Books read 2019

Herman Hesse (2000) The glass bead game. Vintage Books, London, 530pp.

Benjamin Linder (2017) Beyond the creeping light. Vajra Books, Kathmandu, xix + 48pp. JRR Tolkien (2018) The fall of Gondolin. HarperCollinsPublishers, London, 304pp. Ken Follett (2017) A column of fire. Macmillan, London, xiii + 751pp. Franz Kafka (2014) The complete short stories. Projapoti, Calcutta, ix + 412pp. George RR Martin (2011) A clash of kings. HarperVoyager, London, 911pp. Arne Drews (2018) Himalaya gold - a Nepal detective story. Vajra Books, Kathmandu, ix + 118pp. Nikita Gill (2017) Wild embers. Trapeze, London, x + 150pp. Elizabeth Strout (2017) Anything is possible. Viking, London, 254pp. Maggie Nelson (2015) The Argonauts. Melville House UK, London, 180pp. Stephen King (2013) Doctor Sleep. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 485pp. Roland Barthes (2002) A lover’s discourse. Vintage Books, London, 234pp. Anton Chekhov (2015) The prank. New York Review Books, New York, xvi + 114pp. Kurt Vonnegut (2006) God bless you, Mr. Rosewater. Dial Press Trade Paperbacks, New York, 275pp. Hans Rosling (2018) Factfulness. Sceptre, London, x + 342pp. Alexander Pushkin (2010) Yevgeny Onegin. Everyman Classics, Gurgaon, xxix + 232pp. John Howe (2018) A Middle-Earth traveller. HarperCollinsPublishers, London, 192pp. Alice Munro (2007) The progress of love. Vintage Books, London, 309pp. Heinrich Harrer (1997) Seven years in Tibet. HarperCollinsPublishers, New Delhi, xv + 288pp. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2017) Americanah. 4th Estate, London, 477pp. Heinrich Harrer (1985) Return to Tibet. Penguin Books, London, 184pp. Roy Jacobsen (2014) De usynlige. Rosinante, Copenhagen, 216pp. Jussi Adler-Olsen (2016) Kvinden i buret. Politikens Forlag, Copenhagen, 379pp. Peter Høgh (1993) Frøken Smillas fornemmelse for sne. Rosinante, Copenhagen, 435pp. Dorthe Nors (2016) Spejl, skulder, blink. Gyldendal, Copenhagen, 191pp. Albert Camus (2000) The rebel. Penguin Books, London, xii + 260pp. Hermann Hesse (2014) Strange news from another star. Pygmaion LLP, i + 28pp. Aksel Sandemose (2010) En flygtning krydser sit spor. Schønberg, Copenhagen, 439pp. Celeste Ng (2017) Little fires everywhere. Penguin Press, New York, 338pp. GRR Martin, EM García and L Antonsson (2014) The world of fire and ice. Bantam Books, New York, 326pp. Paul Auster (2011) Oracle night. Faber and Faber, London, 207pp. Hermann Hesse (2012) Knulp. Pygmaion LLP, i + 91pp. Erich Fromm (1995) The art of loving. Thorsons, London, viii + 104pp. Yoko Ogawa (2009) The diving pool. Vintage Books, London, 164pp. Rune T Kidde (1999) 101 mak og mesterværker. Forlaget Modtryk, Århus, 160pp. Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (2005) Paul and Virginia. Peter Owen, London, 142pp. Halfdan Rasmussen (1969) Forventning. Det Schønbergske Forlag, Copenhagen, 85pp. Carl Gustav Jung (2003) Aspects of the feminine. Routledge, London, viii + 213pp. Sally Rooney (2018) Normal people. Faber & Faber, London, 266pp. Rabindranath Tagore (2012) Gitanjali. Penguin Books, New Delhi, lxxxvi + 257pp. Hermann Hesse (1998) Rosshalde. Picador, New York, 213pp. Gregory David Roberts (2015) The mountain shadow. Little, Brown, London, 873pp. Patrick Süskind (2010) Perfume. Penguin Books, London, 263pp. Kurt Vonnegut (1990) Hocus pocus. Vintage Books, London, iii + 268pp. Haruki Murakami (2018) Killing commendatore. Vintage, London, 681pp. JK Rowling (2018) Harry Potter & and the chamber of secrets. Bloomsbury, London, 360pp. William Shakespeare (2016) King Lear. Penguin Book, Gurgaon, 160pp.

