen | ', 'a guy and his dad who disappears from modern times and was in an intergalactic war he sends his dad back home who continues to search for his son until his death. Then the guy comes back to earth to search for the key to the war |
', '| The Girl with All the Gifts | ', 'MR | ', 'Carey | ', "post apolcolyptic story about a girl who is supposed to turn to a zombie but she doesn't. She has a gift |
", '| Infinite | ', 'Brian | ', 'Freeman | ', "A book that started off a bit slow about the passing of a man's wife and then he starts getting questioned about killing her when all of the sudden he sees a doppelganger. The story takes an odd twist when there is discussion of 'many worlds' which is caused whenever a decision is made in your life and the idea is another you and universe is created with an alternate you taking the other path related to another decision. So many of yous can exist. He hunts an evil version of him entering various worlds to kill people and get his counterpart in trouble. Eventually the story takes a twist near the end related to his wife's death. The book ended pretty good. |
", '| Kiyo Sato | ', 'Connie | ', 'Goldsmith | ', 'Story about a Japanese American and her experience during WWI internment camps |
', '| How to Spot a Liar | ', 'Gregory | ', 'Hartley | ', 'Spotting liars |
', '| The Almanack of Naval Ravikant | ', 'Eric | ', 'Jorgenson | ', 'Stories and quotes from Naval Ravikant who is a successful venture capitalist, tech individual born in India |
', '| The Inevitable | ', 'Kevin | ', 'Kelly | ', '12 technologies that will shape our future about internet, VR, IoT, technology that shapes our lives |
', '| The Soul of an Octopus | ', 'Sy | ', 'Montgomery | ', 'Non-fictional book about the highly intelligent Octopus. I read this after watching my Octopus teacher on Netflix |
', '| The Stolen Lady | ', 'Laura | ', 'Morelli | ', "Story about stolen art work, Mona Lisa during WWII Paris and also jumps to Leonardo Da Vinci's time in the 1400s, and a maiden of a family who asked Leo to paint the mistress Lisa |
", '| With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa | ', 'EB | ', 'Sledge | ', 'WWII biography |
', '| Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | ', 'Mark | ', 'Twain | ', 'Classic story after Tom Sawyer with Huck drifting down a river on a raft mainly |
', '| Billy Summers | ', 'Stephen | ', 'King | ', 'Boy who has a weird power, I think |
', '| Dark Tower | ', 'Stephen | ', 'King | ', '7 books western fantasy which kind of recurses |
', '| Elevation | ', 'Stephen | ', 'King | ', 'A person that is in the process of floating to the sky by an unknown force |
', '| Outsider | ', 'Stephen | ', 'King | ', 'Cant remember, a person who is from outside and gets involved in an internal incident |
', '| The Institude | ', 'Stephen | ', 'King | ', 'Kids with superpowers and are kept against their will |
', '| Riding the Bullet | ', 'Stephen | ', 'King | ', "Honestly can't remember |
", '| Joyland | ', 'Stephen | ', 'King | ', 'a killer at the summer amusement park |
', '| Light Chaser | ', 'Peter | ', 'Hamilton | ', "A star traveler named Amahle called the Light Chaser who visits worlds every 1000 years and drops off neck devices to various people who are 'worthy' of these devices. The neck devices are to be passed through the family line and is actually recording devices that record everything. The collected necklaces are then reviewed Amahle, one of a few Light Chasers who seemingly live forever. A message is embedded in various necklaces to not trust the AI who is Amahle's only companion on the ship. A bit confusing and I had to listen to the second part of the story twice maybe due to the shortness of the story (~4 hours and various worlds visited). An alien race called the Exalted used the memories provided to live and enhance their life while the races wearing the device lost a bit of their lives and keeps them from advancing biologically and technologically. Amahle's husband from ~20000 years ago reincarnates in the many worlds and leaves messages (via the necklaces) on how to stop the AI which she does. The exalted sent signals from the future to humans earth 2000s to control how AIs developed which created the domain worlds colonized by humans and slow the growth. 'Evolution is paramount'. Plan to deliver the Strangelet particle into the sun of the Exalted homeworld before Exalted was born and to reset the lives of humans and inhibition. |
