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  1. TBR from K-S - Keneally, Tom: Schindler's List (1001) - Kerouach, Jack: On the Road (1001, RG-b, CF) - Kidd, Sue Monk: The Secret Life of Bees - Kilpi, Volter: Alastalon salissa - King, Stephen: The Dark Half - King, Stephen: The Regulators - King, Stephen: Salem's Lot - King, Stephen: Thinner - Kingsolver, Barbara: The Poisonwood Bible (1001, RG-b) - Kirkland, Gelsey: Dancing on my Grave - Knowles, John: A Separate Peace (RG-b) - Komroff, Manuel: Abraham Lincoln - Koren, Yehuda and Negev, Eilat: A Lover of Unreason: The Life and Tragic Death of Assia Wevill, Ted Hughes' Doomed Love - Kostova, Elizabeth: The Historian - Kupiainen, Jari & Sevänen, Erkki: Kulttuurintutkimus - johdanto - Kureishi, Hanif: The Buddha of Suburbia (1001) - Kurjensaari, Matti: Syntynyt sivulliseksi - Laitinen, Kai: Puolitiessä - esseitä kirjallisuudesta - Lamott, Anne: Grace (Eventually) – Thoughts on Faith - Lander, Leena: Tummien perhosten koti - Larsson, Stieg: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest - Larsson, Stieg: The Girl Who Played with Fire - Lazarsfeld, Paul F. (ed. et al): The Uses of Sociology - Lehtovaara, Arvo & Saarinen, Pirkko: Nuorten mielikirjallisuus - Leon, Donna: Death at la Fenice #1 - Leon, Donna: Acqua Alta #5 - Leon, Donna: A Noble Radiance #7 - Leroux, Gaston: The Phantom of the Opera - Lessing, Doris: The Good Terrorist - Levy, Andrea: Small Island (RG-b) - Lewis, Matthew Gregory: The Monk (1001) - Linna, Väinö: Under the North Star #1 - Linna, Väinö: Under the North Star #3 - Linnankoski, Johannes: Pakolaiset - Lodge, David: The Art of Fiction - Louhija, Aura: Hans Christian - kertomus satukuninkaan nuoruusvuosista - Lundgren, Max: 21 nästan sanna berättelser - MacShane, Frank: The Life of Raymond Chandler - Maddox, Brenda: Nora - Mailer, Norman: The Naked and the Dead (RG-b) - Malamud, Bernard: The Tenants - Malinen, Ben: Häpeän monet kasvot - Malone, Aubrey: Literary Trivia - Over 300 Curious Lists for Bookworms - Mann, Thomas: Doctor Faustus (1001) - Mann, Thomas: A Man and His Dog - Mansfield, Katherine: A Garden Party and Other Stories (1001) - Marone, Nicky: How to Father a Successful Daughter - Marquez, Gabriel Garcia: Love in the Time of Cholera (1001) - Marsden, John: Tomorrow, When the War Began (from Kylie, Aussie read) - Mason, Jeffrey Moussaieff: The Assault on Truth: Freud's Suppression of the Seduction Theory - Mason, Jeffrey Moussaieff: When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals - Masters, Alexander: Stuart - A Life Backwards - Maugham, W. Somerset: Of Human Bondage (1001) - Maugham, W. Somerset: The Painted Veil - Maugham, Somerset: Theatre - Maupassant, Guy de: Bel-Ami (1001) - Maurier, Daphne du: The Birds and Other Stories - Maurier, Daphne du: Classics of the Macabre - Maurier, Daphne du: Frenchman's Creek - Maurier, Daphne du: The House on the Strand - Maurier, Daphne du: Hungry Hill - Maurier, Daphne du: My Cousin Rachel - Maurier, Daphne du: The Parasites - Maurier, Daphne du: Rebecca (1001, RG-B) - Maurier, Daphne du: The Rendezvous and Other Stories - Maurier, Daphne du: The Scapegoat - Maurois, André: Marcel Proust - Maynard, Joyce: At Home in the World - McCaig, Donald: Rhett Butler's People - McCarthy, Mary: And No Bird Sang - McCarthy, Mary: The Group (RG-B) - McCrumb, Sharyn: Bimbos of the Death Sun - McCullough, Colleen: The Ladies of Missalonghi - McCullough, Colleen: Tim - McCullough, Colleen: The Thorn Birds - McGurk, Harry: Lapsen sosiaalinen kehitys - McMahon: Katharine: The Rose of Sebastopol - McSween, E. Chas et al.: Things Bogans Like - Tribal Tatts to Reality TV: How to Recognise the Twenty-First Century Bogan - Mencken, H. L.: My Life As Author and Editor (RG-b) - Meyer, Stephenie: Eclipse #3 - Meyer, Stephenie: Breaking Dawn #4 - Miller, Arthur: The Crucible (RG-B) - Miller, Arthur: Timebends. A Life - Miller, Henry: Opus Pistorum - Miller, Henry: Tropic of Capricorn (1001) - Mitchell, David: Black Swan Green - Mitchell, David: Cloud Atlas (1001) - Moers, Walter: 13½ Lives of Captain Blue Bear - Montanari, Richard: The Rosary Girls #1 - Montanari, Richard: The Skin Gods #2 - Montgomery, L.M.: The Blue Castle - Morrison, Toni: Beloved (1001, RG-B) - Morrison, Toni: Jazz (1001) - Mosley, Walter: Devil in a Blue Dress #1 - Mosley, Walter: A Red Death #2 - Mosley, Walter: White Butterfly #3 - Mosley, Walter: A Little Yellow Dog #5 - Mosley, Walter: Blonde Faith #11 - Murakami, Haruki: Norwegian Wood - Murakami, Haruki: A Wild Sheep Chase - Murakami, Haruki: South of the Border, West of the Sun - Murakami, Haruki : After the Quake - Murakami, Haruki : Dance Dance Dance - Murakami, Haruki: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Murakami, Haruki: Kafka on the Shore - Murakami, Haruki: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman - Murakami, Haruki: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running - Murdoch, Iris: The Good Apprentice - Murdoch, Iris: The Sea, the Sea (1001) - Määttänen, Kirsti & Nevanlinna, Tuomas: Muistikirja - jälkien jäljillä - Nabokov, Vladimir: The Gift - Nabokov, Vladimir: Lolita (1001) - Nabokov, Vladimir: Speak, Memory (RG-b) - Nafisi, Azar: Reading Lolita in Tehran (RG-B) - Naipaul, V. S.: In a Free State (1001) - Naylor, Gloria: The Women of Brewster Place - Niffenegger, Audrey: Timetraveller's Wife (RG-B) - Nin, Anaïs: Delta of Venus (1001) - Nin, Anaïs: The Diary of Anaïs Nin 1934-1939 - Nin, Anaïs: The Diary of Anaïs Nin 1944-1947 - Nin, Anaïs: The Diary of Anaïs Nin 1947-1955 - Nin, Anaïs: The Diary of Anaïs Nin 1955-1966 - Nin, Anaïs: The Diary of Anaïs Nin 1966-1974 - Oates, Joyce Carol: Blonde (1001) - Ortiz, Alicia Dujovne: Eva Peron - Ozick, Cynthia: The Cannibal Galaxy - Paasilinna, Arto: Hurmaava joukkoitsemurha - Paloheimo, Martti: Ihmissuhteita - Paloheimo, Martti: Lähimmäinen - Parker, Dorothy: The Portable Dorothy Parker (RG-b) - Parnell, Christopher V. V.: Hell's Prisoner - Patchett, Ann: Truth & Beauty (RG-b) - Peake, Mervyn: Titus Groan - Peake, Mervyn: Gormenghast - Peake, Mervyn: Titus Alone - Pearl, Matthew: The Poe Shadow - Picoult, Jodi: The Pact - Pistone, Joseph D.: Donnie Brasco - Plath, Sylvia: Letters Home - Plath, Sylvia: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (RG-B) - Polo, Marco: Travels in the Land of Kubilai Khan - Powell, Anthony: A Dance to the Music of Time - Pratchett, Terry: Faust Eric - Pratchett, Terry: Guards! Guards! - Pratchett, Terry: Monstrous Regiment - Pratchett, Terry: Pyramids - Pratchett, Terry & Gaiman, Neil: Good Omens - Pratchett, Terry: Witches Abroad - Proust, Marcel: Remembrance of Things Past: 1 (1001) - Psykiatria - Pynchon, Thomas: The Crying of Lot 49 (1001) - Quick, Matthew: The Silver Linings Play Book - Radcliffe, Ann: The Mysteries of Udolpho (1001) - Radzinski, Edvard: Stalin - Rand, Ayn: The Fountainhead - Rand, Ayn: Atlas Shrugged - Rankin, Ian: Hide & Seek - Rankin, Robert: The Book of Ultimate Truths - Rapola, Martti: Kieli elää - pakinoita ja