Dungeon Crawler CarlDungeon Crawler Carl, Book 1By: Matt DinnimanNarrated by: Jeff HaysLength: 13 hrs and 31 mins18 JUL 2026 Carl’s Doomsday ScenarioDungeon Crawler Carl, Book 2By: Matt DinnimanNarrated by: Jeff HaysLength: 11 hrs and 28 mins22 JUL 2026 The Dungeon Anarchist’s CookbookDungeon Crawler Carl, Book 3By: Matt DinnimanNarrated by: Jeff Hays, The Critical DrinkerLength: 16…
Light Bringer
Red Rising, Book 6By: Pierce BrownNarrated by: Tim Gerard ReynoldsSeries: Red Rising, Book 6Length: 30 hrs and 8 mins Spoilers I walked into Light Bringer expecting the conclusion of the series and felt personally backstabbed when I discovered that it was only the first half of the ending. I understand why the story needed more…
Dark Age
By: Pierce BrownNarrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds, John Curless, Moira Quirk, James Langton, Rendah HeywoodSeries: Red Rising, Book 5Length: 33 hrs and 58 mins Brutally beautiful. Dark Age was a hard book to read, and by the end I felt almost exhausted by it. Yet that exhaustion was part of what made the book so…
Iron Gold
By: Pierce BrownNarrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds, John Curless, Julian Elfer, Aedin MoloneySeries: Red Rising, Book 4Length: 23 hrs and 23 mins What a wonderful rejoinder to the Red Rising series. It was a joy to be back with Darrow and to see the story expanding through Lysander and the other new perspectives. Pierce Brown…
Means of Ascent
The Years of Lyndon JohnsonBy: Robert A. CaroNarrated by: Grover GardnerSeries: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Book 2Length: 22 hrs and 8 mins The Means of Ascent takes the qualities revealed in the first volume and follows them toward their nearly inevitable conclusion. Johnson wants the United States Senate, and Caro shows a man willing…
The Path to Power
The Passage of PowerThe Years of Lyndon Johnson, Book 4By: Robert A. CaroNarrated by: Grover GardnerSeries: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Book 4Length: 32 hrs and 45 mins Reading The Path to Power and The Means of Ascent back to back was extraordinarily revealing. Together, they begin the story of a man consumed by the…
The Kaiju Preservation Society
By: John ScalziNarrated by: Wil WheatonLength: 8 hrs and 2 mins
The Gulag Archipelago Volume 3
The Gulag Archipelago Volume 3An Experiment in Literary InvestigationBy: Aleksandr I. SolzhenitsynNarrated by: Frederick DavidsonLength: 21 hrs and 55 mins Finishing The Gulag Archipelago was something I had left unfinished for quite a while. I began it last year, but the sheer volume of tragedy became difficult to absorb. The suffering does not arrive as…
Red Rabbit
By: Tom ClancyNarrated by: Scott BrickSeries: A Jack Ryan NovelLength: 26 hrs and 20 mins I thought I had read this one before, but it turns out I had confused it with The Cardinal of the Kremlin. That made me especially glad I restarted the Jack Ryan books from the beginning. Great Clancy. Smart, engaging,…
A Dubious Peace
Destiny’s Crucible, Book 7By: Olan ThorensenNarrated by: Jonathan DavisSeries: Destiny’s Crucible, Book 7Length: 23 hrs and 59 mins This did an excellent job of bringing the different parts of the story together. Thorensen wove the newer characters and events back into what had already happened, allowing the separate threads to conjoin in a satisfying way….
Passages
Destiny’s Crucible, Book 6By: Olan ThorensenNarrated by: Jonathan DavisSeries: Destiny’s Crucible, Book 6Length: 22 hrs and 31 mins I was a little dubious going into this one. I had enjoyed Joseph Colsco’s story so much that I was not especially eager to leave him behind and follow a new group of characters. Thorensen handled the…
Kingdoms of Death
Sun Eater, Book 4By: Christopher RuocchioNarrated by: Samuel RoukinSeries: Sun Eater, Book 4Length: 22 hrs and 50 mins Oh my word, this was hard, but it was some of the best kind of hard. Ruocchio takes the story into profoundly dark places, and hope is lost, yet somehow he still makes you want to keep…