Books! Free books! So as mentioned, I’m getting rid of some of my books, so if anyone wants some, here’s a list! Fastest gets the first pickings. I can drop the books off by hand in Jyväskylä and Helsinki, though Helsinki has to be agreed to, cos I visit there as little as I possibly can. Also I guess all the cons I’m going to this year (Animecon, Tracon and Ropecon). If you don’t live in Finland, message me and we can talk about splitting shipping.

I’ll give this a few weeks, so until 8th of May. I’ll reblog this a few times.

Books under the cut.

In English

Fiction

Lawrence, D. H. 2002. Kangaroo. Softcover.

Legends - A collection of fantasy short stories (Terry Pratchett, Anne McCaffrey, George R.R. Martin, Tad Williams, Robert Jordan). 1998. Softcover.

Marley, Stephen. 1993. Dreddlocked (A Judge Dredd -novel). Softcover.

Popovici, Titus.1957. The Stranger. Hardcover.

Shakespeare, William. 1993. Troilus and Cressida. Softcover.

Non-Fiction

Dahl, Oyvind; Jensen, Iben & Nynäs, Peter. 2006. Bridges of Understanding - Perspectives on Intercultural Communication. Softcover.

della Porta, Donatella & Diani, Mario. 2006. Social Movements - An Introduction. Softcover.

Greer, John Michael. 2012. A History of the End of Time - Apocalypse. Softcover.

Lessig, Lawrence. 2004. Free Culture - How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity. Hardcover.

Lull, James.1990. Inside Family Viewing - Ethnographic Research on Television’s Audiences. Softcover.

Negri, Antonio.1989. The Politics of Subversion - A Manifesto for the Twenty-First Century. Hardcover.

Peacock, James L. 2001. The Anthropological Lens - Harsh Light, Soft Focus. Softcover.

Perelman, Ch. 1971. The Idea of Justice and the Problem of Argument. Hardcover.

Pollock, Linda A. 1983. Forgotten Children - Parent-child relations from 1500 to 1900. Softcover.

Solomon, Kenneth & Levy, Norman B (ed.). 1982. Men in Transition - Theory and Therapy. Hardcover.

Other

Hodgard, Matthew (ed.) The Faber Book of Ballads. 1965. Hardcover, jacket missing.

Smith, Keri. 2009. This Is Not a Book. Softcover. An Interactive book? Not filled.

Suomeksi

Kaunokirjallisuus

Beauman, Sally. 1991. Hämärän enkeli (2. osa). Kovakantinen.

Brown, Carter. 1968. TV tekee kauhukuvaa. Pokkari.

Herbert, Frank. 1983. Dyyni - Profeetta (3. osa). Pokkari.

Hesse, Hermann. 1989. Riikinkukkokehrääjä ja muita kertomuksia. Kovakantinen.

Hoffman, Mary. 2005. Stravaganza - Kukkien kaupunki (3.osa).  Kovakantinen, päällyksessä pieni repeämä.

Ihmisen tie - Valikoima latinalaisen Amerikan kirjallisuutta.1983. Kovakantinen. Päällys puuttuu.

Jacq, Christian. 2000. Musta faarao. Kovakantinen.

Meyrink, Gustav. 2010. Golem. Pokkari.

Obreht, Téa. 2011. Tiikerin vaimo. Pokkari.

Sansom, C. J. 2010. Talvi Madridissa. Kovakantinen.

Sienkiewicz, Henryk. 1948. Quo Vadis. Kovakantinen.

Steinbeck, John. 2010. Vihan hedelmät. Pokkari.

Tolstoi, Leo. 1952. Kasakat. Kovakantinen.

Tsehov, Anton. 2008. Lokki. Pokkari.

Tietokirjallisuus

Bockris, Victor. 2011. Andy Warhol. Pokkari.

