Jo Nesbo: Kakerlakkene

Read in Norwegian.

As usual, excellent book.

336 Pages

English version: Cockroaches

Benjamin Nevarez: MS SQL 2014 Query Tuning and Optimizations

Must read for SQL developers and DBAs interested in optimizing your SQL!

Highly recommended.

One of the very few technical books I have ever read from cover to cover.  And will read again.

416 pages

Query tuning at Amazon

Relapse. Breakers book 7

One more to go in this series.

Vaughn Heppner: Star Viking (Extinction Wars, Book 3)

346 Pages

Star Viking at Amazon

Vaughn Heppner: Planet Strike (Extinction Wars, Book 2)

346 Pages 

Planet Strike at Amazon

Vaughn Heppner: Assault Troopers

Trying out a new author.  I'm running out of books I want to read!!!

324 Pages

Assault Troopers at Amazon

Ilona Andrews: Magic Breaks (Kate Daniels, Book 7)

400 pages

Magic Breaks at Amazon

J.D. Horn: The Void (Witching Savannah Book 3)

Jocelynn Drake: Inner Demon; Part of 3 of the Final Asylum Tales

96 Pages

Jocelyn Drake: Demon's Vow.

100 pages

Jocelyn Drake: Demon's Fury. Part 1 of the Final Asylum Tales

100 pages

B.V. Larson. Exile. Star Force Series #11

404 pages

B.V. Larson: Outcast (Star Force Series, book 10)

404 pages

Outcast on Amazon

B.V.Larson : The Dead Sun. Star Force #9

B.V. Larson: Storm Assualt. Star Force Series #8

348 pages

Storm Assault at Amazon

B.V. Larson. Annihilation. Star Force #7

Farr. The fire seekers. The Babel Trilogy Book 1

B.V. Larson. Empire. Star Force Series #6

307 pages

B.V. Larson. Battle Station. Star Force series book #5

308 pages

Battle Station on Amazon

B.V. Larson Conquest, Star Force #4

350 pages

B. V. Larson: Rebellion (Star Force #3)

326 Pages

Rebellion on Amazon

B. V. Larson: Extinction (Star Force #2)

340 Pages

Extinction on Amazon

B V Larson: Swarm (Star Force Series, book 1)

262 Pages

Swarm at Amazon

BV Larson: Tech World, Undying Mercenaries book 3

Kim Harrison: the Witch with No Name

Number 13, and final book, in The Hollows series.  Sad to see this series end.

485 pages

Dust World, Undying Mercenaries Book 2

372 pages

Dust World at Amazon

Steel World, Undying Mercenaries Book 1

346 Pages

1st in a series of 3 books.

Steel World at Amazon

Captives. Breakers book 6

This series keeps getting better with each book.

348 pages

Cut Off. Breakers Book 5

363 pages

Breakers 5 on Amazon

Dragons of a Summer Flame

Test of the Twins, Legends Volume 3

356 Pages.

Test of the Twins at Amazon

War of the Twins, Legends Volume 2

412 pages

Time of the Twins: Legends Volume 1

Dragonlance series

436 pages

Ibsen: Et dukkehjem

Reprint of the original 1879 version in Norwegian, interesting to read it this way to see how much Norwegian has changed since then.  Much more like Danish than modern Norwegian.

Ibsen: The Master Builder

Michael Bunker: Dunes over Danvar

Hugh Howey, Sand: Omnibus Edition

336 Pages

Sand on Amazon

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

230 pages.

The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement

362 pages.

Production improvements in manufacturing.

The Goal, on Amazon

The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

And suddenly my reading goes in a completely different direction.

345 Pages

Great read for getting my brain to think about how we do things in IT, and how we must do better.

The Phoenix project at Amazon

Dragonlance Chronicles 4: Dragons of Summer Flame

608 pages

Dragons of Summer Flame at Amazon

Dragonlance Chronicles 3: Dragons of Spring Dawning

384 pages

Dragonlance Chronicles 2: Dragons of Winter Night

404 pages

Dragonlance Chronicles Book 1: Dragons of Autumn Twilight

Rereading series I have not read since the mid to late 80s :)

448 Pages

Dragons of Autumn Twilight at Amazon

Russell Zimmerman: Shadowrun, Neat

Orson Scott Card: Earth Awakens

3rd book in The First Formic Wars series.

