Ray Bradbury's 10 best books

The Monitor picks the 10 best titles from sci-fi titan Ray Bradbury.

9. 'Farewell Summer'

This semi-autobiographical novel published in 2006 was the last novel released in Bradbury’s lifetime. It is a sequel to his 1957 “Dandelion Wine,” following the sexual awakening of the previous novel’s young narrator and chronicling a mock war between young and old in the fictional town of Green Town, Ill.

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