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1. Onni ja siniset kengät by Alexander McCall Smith.I loved the tv series but I wasn't that keen of the book. But I think I'll still read some of the other books from the series.
5. Pierre and Jean by Guy de Maupassant.Amazing read!
6. Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence.
His writing is nice but I just don't like him at all.
8. Mies joka luuli vaimoaan hatuksi by Oliver Sacks.9. The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
10. The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia by Samuel Johnson.11. The Nose by Nikolai Gogol.
Re-read that reminded me I need to read more of Gogol's short stories.
12. Captain Underpants: Three Pant-Tastic Novels in One by Dav Pilkey.13. The Book of Words by Abay Qunanbayuli.
I liked the book but the translation wasn't that good.
14. The Book of Bunny Suicides by Andy Riley.I liked this one. Great humor.
15. The Gashlycrumb Tinies by Edward Gorey.
Someone said that if you like The Book of Bunny Suicides, you will like Gorey's works so I had to look him up. I will definitely read more of him in the future. And I really liked his art.
17. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens.I've liked everything I've read by him, but this felt so long.
18. Aaveiden Tampere — Kummitustarinoita Tammerkosken rannoilta by Rimma Erkko.I was looking more from this one. Almost gave it two stars but it was from my hometown so I gave it one extra star.
19. Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans.
20. Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson. 21. Shakkitarina by Stefan Zweig.
22. The Green Hat by Michael Arlen.
This started out well but in the end I was disappointed.
23. Stones of the Sky by Pablo Neruda.24. A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein.
25. Poems: The Weight of Oranges, Miner's Pond, Skin Divers by Anne Michaels.
Lot's of poetry. All of them very different but I really liked them all. I've read lot of Neruda and Silverstein but this was first time reading Michaels. I will definitely read more of her.
26. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins.I enjoyed it way more than I thought I would.
27. Tiikerikissa by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa.
5 stars.
30. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë.31. Kafka valmistaa päivällistä – valitut novellit by Lydia Davis.
32. WE LOVE YOU, SNOOPY by Charles M. Schulz.33. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell.
34. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys.
35. Naamiohuvit by Terry Pratchett.5 stars. This is my favorite from the Witches series.
36. Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley.
I loved Brave New World but this was very different, not bad but nothing really happened.
37. The Left-Handed Woman by Peter Handke.38. Who's the Funny-Looking Kid with the Big Nose? by Charles M. Schulz.
39. Nenäpäivä by Mikko Rimminen.
40. The Water Flowers by Edward Gorey.
41. Three Ladies Beside the Sea by Rhoda Levine and Edward Gorey.
42. Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss.
43. The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño.Enjoyed it way more than 2666.
44. The Colour Out of Space by H.P. Lovecraft.
5 stars. I need to read more Lovecraft.
45. Amerika by Franz Kafka.46. Muumi 2 by Tove Jansson.
47. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy.
50. Risto Räppääjä ja nuudelipää by Sinikka Nopola.51. Irlantilainen aamiainen : kertomuksia vihreältä saarelta by Hanna Tuuri.
52. Temppeliherrojen kätketty kruunu ja muita Don Rosan parhaita by Don Rosa.53. Tenth of December by George Saunders.
5 stars. My second book by him and I like him more and more.
54. The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss.
55. Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr..
5 stars. It's been YEARS since I've read him and I forgot how weird his books are, but in a good way.
56. London Fields by Martin Amis.
57. A Kiss on the Nose Turns Anger Aside by Charles M. Schulz.58. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
61. Lapsuus by Tove Ditlevsen.I liked this one, can't wait to read the next part.
62. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway.
67. The Swimming-Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst.68. The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima.
69. The Charwoman's Daughter by James Stephens.
72. Fox in Socks by Dr. Seuss.73. The Cat in the Hat Comes Back by Dr. Seuss.
74. Muumit: Sarjakuvaklassikot V by Tove Jansson.
75. Memories of Rain by Sunetra Gupta.
76. Scientific Progress Goes "Boink" by Bill Watterson.
77. Dracula by Bram Stoker.
78. The Passion by Jeanette Winterson.79. Aikuisuus by Tove Ditlevsen.
5 stars. I loved this trilogy.
80. The Green Man by Kingsley Amis.Well, he can write, I just don't care about the things he writes about.
81. Adjunct: An Undigest by Peter Manson.
I have no idea what this was.
82. Tiinan ampiaiskesä by Anni Polva.I remember reading these when I was younger. Will read more in the future.
83. The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper.
Not my kind of book.
84. House Mother Normal by B.S. Johnson.85. Tuijottava katse by Agatha Christie.
86. The Professor's House by Willa Cather.
89. Sydän jalkakäytävällä by Aleksandrs Čaks.90. Little Black Book of Stories by A.S. Byatt.
91. The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope.
98. The Student Vegan Cookbook: 85 Incredible Plant-Based Recipes That Are Cheap, Fast, Easy, and Super-Healthy by Hannah Kaminsky.99. Maailman salaperäisin kirja ja muita historian mysteerejä by Daniel Rydén.
100. R.U.R. by Karel Čapek.
101. Ella ja kaverit konsertissa by Timo Parvela. 102. Pointed Roofs by Dorothy M. Richardson.
103. Johan riitti! by Terry Pratchett.
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