", '| And Eternity | ', 'Piers | ', 'Anthony | ', "Book 7 getting a bit tedious to be honest. These stories were not published with I red them when younger. Three spirits in one who deal with the various machinations of the incarnations. Conclusion that God is derelict in his duties and look to replace him. Orlene, one of the three spirits/protagonists is eventually nominated and declared as the new Incarnation of Good. Under a Velvet Cloak is the last book but I don't see it in any libraries weird |
", '| The Eyes of the Dragon | ', 'Stephen | ', 'King | ', "Like a medieval story. With a King, Queen, and two sons. The queen dies during childbirth and of course there is a crazed magician who is causing evil. In face he may be evil who lives forever. This magician, Flagg, schemes to kill the King and frame the first born son who is locked up in a tower for a bunch of years. His brother who is not charismatic falls under Flagg's spell and basically does Flagg's bidding. Eventually the firstborn escapes and with various help including his brother (who was guilt stricken since he saw Flagg poison the King) tries to kill Flagg who disappears. Flagg actually shows up in the Dark Tower series. |
", '| The Elves of Cintra | ', 'Terry | ', 'Brooks | ', 'Book 2 of The Genesis of Shannara. Starts of with Logan Tom, Knight of the Word, trying to help the Gypsy Morph aka Hawk and his girlfriend Tessa who were thrown from atop Safeco Field in Seattle. The rest of the Ghosts try to rendezvous with Logan while the city is under attack by a fleet of demons. The secondary story arc is with Angel Perez , another Knight of the Word, who enter the elf City of Cintra with guidance to flee. Elves are hesitant to trust humans who live in a world of Science and they believe haves destroyed the world of fairy and magic. |
', '| The Gypsy Morph | ', 'Terry | ', 'Brooks | ', "Book 3: Angel Perez is almost killed by one demon which the other who was masquerading as the elf Culph is defeated by Kirisin who found the Loden elfstone. Kirisin and Simralin go back to the Cintra to persuade the elves to leave. The other story arc is Logan Tom is told by the Lady to leave the Ghosts to help the elves since Angel Perez is incapacitated. The kids led by Hawk heads to the camp of survivors and run into militia and the Kree in the mist. Sim stays back to fight the demon horde after Kirisin uses magic to place the elmhurst? and his people in the Loden stone and escapes with Logan. Kirisin is kidnapped by the demons and is able to drop the Loden. Kirisin is eventually rescued by Logan. Hawk and team eventually start moving towards a 'new world' somewhere east of Spokane and the advancing horde of evil is slowed by Logan and some folks who sacrifice themselves. They Kree is killed and a final battle with the big cheese Demon Fendo Gast? occurs with Kirisin's sister, Sim, helping out using the elfstones she was given by Kirisin. They ultimately find the place and Hawk temporarily sacrificies himself to shroud the valley in mist. Panther and Cat go off to the north. There is a short final chapter where a military person in a bunker with loss of communications with the world launches all the nuclear weapons in his control leading to a Nuclear Winter |
", '| The Door to December | ', 'Dean | ', 'Koontz | ', 'a girl, Melanie is taken by her Dad at 3 years old. Ex husband is found dead 6 years later with a couple other folks. Husband and others seem to have been conducting experiments mainly on daughter using torture and sensory deprivation. Girl is found later naked but questions remain like what happened to her and what killed the folks in teh house who were killed with powerful blunt force. More people associated with the experiments and torture are killed by an unseen force. Eventually it is found that the autistic/handicapped Melanie was causing the killing from the power she learned during the torture and sensory deprivation. |
', '| Xenocide | ', 'Orson Scott | ', 'Card | ', "Book 3 of Ender's Game. After Ender caused the Xenocide of the buggies he continues to help the Hive Queen and have relocated her to Lusitania where there is another Sentient alien race aka the Piggies but one issue with Lusitania is the Desperado? disease that Lusitanians need to evolve but kills humans. The Human Galactic Senate sends a fleet to Lusitania to destroy it. There is a side story about humans living on a planet called Path with Chinese references but some folks on the planet are 'god spoken' who are highly capable/intelligent and are recruited to help solve the missing fleet mystery which is indeed solved and the AI Jane is exposed to the Galactic Senate. More story about working to destroy the Desperado disease which may be sentient be going 'outside' and seeing some interesting things there. |
