Books you've read this year

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I feel like I've read a lot more this year but I can't say I've finished very many...

Wait I know why. It's because of that Arthurian mythology class I took in spring that required so much reading but was very interesting.

So starting with those, I'll list what I can remember off the top of my head:

Le morte Darthur - Malory
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Knight of the Cart - Chretien de Troyes
The Alliterative Morte Arthur
Prose Merlin and Suite du Merlin (this and the above are in an anthology)
Death of Arthur
Parzival- Wolfram von Eschenbach
Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley
Queen of Air and Darkness- T.H. White
Ill-Made Knight- T.H. White
Game of Thrones- G.R.R. Martin
Clash of Kings- G.R.R. Martin
The Farseer Trilogy- Robin Hobb (reread)
Dragon Keeper- Robin Hobb
Dragon Haven- Robin Hobb
Dragons of Eden- Carl Sagan
Demon Haunted World- Carl Sagan
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors- Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan
Greta Garbo: A Life Apart- Karen Swenson
Greta Garbo: A Cinematic Legacy- Mark A. Viera
Walking With Garbo- Raymond Daum
Complicated Women- Mick LaSalle
Dangerous Men- Mick LaSalle
Kitchen Confidential- Anthony Bourdain
Old Man's War- John Scalzi
The Ghost Brigades- John Scalzi
The Last Colony- John Scalzi
Framed Ink by Marcos Mateu-Mestre and Jeffrey Katzenberg

Most of the older Arthur stuff I admit I've had to skim, all because the language is so archaic and so drawn out. I didn't even bother to read Geoffrey because half of the damned thing is nothing but lists of knights' names at battles.

I also have that same problem with buying too many books. It's just so tempting and after you buy it, you find a new book on amazon that looks very good also and is quite cheap...so you get that too. My amazon wish list is still full of things I'm forcing myself not to get all at once. It's like window shopping. Look but don't touch!
Paperbackswap has cut down on my book buying costs and emptied up some book storage space, but I end up using up all my credits so I BUY them. I think I've bought more credits than I've earned by trading my old books away...