Oh! I almost forgot!

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1. Beauty by Robin McKinley
2. The Coelura by Anne McCaffrey
3. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
4. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
5. An Assembly Such As This by Pamela Aidan
6. Duty and Desire by Pamela Aidan
7. These Three Remain by Pamela Aidan
8. A Wizard Alone by Diane Duane
9. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
10. Cameo Diner by Matt Miller
11. A Wizard Abroad by Diane Duane
12. Talking in the Dark by Billy Merrill
13. A Streetcar Named Desire by Tenessee Williams
14. A Thousand Words for Stranger by Julie E. Czerneda
15. Blood Wedding by Frederico Garcia Lorca
16. Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw
17. Ties of Power by Julie E. Czerneda
18. The Road to Mecca by Athol Fugard
19. To Trade the Stars by Julie E. Czerneda
20. The Unhandsome Prince by John Moore
21. A Nameless Witch by A. Lee Martinez
22. The Ship Who Searched by Anne McCaffrey
23. Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life by Erica Jong

At the moment, the authors I've read the most of this year are Pamela Aidan (3 books), Julie E. Czerneda (3), Diane Duane (2) and Anne McCaffrey (2).  What I find interesting about this is that, of the four, three make my list of Top 5 Authors.  And of the seven books I've read this year by those three authors, only one was a new read -- the others were re-reads.  I think this says something about the power of those writers -- I love their writing so much that I am willing to momentarily forego the pleasure of new writing in order to relish in what I've already read.

Granted, I'm a bit of a re-reader by nature.  Of the 23 books I've read so far this year, ten were re-reads.  But it appears that I at least re-read for myself -- only seven of the twenty-three were read for school, and I actually enjoyed all of those.  There are still a bunch of books I've started but not finished, the most prominent of those being Wuthering Heights, but I'll get around to it.  I have time.