100 (OR SO) BOOKS I HEARD IN 2016
100 (OR SO) BOOKS I HEARD IN 2016I have written 8 books personally. (See my author profile (http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/pan) I also edited and published the international best selling book Alien Interview.
As a writer I am a reader. I usually read (or re-read) at least 100 books a year. I am 70 years old now and have developed severe arthritis is my neck which prevents me from reading printed books. So, I download and listen to audiobooks from AUDIBLE.COM. I have discovered the experience of audiobooks to be much more satisfying than reading printed books. What can be better than a well written story read to you by a professional voice talent?! Anyway, I want to share with you a list of audobooks I listened to during 2016. As you can see from the list my preferences lean heavily toward Fantasy, Science Fiction, Metaphysics and History. Each book is a universe created by the “author gods” of Earth: universes of infinite imagination and fascination.
THE HARRY POTTER SERIES (7 books) by J.K Rowling
DUNE (6 book series by Frank Herbert)
ASHELY BELL by Dean Koontz
NEVERWHERE by Neil Gaiman (second reading)
THE REPUBLIC OF PIRATES: BEING THE TRUE AND SURPRISING STORY OF THE CARIBBEAN PIRATES by Colin Woodard 
BAG OF BONES by Stephen King
THE IMPROBABLE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES by John Joseph Adams (editor) , Robert J. Sawyer , Christopher Roden , Michael Moorcock , Anne Perry , Neil Gaiman , Anthony Burgess , Laurie R. King
THE DIAMOND AGE by Neal Stephenson
GHENHIS KHAN AND THE MAKING OF THE MODERN WORLD By Jack Weatherford
THE RED RISING TRILOGY by Pierce Brown
THE DRUID CHRONICLES (8 books) by Kevin Hearne
HOW TO SAFELY LIVE IN A SCIENCE FICTIONAL UNIVERSE by Charles Yu
THE DRESDEN FILES (15 books) by Jim Butcher
ALEX VERUS SERIES by Benedict Jacka (7 books)
THE SUDDEN APPEARANCE OF HOPE by Claire North
THE EVERYTHING BOX by Richard Kadrey
MAGIC 2.0 (3 book series) by Scott Meyer
THE AERONAUT’S WINDLASS: THE CINDER SPIRES, BOOK 1 by Jim Butcher
THE MANY SELVES OF KATHERINE NORTH by Emma Geen
THE CHRONICLES OF ST. MARY’S (book 1 and 2) by Jody Taylor
READY PLAYER ONE by Ernest Cline
TESSER, A DRAGON AMONG US by Chris Philbrook
JONATHAN STRANGE AND MR. NORRELL by Susanna Clarke
THE DIRTY STREETS OF HEAVEN: BOBBY DOLLAR by Tad Williams 
SLEEPING LATE ON JUDGEMENT DAY: Bobby Dollar BY Tad Williams
THE HIKE by Drew Magary
WHERE THE HELL IS TELSA: A NOVEL by Rob Dircks
AGENT TO THE STARS by John Scalzi
THE ANDROIDS DREAM by John Scalzi
ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE by Robert M. Pirsig
ALL OF THE BOOKS OF DOUGLAS ADAMS (re-read for the 4th or 5th time) 
THE GODMAKERS by Frank Herbert
AWAKEN ONLINE by Travis Bagwell
SURVIVAL QUEST: WAY OF THE SHAMAN SERIES (1 and 2) by Vasily Mahanenko
HEARTSTRIKERS (3 book series) by Rachel Aaron
WIZARD DEFIANT: INTERGALACTIC WIZARD SCOUT CHRONICLES by Rodney Hartman
THE LEGEND OF ELI MONPRESS (5 book series) by Rachel Aaron 
WAKE OF VULTURES: THE SHADOW BOOK 1, by Lila Bowen
THE SHEPARD’S CROWN by Terry Pratchett
WATCHERS by Dean Koontz
SOLARIS by Stanislaw Lem
THE MOTE IN GOD’S EYE by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
WE ARE LEGION (WE ARE BOB) BOBIVERSE BOOKS 1 AND 2 by Dennis E. Taylor
BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON by Dean Koontz
COLUMBUS DAY: EXPEDITIONARY FORCE (book 1) by Craig Alanson
