Recent Reads

Dear readers: I am passionate about reading and am always interested in hearing recommendations. Below is a list of the books that I have read fairly recently (rather than drop titles off the list, I will just add new titles to the beginning of the list. The list is in chronological order. I will not provide a review of books in this blog.

Currently reading

Influx – Daniel Suarez

Recent reads

The Praxis: Dread Empire’s Fall – Walter Jon Williams

Magician: Apprentice – Raymond Feist

The Road – Comac McCarthy

Leviathan Wakes – James S. A. Corey

Zenith Man – McCracken Poston, Jr.

To Sleep in a Sea of Stars - Paolini

After That Night - Karen Slaughter

The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams

Term Limits – Vince Flynn

Eruption – Michael Chrichton and James Patterson

Over the Edge of the World – Laurence Bergreen

Elantris - Brandon Sanderson

Wool – Hugh Howey

Perfectly Normal – Zachary Steele

Percy Jackson and The Chalice of the Gods – Rick Riordan

The Dragon Reborn – Robert L. Jordan

Iron Flame: Empyrean, Book 2 – Rebecca Yarros

Storm Front – Jim Butcher

The Three-Body Problem – Cixin Liu

The Atlas Six – Olivie Blake

Fourth Wing – Rebecca Yarros

Make Up Test – John Adcox

The Way of Kings – Brandon Sanderson

I Am Pilgrim – Terry Hayes

The Song of Achillies – Madeline Miller

Ready Player One – Earnest Cline

The Fifth Season – N.K. Jemisin

The Wise Man’s Fear – Patrick Rothfuss

The Great Hunt – Robert L. Jordan

Alpha and Omega – Harry Turtledove

A Memory Called Empire – Arkady Martine

Future’s Dark Past – JL Yarrow

All the Birds in the Sky – Charlie Jane Anders

Beowulf’s Children – Niven, Pournelle and Barnes

Patton: The Man Behind the Legend, 1885-1945 – Marin Blumenson

The Pursuit of the Pankera – Robert A. Heinlein

His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman

A Court of Thorns and Roses – Sarah J. Maas

The Eye of the World – Robert L. Jordan

Earth – David Brin

The Name of the Wind – Patrick Rothfuss

Quantum Space – Douglas Phillips

Caesar – Colleen McCullough

The Weight of Ashes – Zachary Steele

The Star in the East – John Adcox

The Doomsday Key – James Rollins

Blue – Lou Aronica

Order to Kill – Vince Flynn’s Mitch Rapp series by Kyle Mills

Rising Tiger – Brad Thor

Recently Listened to on Audible

(I read many of these years ago and decided to listen on Audible while on long drives)

Children of Time – Adrian Tchaikovsky

Undone: Will Trent #3 – Karen Slaughter

Fractured: Will Trent #2 – Karen Slaughter

Triptych – Karen Slaughter (Will Trent #1)

The #1 Lawyer – James Patterson

The Case of the Velvet Claws – Erle Stanley Gardner (the first Perry Mason book)

The 6th Target – James Patterson

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone – J.K. Rowling

The Fellowship of the Ring – J.R.R. Tolkien

Ready Player Two – Earnest Cline

Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card

Starship Troopers – Robert A. Heinlein

Dune – Frank Herbert

The Foundation Trilogy – Isaac Asimov

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne

Origin – Dan Brown

The Doomsday Key – James Rollins

Enemy at the Gate – Vince Flynn and Kyle Mills

Death of the Black Widow – James Patterson

Slan – A. E. Van Vogt

On my bookshelf (to read or review)

Pleasure

Future Unfolds – JL Yarrow

Caliban’s War – James S. A. Corey

The Warrior of World’s End – Lin Carter

The Scarlett Pimpernel – Baroness Orczy

The End of the World: Classic Tales of Apocalyptic Science Fiction - compiled by Michael Kelahan

Research

The Greek Myths – Robert Graves

The Singularity is Near: When Humans transcend Biology – Ray Kurzweil

From Atlantis to the Sphinx – Colin Wilson

Fingerprints of the Gods – Graham Hancock

Forbidden Archeology: The Hidden History of the Human Race – Michael A. Cremo, Richard L. Thompson, et. al

The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt – Shaw

Fall of the Roman Republic - Plutarch

Favorite books on writing

Stein on Writing – Sol Stein

The Writer’s Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers – Christopher Vogler

Getting the Words Right: How to Revise, Edit and Rewrite – Theodore Cheney

Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting – Syd Field

The Elements of Style – William Strunk, Jr. and E.B. White

If you have any books, you’d recommend, feel free to e-mail me at JAT@johntoppingbooks.com. I’m always looking for recommendations for good books.