", '| If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor | ', 'Bruce | ', 'Campbell | ', 'Growing up in the middle west and figuring how to become an actor as a stagehand and other roles (Brisco County Jr., Xena, Hercules) in Hollywood. |
', '| The Giver | ', 'Lois | ', 'Lowry | ', "Book 1: Utopia that changes to a Distopia where this is a world where sameness is what everyone looks to achieve when they turn to an adult at 12. The protagonist, Jonas, inherits the position of 'Receiver of Memory' and sees that things aren't as it seems. |
", '| Children of the Mind | ', 'Orson Scott | ', 'Card | ', "Book4: Originally the second half of Xenocide but split. Jane uses her ability to trans port folks around but starts to lose her powers as the Ansibles are being shutdown. Peter Wiggin and Si Wang-Mu work to persuade Japanese-led swing group of Starways Congress to revoke destroying of Lusitania. The 'little doctor' weapon was still launched by the fleet heading to Lusitania but Peter and Wang-mu (with the help of Jane/Young Val) send the weapon back and persuade the military leaders to stop. There is also another story line with Miro, Jane, and other scientist from Lusitania find and head to the homeworld of the descado(?) and attempt to communicate with them and maybe destroy them. Decide not to attack. |
", '| Gathering Blue | ', 'Lois | ', 'Lowry | ', "Book2 of the young adult dystopian book. A story related to the first book but in a different 'village' which in essence is another world because it seems as though this village and many others do not communicate or are aware of each other. The protagonist is Kira a two syllable named individual who is physically handicapped. I believe the more syllables you have in a name the older (more wise?) you are. Kira learned a little about embroidery from her mother before she passed away. A question was raised about whether Kira should be taken to the fields and left to the 'beasts' due to her dependence on society and how little she contributes. She luckily is allowed to live and ends up as the repairer of the Singer's Robe where she meets two other children who are the repairer of the Singer's staff and the future Singer (respectively). It is discovered by the kids that the village council may not be looking out for the best interest of the children and may have blinded Kira's dad and attempt to kill him. Kira's 'dead' dad returns with the help of her friend Matt and he wants her to leave with him but she decides to stay to hopefully fight the council. |
", '| A War of Gifts | ', 'Orson | ', 'Scott Card | ', 'Short Story after Children of Mind. A Christmas type of story and how various religions can bring up conflict inadvertently. |
', '| The Red Wolf Conspiracy | ', 'Robert | ', 'Redick | ', "Book 1 about a Clipper ship, Chathrand, that disappears while taking a princess?, Thasha, To marry an enemy in order to continue peace. On the way discover boy with special language powers (speaking to animals and other peeps), in addition to little people stowaways who threaten to kill the boy, Pazel. Pazel and his friend are kicked off the ship and then search for the Red Wolf in a sunken wreck. Pazel and friends (Meeps) are charmed and given the gift of underwater breath for a day my mermaids who are trying to get rid of humans. Pazel eventually obtains the red wolf with the help of a mermaid who is inadvertently charmed by Pazel who speaks their language. They are rescued from Pirates by the help of Hercule and the Dr. who is Thasha's helper then they go back to expose Inspector Ott and Cintra the to be wife of Thasha's dad. |
", '| Treason | ', 'Timothy | ', 'Zahn | ', "Book 3 Continuation of previous stories helping figure out treasonous behavior possibly associated with competing projects with Thrawn's tie project and a Death Star project. Previous cast of characters show up too. |
