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What I Read: 2006

This is a list of some (but not all) of the books I read in 2006. These are all worth mentioning, though. If you like any of them (or profoundly dislike any of them) let me know. I always love to talk books.

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon -- Pulitzer Prize winning novel about two young men, the Holocaust, and comic books.
• The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro -- Well-known story of a butler in post-WWII England.
• Rebel Hearts by Kevin Toolis -- Investigation into the lives of IRA soldiers.
• V for Vendetta by Alan Moore -- Another fantastic graphic novel from a fantastic author.
• Tiger Force by Michael Sallah and Mitch Weiss -- Non-fiction about war-crimes of the elite unit in Vietnam.
• Grease Monkey by Tim Eldred -- Tor's second graphic novel ever. Great stuff.
• A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami -- This is the second of Murakami's work that I've read and he's fast becoming my second favorite author next to Steinbeck.
• Watchmen by Alan Moore -- Another of the great graphic novel by one of the medium's great writers.
• Attack of the Jazz Giants and other stories by Gregory Frost -- Another of Golden Gryphon Press's great story collections this time featuring the work of a fantastic author who deserves more attention than he gets (and that's enough ego stroking from me).
• The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem -- A collection of humorous stories by the Polish author who wrote Solaris.
• The Sandman by Neil Gaiman -- One of the great graphic novels series of the last decade.
• The Infinite Book: A Short Guide to the Boundless, Timeless, and Endless by John D. Barrow -- Non-fiction concerning the concept of infinity. Mind-blowing stuff that'll feed any SF writer with an infinite amount of ideas.
• Beauty by Robin McKinley -- the classic retelling of Beauty and the Beast. Still a treat.
• The Map That Changed The World by Simon Winschester -- This is a non-fiction work about how William Smith became the "father of modern geology".
• On Basilisk Station by David Weber -- I'd never gotten around to reading the Honor Harrington series and this is the first one, so I decided to try it out. It's a bit rough around the edges, but still a lot of fun.
• The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett -- Good for some laughs and better than I was expecting. I'll read more from the series, but I doubt I'll end up reading every last one. Perhaps I'll be surprised, though.

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