Long runs by Frank Herbert, Jim Butcher, Richard Castle and E. E. Knight dominate major stretches of the source.
Sean O'Leary's Reading Journey
Five Years. One Surviving Record.
2014–2018 • 87 Preserved Entries • Archive in Progress
The surviving source for this stretch of Sean O'Leary's reading history preserves 87 entries together but does not identify where 2014 ends and 2015, 2016, 2017 or 2018 begin. Rather than invent boundaries that are not in the record, this archive keeps the complete source intact under the 2014 archive address until separate annual lists can be recovered.
Reading Archive // Volume 07
2014–18*
87 Preserved Entries
Mars, Dune, robots, altered civilizations and post-apocalyptic worlds recur across the combined record.
Anne Frank, H. G. Wells, Oscar Wilde, Dante, Harper Lee and others sit beside contemporary genre fiction.
The books are preserved in source order even where the individual year boundaries are unknown.
The Complete Surviving Record // 87 Entries
Sean O'Leary's preserved reading record, 2014–2018*
The entries below remain in the sequence preserved by the surviving combined source. Only three entries carry explicit month-and-year notation in that source; the rest cannot responsibly be assigned to an individual year yet.
87
Preserved entries
5
Years represented
3
Entries explicitly dated 2018
Passage 01 // Entries 01–18
Entries 01–18
Survival, distant worlds and the long road through Dune
01
Passport to Survival
Ester Dickey
02
Matter
Iain Banks
03
The Martian
Andy Weir
04
Artimis
Andy Weir
05
The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank
06
Mostly Harmless
Douglas Adams
07
So Long and Thanks for all the Fish
Douglas Adams
08
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
09
And Another Thing…
Eoin Colfer
10
Dune
Frank Herbert
11
Dune Messiah
Frank Herbert
12
Children of Dune
Frank Herbert
13
God Emperor of Dune
Frank Herbert
14
Heretics of Dune
Frank Herbert
15
Chapterhouse Dune
Frank Herbert
16
The Invisible Man
H. G. Wells
17
I, Robot
Isaac Asimov
18
Pebble in the Sky
Isaac Asimov
Passage 02 // Entries 19–34
Entries 19–34
Sixteen steps through Jim Butcher's Dresden record
19
Storm Front
Jim Butcher
20
Fool Moon
Jim Butcher
21
Grave Peril
Jim Butcher
22
Summer Knight
Jim Butcher
23
Death Masks
Jim Butcher
24
Blood Rites
Jim Butcher
25
Dead Beat
Jim Butcher
26
Proven Guilty
Jim Butcher
27
White Night
Jim Butcher
28
Small Favor
Jim Butcher
29
Turn Coat
Jim Butcher
30
Changes
Jim Butcher
31
Ghost Story
Jim Butcher
32
Cold Days
Jim Butcher
33
Skin Games
Jim Butcher
34
Side Jobs
Jim Butcher
Reading in Long Runs
Some authors occupy an entire corridor of the archive.
The combined source shows several concentrated reading runs. Because the year boundaries are unavailable, these counts describe the preserved source itself—not any single calendar year.
16
Jim Butcher entries 19–34
6
Frank Herbert Dune entries
8
Ray Bradbury entries
9
Richard Castle entries
11
E. E. Knight entries
Passage 03 // Entries 35–48
Entries 35–48
Classics, Kingkiller and a deep run through Bradbury
35
The Long Valley
John Steinbeck
36
Devil Bones
Kathy Reichs
37
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
38
The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss
39
The Wise Man’s Fear
Patrick Rothfuss
40
The Slow egard of Silent Thing
Patrick Rothfuss
41
Dandelion Wine
Ray Bradbury
42
Death is a Lonely Business
Ray Bradbury
43
Long After Midnight
Ray Bradbury
44
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
45
The Golden Apples of the Sun
Ray Bradbury
46
The Halloween Tree
Ray Bradbury
47
The Illustrated man
Ray Bradbury
48
The Martian Chronicles
Ray Bradbury
Passage 04 // Entries 49–64
Entries 49–64
Crime shelves, Spenser and a turn back toward classics
49
Heat Wave
Richard Castle
50
Naked Heat
Richard Castle
51
Heat Rises
Richard Castle
52
Frozen Heat
Richard Castle
53
Deadly Heat
Richard Castle
54
Raging Heat
Richard Castle
55
Driving Heat
Richard Castle
56
High Heat
Richard Castle
57
Heat Storm
Richard Castle
58
Back Story
Robert B. Parker
59
Chasing the Bear
Robert B. Parker
60
Silent Night
Robert B. Parker
61
The Professional
Robert B. Parker
62
The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri
63
The Spirit of the Border
Zane Grey
64
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Source record: Audible
Passage 05 // Entries 65–87
Entries 65–87
Survival worlds, Vampire Earth and the final dated records
65
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
66
Go Set a Watchman
Harper Lee
67
Dies the Fire
S. M. Stirling
68
The Protector’s War
S. M. Stirling
69
A Meeting at Corvallis
S. M. Stirling
70
Way of the Wolf
E. E. Knight
71
Choice of the Cat
E. E. Knight
72
Tale of the Thunderbolt
E. E. Knight
73
Valentines Rising
E. E. Knight
74
Valentines Exile
E. E. Knight
75
Valentines Resolve
E. E. Knight
76
Fall with Honor
E. E. Knight
77
Winter Duty
E. E. Knight
78
March in Country
E. E. Knight
79
Appalachian Overthrow
E. E. Knight
80
Baltic Gambit
E. E. Knight
81
Furies of Calderon
Jim Butcher
82
The Power Foods Lifestyle
Kristy Hunt
83
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck
Mark Manson
84
Rich Dad, Poor Dad
Robert T. Kiyosaki
85
The Subtle Art of not Giving a Fuck
Mark Manson
86
Victorian Secrets
Stephen Fry
87
The E Myth
Michael E. Gerber
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