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Reading Challenge Finished!

Today I finished my first big reading challenge!  I feel like I have hit a milestone...  it's a great feeling of accomplishment.  You ask, what reading challenge?  Zombies, of course.  I didn't think it would take me long to read 10 zombie books, but I thought it would take longer than this.  I tried to pick up a mix of genres for my weekly reading.  Yet, I somehow always ended up with a zombie book in there.  So here's my list...  the first ten were my original picks way back in December.  As you can see, I picked up some others to ultimately finish the list.

  1. The Undead World of Oz -- Ryan Thomas
  2. Zombies for Zombies -- David Murphy (2/5/11)
  3. Flip this Zombie -- Jesse Petersen (2/13/11)
  4. Zombies vs. Unicorns - Larbalestier
  5. The Forest of Hands and Teeth - Carrie Ryan (5/17/11)
  6. The Dead-Tossed Waves - Carrie Ryan (5/23/11)
  7. You are So Undead to Me - Stacey Jay
  8. Undead Much - Stacey Jay
  9. Zombie Blondes - Brian James
  10. Generation Dead - Daniel Waters
  11. A Zombie's History of the United States - Dr. Worm Miller (3/2/11)
  12. Autumn - David Moody (3/6/11)
  13. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dreadfully Ever After - Steven Hockensmith (4/10/11)
  14. Autumn: The City - David Moody
  15. Hungry for Your Love - Lori Perkins (4/21/11)
  16. The Living Dead 2 - John Joseph Adams (5/9/11)
  17. Once Bitten, Twice Dead - Bianca D'Arc (5/16/11)
I read some really good ones in there.  I think my favorite so far is Autumn by David Moody.  Very disturbing book, but not your typical zombie gore fest.  I still have the sequel Autumn: The City to read.  But I want to take a zombie break.
There's still a question hanging in the air: Should I increase this reading challenge to 20 books and keep going?  Or just keep it here and focus on the other challenges?  Keep in mind that I will still read zombie books throughout the rest of the year, I just won't have them count for a challenge!