tutkielmia - Read, Mark Brandon: Chopper 4 (Aussie read) - Reichs, Kathy: Monday Mourning #7 - Reichs, Kathy: Cross Bones #8 - Reichs, Kathy: Break No Bones #9 - Rhodes, Dan: Little Hands Clapping - Rice, Anne: The Vampire Lestat - Rice, Anne: The Witching Hour - Rilke, Rainer Maria: Letters to a Young Poet (RG-B) - Ripley, Alexandra: Scarlett - Rodriguez, Deborah: The Kabul Beauty School - Roach, Mary: Bonk - The Curious Coupling of Sex and Science - Roos, Vappu: From Dante to Dickens – Biographies of the World's Greatest Masters of Literature - Roth, Philip: I Married a Communist - Roy, Arundhati: The God of Small Things (1001, RG-B) - Saarikoski, Pentti: The Edge of Europe - Sacks, Oliver: The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat - Sacks, Oliver: Seeing Voices - Saisio, Pirkko: Elämänmeno - Saisio, Pirkko: Punainen erokirja - Salomaa, J. E.: Filosofian historia I-II - Sansom, C. J: Dissolution - Sansom, C. J: Dark Fire - Sansom, C. J: Sovereign - Sansom, C. J: Revelation - Saro-Wiwa, Ken: A Month and a Day: A Detention Diary - Schneck, Stephen: Pidä koirasi terveenä - Schreiber, Flora Rheta: Sybil (RG-b) - Segal, Erich: The Class - Segal, Erich: Man, Woman and Child - Segal, Erich: Oliver's Story - Seth, Vikram: A Suitable Boy (1001) - Seth, Vikram: An Equal Music
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TBR from A-K - Abraham, Suzanne & Llewellyn-Jones, Derek: Eating Disorders - Acker, Kathy: Blood and Guts in High School (1001) - Adams, Douglas: Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency (1001) - Ahlqvist, August: Kirjeet - kielimiehen ja kaukomatkailijan viestejä 1845-1889 - Aho, Juhani: Juha - Aidan, Pamela: An Assembly Such as This #1 - Aidan, Pamela: Duty and Desire #2 - Akunin, Boris: The Winter Queen - Allende, Isabel: The House of Spirits (1001, RG-B) - Amis, Kingsley: What Became of Jane Austen? - Armstrong, Kelley: Bitten #1 - Armstrong, Kelley: Stolen #2 - Armstrong, Kelley: Haunted #5 - Armstrong, Kelley: Exit Strategy - Armstrong, Kelley: The Summoning #1 - Atkinson, Kate: Case Histories - Atkinson, Kate: Human Croquet - Atwood, Margaret: Alias Grace (1001) - Aubry, Octave: Napoleon - Bail, Murray: Eucalyptus - Bainbridge, Beryl: An Awfully Big Adventure - Baker, Frank: Miss Hargreaves - Balzac, Honoré de: Lost Illusions (1001) - Banks, Iain: Complicity - Banks, Iain: The Crow Road (1001) - Banks, Iain: Raw Spirit - Barbery, Muriel: The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Barclay, Linwood: No Time for Goodbye - Barnes, Julian: Arthur & George - Barnes, Julian: Talking it Over - Barres, Pamela des: I'm with the Band – Confessions of a Groupie (RG-B) - Barthes, Roland: The Pleasure of the Text - Baudelaire: Välähdyksiä & Alaston sydämeni - Bayley, John: Elegy for Iris - Beauvoir, Simone de: Voiman vuodet - Beauvoir, Simone de: Pariisi 1939-44 - Beauvoir, Simone de: Maailman meno - Beauvoir, Simone de: Asioiden laita - Beauvoir, Simone de: Loppujen lopuksi - Beauvoir, Simone de: The Second Sex - Beauvoir, Simone de: She Came to Stay - Beecher-Stowe, Harriet: Uncle Tom's Cabin (1001, RG-B) - Bergman, Ingmar: Fanny and Alexander - Bergman, Ingrid & Burgess, Alan: Ingrid Bergman: My Story - Bettelheim, Bruno: Dialogues with Mothers - Blixen, Karen: Out of Africa (1001, RG-B) - Blixen, Karen: Shadows On the Grass - Block, Stefan Merrill: The Story of Forgetting - Bloom, Harold: How to Read and Why - Boccaccio, Giovanni: The Decameron - Bodanis, David: E = mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation - Boyne, John: Crippen (Transworld Book Group Reading Challenge) - Bradbury, Ray: The Small Assassin - Brantenberg, Gerd: The Daughters of Egalia - Brecht, Bertolt: The Book of Changes - Briscoe, Constance: Ugly - Brite, Poppy Z.: Drawing Blood (CF) - Brontë, Charlotte: Shirley (1001) - Brontë, Charlotte: Villette (1001) - Brooks, Geraldine: Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women - Brown, Dan: The Lost Symbol - Browning, Elizabeth Barrett: Sonnets from the Portuguese (RG-B) - Bryson, Bill: Down Under - Bryson, Bill: Notes from a Small Island - Bryson, Bill: A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bulgakov, Mihail: The Master and Margharita (1001, RG-B) - Burckhardt, Jacob: The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy - Burnett, Frances Hodgson: A Little Princess - Burnett, Frances Hodgson: The Secret Garden - Burney, Fanny: Evelina (1001) - Burroughs, William: Cities of the Red Night - By, Oddbjörn: Memo - Byrne, Rhonda: The Secret - Böll, Heinrich: Group Portrait with Lady (1001) - Calvino, Italo: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (1001) - Camus, Albert: The Plague (1001) - Canavan, Trudi: The Magicians' Guild - Canavan, Trudi: The Novice - Canavan, Trudi: The High Lord - Capote, Truman: In Cold Blood (1001, RG-B) - Carey, Peter: Bliss - Carey, Peter: Jack Maggs - Carey, Peter: True History of the Kelly Gang (Aussie read, 1001) - Carey, Peter: The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith - Carlo, Philip: The Ice Man - Confessions of a Contract Killer - Casanova, Giacomo: Memoirs - Cassady, Neal: The First Third - Cederblad, Marianne: Lasten ja nuorten psykiatria - Chabon, Michael: The Mysteries of Pittsburgh - Chandler, Raymond: Big Sleep (1001) - Chang, Jung: Wild Swans – Three Daughters of China (1001) - Chase, Emily: Roommates: You're No Friend of Mine - Chase, Truddi: When Rabbit Howls - Chekhov, Anton: Lady with Lapdog and Other Stories - Chopin, Kate: The Awakening (RG-b) - Christensen, Lars Saabye: The Half Brother - Clark, Marcus: For the Term of His Natural Life (from Kylie, Aussie read) - Claude-Pierre, Peggy: The Secret Language of Eating Disorders - Cleland, John: Fanny Hill - Clinton, Hillary Rodham: Living History (RG-B) - Clutton-Brock, Juliet: Koirat - Coe, Jonathan: What a Carve Up! - Collins, Wilkie: Moonstone (1001) - Connolly, John: The Book of Lost Things - Conrad, Joseph: Heart of Darkness (1001, RG-B) - Courtenay, Bryce: The Power of One - Cunningham, Michael: Flesh and Blood - Cunningham, Michael: Specimen Days - Cunningham, Michael: The Hours (1001) - Danielewski, Mark Z.: House of Leaves (1001) - Danish in the South and the North: Denmark - History II - Deaver, Jeffery: Blue Nowhere (s-a) - Deaver, Jeffery: The Bodies Left Behind (s-a) - Deaver, Jeffery: Praying For Sleep (s-a) - Deaver, Jeffery: Maiden's Grave (s-a) - Deaver, Jeffery: The Devil's Teardrop (s-a) - Deaver, Jeffery: Mistress of Justice (s-a) - Deaver, Jeffery: The Garden of Beasts (s-a) - Deaver, Jeffery: The Lesson of Her Death (s-a) - Deaver, Jeffery: Speaking in Tongues (s-a) - Deaver, Jeffery: The Empty Chair #3 LR - Deaver, Jeffery: The Stone Monkey #4 LR - Deaver, Jeffery: The Vanished Man #5 LR - Deaver, Jeffery: The Twelfth Card #6 LR - Deaver, Jeffery: The Broken Window #8 LR - Deaver, Jeffery: Manhattan Is My Beat#1 RT - Deaver, Jeffery: Death of a Blue Movie Star #2 RT - Deaver, Jeffery: Hard News #3 RT - Deaver, Jeffery: Roadside Crosses #2 KD - Deaver, Jeffery: Shallow Graves #1 JP - Deaver, Jeffery: Bloody River Blues #2 JP - Deaver, Jeffery: Hell's Kitchen #3 JP - Deaver, Jeffery: TwistedCo - Defoe, Daniel: Roxana (1001) - Diamant, Anita: The Red Tent (RG-B) - Dick, Philip K.: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (1001) - Dick, Philip K.: The Transmigration of Timothy Archer - Dickens, Charles: Great Expectations (1001, RG-b) - Dickens, Charles: Hard Times (1001) - Dickens, Charles: Nicholas Nickleby - Dickens, Charles: The Pickwick Papers - Donnelley, Paul: 501 Most Notorious Crimes - Dostojevski, Fedor: Crime and Punishment (1001, RG-B) - Dostojevski, F. M.: House of the Dead - Dostojevski, Fedor: The Idiot (1001) - Dostojevski, F. M.: Notes from Underground - Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1001) - Doyle, Roddy: The Woman Who Walked into Doors -Doyle, Ursula (ed.): Love Letters by Great Men and Women - Drabble, Margaret: The Ice Age - Droit, Roger-Pol: Astonish Yourself: 101 Experiments in the Philosophy of Everyday Life - Eco, Umberto: The Name of the Rose (1001, RG-B) - Edel, Leon: Bloomsbury - A House of Lions - Egan, Jennifer: A Visit from the Goon Squad - Eggers, Dave: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genious (RG-b) - Eliot, George: Silas Marner (1001) - Ellison, Ralph: Invisible Man (1001) - Elton, Ben: Popcorn - Enquist, Per Olov: August Strindbergin elämä - Eysenck, Hans & Michael: Mindwatching - Faludi, Susan: Backlash (RG-b) - Faulks, Sebastian: Birdsong (1001) - Faulkner, William: The Wild Palms - Fitch, Janet: White Oleander (RG-b) - Fitzgerald, F. Scott: This Side of Paradise - Fforde, Jasper: Lost in a Good Book #2 - Fforde, Jasper: The Well of Lost Plots #3 - Fforde, Jasper: First Among Sequels #5 - Fforde, Jasper: The Big Over Easy #1 - Filosofia Prima: Lyhyt johdatus filosofiaan - Fitzek, Sebastian: Therapy - Flagg, Fannie: Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! - Flannery, Tim: The Explorers - Foer, Jonathan Safran: Eating Animals - Follett, Ken: The Pillars of the Earth - Follett, Ken: World Without End - Ford, Ford Madox: The Good Soldier (1001) - Forster, E. M.: Howards End (1001) - Fowler, Christopher: The Water Room - Fowles, John: The Magus (1001) - Franzen, Jonathan: The Corrections (1001, RG-b) - Fry, Stephen: Hippopotamus - Fry, Stephen: The Liar - Fry, Stephen: Making History - Fry, Stephen: Moab Is My Washpot - Funke, Cornelia: Inkspell - Funke, Cornelia: Inkworld - Fyvel, T. R.: George Orwell - A Personal Memoir - Gaarder, Jostein: Sophie's World - Gardner, Nuala: A Friend Like Henry - Garland, Alex: The Beach - Gaskell, Elizabeth: Cranford (1001) - Gaskell, Elizabeth: Mary Barton - Gaskell, Elizabeth: North and South (1001) - Gaskell, Elizabeth: Ruth - Gaskell, Elizabeth: Sylvia's Lovers - George, Margaret: The Autobiography of Henry VIII With Notes By His Fool, Will Somers - Gerritsen, Tess: The Apprentice (#2) - Gerritsen, Tess: The Sinner (#3) - Gerritsen, Tess: Body Double (#4) - Gerritsen, Tess: Vanish (#5) - Gerritsen, Tess: The Mephisto-club (#6) - Gibson, William: Neuromancer (1001, 501) - Gillard, Linda: Emotional Geology - Ginsberg, Allen: The Book of Martyrdom + Artifice - Goethe, J. W. von: The Sorrows of Young Werther (1001, 501) - Gogol, Nikolai: Dead Souls (1001, RG-B) - Gogol, Nikolai: Diary of a Madman - Gogol, Nikolai: The Lost Letter - Gogol, Nikolai: The Overcoat - Gogol, Nikolai: The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich - Gogol, Nikolai: Taras Bul'ba - Golden, Arthur: Memoirs of a Geisha (1001) - Goldman, William: The Marathon Man (RG-b) - Gonzalez, Philip & Fleischer, Leonore: The Dog Who Rescues Cats - Gorki, Maksim: Esseitä kirjallisuudesta - Gorki, Maksim: In the World (#2) - Graves, Robert: I, Claudius - Grealy, Lucy: Autobiography of a Face - Green, Hannah: I Never Promised You a Rose Garden - Gruen, Sara: Water for Elephants - Guevara, Ernesto Che: Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution - Writings and Speeches of Ernesto Che Guevara - Guevara, Ernesto 'Che': The Motorcycle Diaries - Guillou, Jan: Evil - Haavi: Suomalaista kirjallisuutta suolapytyssä ja muutakin kulttuurimurkinaa - Haavikko, Ritva: Rivien takaa - nykykirjallisuuden tutkimusta kirjailijahaastattelujen pohjalta - Haavio, Katarina & Koskimies, Satu: 50-luvun teinit - päiväkirjat ja kirjeet 1957-1960 - Hamid, Mohsin: The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Hamilton, Laurell K.: Guilty Pleasures - Hammett, Dashiell: The Maltese Falcon (1001) - Hammond, Claudia: Emotional Rollercoaster - Hardy, Thomas: The Mayor of Casterbridge (1001) - Harris, Charlaine: Grave Sight - Harris, Charlaine: Dead in the Family - Harris, Jane: The Observations - Hawes, Annie: Ripe for the Picking - Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Scarlet Letter (1001, RG-b) - Hayder, Mo: Birdman #1 - Hayder, Mo: Pig Island (s-a) - Hayder, Mo: Tokyo (s-a) - Hedlund, Oscar: Friida-koiran tarina - Heinlein, Robert A.: The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress - Heller, Joseph: Catch-22 (1001, RG-B) - Heller, Joseph: Something Happened - Hellsten, Tommy: Ihminen tavattavissa - Hellsten, Tommy: Saat sen mistä luovut - Hellsten, Tommy: Virtahepo olohuoneessa - Hemingway, Ernest: Death in the Afternoon - Hemingway, Ernest: The Garden of Eden - Hemingway, Ernest: To Have and Have Not - Hemingway, Ernest: The Sun Also Rises (1001, RG-b) - Hemingway, Leicester: My Brother Ernest Hemingway - Herbert, James: Haunted - Hesse, Hermann: Siddhartha (1001, RG-b) - Highsmith, Patricia: Talented Mr Ripley (1001) - Hill, Susan: The Bird of Night - Hill, Susan: Howards End Is on the Landing - Hill, Susan: I'm the King of the Castle - Hill, Susan: Mrs de Winter - Hill, Susan: The Small Hand - Høeg , Peter: De kanske lämpade - Høeg, Peter: The Woman and the Ape - Holappa, Pentti: Tuntosarvilla - esittelyjä ja esseitä - Holappa, Pentti: Vuokralla täällä - Hornby, Nick: Slam - Hosseini, Khaleid: Thousand Splendid Suns - Hotchner, A. E.& Doris Day: Doris Day - Her Own Story - Houllebecq, Michel: Atomised - Howe, Katherine: The Lost Book of Salem - Hubbard, L. Ron: Scientology - The Fundamentals of Thought - Hugo, Victor: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1001, RG-B) - Hugo, Victor: Les Miserables (1001) - Hunt, Rebecca: Mr Chartwell - Huovinen, Veikko: Veitikka - Hurtta, Boris: Rommelin kulta - Hustvedt, Siri: What I Loved (1001) - Hustvedt, Siri: The Sorrows of an American - Huxley, Aldous: Point Counter Point - Härkönen, Anna-Leena: Häräntappoase - Insight Guides - Canada - Introduction to Psychology - Ishiguro, Kazuo: Never Let Me Go (1001) - Ishiguro, Kazuo: A Pale View of Hills (1001) - Ishiguro, Kazuo: The Remains of the Day (1001) - James, Henry: The Bostonians - James, Henry: Daisy Miller and Other Stories - James, Henry: The Europeans - James, Henry: What Maisie Knew (1001) - James, Peter: Dead Simple - Janov, Arthur: Primal Scream - Japrisot, Sebastien: A Very Long Engagement - Jensen, Jan Lars: Nervous System (RG-b) - Jerome, Jerome K.: Three Men on a Boat (CF, 501) - Jerome, Jerome K.: Three Men on the Bummel - Johnson, Dr Spencer: Who Moved My Cheese? (RG-b) - Jones, Aphrodite: All She Wanted - Joyce, James: Dubliners - Juster, Norton: The Phantom Tollbooth (from Kylie) - Kafka, Franz: Amerika (1001) - Kaila, Eino: Persoonallisuus - Kamm, Josephine: The Story of Mrs. Pankhurst - Kampusch, Natascha: 3,096 Days - Karra, Petri: Haarautuvan rakkauden talo - Kekki, Lasse & Kaisa Ilmonen: Pervot pidot – Homo-, lesbo- ja queer-näkökulmia kirjallisuudentutkimukseen - Kilpi, Eeva: Naisen päiväkirja
