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colleen the contrarian ± (... never stop fighting) ± wrote: "MrsJoseph wrote: "Hmm, can one book count for multiple entries?Like can a Western Romance count for western and romance? Or can a book like The Girl with All the Gifts count for ..."
Yes & no - there are a lot of redundant items on the list but I've not taken enough time to whittle them down.
Stephanie wrote: "Like can a Western Romance count for western and romance?I suppose it depends on your goals and how many books you plan to read. Modern western romances aren't anything like Westerns. I would pu..."
It depends on which western romances you read - there are quite a few older ones that would fit and there are a lot of researching authors in this field that I've never had a chance to sample (cause I usually avoid westerns in almost all forms).
I read House of Mist: A Novel last year for Chile and it is cited as one of the first South American novels written in the style later called Magical Realism. I've also read a lot of Murakami which falls into that. Right now, I'm partway through Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World and it has totally sucked me in. My mom couldn't finish it saying it was nonsense, but it is hitting me in all the right places.I've got Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore in my purchased and unread pile. So I'll probably read that one soon.
I heartily recommend Murakami, but there doesn't seem to be much middle ground between loving him and hating him.
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I suppose it depends on your goals and how many books you plan to read. Modern western romances aren't anything like Westerns. I would put the western romance under romance. Read a Louis L'Amour or a Max Brand and you'll see that. Books by these two authors have always been and continue to be popular - they are short, so that helps suck people in. :)
I don't think combining books will help you get variety.
Final note: Most Max Brand and Zane Grey books are available for free from Guttenberg project because they are out of copyright. If your library has Overdrive, there should be some Louis L'amour, although my library only has them in audiobook.