Honko, Lauri. 1972. Uskontotieteen näkökulmia. Pokkari.

Manvell, Roger & Fraenkel, Heirich. 2012. Goebbels - Kolmannen valtakunnan propagandaministeri. Kovakantinen.

Vartiainen Pekka. 2009.  Pokkari, 4 osaa.

Antiikki, keskiaika ja renesanssi länsimaisen kirjallisuuden historiassa.

Barokki, klassismi, valistus ja romantiikka länsimaisen kirjallisuuden historiassa

Realismi länsimaisen kirjallisuuden historiassa.

Modernismi länsimaisen kirjallisuuden historiassa.

Pleasures of 2016 - read widely :-)

Amir Khusrau (2013) In the bazaar of love - the selected poetry of Amir Khusrau. Penguin Books, Delhi, liii + 164pp. Maggie Nelson (2009) Bluets. Wave Books, New York, 99pp. Steen Steensen Blicher (2014) De danske træer. Blicher-Selskabet og Gyldendal, Copenhagen, 64pp. Osho (2011) Maturity - the responsibility of being oneself. St Martin's Griffin, New York, xxiii + 184pp. Rohinton Mistry (2006) A fine balance. Faber and Faber, London, 614pp. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2012) The sorrows of young Werther. Oxford World's Classics, Oxford University Press, Oxford, xxxv + 118pp. David Herbert Lawrence (2010) Lady Chatterley's lover. Arcturus, London, 303pp. Simon Kernick (2015) The final minute. Arrow Books, London, 392pp. Charles Bukowski (2015) On writing. Ed: Abel Debritto, HarperCollins Publishers, New York, viii + 216pp. Graham Greene (2004) The end of the affair. Vintage Books, London, xvi + 160pp. Rune T Kidde (1999) 101 mak og mesterværker - verdenslitterærlig nedslagsbog fra Ah til Åh. Forlaget Modtryk, Aarhus, 160pp. David Nicholls (2014) Us. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 399pp. Hermann Hesse (2003) Beneath the wheel. Picador, New York, 187pp. Hermann Hesse (2016) Klingsor's last summer. S Fischer Verlag, Berlin, ii + 69pp. David Day (2015) Tolkien: an illustrated atlas. Cassell, London, 256pp. Milena Busquets (2016) This too shall pass. Harvill Secker, London, 154pp. Kazuo Ishiguro (2015) The buried giant. Faber & Faber, London, 362pp. Han Kang (2015) The vegetarian. Portobello Books, London, 183pp. Anton Chekhov (2004) The shooting party. Penguin Books, London, xxxiii + 199pp. Yoko Ogawa (2011) Hotel Iris. Vintage Books, London, 164pp. Lopsang Chhiring Lama and Sonam Lama (2013) Trekking in the Manaslu Region & Tsum Valley. Himalayan Map House, Kathmandu, 144pp. Milan Kundera (1992) The joke. Faber and Faber Limited, London, 323pp. Neil Gaiman (2013) The ocean at the end of the lane. Headline Publishing Group, London, 255pp. Albert B Lloyd (1906?) Uganda to Khartoum - life and adventure on the Upper Nile. T Fisher Unwin, London, xii + 308pp. George Orwell (2011) Nineteen eighty-four. Penguin Books, New Delhi, 326pp. William Golding (1996) Lord of the flies. Faber and Faber Limited, London, xii + 288pp. Liz Berry (2014) Black country. Chatto & Windus, London, 61pp. Osho (2007) The silence of the heart - talks on Sufi stories. Full Circle, New Delhi, 259pp. Jørgen Leth (2014) Fra et sted til et andet. Gyldendal, Copenhagen, 130pp. Khaled Hosseini (2011) The kite runner. Bloomsbury, London, 324pp. Aldous Huxley (2004) Chrome yellow. Vintage Books, London, 170pp. Kurt Vonnegut (2000) Slaughterhouse - five. Vintage Books, London, 177pp. P.J. Allen (2011) The Yeti quotient. Cypress Publications, Tallahassee, 250pp.

