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Books

Currently Reading

Mystery

Next in Line

On Hold

Books I Want to Read: Fiction

Crime/ Mystery


Crime/ Mystery: Series


Historical Fiction


Science Fiction/ Fantasy


Science Fiction/ Fantasy: Series

  • Borne: Borne (#1), The Strange Bird (#1.5), Dead Astronauts (#2)

  • Winternight Trilogy: The Bear and the Nightingale (#1), The Girl in the Tower (#2), and The Winter of the Witch (#3)


Novels/ Series

Books I Want to Read: Non-Fiction

Business


History


Climbing and Adventures


Medical


Psychology: Individual


Psychology: Interacting with Others


Biography


Self-Help


Crime

Books I've Read: Fiction

Series

  • Millennium: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, The Girl in the Spiders Web, The Girl who takes an Eye for an Eye, The Girl Who Lived Twice

  • Penumbra: Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore and Ajax Penumbra 1969

  • Don Tillman: The Rosie Project (#1), The Rosie Effect (#2)

  • Harold Fry: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (#1)

  • Olive Kitteridge: Olive Kitteridge (#1)

  • The Hundred-Year-Old Man: The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared (#1)


Historical Fiction


Crime/ Mystery


Crime/ Mystery: Series

  • Three Pines (Chief Inspector Gamache): Still Life (#1), A Fatal Grace (#2), The Cruelest Month (#3), A Rule Against Murder (#4), The Brutal Telling (#5), Bury Your Dead (#6), A Trick of the Light (#7), The Beautiful Mystery (#8), How the Light Gets In (#9), The Long Way Home (#10), The Nature of the Beast (#11), A Great Reckoning (#12), Glass Houses (#13), Kingdom of the Blind (#14), A Better Man (#15), and All the Devils are Here (#16)

  • Cormoran Strike: Cuckoo's Calling (#1), The Silkworm (#2), Career of Evil (#3), Lethal White (#4), Troubled Blood (#5), The Ink Black Heart (#6), and The Running Grave (#7)

  • Thomas De Quincey: Murder as a Fine Art (#1)

  • Dublin Murder Squad: In the Woods (#1), The Likeness (#2), Faithful Place (#3), Broken Harbor (#4), The Secret Place (#5), and The Trespasser (#6)

  • Hawthorne and Horowitz: The Word is Murder (#1), The Sentence is Death (#2), A Line to Kill (#3), and The Twist of a Knife (#4)

  • Susan Ryeland: Magpie Murders (#1) and Moonflower Murders (#2)

  • Sam Clair: A Murder of Magpies (#1) and A Bed of Scorpions (#2)

  • Quantico Files: Night Fall (#1), Dead Fall (#2), and Free Fall (#3)

  • Kaely Quinn Profiler: Mind Games (#1)

  • Jack Reacher: The Killing Floor (#1) and Die Trying (#2)

  • Charles Lenox Mysteries: A Beautiful Blue Death (#1), The September Society (#2), The Fleet Street Murders (#3), A Stranger in Mayfair (#4), A Burial at Sea (#5), A Death in the Small Hours (#6), An Old Betrayal (#7), and The Laws of Murder (#8)

  • Thursday Murder Club: Thursday Murder Club (#1), The Man Who Died Twice (#2), The Bullet That Missed (#3)

  • Nell Ward Mysteries: A Murder of Crows (#1), A Cast of Falcons (#2), A Mischief of Rats (#3), A Generation of Vipers (#4), and A Traces of Hares (#5)

  • Molly the Maid: The Maid (#1) and The Mystery Guest (#2)

  • Cal Hooper: The Searcher (#1)

  • Dr. Thomas Silkstone: The Anatomist’s Apprentice (#1)

  • The Checquy Files: The Rook (#1)

  • Letty Davenport: The Investigator (#1)

  • The Marlow Murder Club: The Marlow Murder Club (#1) and Death Comes to Marlow (#2)

  • Inspector Ian Rutledge: A Test of Wills (#1)

  • Detective Varg: The Department of Sensitive Crimes (#1)


Science Fiction/ Fantasy


Science Fiction/ Fantasy: Series

  • Maze Runner: The Maze Runner (#1), The Scorch Trials (#2), The Death Cure (#3), The Kill Order (#4), and The Fever Code (#5)

  • Divergent: Divergent (#1), Insurgent (#2), Allegiant (#3), and Four (#4)

  • Red Queen: Red Queen (#1), Glass Sword (#2), and King's Cage (#3)

  • Southern Reach: Annihilation (#1), Authority (#2), and Acceptance (#3)

  • Shades of Magic (VE Schwab): A Darker Shade of Magic (#1)

  • Caraval: Caraval (#1), Legendary (#2), Finale (#3)

  • Mither Mages (Orson Scott Card): The Lost Gate (#1), The Gate Thief (#2), and The Gatefather (#3)

  • The Mortality Doctrine: The Eye of Minds (#1)

  • Wayward Children: Every Heart a Doorway (#1)


Romance/ Chick Lit


Humor


Novels

Books I've Read: Non-Fiction

Medical


Medical: By Atul Gawande


Crime


Climbing Adventures


Biography


Social Psychology


Social Psychology: By Malcolm Gladwell

Where to get books

Check out your local library- many have accounts with online resources, including e-books, audiobooks, etc. Library card required.


Overdrive. Access to electronic books and audiobooks from your local library.

Audible. $7.95 or 14.95/ month (1-month free trial).

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Military?

You can access magazines, books, videos, newspapers, audiobooks, and random other stuff. First, you need to get an account with an MWR Library. Navigate from the website designated from the MWR resource page, and then save the link for the websites (can't use the generic RBDigital and Overdrive websites). Establish an account and enjoy exploring!


MWR Library Resources

  • Online Resources. List of resources- RBDigital, Overdrive, Mango Language service, etc.

  • RBDigital Magazines, e-books, audiobooks, video

  • Overdrive E-books, audiobooks, and videos

  • Mango Language Services.

  • PressReader Newspapers and magazines

  • The Great Courses: Lecture Series. Thousands of lectures on hundreds of topics. Economics and Finance, food and wine, health/ fitness/ nutrition, history, hobby and leisure, literature and language, mathematics, music and fine arts, philosophy, professional and personal development, science, and travel.

MWR Library Resources: How-To Access

  • Navigate to: https://mwrlibrary.armybiznet.com. There is a link on this site to the Army MWR Digital Library. “Select your home library below or use the Army MWR Digital Library to search eresources only". You can also go straight to the Army MWR Digital Library page.

  • On the top of the page, click on “find a resource. Click on Ebooks and audiobooks. Under "Overdrive/ Libby"→ click on “access”

  • Verify your eligibility (DODID and DOB)→ you will be sent to the Overdrive website

  • Drop-down “Select your library”→ DOD MWR Libraries

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