I really need to stop buying more books until I've gone through this list.
Seriously. My bookshelf is already too full. D; Or I need a new, bigger shelf... LOL. See picture below! But yeah, there was a sale in the local bookstore...
3 paperbacks for 15€... plus 1 for free!
My bookshelf is in alphabetical order, but I started from the other end!
I've already finished some of these titles, but writing them all down anyway. Books I've discarded from the shelf are striked over. (Reasons: Not intriguing enough, the writing style bothered me, not as good as I remembered, etc....)
Read in 2016 or earlier:
- M. Zusak: The Book Thief
R. Xu: The lost and forgotten languages of Shanghai
- Xenophobe's Guide to the Finns
- M. Waltari: Sinuhe egyptiläinen (The Egyptian)
- S. Tzu: The Art of War
- J. R. R. Tolkien: The Hobbit
- J. R. R. Tolkien: Lord of the Rings
- J. Theorin: Sankta Psyko
- M. Smith: Killer Elite
- G. Slovo: Every Secret Thing
- W. Shakespeare: Sonnets
- D. H. Schmitz: Die spinnen, die Finnen. Mein Leben im hohen Norden
K. Shamsie: Kartography
L. See: Flower Net (didn't even really bother finishing..)
M. Sedgwick: My Swordhand is Singing (didn't really bother finishing.. enjoyed this as a teen, though)
Now, as part of
my 2017 goals, here's a list of books I'm trying to get through this year!
Books to read in 2017:
- A. Reynolds: Revelation Space series 1-2 {part 2 0/???, reading part 2 later...}
- R. Newcomb: The Chronicles of Blood and Stone trilogy
- J. Mutzenbacher: oder Die Geschichte einer Wienerischen Dirne von ihr selbst erzählt (Oh! Oh! Josephine)
- M. Musashi: Go Rin No Sho (A Book of Five Rings)
- E. Moriel: La ciudad sin tiempo
- K. O. Morgan: The Oxford History of Britain [might read later]
- G. R. R. Martin: A Song of Ice and Fire 1-5
- L. Marklund: Nobels testament [I'll need a Swedish dictionary with this one hahaha...]
- H. Mankell: Kinesen (The Chinese)
- S. Luoma: Poket (Bouncers)
- V. Linna: Unknown Soldiers (Tuntematon sotilas... and yes, I got this in English instead of Finnish)
- J. A. Lindqvist: Människohamn (Human... Port?)
- J. Limnéll & et al.: Kyberturvallisuus (Cyber Security)
- J. E. Lewis: The Mammoth Book of Combat
- R. Kirkman & J. Bonansinga: The Walking Dead novels 1-2
- V. Kivimäki: Murtuneet mielet (Broken Minds)
- A. Kivi: Seitsemän veljestä (7 Brothers)
- S. Kinsella: Remember Me?
- J. Kellerman: The Murderer's Daughter
- L. Karvinen: Riisiä tiskin alta (Rice under the Counter)
- J. G. Jurado: Contrato al Paraíso
- R. Jordan: The Wheel of Time 1-6 [missing quite many books from this series still... ;w; might read later]
- L. R. Jones: The Secret Life of Amy Bensen 1-2
- L. R. Jones: Rebecca's Lost Journals
- L. R. Jones: Inside Out 1-6
- P. James: Atom Bomb Angel
- E. Itäranta: Teemestarin kirja (Book of the Tea Master)
- A. Holopainen: Ihon alaiset (..under the skin?)
- A. Holopainen: Pohjoistuulten jälkeläiset (Descendants of the Northern Wind)
- A. Holopainen: Sonja
- R. Holdstock: Ancient Echoes
- E. Hoffman: Lost in Translation
- X. Guo: A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary For Lovers
- P. Gregory: The Queen's Fool
- O. Goldsmith: The First Wives Club
- D. Glukhovsky: Metro 2033
- D. Glukhovsky: Metro 2034
- R. Gay: An Untamed State
- J. Fielding: Life Penalty
- D. Eddings: Books 1-5 of the Belgariad
- S. Day: Crossfire novels 1-5
- D. Crystal: A Little Book of Language
- J. Cox: Live the Dream
- L. Cooley: Pretty girl Thirteen
- P. Coelho: O vencedor está só
- P. Coelho: A bruxa de Portobello
- P. Coelho: O Alquimista
- A. Chaudhuri: Three Novels
- S. Brown: Low Pressure
- M. Anderson: Haven of Obedience
- S. Abulhawa: Mornings in Jenin
PLUS books I have on Google Play Books but these have 'less priority':
- E. L. James: 50 Shades of Grey
TOTAL: ____/58 (80+ I guess if you don't look at the series 'as a whole')
Here is where I'll move the titles I have finished:
K. S. Robinson: Antarctica
- A. Reynolds: Revelation Space 1
- Y. Sigurdadottir: The Undesired
K. Reichs: Deadly Decisions (didn't really bother reading it all... yaaawn)
- P. Pullman: His Dark Materials trilogy (read so recently that, though I love this series, well, I've others I've never once read)
C. Norton: Hunted- M. Banks: Breathless trilogy part 1
And then, video games.
I have so many I haven't played through yet... So I'll be focusing on those.
means haven't started the game, never ever before. means have started but not finished. (Square brackets indicate current 'location' in the game.) Although, the 'priority' is to focus on games not played through before.. so for example I'm probably going to skip DMC1 (the controls are godawful ahahah) and FFVII (finished this on Steam a year or two ago).
Unlike on my profile, these are in the alphabetical order as they are on my shelf and excluding which console they are on. I have some games that require Xbox Kinect, but I'll exclude them from the 'play through' list as they aren't 'played through' the same way as the others...
- Bioshock
- Bioshock 2
- Bioshock Infinite [Hall of Heroes / Shock Jockey quest]
- Devil May Cry 1
- Devil May Cry 2
- Devil May Cry 3
- Devil May Cry 4
- Dirge of Cerberus - FFVII [Nibelheim]
- Dragon Age: Origins [Tower of Ishal / Ostagar]
- Dragon Age II
- Dragon Age: Inquisition [Skyhold / Hinterlands]
- Final Fantasy III [Castle Argus]
- Final Fantasy IV
- Final Fantasy V
- Final Fantasy VI
- Final Fantasy VII
- Final Fantasy VIII
- Final Fantasy IX
- Final Fantasy X
- Final Fantasy X-2
- Final Fantasy XII [Ogir-Yensa Sandsea]
- Final Fantasy XIII
- Final Fantasy XIII-2
- Lightning Returns - FFXIII (NewGame+) [Yusnaan]
- Final Fantasy XV [Main Quest: A Brave New World, doing sidequests and hunts before going across the sea]
- Forza Horizon [??]
- Metro 2033 [uhh some tunnels in the beginning..]
- Metro: Last Light
- Spyro the Dragon
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
- Watch Dogs
Omg that's 31 games, excluding Kinect Adventures & Sports and Zumba Fitness... which means I have 32 games in total.
Total: ___/31
And here's where I'll move the game titles once they're finished..:
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