I have to admit that I was really lazy this summer so I spent a lot of time reading throughout the year.

• The Big One: How To Prepare for World-Altering Pandemics to Come – Michael T. Osterholm – I’d recommend this to everyone who lived through the COVID pandemic but I know about half of them wouldn’t believe anything in the book.
• Watchers – Dean Koontz
• The Funhouse – Dean Koontz – This is an adaptation of the Tobe Hooper film but it’s really more like a prequel to the events of the movie which are only covered in the last third of the book.
• Carl’s Doomsday Scenario (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #2) – Matt Dinniman – There are a bunch of these but I had to take a break after the 2nd one because the first-person persepctive kinda makes me crazy. I’ll definitely keep going with the series in 2026, though.
• Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #1) – Matt Dinniman – Fun story with an angle that I’ve never read before.
• The Making of Stanley Kubrick’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ – Piers Bizony
• Spacewreck: Ghostships and Derelicts of Space (Terran Trade Authority Handbook) – Stewart Cowley
• Never Flinch (Holly Gibney, #4) – Stephen King – Is this really the end of the Holly books?
• Pilot’s Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge: FAA-H-8083-25A (FAA Handbooks)
• The Measure – Nikki Erlick
• The Mountain in the Sea – Ray Nayler
• The Road – Cormac McCarthy
• Every Life a Story: Natalie Jacobson Reporting – The autobiography of “Channel 5” anchor Natalie Jacobson who is a major celebrity in New England.
• Japanese Swords and Armor: Masterpieces from Thirty of Japan’s Most Famous Samurai Warriors – Paul Martin
• Failure is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond – Gene Kranz
• Sleeping Beauties – Stephen King
• Into the Black: The Extraordinary Untold Story of the First Flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia and the Astronauts Who Flew Her – Rowland White – I will never tire of reading well-written books about space exploration!