Last Year's Literature (Tati)

So, here's a list of my accomplished reading of last year. I would say it's about half of what it usually is, I have prioritised differently. Also, reding Vargas Llosa in Spanish took a very long time, being my third language, and I also wasted a lot of time trying to get through a book by García Márquez that I never finished due to it being utterly boring.

Carlos Ruíz Zafón: Vindens skugga
Gabriel García Márquez: Love in the times of cholera
Mario Vargas Llosa: La fiesta del chiv0
Isabel Allende: La suma the los dias
Mitch Albom: The five people you meet in heaven
Frank McCourt: Angela's ashes
Roberto Bolaño: The savage detectives
The Bible, Genesis
Haruki Murakami: Norwegian wood
Jack Kerouac: On the road
Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray
Lotta Abrahamsson: Full koll

Handla

Tänkte tillhandahålla den lista över bra webbplatser för bokinköp som tidigare låg i länkfältet:

Svenska butiker
Adlibris: Levererar fraktfritt inom Sverige
Bokia: Mainstream men med goda möjligheter att beställa in
Bokus: I samarbete med Akademibokhandeln
CDON Böcker: Billigt men med ett mindre sortiment
Bokbörsen: Utmärkt andrahandssida med stort urval

Engelska butiker
Abebooks: Nytt eller second hand, snabbt, smart och billigt
The Book Depository: Stort urval med gratis frakt
Alibris: Mycket stort sortiment, säljer även second hand
Amazon Books: Bra prisjämföring, säljer även e-böcker
Bookfinder: Stark sökmotor med överblick över återförsäljare
Oxfam Books: Second hand-butik för välgörenhet
The Book People: Bra erbjudanden på bokserier och samlingar
Waterstones: Mycket utförlig butik men något dyr
WHSmith: Resonabelt bra, har tråkigt nog mest bestsellers
Bookswim: Online-bibliotek, tyvärr endast USA
Borders: Mycket utförlig men även här endast USA

Byten
Bookcrossing: Hitta böcker som andra gömmer i världen
Bookhopper: Networking för utbyte av oönskade böcker
Bookmooch: Bytessite med poängsystem
Swapshop: Bestsellers och även andra varor efter poängsystem
Read It Swap It: Bokbyten mellan individuella användare
Paperback Swap: Byte av pocketböcker, endast USA

Last Year's Literature

Last year held the following books in store for me:

Jules Verne: Around The World In 80 Days
Irvine Welsh: Trainspotting
Les Murray: Den Svarta Hunden
Jonas Gardell: Jenny
Lucy Eyre: I Döda Filosofers Sällskap
Michael Palin: Hemingways Stol
Michael Palin: Spegelstenen
Terry Jones: Erik Vikings Saga
John Cleese; Robin Skynner: Livet Och Hur Man Överlever Det
Jennifer Lee Carrell: Shakespeares Hemlighet
J.K. Rowling: The Tales Of Beedle The Bard
Erlend Loe: Expedition L
The Harvard Lampoon: Bored Of The Rings
Jan Cederquist: Slumpen Är Ingen Tillfällighet
Helen Fielding: Bridget Jones's Diary
Joseph Heller: Something Happened
Stephenie Meyer: Twilight
Mary Roach: Kroppens Sällsamma Liv Efter Döden
Catherine Cookson: Gökungen
Mark Lynas: Sex Grader: Vår Framtid På En Varmare Jord
Göran Hägg: Författarskolan
J.R.R. Tolkien: The Hobbit
Gail Anderson-Dargatz: The Cure For Death By Lightning
Susanna Clarke: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Alan Moore; Dave Gibbons: Watchmen
Robert Rankin: Snuff Fiction
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus
Evelyn Waugh: A Handful Of Dust
Jane Austen: Emma
Karl Pilkington; Ricky Gervais; Stephen Merchant: Ricky Gervais Presents: The World Of Karl Pilkington
William Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing
Martin McDonagh: The Cripple Of Inishmaan
Andrew Bennett; Nicholas Royle: Introduction To Literature, Criticism And Theory
Belle De Jour: The Intimate Adventures Of A London Call Girl

Bottom #10

I was asked to list my ten least favourite books, in reference to the Top #10 quite recently. I feel obliged to mention that they are not necessarily in the same class of "bad", but merely unappreciated at the time.

