Year-end blog #3 compiles my reading for 2022; this year I tried an experiment to shake up my book genre choices and make an attempt to get stuff read that was otherwise not getting a look-in.
How? I made an IF-THEN flowchart breaking up my massive TBR pile into science fiction, thriller and non-fiction categories, with sub-categories for tie-ins and a once-a-month ‘wildcard’ choice. It’s worked pretty well and got me to pick up books that might otherwise have languished, so I’m going to keep it up in 2023. Other stats of note: I broke my reading goal last year; over half my 2022 reading was in eBook format; and I read a bunch of advanced copies and as-yet-unreleased stuff, which was cool.
Top picks for 2022 were Chris Thompson & Andrew Clements’ brilliant Moonbase Alpha Technical Operations Manual, Mike Sutton’s Typhoon and Jake Avila’s Cave Diver.
Here’s the full list:
The Autobiography of Mr Spock (Una McCormack), Steel Fear (Brandon Webb & John David Mann), The Art of NASA (Piers Bizony), Crises and Conflicts (Ian Whates, ed.), Moonbase Alpha Technical Operations Manual (Chris Thompson & Andrew Clements), Storm Dragon [aka Sea Strike] (James H. Cobb), Inferno Squad (Christie Golden), Typhoon (Mike Sutton), Watch Dogs: Stars & Stripes (Sean Grigsby & Stewart Hotston), The Kaiju Preservation Society (John Scalzi), Space: 1999 volume 2 – Earthbound (Various), Escape from New York: The Official Story of the Film (John Walsh) , I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to be Destroyed by Me (Trevor Paglen), The Island (Adrian McKinty), Aurora: The Pentagon’s Secret Hypersonic Spyplane (Bill Sweetman), No Man’s Land (Kirsten Beyer & Mike Johnson), The Unsettling Stars (Alan Dean Foster) Winter’s Gifts (Ben Aaronovitch), Harrier: How to be a Fighter Pilot (Paul Tremelling), Watch Dogs Legion: Daybreak Legacy (Stewart Hotston), Genocide Mage (Ben Counter), Airfix: Celebrating 50 Years of the World’s Greatest Plastic Kits (Arthur Ward), 10 Stories (Andy Farrant), BadAsstronauts (Grady Hendrix), Foxbat (James Barrington), Police Helicopter Operations Manual (Richard Brandon), Sympathy for the Devil (Seth McFarlane), Double or Nothing (Kim Sherwood), UFO: Destruct Positive! (Andy Lane), The History of the Stealth Game (Kirk McKeand), Foxbat (Peter Cave), They Shouldn’t Have Killed His Dog (Edward Gross & Mark A. Altman), Hard Reboot (Django Wexler), Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia (Peter Pomerantsev), Alias Emma (Ava Glass), More Beautiful Than Death (David Mack), The Men Who Created Gundam (Hideki Ohwada), The End (James Patterson with Brendan Dubois), Strike Fighters (Tom Willard), Celestial (M.D. Lachlan), Estate Planning For Authors (M.L. Buchman), Sharuq (Bill Keith), Crysis: Escalation (Gavin G. Smith), A History of Heavy Metal (Andrew O’Neill), Armored (Mark Greaney), The Launch Party (Lauren Forry), The Buckaroo Banzai Collectors’ Compendium (DeWayne Todd), Night Stalkers: Twilight Justice (Duncan Long), Star Cops – The High Frontier Vol.1 (Various) Twilight Company (Alexander Freed), Letters of Note: Space (Shaun Usher, ed.), Cave Diver (Jake Avila), Titanium Rain Vol.1 (Josh Finney), When The Sparrow Falls (Neil Sharpson), Blank Spots on the Map (Paglen), Black Ops: Jungle Kill (Jim Eldridge), Rebel Rising (Beth Revis), Viper Pilot: A Memoir of Air Combat (Dan Hampton).
