Typing out all of the books I've read this year would take too long.

So, here's a list of the ones (read for the first time this year) I consider the very best. You can find out more about most of them at my book blog, bookfrog.. check the calendar or memories.

Abarat, Clive Barker
The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman
The Birthday of the World, Ursula K. Le Guin
The Subtle Knife, Philip Pullman
The Amber Spyglass, Philip Pullman
Bee Season, Myla Goldberg
The Salmon of Doubt, Douglas Adams
84 Charing Cross Road with The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street, Helene Hanff
The Liar's Club, Mary Karr
Small Wonder, Barbara Kingsolver
A Fine Dark Line, Joe R. Lansdale
Below the Root, Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Straydog, Kathe Koja
The Long Secret, Louise Fitzhugh
Night of the Avenging Blowfish, John Welter
The Once and Future King, T.H. White
Double Fold, Nicholson Baker
Mr. Was, Pete Hautman
Void of Course, Jim Carroll
Bastard Out of Carolina, Dorothy Allison
Palm Sunday, Kurt Vonnegut
Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson
Tehanu, Ursula K. Le Guin
Diary, Chuck Palahniuk
Rubyfruit Jungle, Rita Mae Brown
After Silence, Jonathan Carroll
Maniac Magee, Jerry Spinelli
Lullaby, Chuck Palahniuk
Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, J.D. Salinger
My Sister from the Black Lagoon, Laurie Fox
The Crocodile Bird, Ruth Rendell
The Other Wind, Ursula K. Le Guin
The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966, Richard Brautigan

Red and water makes..

My first sheet of paper turned out Choo-Choo Bear pink.