Nick Stone: Mr. Clarinet
Marian Keyes: Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married
Joseph Conrad: Mörkrets Hjärta
Jennifer Lee Carrel: Shakespeares Hemlighet
Jonas Hassen Khemiri: Ett Öga Rött
Arto Paasilinna: Hoppsan, Jag Är Död!
Ronny Sandahl: Vi Som Aldrig Sa Hora
Tony Parsons: Saker Vi Kunde Berätta
William Shakespeare: Hamlet i översättning av Britt Hallqvist
Franz Kafka: Processen

Last Year's Project

The Book Of The Month project was a cheap attempt at increasing my literature collection by at least 12 items. Here are the results (click to enlarge):

Top #10

A bucket list for you, this time, of my favourites. Namedropped, not sorted.

Chuck Palahniuk: Fight Club
Mikhail Bulgakov: Mästaren Och Margarita
Michael Palin: Hemingway's Chair
Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange
Pär Lagerkvist: Dvärgen
Graham Chapman: A Liar's Autobiography
Peter Høeg: Kvinnan Och Apan
Kurt Vonnegut: Breakfast Of Champions
Patrick Süskind: Parfymen: Berättelsen Om En Mördare
Irvine Welsh: Trainspotting

Bucket List

This is a bucket list of works I wish to get a hold of. Please don't be intimidated by its size, I do all I can to work it down to a minimum.

A list of books I am interested in reading or acquiring. It is constantly added to and deducted from.

Ali, Monica: Brick Lane
Alighieri, Dante: Den Gudomliga Komedin
Almquist, Carl Jonas Love: Det Går An
Ariely, Dan: Predictably Irrational
Asimov, Isaac: I, Robot
Auster, Paul: The Illusionist (again)

Barnes, Jonathan: The Somnambulist
Barker, Clive: Abarat
Barrie, James Matthew: Peter Pan
Beavouir, Simone de: She Came To Stay
Beckman, Birger: Bankkamrern Som Kunde Flyga
Bergman, Sten: Min Far Är Kannibal
Blatty, Peter William: The Exorcist
Bradbury, Ray: Fahrenheit 451
Brontë, Emily: Wuthering Heights

Camus, Albert: Främlingen
Carlbring, Magnus: Paul Exodus Propp
Carroll, Lewis: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through The Looking-Glass and The Hunting of the Snark
Carson, Anne: Short Talks
Cassidy, Nathan: Cure for the Common Cold
Cervantes, Miguel de: Don Quixote
Coelho, Paulo: (anything)
Crick, Mark: Kafka's Soup
Crosley, Sloane: I Was Told There'd Be Cake
Cullin, Mitch: Tideland

Dahl, Roald: James and the Giant Peach
Danielsson, Tage: Paket
Defoe, Daniel: The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders
DeLillo, Don: White Noise
DiCamillo, Kate & Ibatoulline, Bagram: Edward Tulanes Fantastiska Resa
Dickens, Charles: David Copperfield
Didion, Joan: The Year of Magical Thinking
Diverse författare: Lyckad Nedfrysning av Herr Moro
Dixelius, Kalle: Toffs Bok

Easton Ellis, Bret: American Psycho
Elliot, Will: The Pilo Family Circus
Ende, Michael: The Neverending Story
Faulkner, William: The Sound and the Fury
Fischer, Tibor: The Thought Gang
Fitt, Matthew: But n Ben A-Go-Go
Fitzgerald, Francis Scott: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Flaubert, Gustave: Madame Bovary
Foucault, Michel: (anything)
Freud, Sigmund: Civilisation and its Discontent
Fry, Stephen: Paperweight

Gaiman, Neil: Neverwhere and American Gods
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von: Faust
Gregory, Philippa: The Other Boleyn Girl

Haden Elgin, Suzette: Native Tongue
Halberstam, Judith: Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters
Hardy, Thomas: Jude the Obscure
Heberlein, Ann: Det Var Inte Mitt Fel!
Hemingway, Ernest: (anything)
Hesse, Hermann: (anything)
Hoff, Benjamin: The Tao of Pooh
Hoffman, Abbie: Steal This Book
Homeros: Illiaden och Odysséen
Houllebecq, Michel: To Stay Alive: A Method
Hornby, Nick: About a Boy
Hugo, Victor: Ringaren i Notre-Dame
Huxley, Aldous: Brave New World
Huysmans, Joris-Karl: Against the Grain