  3. Books I have acquired in 2011 1. Erich Segal: Oliver's Story 2. Linda Gillard: Emotional Geology 3. Nuala Gardner: A Friend Like Henry 4. Daniel Tammet: Born on a Blue Day 5. Matthew Quick: The Silver Linings Play Book 6. Jonathan Franzen: The Corrections 7. Natasha Solomons: Mr Rosenblum's List or Friendly Guidance for the Aspiring Englishman (unofficial book swap with poppyshake) 8. Hans & Michael Eysenck: Mindwatching 9. Norman Mailer: The Naked and the Dead (RG-b) 10. Ken Saro-Wiwa: A Month and a Day: A Detention Diary 11. Andrew Solomon: The Noonday Demon. An Atlas of Depression 12. F. M. Dostojevski: Notes from Underground 13. Bill Bryson: Notes from a Small Island 14. Ralp Ellison: Invisible Man (1001) 15. Josephine Kamm: The Story of Mrs. Pankhurst 16. José Stevens: Transforming Your Dragons 17. Beautiful World - Part 9: Australia and Oceania 18. F. E. Sillanpää: Ihmiset suviyössä 19. Pirkko Saisio: Punainen erokirja 20. Dashiell Hammett: The Maltese Falcon (1001) 21. Tom Wolfe: A Man in Full 22. Patricia Highsmith: The Boy Who Followed Ripley 23. Jennifer Lynch: The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer (I already own this both in Finnish&English but just had to buy it) 24. Bruno Bettelheim: Dialogues with Mothers 25. Oliver Sacks: Seeing Voices 26. Kirsti Määttänen & Tuomas Nevanlinna: Muistikirja - jälkien jäljillä 27. Eino Kaila: Persoonallisuus 28. Aleksander Solzenitsyn: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1001) 29. Merri Vik: Olipa tuuria, Lotta! 30. Ernest Hemingway: To Have and Have Not (1001, RG-b) 31. Jari Kupiainen & Erkki Sevänen: Kulttuurintutkimus - johdanto 32. Henri Troyat: Dostojevski 33. William Styron: Sophie's Choice (RG, 501) 34. Colleen McCullough: The Thorn Birds 35. J. W. von Goethe: The Sorrow of Young Werther (1001, 501) 36. R. L. Stevenson: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Stories 37. Dave Eggers: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genious (RG) 38. John Wyndham: The Day of the Triffids (1001, 501) 39. Scott Frost: The Autobiography of FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper - My Life, My Tapes 40. Janet Fitch: White Oleander (RG) 41. Nicky Marone: How to Father a Successful Daughter 42. James Herbert: Haunted 43. Ernest Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises (1001, RG) 44. Elie Wiesel: Twilight 45. Chelsea Cain: Heartsick 46. Jack Kerouac: On the Road (1001, RG, CF) 47. Ben Elton: Popcorn 48. Dennis Lehane: Gone, Baby Gone 49. Stephen King: Needful Things 50. August Ahlqvist: Kirjeet - Kielimiehen ja kaukomatkailijan viestejä 1845-1889 51. Barbara Kingsolver: The Poisonwood Bible (1001, RG-b) 52. Henryk Sienkiewicz: Quo Vadis (1001) 53. Somerset Maugham: Theatre 54. Paul F. Lazarsfeld, William H. Sewell & Harol L. Wilensky (ed.): The Uses of Sociology 55. Christos Tsiolkas: The Slap 56. Petri Tamminen: Mitä onni on 57. Rebecca Hunt: Mr Chartwell (from Kylie) 58. Letters and Numbers - Word and Number Puzzles from the SBS TV Show (from Kylie) 59. Letters and Numbers - More Word and Number Puzzles from the SBS TV Show (from Kylie) 60. Aubrey Malone: Literary Trivia - Over 300 Curious Lists for Bookworms (from Kylie) 61. Joyce Maynard: At Home in the World (from Kylie) 62. E. Chas McSween et al.: Things Bogans Like - Tribal Tatts to Reality TV: How to Recognise the Twenty-First Century Bogan (from Kylie) 63. Mary Roach: Bonk - The Curious Coupling of Sex and Science (from Kylie) 64. Philip Carlo: The Ice Man - Confessions of a Contract Killer 65. Leicester Hemingway: My Brother Ernest Hemingway 66. Joseph D. Pistone: Donnie Brasco 67. Kathy Reichs: Bare Bones 68. Colm Tóibín: Brooklyn 69. William Gibson: Neuromancer (1001, 501) 70. Irving Stone: Lust for Life - A Biographical Novel of Vincent van Gogh 71. Patricia Cornwell: Portrait of a Killer - Jack The Ripper Case Closed 72. JeffreyEugenides: Middlesex 73. StephenKing: Carrie 74. TuijaLehtinen: Ikkunaprinsessa 75. IraLevin: Rosemary's Baby 76. VäinöLinna: Under the North Star 77. SofiOksanen: Stalinin lehmät 78. ErnestHemingway: Death in the Afternoon 79. JeromeK. Jerome: Three Men on the Bummel 80. DaphneduMaurier: The Scapegoat 81. TerryPratchett: Witches Abroad 82. JohnSteinbeck: Cannery Road & Sweet Thursday 83. AlexanderMasters: Suart - A Life Backwards 84. CharlesDickens: Great Expectations (1001, RG-b) 85. Patrick Süskind: Pigeon (1001) 86. Dr Spencer Johnson: Who Moved My Cheese? (RG-b) 87. Bill Bryson: Notes from a Small Island (eng) 88. Sylvia Plath: The Journals of Sylvia Plath 89. Honoré de Balzac: Lost Illusions (1001) 90. Simone de Beauvoir: She Came to Stay 91. Ingmar Bergman: Fanny and Alexander 92. Anna Gavalda: Hunting and Gathering 93. Annie Hawes: Ripe for the Picking 94. Peter Høeg: The Woman and the Ape 95. Väinö Linna: Under the North Star #1 96. Väinö Linna: Under the North Star #3 97. Thomas Mann: Doctor Faustus (1001) 98. Daphne du Maurier: The Birds and Other Stories 99. Mary McCarthy: And No Bird Sang 100. Pentti Saarikoski: The Edge of Europe 101. Helen Simonson: Major Pettigrew's Last Stand (bookswap with poppyshake) 102. Mohsin Hamid: The Reluctant Fundamentalist (from poppyshake) 103. Markus Zusak: The Book Thief (from poppyshake) 104. Kazuo Ishiguro: Never Let Me Go (1001) (from Liisa) 105. Roddy Doyle: The Woman Who Walked into Doors 106. Ford Madox Ford: The Good Soldier (1001) 107. Philip Gonzalez & Leonore Fleischer: The Dog Who Rescues Cats 108. Susan Hill: The Bird of Night 109. Walter Mosley: Devil in a Blue Dress 110. Haruki Murakami: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running 111. Kirsten Thorup: Himmel och helvete 112. Anne Tyler: Breathing Lessons 113. Kurt Vonnegut: Palm Sunday & Welcome to the Monkeyhouse 114. Eija Wager: Tupaantuliaiset Italiassa 115. Chelsea Cain: Sweetheart 116. Ernesto 'Che' Guevara: The Motorcycle Diaries 117. Petri Karra: Haarautuvan rakkauden talo 118. Kate Atkinson: Case Histories 119. John Bayley: Elegy for Iris 120. Alain de Botton: How Proust Can Change Your Life 121. Peter Carey: Bliss 122. Philip K. Dick: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (1001) 123. Fedor Dostojevksi: The Idiot (1001) 124. Roddy Doyle: A Star Called Henry 125. Elizabeth Gaskell: North and South (1001) 126. Arthur Golden: Memoirs of a Geisha (1001) 127. Maksim Gorki: In the World 128. Patricia Highsmith: Talented Mr Ripley (1001) 129. Susan Hill: Mrs de Winter 130. Aldous Huxley: Point Counter Point 131. Nick Hornby: About a Boy 132. Nick Hornby: Slam 133. Natascha Kampusch: 3,096 Days 134. Gelsey Kirkland: Dancing on my Grave 135. John Knowles: A Separate Peace (RG-b) 136. Matti Kurjensaari: Syntynyt sivulliseksi 137. Daphne du Maurier: The Parasites 138. André Maurois: Marcel Proust 139. Sharyn McCrumb: Bimbos of the Death Sun 140. Alicia Dujovne Ortiz: Eva Peron 141. Ian Rankin: Hide & Seek 142. Erich Segal: The Class 143. Diane Setterfield: The Thirteenth Tale 144. John Steinbeck: Travels with Charley 145. Vikas Swarup: Q&A 146. Hunter S. Thompson: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1001, RG-b) 147. Anne Tyler: The Accidental Tourist 148. Mika Waltari: Johannes Angelos 149. Mika Waltari: Kuun maisema 150. Mika Waltari: Suuri illusioni 151. Stephen King: Christine 152. Stephen King: The Dark Half 153. Stephen King: Salem's Lot 154. Kathy Reichs: Cross Bones 155. Kathy Reichs: Death du Jour 156. Karin Slaughter: Triptych 157. Iain Banks: Wasp Factory 158. David Bodanis: E = mc2 159. Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter 160. Tommy Hellsten: Ihminen tavattavissa 161. Colleen McCullough: Tim 162. Martti Paloheimo: Ihmissuhteita 163. Pirkko Saisio: Elämänmeno 164. Anne Tyler: Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant 165. Mats Wahl: Ruotsia idiooteille 166. Karyn Bosnak: Save Karyn 167. William Faulkner: The Wild Palms 168. Hannah Green: I Never Promised You a Rose Garden 169. Susan Hill: I'm the King of the Castle 170. Johannes Linnankoski: Pakolaiset 171. Martti Paloheimo: Lähimmäinen 172. Christopher V. V. Parnell: Hell's Prisoner 173. Suzanne Abraham & Derek Llewellyn-Jones: Eating Disorders 174. Octave Aubry: Napoleon 175. Gerd Brantenberg: The Daughters of Egalia 176. Jacob Burckhardt: The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy 177. Insight Guides: Canada 178. Angela Carter: Wayward Girls & Wicked Women 179. Giacomo Casanova: Memoirs 180. Marianne Cederblad: Lasten ja nuorten psykiatria 181. Michael Chabon: The Mysteries of Pittsburgh 182. Denmark in the South and the North: Denmark - History II 183. Philip K. Dick: The Transmigration of Timothy Archer 184. F. Scott Fitzgerald: This Side of Paradies 185. Haavi: Suomalaista kirjallisuutta suolapytyssä ja muutakin kulttuurimurkinaa 186. Ritva Haavikko: Rivien takaa - nykykirjallisuuden tutkimusta kirjailijahaastattelujen pohjalta 187. Katarina Haavio & Satu Koskimies: 50-luvun teinit - päiväkirjat ja kirjeet 1957-1960 188. Joseph Heller: Something Happened 189. Pentti Holappa: Tuntosarvilla - esittelyjä ja esseitä 190. L. Ron Hubbard: Scientology - The Fundamentals of Thought 191. Henry James: The Europeans 192. Manuel Komroff: Abraham Lincoln 193. Kai Laitinen: Puolitiessä - esseitä kirjallisuudesta 194. Arvo Lehtovaara & Pirkko Saarinen: Nuorten mielikirjallisuus 195. Aura Louhija: Hans Christian - kertomus satukuninkaan nuoruusvuosista 196. Thomas Mann: A Man and His Dog 197. V. S. Naipaul: In a Free State (1001) 198. Psykologia 4: Ihmisen toiminnan neuropsykologia 199. Martti Rapola: Kieli elää - pakinoita ja tutkielmia 200. Lytton Strachey: Queen Victoria 201. Viveca Sundvall: Mimmi ja miljonääri Mårtensson 202. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl 203. Veikko Huovinen: Veitikka 204. Simone de Beauvoir: Voiman vuodet 205. Simone de Beauvoir: Pariisi 1939-44 206. Simone de Beauvoir: Maailman meno 207. Simone de Beauvoir: Asioiden laita 208. Simone de Beauvoir: Loppujen lopuksi 209. Julian Barnes: Talking It Over 210. Baudelaire: Välähdyksiä & Alaston sydämeni 211. William Burroughs: Cities of the Red Night 212. William Goldman: The Marathon Man (RG-b) 213. Jerome K. Jerome: Three Men in a Boat (CF, 501) 214. Donna Leon: Acqua Alta #5 215. Donna Leon: A Noble Radiance #7 216. Katherine Mansfield: A Garden Party and Other Stories (1001) 217. Cynthia Ozick: The Cannibal Galaxy 218. Sapphire: Push! 219. Erich Segal: Man, Woman and Child 220. John Kennedy Toole: The Neon Bible 221. Elie Wiesel: The Testament 222. Kingsley Amis: What Became of Jane Austen? 223. Rolan Barthes: The Pleasure of the Text 224. Leon Edel: Bloomsbury - A House of Lions 225. Per Olov Enquist: August Strindbergin elämä 226. Maksim Gorki: Esseitä kirjallisuudesta 227. T. R. Fyvel: George Orwell - A Personal memoir 228. Frank MacShane: The Life of Raymond Chandler 229. Vladimir Nabokov: Speak, Memory (RG-b) 230. Gertrude Stein: The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1001) 231. Margareta Strömstedt: Astrid Lindgren 232. Anaïs Nin: The Diary of Anaïs Nin 1934-1939 233. Anaïs Nin: The Diary of Anaïs Nin 1944-1947 234. Anaïs Nin: The Diary of Anaïs Nin 1947- 1955 235. Anaïs Nin: The Diary of Anaïs Nin 1955-1966 236. Anaïs Nin: The Diary of Anaïs Nin 1966-1974 237. Brenda Maddox: Nora 238. Arthur Miller: Timebends. A Life 239. Douglas Adams: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 240. Bill Bryson: A Short History of Nearly Everything 241. Neal Cassady: The First Third 242. Hermann Hesse: Siddhartha (RG-b, 1001) 243. Henry James: Daisy Miller and Other Stories 244. Albert Camus: The Plague (1001) 245. Margaret Drabble: The Ice Age 246. Anne Tyler: Ladder of Years 247. Heinrich Böll: Group Portrait with Lady (1001) 248. Raymond Chandler: Big Sleep (1001) 249. Christopher Fowler: The Water Room (from Transworld Book Group Reading Challenge) 250. Frank Baker: Miss Hargreaves (from Kylie) 251. Poppy Z. Brite: Drawing Blood (from Kylie) 252. Allen Ginsberg: The Book of Martyrdom + Artifice (from Kylie) 253. Laurell K. Hamilton: Guilty Pleasures (bought in Australia, sent by Kylie) 254. Susan Hill: Howards End Is on the Landing (from Kylie) 255. Susan Hill: The Small Hand (from Kylie) 256. Jan Lars Jensen: Nervous System (RG-b) (from Kylie) 257. Marco Polo: Travels in the land of Kubilai Khan (from Kylie) 258. Gary Shteyngart: Super Sad True Love Story (from Kylie) 259. Jonathan Swift: A Tale of a Tub (1001) (from Kylie) 260. Maryanne Wolf: Proust and the Squid (from Kylie) 261. Kate Atkinson: Human Croquet 262. Boris Hurtta: Rommelin kulta 263. Bertolt Brecht: The Book of Changes 264. Iain Banks: The Crow Road 265. Jonathan Safran Foer: Eating Animals 266. Thomas Hardy: The Mayor of Casterbridge (1001) 267. Henry James: What Maisie Knew (1001) 268. James Joyce: Dubliners 269. Daphne du Maurier: The House on the Strand 270. Anaïs Nin: Delta of Venus (1001) 271. Sofi Oksanen: Baby Jane 272. Arto Paasilinna: Hurmaava joukkoitsemurha 273. Bryce Courtenay: The Power of One 274. John Boyne: Crippen (Transworld Book Group Reading Challenge) 275. Jack Sheffield: Teacher, Teacher! (Transworld Book Group Reading Challenge) 276. Around the World: Trivia Quiz 277. Che Guevara: Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution - Writings and Speeches of Ernesto Che Guevara 278. Anna-Leena Härkönen: Häräntappoase 279. Henry Miller: Tropic of Capricorn (1001) 280. Walter Moers: The 131⁄2 Lives of Captain Blue Bear 281. Edvard Radzinski: Stalin 282. Anne Rice: Interview with the Vampire 283. Mika Waltari: Tanssi yli hautojen 284. Mika Waltari: Tähdet kertovat komisario Palmu 285. Vladimir Nabokov: The Gift 286. Alan Symons: Nobel Laureates 1901-2000 287. Henry Miller: Opus Pistorum 288. Kjell Westö: Lang 289. Jennifer Egan: A Visit from the Goon Squad 290. Aphrodite Jones: All She Wanted 291. Daphne du Maurier: Frenchman's Creek 292. P. G. Wodehouse: The Old Reliable 293. Filosofia Prima - Lyhyt johdatus filosofiaan 294. Robert A. Heinlein: The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress 295. Michel Houllebecq: Atomised 296. Eeva Kilpi: Naisen päiväkirja 297. Tuomas Kyrö: Mielensäpahoittaja 298. Bernard Malamud: The Tenants 299. W. Somerset Maugham: The Painted Veil 300. Colleen McCullough: The Ladies of Missalonghi 301. Achte, Alanen, Tienari: Psykiatria 302. Psykologia 1: Toimiva ihminen 303. Danny Wallace: Yes Man 304. H. L. Mencken: My Life As Author and Editor (Rory book. from Kylie!) 