", '| Fairy Tale | ', 'Stephen | ', 'King | ', "Single book about modern times. The first 1/4 of the story is about a high school student, Charlie, who was in the right place at the right/wrong time. Old crotchety bachelor, Howard?, of 'haunted house' falls on ladder and breaks leg without anyone to help. His old dog, Radar, cries out for help which Charlie does. Charlie helps to take care of Radar and old man while he is at hospital. Howard has a bunch of cash and gold pellets which he asks Charlie to change to cash to pay for his bill. There is also a shed on the mans property that had strange noises come out of it but it is locked. Radar doesnt like it much. Come to find out that the old man is actually 120 years old and has lived for many years through a sundial in another world which one enters through the shed. Old man dies from a heart attack (or murdered for gold) and leaves a message to Charlie about this world. Charlies goes to the world to help Radar go on the sundial since she is getting old. They do get to the sundial on this world that used to be great but is now filled with monsters at night and the people who are cursed with various maladies. When escaping the city, Radar get's out of the city but Charlie is caught by the evil night marchers and a prince who is now the King aka Flight Killer. Charlie during their 'training' to get ready for a gladiator kind of 1 on 1 battle has some of the other 32 prisoners think of him as a prince. Finally find a giant of a man 7 foot guy named Claw who is expected to fight Charlie and kill him. Charlie kills the Claw after he finds his weakness and is then definitely thought of as a prince to rescue all. They escape and come back to kill the baddies and stop the ancient evil. Charlie goes back to his world and after showing the world to his dad, they seal the entrance with concrete. |
", '| Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind | ', 'Yuval | ', 'Harari | ', "Discusses Humans (Homo) from when the various sub groups from the Homo genus and how Home Sapiens 'survived' where other Homo genus groups did not survive. One of the interesting items discussed was how climate didn't/doesn't play as large a part in making various species extinct. Homo Sapiens were the cause of this. The book moves through time, agriculture era, scientific era, etc. Scientific revolution and happiness which is mostly subjective and real way to get is via chem not plastic surgery, cash and such. Then bio genetic changes to bring back creatures driven to extinction by humans which include Neanderthal. Also cure diseases and such. Cyborgs mix of organic and electronic. Finally non organic life such as AI. Quite interesting book. |
", '| Lux | ', 'Brandon | ', 'Sanderson | ', "Texas reckoners story about a young guy named Jax who is recruited to train to become a reckoner which was really tough and difficult but he does not give up after a loved one was killed by an Epic. Jax's team and trainer is mostly killed by the Epics of Lux which is a floating city controlled by Epics who allow a few regular people to climb up to the city where a Utopia awaits them. Jax and the remains of the team climbs up to see what is there and kill a few Epics. The city is run by Lifeforce who can heal others and himself by draining the life of other folks. Although the city seems nice and normal they get this by looting other cities. Reckoners got there by the regular ladder climbing days where ladders are dropped and the best survive climbing to the top. On Lux realize life is kinda OK and Paige, Jax's friend is still alive as a 'Raven' guard. The team gets captured after one team member gives the team up to live in Lux. They eventually escape with some members dying because LifeForce added them to people giving life to LifeForce. Jax refuses to work for a scientist who met him on the ground earlier in the book. They take out a couple of Epics and ....eventually beat LifeForce but he injects something into Paige an evil entity called DeathRise which was supposedly in LifeForce and Calamity before they both 'die'. |
", '| Wards of Faerie | ', 'Terry | ', 'Brooks | ', 'Book1: A contingent of druids and others on the airship Walker Boh head out for a guide and search for the Elfstones Sat same time federation attacks Paranor the Druid keep. Remaining folks must flee as old magic says to do so it can protect and attack federation who have entered part of the keep because of a bad insider |
', '| Bloodfire Quest | ', 'Terry | ', 'Brooks | ', 'Book2: Bloodfire quest book 2 continuation of Druids who accidentally entered the Forbidding where evil creatures were previously banished but cracks in the barrier expanding due to the Elcreast dying and needing another elf to take over her role. 3 storylines: one with captured Art Rhys and one of the elven twins, Second with injured other elvin twin trying to get back, Last of sister trying to get to blood fire to respawn elcrist. Story ends with one sister captured by federation. Next Witch Wraith |
