Books I've Read So Far This Year

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1. Coraline by Neil Gaiman
2. Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
3.Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris
4. Club Dead by Charlaine Harris
5. (audiobook) Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman
6. Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories
7. The Colony by John Tayman
8. On Writing by Stephen King
9. The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
10. Abundance by Sena Jeter Naslund
11. World War Z by Max Brooks
12. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
13. Dragonbreath by Ursula Vernon
14. Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris

15. (audiobook) Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury -- I've been meaning to read this classic for a while now. Well, this one I listened to while working on my garden, but you get the picture. Awesome book on both censorship and television.

16. The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson -- Wow. Just wow. I loved this book because it really made me think. I particularly enjoyed how the author used the theme of re-incarnation to help him define his philosophy of human history, that essentially it was a yin and yang of tragedy and comedy, that civilizations were advancing and then falling back. He also seemed to ask if human civilization was advancing towards something or was it simply stuck in a circle that held no real meaning? Lastly, I also enjoyed how he had each of the characters' existences build on one another, and sometimes predict what was to come in a future incarnation.

And one final note: it's not even October, and already I've read more books this year than I did last year. Yay!