305. Carol Ann Duffy: The Christmas Truce (from poppyshake!) 306. Kari Aronpuro: Terveydeksi 307. Pirkko Helenoro: Tuntemattoman sotilaan tytär 308. James McBride: The Color of Water 309: Steinunn Sigurðardóttir: Heart Place Read: 29
  4. Books read in 1998:27 (on goodreads) 1999:19 (on goodreads) 2000:51 (on goodreads) 2001:46 (on goodreads) 2002:56 (on goodreads) 2003:59 (on goodreads) 2004:32 (on goodreads) 2005:47 (on goodreads) 2006:28 (on goodreads) 2007:44 (on goodreads) 2008: 77 (joined BCF 8/8/08) (BCF) 2009: 118 (BCF) 2010: 120 (BCF) NB: I'm using the Goodreads rating system, which goes like this: 1/5: I didn't like it 2/5: It was okay 3/5: I liked it 4/5: I really liked it 5/5: It was amazing Books I've read in 2011 January 1. Sybil by Flora Rheta Scheiber (RG-b) 5/5 thoughts 2. The Garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway 2/5 thoughts 3. A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett 4/5 thoughts 4. Heidi by Johanna Spyri 3/5 thoughts 5. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett 5/5 thoughts 6. 84 Charing Cross Road by Helen Hanff (BCF) 3/5 thoughts 7. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (RG-b) 1/5 thoughts 8. The Kabul Beauty School by Deborah Rodriguez 4/5 thoughts 9. The Woman in Black by Susan Hill (BCF) 3/5 thoughts 10. A Friend Like Henry by Nuala Gardner 4/5 thoughts February 11. Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer (RG-b) 3/5 thoughts 12. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (1001, RG-b) 3/5 thoughts 13. A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro (1001) 4/5 thoughts 14. Night by Elie Wiesel (RG-b) 5/5 thoughts 15. The Kiss by Kathryn Harrison 4/5 thoughts 16. Mr Rosenblum's List by Natasha Solomons (BCF) 4/5 thoughts 17. Totta by Riikka Pulkkinen 3/5 thoughts 18. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (1001, RG-b) 2/5 thoughts 19. Katoamispiste by Joel Haahtela 3/5 thoughts March 20. Room by Emma Donoghue (BCF) 5/5 thoughts 21. Le Bal by Irène Némirovsky 4/5 thoughs 22. Gourmet Rhapsody by Muriel Barbery 3/5 thoughts 23. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1001) 3/5 thoughts 24. Hissillä neljänteen kerrokseen by Maria Gripe 3/5 thoughts 25. Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski 5/5 thoughts 26. Please Kill Me - The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain (RG-b) 5/5 thoughts 27. Swimming Underground. My Years in the Warhol Factory. by Mary Woronov 4/5 thoughts 28. Killer Clown - The John Wayne Gacy Murders by Terry Sullivan with Peter T. Maiken 3/5 thoughts 29. Watchmen by Alan Moore & David Gibbons (1001) 5/5 thoughts 30. Tumman veden päällä by Peter Franzén 5/5 thoughts 31. The Fry Chronicles by Stephen Fry (BCF) 3/5 thoughts April 32. Factotum by Charles Bukowski 2/5 thoughts 33. Incidences by Daniil Harms 5/5 thoughts 34. Sata tapaa tappaa sielu - narsismin uhrit kertovat by Tuija Välipakka 5/5thoughts 35. Popular Music from Vittula by Mikael Niemi 4/5 thoughts 36. A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham (April reading circle) 4/5 thoughts 37. First, Second by Daniil Harms 4/5 thoughts 38. Popcorn by Ben Elton 4/5 thoughts 39. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (1001, RG-b) 5/5 thoughts 40. On the Road by Jack Kerouac (1001, RG-b) 4/5 thoughts May 41.The Secret Language of Eating Disorders by Peggy Claude-Pierre 5/5 thoughts 42. Oliver's Story by Erich Segal 5/5 thoughts 43. Emotional Geology by Linda Gillard (BCF) 5/5 thoughts 44. The Group by Mary McCarthy (RG-b, 501) 4/5 thoughts 45. Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín (BCF, RC) 4/5 thoughts 46. Lemmy - White Line Fever by Lemmy Kilmister 3/5 thoughts 47. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway(1001) 4/5 thoughts 48. Gump & Co. by Winstom Groom (BCF) 4/5 thoughts 49. Howards End by E. M. Forster (1001) 3/5 thoughts 50. Haunted by James Herbert (BCF) 1/5 thoughts 51. My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier 5/5 thoughts 52. Punainen erokirja by Pirkko Saisio 5/5 thoughts June 53. The Winter Queen by Boris Akunin 5/5 thoughts 54. The Pigeon by Patrick Süskind (1001) 4/5 thoughts 55. The Edge of Europe by Pentti Saarikoski 4/5 thoughts 56. The Apprentice by Tess Gerritsen 3/5 thoughts 57. The Sinner by Tess Gerritsen 4/5 thoughts 58. Body Double by Tess Gerritsen 4/5 thoughts 59. Vanish by Tess Gerritsen 5/5 thoughts 60. The Mephisto Club by Tess Gerritsen 4/5 thoughts 61. Slam by Nick Hornby 3/5 thoughts July 62. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson 3/5 thoughts 63. Ruotsia idiooteille by Mats Wahl 4/5 thoughts 64. 3,096 Days by Natascha Kampusch 3/5 thoughts 65. The Blue Castle by L. M. Montgomery 5/5 thoughts 66. Save Karyn by Karyn Bosnak 3/5 thoughts 67. The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith (1001) 3/5 thoughts 68. The Woman Who Walked into Doors by Roddy Doyle 3/5 thoughts August 69. And No Bird Sang by Mary McCarthy 3/5 thoughts 70. Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi (RG-b, RC) 2/5 thoughts 71. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1001) 4/5 thoughts 72. A Man and His Dog by Thomas Mann 4/5 thoughts 73. The Dog Who Rescues Cats by Philip Gonzalez & Leonore Fleischer 5/5 thoughts 74. Between the Sheets - The Literary Liaisons of Nine 20th-Century Women Writers by Lesley McDowell 5/5 thoughts 75. Hide & Seek by Ian Rankin 3/5 thoughts September 76. Hullu luokka iskee jälleen by Kaisa Ikola (re-read) 2/5 thoughts 77. The Mystery of the Strange Bundle by Enid Blyton (re-read) 4/5 thoughts 78. Mimmi ja miljonääri Mårtensson by Viveca Sundvall 4/5 thoughts 79. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome 4/5 thoughts 80. The Radleys by Matt Haig 4/5 thoughts October 81. The Water Room by Christopher Fowler 3/5 thoughts 82. Kuutamolla by Katja Kallio (re-read) 4/5 thoughts 83. Mielensäpahoittaja by Tuomas Kyrö 5/5 thoughts November 84. The Millstone by Margaret Drabble (re-read) 4/5 thoughts 85. Teacher, Teacher! by Jack Sheffield (TBGRC) 4/5 thoughts 86. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie (1001, RC) 3/5 thoughts 87. Crippen by John Boyne (TBGRC) 5/5 thoughts 88. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers (RG-b) 1/5 thoughts 89. Kettusen Kootut by Markus Kajo (re-read) 5/5 thoughts December 90. The Book of Ultimate Truths by Robert Rankin (BCF) 4/5 thoughts 91. Nenäpäivä by Mikko Rimminen 4/5 thoughts Currently reading: 9. Veitikka. A. Hitlerin elämä ja toiminta by Veikko Huovinen 9. Literary Trivia - Over 300 Curious Lists for Bookworms by Aubrey Malone 9. Eating Disorders by Suzanne Abraham & Derek Llewellyn-Jones ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Number of TBR books read this year: 50 Number of Rory Books read this year: 12 Number of 1001 Books read this year: 14 Number of wishlist reads: 21 Number of re-reads: 6 Number of library reads: 33 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Stats out of curiosity: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Read books written by female authors: 45 Read books written by male authors: 48 Books read in Finnish: 61 Books read in English: 30 Books written by familiar authors: 33 Books written by new-to-me authors: 56 Books read by Finnish authors: 12 (how shameful!) Books read by foreign authors: 79 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Books recommended by BCF members: 13 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Fictional novels: 62 Non-fictional books: 5 (Auto)biographies, novels based on true stories: 25 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ratings: 1/5: 3 2/5: 5 3/5: 25 4/5: 34 5/5: 24
  5. I'm so far behind with my reviews... yet again But I really want to write something, no matter how little, about all the books I've read this year, before I start my new 2011 reading blog. So here goes: 98. The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin I really enjoy reading Ira Levin's thriller novels. They're always quite short, but somehow Levin manages to create such scary situation by only so many words. I look forward to reading more of his novels. 3/5 99. When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr A novel about a Jewish family during WWI(I?). Liked the story and loved reading about war from a little girl's point-of-view. The title (Hitler and the article-less Pink Rabbit) was something that really stood out for me so had to read it, and somebody had recommended this book somewhere, quite possibly on this forum. 4/5 100. Sellevision by Augusten Burroughs I love Augusten Burroughs. I was a bit nervous about reading this fictional novel by him, always having only read true stories written by him about his own life, but I was happily surprised to see how talented he is even with a fictional story. He always makes me laugh. 5/5 101. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett (RG-b) A Rory read. I thought this would be a serious and a really difficult read about different policitical issues and wasn't particularly looking forward to it. I was mesmerized by the story and the characters, however. A really pleasant surprise. 4/5 102. Property by Valerie Martin (RG-b) A Rory read. I didn't make much of the story but I would say that it's 90% my own fault. When the story didn't grab me right from the start, I should've left it til a more convenient time. Instead, I forced myself through it and therefor didn't enjoy it to the fullest. Not the book's fault. 2/5 103. The True And Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elizabeth Brown A Rory read. There's one good scene in the book (clothes change room scene at the department store), otherwise it was pretty rubbish. I felt like I was expecting something to happen and nothing ever did. 1/5 104. Magical Thinking by Augusten Burroughs Have I already told you that I love Augusten Burroughs? 5/5 105. Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin An eye-opening read. It's good to read actual non-fiction stuff about what went down then and there, and not just to see TV series about it, making it all seem less real. 3/5 106. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson For some reason I'd thought that this was a fantasy novel I enjoyed the novel anyways. 4/5 107. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach A Rory read. Have you ever thought about what happens to cadavers, other than the usual burial/cremation? Well, even if you haven't, you should read this book. It was extremely funny and incredibly enlightening. I guess I'm a bit whack but I really really enjoyed all the facts and stories in this book. Not for those who are easily disturbed! 5/5 108. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons I read this basically because of all the high praise it's gotten here on the forum. I liked it fine but it was nothing special. 2/5 109. The Long Hard Road out of Hell by Marilyn Manson with Neil Strauss I've always been fascinated about Marilyn Manson so I was really thrilled to find this autobiography. There were some interesting stories, especially the stuff that happened in his life before his career in music, but I have to say that I was kind of disappointed in Manson, I thought he was a recluse genious. To me it seems that he's just bitter and wants to attract attention with all the horrid stunts he pulls. He claimed to act out as a protest against "all that is wrong in America", but I didn't see the reasoning behind it all anywhere. I think he should've gone into detail about his logic and thought process. However, it made an interesting read and therefore 4/5 110. The Wayward Bus by John Steinbeck An incredibly enjoyable read! Fantastically made out characters. A book I will re-read and re-read. 4/5 111. The Bad Dog's Diary by Martin Howard Boring! 1/5 112. Mesimarjani, pulmuni, pääskyni by Hilkka Ravilo A Finnish novel for a change. It dealt with pretty horrid themes but was interesting anyways. 4/5 113. Manillaköysi by Veijo Meri A Finnish classic I've been meaning to read for ages. Mostly included war stories. 3/5 114. Love Story by Erich Segal (RG-b) A Rory read. Short, simple, but beautiful. I don't even know why I loved it so much. 5/5 115. Barmy in Wonderland by P. G. Wodehouse A fun read! Should read more Wodehouse. 4/5 116. Possible Side Effects by Augusten Burroughs Another 291 pages of reasons why to love Augusten Burroughs. 5/5 117. Farmer Giles of Ham by J. R. R. Tolkien So and so. 3/5 118. Only You Can Save Mankind by Terry Pratchett Alright. 3/5 119. The Eleven Thousand Rods by Apollinaire Pure sodom and gomorrah stuff. 2/5 120. The Exploits of a Young Don Juan by Apollinaire After The Eleven Thousand Rods this reads like a romantic love story. 2/5
  6. As for the Pavlova, I asked my brother if he knows it and he does but he doesn't like merengue so it's just as well I didn't make them, and he doesn't like marshmallows either. Anyways, I just noticed that there's a new dachshund in the neighborhood, I'm excited!! :) I hope you've had an excellent Xmas, from the snippets I've read here and there I think ...