', '| Messenger | ', 'Lois | ', 'Lowry | ', "Book3: Another story of a village that accepts all comers who escape from other places and is free. Even disabled folks allowed in like a blind person (seer). Matty is a youngin living with seer. Folks like mentor (school teacher) is pushing for restricting allowing new folks into village. Matty has the ability to cure sick creatures. Realize that Matty is the little boy from the previous book who left with the seer and finds out he has a healing gift. He goes back to his old town to bring back the seer's daughter Kira (from last book) and they get injured trying to get past the forest when try to reenter the village and injured quite a bit but Matty sacrifices himself to heal the village (from the evilness brought on by the Trader) and to heal the forest. Seems like the Trader who traded families for something caused the families to start changing for bad, calling people things, and wanting to reject refugees. |
", '| Son | ', 'Lois | ', 'Lowry | ', "Book4 Goes back to book 1 where we meet Claire who gave birth to a babe who is given up by society and marked at 36. Claire remembers and continue to volunteer in order to see her son and hold him at times. A worker named him Abe and takes him home sometimes. His son Jonas from book 1 takes the boy when he leaves since he was leaving and Abe was slated to be killed for compatibility issues. Part 2 Claire falls off the search boat and she’s rescued by another village. Rescued by village that allows parents to keep children but medical capabilities is a bit archaic and they don’t know alphabets but they know insects and animals well. Trained to rise up which sounds like physically leave village where she is told she’ll meet the trade master allowing her to find her son Abe aka gabe but gives up her youth. Part 3 she’s an old lady in new village where Jonas and gabe grew up story from last book where folks have been cured maybe from trademaster. Find out the leader from book 3 is Jonas and he and wife? Kira from book 2/3 are slowly losing their 'power' as they age. Gabe needs to confront the Trade Master aka Trader and finally destroy him. Claire regains her youth and sees Gabe come back from his confrontation to end the book. |
", '| Daughter of the Empire | ', 'Raymond | ', 'Feist | ', 'Book1, Daughter of the Empire: Story of a daughter, Mara of the Acoma, becoming leader of her house after her brother and father and bulk of family army was killed in treacherous attack. Various issues needed to resolve like assassins, small army and looking for Allies. Needed to fight off false suitors, spies, assassination attempts during parties for Warlords, Mara is able to negotiate with insectoid queen to live on her lands for various items and to also provide artistic and warrior support. She also needed to marry and have an heir and ended up wedding an enemy of the family and partial cruel guy who she eventually used politics to have him kill himself. She ultimately prevails. |
', '| Magician: Apprentice | ', 'Raymond | ', 'Feist | ', "Book1 in the world of MidKemia opposite of Daughter of the Empire. Pug the Duke's ward? A little runt of a fella becomes the apprentice to a Magician. Pug has difficulty learning practical magic but able to protect Princess from trolls using spells he memorized unconsciously. He becomes a squire then he and his good friend Tomas discover a ship wreck from alien invaders (Tsurani from The Empire Trilogy). Pug and Tomas goes off with the Duke to warn the Western Prince and King about these invaders. Tsurani invades Midkemia and Duke Borric (Pug's liege) is tasked to lead the various forces in the western kingdoms to fight the Tsurani. Tomas is lost in caves when escaping a Wraith and thought dead but meets a Golden Dragon who is close to dying and gifts Tomas some magical gear. Pug is ultimately captured by the Tsurani and taken back to their world. Pug's rival/friend, Roland, wins the love of Princess Carline (daughter of Borric) while Pug is away. |
", '| Nightfall | ', 'Isaac | ', 'Asimov | ', "Anthology: 1st story about an alien world which has 6 suns and constantly has sunlight but an eclipse every 2000 years which causes panic and death; Hostess: aliens infected by intelligent parasite which has been in humans for ever and causes death (and non immortality). What If?: Married couple on train see a strange little man who shows what life would have been if they did not marry ends up together anyway although argue in normal life for a bit. Sally: Automated car with sentience at a museum. Crook tries to buy then steal cars but they gang up against guys and even persuades a hybrid bus under control of main baddie. Such a Beautiful Day: where people use the 'Door' to transport to other places to avoid the sun and dust but little Dickie doesn't like using the Door and uses the regular door. The reason being it's nice outside! Strikebreaker: sociologist tries to help break a caste based strike by offering services but is subsequently banned from the . Then shortest story 300 words about too much work assembling so robot created and sent to help but assembly required. My son the Physicist: 'Just keep talking' mother provides guidance to son and general who are trying to figure out the best way to communicate with personnel on Pluto. |