Jacot de Boinod, Adam: The Meaning of Tingo
Janouch, Katerina: Svenska Kvinnors Hemliga Sexuella Äventyr
Jernelöv, Arne: Ibland Blir Det Helt Fel (Men God Mat Tröstar)
Jersild, Per Christian: En Levande Själ
Johnson, Spencer: Who Moved My Cheese?
Joyce, James: Ulysses
Jung, Carl: The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious

Kay Davies, Deborah: True Things About Me
Kalush, William & Sloman, Larry: The Secret Life of Houdini
Keret, Etgar: Åtta Procent av Ingenting
Klosterman, Chuck: Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs
Krauss, Nicole: History of Love; The Great House

Laing, Ronald David: The Divided Self
Lavers, Christopher: The Natural History of Unicorns
Lawrence, Caroline: The Thieves of Ostia
Lawrence, David Herbert Richards: Lady Chatterley's Lover
Lessing, Doris: (anything)
Lewis, Clive Staples: The Screwtape Letters and The Chronicles of Narnia
Lindsey, Jeff: Darkly Dreaming Dexter
Loe, Erlend: Doppler och Volvo Lastvagnar

Machen, Arthur: The Great God Pan
Martinsson, Harry: Aniara
Márquez, Gabriel García: One Hundred Years of Solitude
McCall Smith, Alexander: (anything)
McCarthy, Cormac: No Country for Old Men
McEwan, Ian: Atonement
Melville, Herman: Moby-Dick
Mishima, Yukio: The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea
Moody, Hank: God Hates Us All
Morgan, Edwin (translator): Beowulf
Morran, Chris: Hardly Working
Murakami, Haruki: (anything)

Niffnegger, Audrey: The Time Traveler's Wife
Nilsson, Mats-Eric: Den Hemlige Kocken och Äkta Vara

Ormes, Nene: Udda Verklighet
Ott, Thomas: Nummer 73304-23-4153-6-98-8

Palin, Michael: Limericks and Hemingway's Chair (again)
Paolini, Christopher: Eragon (again)
Phillips, Christopher: Socrates' Café
Picouly, Jodi: My Sister's Keeper
Pratchett, Terry: (anything)

Raspe, Rudolf Erich: The Surprising Adventures of Braon Munchausen
Rhinehart, Luke: The Dice Man
Rice, Anne: The Vampire Chronicles
Robinson, John Elder: Look Me in the Eye
Roche, Charlotte: Wetlands (again)
Roman, Andreas: När Änglar Dör
Ronson, Jon: The Men Who Stare At Goats
Roos, Harry & Hemmingsson, Nina: Demoner
Roth, Philip: Portnoy's Complaint
Rushdie, Salman: The Satanic Verses
Rymer, James Malcolm: Varney the Vampire

Sacks, Oliver: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Sapphire: Push
Sarine, Douglas & Nichols, Kent: The Ninja Handbook
Sebold, Alice: The Lovely Bones
Selby, Hubert Jr: Requiem for a Dream
Shearman, Robert: Lovesongs for the Shy and Cynical
Shteyngart, Gary: Super Sad True Love Story
Solanas, Valerie: Scum Manifesto
Southern, Terry: The Magic Christian
Sterne, Laurence: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
Stenberg, Birgitta: Erotiska Noveller
Stevenson, Robert Louis: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Treasure Island
Stross, Charles: Accelerando
Swarup, VIkas: Q & A

Trenter, Ulla: Rika Barn Leka Bäst
Tusset, Pablo: The Best Thing That Can Happen to a Croissant

Verne, Jules: Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Vonnegut, Kurt: (anything)

Walpole, Hugh: Rogue Herris
Weber, Bernard: (anything)
Wegelius, Jacob: Legenden om Sally Jones
Wells, George Herbert: The Time Machine
Westerlund, Tina: Svenska Oförskämdheter
Wetterberg, Thomas: Dingo Dingo
Wica, Wictoria: Blommorna i Trädgården Bredvid
Willén, Linnea: Barfota Änglar
Woolf, Virginia: Mrs. Dalloway and The Second Sex

Yu, Charles: How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

Zola, Émile: Thérèse Raquin