  7. Hi Kylie! Thanks for the PM, I'll PM you back later. Just wanted to let you know that I didn't make pavlovas or Rocky Road for Xmas because the shops were just closing when I got to Nurmes. But! I just came to Joensuu and I find copha in the nearest shop, yay!!! And marshmallows as well. I'm definitely making Rocky Road for New Years :)

  8. Thank goodness for J. K. Rowling and Harry! Too bad you didn't enjoy the book as much as you'd hoped, Lucy. One would wish to get a book of all new facts about general misconceptions and not just the authors repeating the stuff from the show Anyways, I'm thankful for your review because I don't think we get IQ here in Finland and now I'm really interested in the book and will be looking for it at some point. Thanks Lucy!
  9. A remainder for the reading blog 2011: First Tuesday Book Club challenge: 2006: The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins The Unknown Terrorist by Richard Flanagan The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard The Mission Song by John le Carre The Rachel Papers by Martin Amis The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón Longitude by Dava Sobel The Ballad of Desmond Kale by Roger McDonald American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis 2007: The Children by Charlotte Wood Not in the Flesh by Ruth Rendell The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan East of Time by Jacob G. Rosenberg Moby Dick by Herman Melville The Memory of Running by Ron McLarty The Broken Shore by Peter Temple The Dancer Upstairs by Nicholas Shakespeare A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain Fournier Alice's Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut The Road by Cormac McCarthy The Secret River by Kate Grenville In The Company of The Courtesan by Sarah Dunant The Solid Mandala by Patrick White Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones 2008: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer Something to Tell You by Hanif Kureishi The Outsider by Albert Camus The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian Moore Pandora in the Congo by Albert Sánchez Piñol Disquiet by Julia Leigh A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow Devil May Care by Sebastian Faulks Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie Miracles of Life by J.G. Ballard Breath by Tim Winton Demons at Dusk by Peter Stewart Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis Naked by David Sedaris The Memory Room by Christopher Koch 2009: Summer Reads by Ordinary Thunderstorms by William Boyd The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark This Is How by MJ Hyland Ask the Dust by John Fante The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides Gone Tomorrow by Lee Child The Collector by John Fowles The Housekeeper + the Professor by Yoko Ogawa Ransom by David Malouf The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald Darwin and the Barnacle by Rebecca Stott The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas The Private Patient by PD James Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga 2010: Dead Man's Chest by Kerry Greenwood Parrot & Olivier in America by Peter Carey Freedom by Jonathan Franzen Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger Indelible Ink by Fiona McGregor Inheritance by Nicholas Shakespeare To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth One Day by David Nichols Reading By Moonlight by Brenda Walker Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys Strange case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson Solar by Ian McEwan Zeitoun by Dave Eggers Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
  10. Just a couple of reminder posts for myself: I found this mini interview from the First Tuesday Book Club website : " Celebrity Readers Jason Steger 1. What are you reading now? "Everyman" by Philip Roth; "Open Secret" by Stella Rimington; "Emil and Karl" by Yankev Glatshteyn. 2. What is your favourite book? "Staying On" by Paul Scott; "Le Grand Meaulnes" by Alain-Fournier; "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens, and "The Book of Fame" by Lloyd Jones. 32222. What is your earliest memory of books? Getting a Janet and John book when I was about six. 4. What is the book that changed your life? "Resurrection" by Leo Tolstoy; "Sons and Lovers" by DH Lawrence; "News from Nowhere" by William Morris. 5. Most over rated book? "Da Vinci Code". 6. Best and worst film adaptations? Best: "Third Man" (Graham Greene); "Black Stallion" (Walter Farley); "Brokeback Mountain" (Annie Proulx); "Grapes of Wrath" (Steinbeck); "To Kill a Mockingbird" (Lee); "Long Goodbye" (Robert Altman version of Chandler’s novel); Worst: "Honorary Consul" (Greene). 7. How do you choose what book to read next? Mainly dictated by work. I love to read crime novels on planes. 8. Where do you read? Bed, sofa, tram, plane, beach. Never in a car - I would be sick. 9. Which fictional character would you most like to be? Tintin or Philip Marlowe. "
  11. This Christmas is awful, bookwise! I haven't received any books and haven't been reading any. I tried to get into Hippopotamus by Stephen Fry but it seemed a tad boring My mojo's gone. I miss my bookshelves back home, I'm sure I would find something to suit my fancy.
  12. We're watching old home videos from all the Christmases past. It's so weird to see my now 16 year old cousin as a young toddler
  13. Hello Himself and welcome to the forum! What a lovely avatar you've found for yourself. I mean, for Himself.
  14. frankie

    Hi Everyone

    Hello Cyra and welcome to the forum! I envy your job
  15. Hehe, I read the other Apollinaire last night so I'm up to 120 already and can begin my Xmas holidays with whatever I choose! Thank you Kylie! Excellent suggestions. I need to leave Jasper Fforde for next year because I want to re-read Jane Eyre before that. And I want to re-read the two Jeffery Deavers that I've already read in order to go into the next ones. Although I might have the first book in Finnish, so it might be good to take it with me and read it and then give it to Mum, she might really enjoy it. I could then buy an English copy for myself, because all my other Deavers are in Finnish. Wow, thanks for that, I'm taking it with me! Stephen Fry is actually something that I'd been thinking about myself. Maybe it's time to read Hippopotamus, the book that BF has read and has been harassing me to read for at least a year Good suggesting, but I'm sorry VD, I've already read it A good read it was, it was really interesting to see how it all changed for John. Can't go into lenghts with that though, must now pack mah books!
  16. System of a Down. All the albums right from the start. Awesome stuff.
  17. Thanks VD, I'm pretty pleased myself, I'm up to 119 books this year and should make 120 books easily. I only need to read The Exploits of a Young Don Juan which is a short quick read me thinks. Then I've succeeded in my goal and will be happy to chill and read whatever I want. The thing is, I have no idea what to read next. I want to read something that I know I'll enjoy a LOT. Something I've been wanting to read for ages. But there are too many choices. Any opinions? Kylie? Help? And nothing too serious, I want it to be fairly easy, it's Christmas after all. I was thinking Lord of the Rings but for that I wouldn't come out of my room for a couple of days and I think my parents would object to that so I'll leave it til I'm home again. TBR is on the front page, I'm welcoming all your suggestions You have 12 hours to vote. The lines are open. Edit: Almost forgot, silly me: Merry Christmas everyone!!! See you next year at the latest if we don't run into each other before that
  18. Started and finished The Eleven Thousand Rods by Apollinaire and will probably be looking into The Exploits of Young Don Juan today.
  19. G'day mate and welcome to the forum!
  20. Don't worry VD, that's what I intend to do when I get back home Finished Augusten Burroughs's Possible Side Effect today, and started and finished Farmer Giles of Ham by J. R. R. Tolkien. I only have three more books to read to reach my target of 120 read books this year, should be easy enough.
  21. Wow, I never knew Christmas lights could be so tricky! My Dad's always been the one to set them up and I'm not looking forward to the time when he retires from the post.
  22. I wish I'd been there to watch it with you I watched Inception with BF on Saturday. Excellent movie.
  23. Uh oh, the Whip! Vodkafan, start posting, and soon!! What have you been reading lately? And how's life been for you? I hope you're dandy
  24. 30 pages! You're a machine, Kylie! My latest book haul: The Eleven Thousand Rods by Apollinaire The Exploits of a Young Don Juan by Apollinaire Death at la Fenice by Donna Leon The Pact by Jodi Picoult Glue by Irvine Welsh Farmer Giles of Ham by J. R. R. Tolkien The Kabul Beauty School by Deborah Rodriguez Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally
  25. If I don't have to consider the fact that I would probably love to do more travelling with only one year to live and other stuff, and if I would have one year that I could truly dedicate to reading, I think I would do a lot of re-reading. There are loads of books I've been wanting to re-read for a while now, and I think I'd like to go back to old favorites, old familiar characters and old familiar scenes and places. I'd love to re-read the Harry Potters, The Shadow of the Wind, A Home at the End of the World, A Tale of Two Cities, all Augusten Burroughs novels, ... and also read the books that I have on my TBR pile that I really really want to read. The books that I've been putting off reading because I have this feeling they'll be so good that I want to wait for the right time to read them. That I want to savour the wait and the anticipation of reading the novels. Man, I miss my bookcases. Haha, that's a good one! I'm actually doing that this weekend, only my food of choice will be chips
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