Mixed fruits of 2018 :-)

Pia Tafdrup (2006) Tarkovskijs heste. Gyldendal, Copenhagen, 75pp.

Ivan Turgenev (2014) Virgin soil. Alma Classics, Richmond, xi + 301pp.

Paul Auster (1990) Moon palace. Penguin Books, London, 307pp.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (2009) The little prince. Egmont, London, 91pp.

Gyula Krúdy (1998) The adventures of Sindbad. New York Review Books, New York, xxiv + 205pp.

Fyodor Dostoevsky (2009) A gentle creature and other stories. Oxford University Press, Oxford, xxvii + 132pp.

Hermann Hesse (1997) Gertrude. Picador, New York, 237pp.

Stanley Fish (2011) How to write a sentence and how to read one. Harper, New York, 165pp.

Alexander Pushkin (2014) Belkins stories, and a history of Goryúkhino village. Alma Classics, London, xi + 175pp.

Rumi (2004) Selected poems. Translated by Coleman Banks. Penguin Books, London, xvii + 310pp.

Michael Longley (2017) Angel Hill. Jonathan Cape, Cape Poetry, London, 63pp.

Andrew McMillan (2015) Physical. Jonathan Cape, Cape Poetry, London, 53pp.

JRR Tolkien (2017) Beren and Lúthien. HarperCollinsPublishers, London, 288pp.

Chinua Achebe (2010) Things fall apart. Penguin Books, London, 197pp.

JK Rowling (2017) Harry Potter and the philosopher’s stone. Bloomsbury, London, xv + 350pp.

Ivan Turgenev (1990) Sketches from a Hunter’s Album. Penguin Books, London, 403pp.

DH Lawrence (2004) The virgin and the gipsy & other stories. Wordsworth Classics, Hertfordshire, xxiv + 216pp.

George RR Martin (2011) A game of thrones. Harper Voyager, London, 801pp.

Michael Ondaatje (2004) The English patient. Bloomsbury, London, 324pp.

Stephen King (2011) The shining. Hodder & Stoughton, London, xiii + 497pp.

Swami Anand Arun (2016) Lone seeker, many masters. Osho Tapoban Publication, Kathmandu, xiii + 329pp.

Salman Rushdie (2001) Fury. Random House, New York, 259pp.

Albert Camus (2010) The outsider. Penguin Books, London, 119pp.

Terry Pratchett (2009) Unseen academicals. Harper, New York, 517pp.

Rainer Maria Rilke (2000) Selected poems. Penguin Books, London, 93pp.

Graham Greene (2004) Our man in Havana. Vintage Books, London, xx + 225pp.

Kazuo Ishiguro (2005) Never let me go. Faber and Faber Limited, London, 282pp.

Thomas Korsgaard (2017) Hvis der skulle komme et menneske forbi. Lindhardt og Ringhof, Copenhagen, 314pp.

John Williams (2014) Butcher’s crossing. Vintage Books, London, xiv + 326pp.

Halfdan Rasmussen (1968) Den, som har set september. Det Schønbergske Forlag, Copenhagen, 78pp.

Yorgos Alisanoglou (2016) Legestue. Det Poetiske Bureaus Forlag, Copenhagen, 96pp.

Ivan Goncharov (2014) Oblomov. Alma Classics, Richmond, xv + 582pp.

Alice Munro (2013) Dear life. Vintage International, New York, 319pp.

Lewis Carroll (2016) Alice’s adventures in Wonderland. Penguin Books, Gurgaon, 116pp.

Elizabeth Strout (2016) My name is Lucy Barton. Viking, Random House, London, 193pp.

Michael Rasmussen (2018) Udbrud - cykling og andre sandheder. People’s Press, Copenhagen, 169pp.

Alice Munro (1995) Open secrets. Vintage Books, London, 294pp.

Julie Buntin (2017) Marlena. Picador, London, 274pp.

Daniel Odier (1997) Tantric quest. Inner Traditions, Rochester, 184pp.

Gustave Flaubert (2001) Madame Bovary. Wordsworth Classics, Ware, xxii + 295pp.