", '| Crying in H Mart | ', 'Michelle | ', 'Zauner | ', 'Story of a half Korean and half American gal who grew up in Eugene Oregon. She loved her mother dearly but rebellious and her mom died of colon cancer when the protagonist was in her mid 20s. Singer from band Japanese Breakfast. Comfort when going to H mart a Korean chain grocery store that has increased in the US. More of these stores in Hawaii since I left. I worked in a Korean supermarket for 10 years PT (Queens) when I was 16 and on. She wanted to get married before mother died. Then reminisce about mother after her death. |
', '| Witch Wraith | ', 'Terry | ', 'Brooks | ', "Book3: Railing Ohmsford able to free Grianne Ohmsford Who becomes Ilse witch who seeks to kill the Shraken Lord who has also brought his army from the Forbidden and is attacking the federation humans. Shapeshifter Oreantha rescues Reddin while baddies attack federation. Reddin is rescued but they need to go into the Forbidden again. Tesla Dart, the creature of Forbidden who helped them, tells them of the missing elfstones and works to help retrieve them. The Elcrist seed has been purified by the bloodfire but the Federation prime minister tracked Arling? Elessedil (Elf) down and hopes to take the seed and show the elves that she is the hero. Simian the elven fighter kills the moorcat and the lady (who also had the elf king killed by a creature who was disguised at Jera Ellisedel) but dies himself. Sisters goes back to the elven kingdom and Arling sacrifices and becomes the next Elcrist. Aphenglow (the other sister) first wants to stay with Arling but returns to Paranor (druid fortress) as one of the few druids remaining. Meanwhile the Straken Lord's army from the Forbidden demolished federation city and soon moved on to the elf city of Avalon. Grianne Ohmsford battles the Straken Lord and she defeats him when she steals the collar the Straken Lord tries to use on the witch then places it on the Straken Lord. Finally, A powerful wind from the new reborn Elcrist pulls the Jaaka Ruus (aka the Forbidden army) back to the Forbidden. The wind also pulled Witch Wraith (Ilse Witch?) and their friend Tesla Dart who had the red elfstones in the wooden box back to the Forbidden. Reddin used the red elfstones to fight the Witch Wraith although he only has a little of elfblood and it caused him to become catatonic. Many months later Railing uses the ring given by Silverriver King to try and bring his brother Reddin back and it finally works. |
", '| Planet of Exile | ', 'Ursula | ', 'LeGuin | ', "Book 2: Kind of a love story where humans from Roccannan's Planet came to this planet and are known as farcomers? and the indigenous folks (Teverans?). The groups are similar and human like but cannot interbreed. The Humans were marooned here when they arrived to warn the indigenous folks about the Gaul space invaders from book1. The Humans and Teverans do not have a great relationship but may need to get along with the Gaul here. |
", '| Guardians of the West | ', 'David | ', 'Eddings | ', " Book 1: First part has a recap of what happened previously and short blurbs about everyone but focuses on Errand who is no longer a quiet boy but has certain powers that he doesn't know how he has. The second part is mostly about Garion and C'nedra who finally have a baby with assassination attempts on C'nedra in the baths. The 3rd part is where Garion and others hunt down a cult who kidnapped Garan the base but Garan was actually kidnapped by Zanzibar Cult kills. Garion and team kill the Wolf Clan leader, Uther?, who is actually an evil baddie but they were not the ones who kidnapped the babe. At the end, a blind seer tells the group who to take on the quest to find babe. |
", '| The Tao of Pooh | ', 'Benjamin | ', 'Hoff | ', ' Intro to Eastern belief system of Taoism with stories mixed in from the Hundred Acre Wood stories. |
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