400 pages

Earth Awakens on Amazon

Isaac Asimov: The Robots of Dawn

435 pages

J.D. Horn: the Source, a Witching Savannah novel

Book 2 in the series, a bit different magic book

Isac Asimov: The Naked Sun

268 pages

Isac Asimov: The Caves of Steel

270 pages

A.G. Riddle: The Atlantis World

Final book in the trilogy.  Great series.

304 Pages

The Atlantis World on Amazon

A.G. Riddle: The Atlantis Plague

The Origin Mystery series, book 2

424 pages

The Atlantis Plague on Amazon

A.G. Riddle: The Atlantis Gene (The Origin Mystery, Book 1)

Great first book by A.G. Riddle.  Can't wait to read the rest of the series!

The Atlantis Gene on Amazon

Grig Larson: Trolley

372 pages
Great book.

Trolley at Amazon

Orson Scott Card: Earth Afire (The first Formic War)

2nd book in the series about the first Formic attack on Earth. Prequel to the Ender's Game series.

544 pages

Earth Afire on Amazon

Dale Brown: Tiger's Claw

Dale Brown: Raven Strike

Dale Brown: A Time for Patriots

Dale Brown: Battle Born

576 Pages

Battle Born at Amazon

Susan Ee: World After (Penryn and the End of Days, book 2)

320 Pages

Humans vs. Angels.....

World After on Amazon

Dale Brown: Edge of Battle

576 Pages

Edge of Battle at Amazon

Dale Brown: Fatal Terrain

500 pages.

Fatal Terrain at Amazon

Flight of the Old Dog

Dale Brown, 1987.  The book that started the Dreamland series

Project Orion, The True Story of the Atomic Spaceship

George Dyson, 300 pages.

Fascinating story about how a group of scientists tried to make nuclear bomb powered spaceships.  Truly amazing, and to this day might be the best hope we have for making long distance space travel.

The Orion Project on Amazon

The Seventh Child, Erik Valeur

640 pages.

Hard to read, lots of foreign names if you do not speak any of the Scandinavian languages.

Seventh Child at Amazon

Night Broken (Mercy Thompson series)

Book #8
352 pages

Night Broken on Amazon

Ever After (Hollows Series)

Book number 11 in the Hollows Series.

Ever After at Amazon

528 Pages

The Atopia Chronicles, Book one in the Atopia series

By Matthew Mather

Very very strange, yet captivating.

Atopia at Amazon

The Undead Pool (Hollows series)

Kim Harrison, The Undead Pool.

In my opinion, the best one in the series yet.

Amazon link to The Undead Pool

Cat's Cradle

Kurt Vonnegut at his best.

I really should read more of this stuff.

Cat's Cradle at Amazon

The Line, Witching Savannah, Book one

J.D. Horn

Reapers, Breakers book 4

End of the series so far :(

Knife Point, Breakers Book 3

 Edward W. Robertson

Knifepoint at Amazon

Melt Down, Breakers Book 2

Edward W. Robertson

This series keep getting better

Melt Down at Amazon

Breakers

Edward W. Robertson

Interesting read about the end of the world, first book in the series.

Breakers at Amazon

Fair Game (Alpha and Omega 3)

Patricia Briggs

3rd book in the Alpha and Omega series, part of the Mercy Thompson universe.  One of the best ones yet!

The Scourge of Muirwood

Final book of the series.

Good read overall.  Interesting twists and turns.

The Blight of Muirwood

Second book in the series.

Jeff Wheeler

The Wretched of Muirwood

by Jeff Wheeler.

Fairly formulaic, but easy enjoyable read.

The Wretched Muirwood Legends Book 1

Falling Angel

Falling Angel, William Hjortsberg.

Detective, supernatural mystery.  Nice plot twists!

Sci fy by Jason Matthews

The Little Universe by Jason Matthews.

The Little Universe

Interesting read, some surprising twists.  :)

Spy novel, Jason Matthews

Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews.  Spy novel, great read, if somewhat unusual for me.

Red Sparrow

SF collection by Isaac Asimov

The Mammoth Book of Golden Age of SF.

The Golden Age of SF

Welcome!

Simply, this is a list of books read during the year.  I read quite a bit, and never really kept track of it.  So figure I should try to keep track of it for the year.

Most likely this will only contain recreational reading, and not professional books.

Anders