Books you've read this year

[Mervi]

I should try to make a list next year too. I tried that a couple of years ago but always forgot to add read books to it. I do list new books I purchase to my account at librarything, so maybe having an online list of read books as well would help.

Anyway, I counted today that so far I've purchased 34 books this year for myself. That does not include books bought as gifts for other people (or a few freebies I've got!) Doesn't sound that much, except this was the year I wasn't supposed to buy any books due to my financial situation. I keep telling myself many of them were 2nd hand and really cheap but then some were 2nd hand and pricier than new books so...

1. The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Finnish translation) read
2. The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún by Tolkien
3. 10-lb Penalty by Dick Francis
4. Dead Cert by Dick Francis (Finnish translation), re-read
5. [[Meditations on Middle-earth]] by various, incl Robin Hobb read
6. Knock-down by Dick Francis (Finnish translation)
7. Field of 13 by Dick Francis
8. [[The Unicorn Treasury]] by various, incl Megan Lindholm read
9. Beowulf, A Longman Cultural Edition
10. [[110/110]] by various incl Hobb and Lindholm
11. The Bleak House by Charles Dickens (Finnish translation)
12. The Lord of the Rings by Tolkien (Finnish translation, new corrected edition)
13. [[Royal Assassin]] by Robin Hobb (UK 1st/1st hardback yay row complete!!!) re-read
14. Lord and Ladies by Terry Pratchett (Finnish translation)
15. Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett
16. Jingo by Terry Pratchett
17. The Dark Is Rising parts 1-3 omnibus, (Finnish translation)
18. Kolmen caballeron paluu ja muita Don Rosan parhaita (A Finnish hardcover collection of Don Rosa's comics) read
19. J.R.R. Tolkien : author of the century by Tom Shippey
20. [[Dragon Haven]] by Robin Hobb read
21. The Art of Horsemanship by Xenophon (Finnish translation)
22. Kuttu ja kutunpito by UMA Aaltonen (Finnish book about goats, particularly does)
23. Minä olen sukua hevosille (A Finnish language anthology of horse poetry)
24. Trial Run by Dick Francis read
25. To the Hilt by Dick Francis
26. Shattered by Dick Francis
27. Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller
28. Proof by Dick Francis (Finnish translation)
29. Tree and Leaf : including Mythopoeia and the Homecoming of Beorhtnoth by Tolkien
30. Mielen ja rakkauden kasvit (A Finnish book on herbs etc, especially ones that affect moods)
31. Taitava ratsastaja by Gunnar Hedlund (A Finnish translation of a Swedish book about horses and riding from the 70's, very hard to obtain these days)
32. Robin Hood by John Finnemore (Finnish translation, re-read, I *need* to stop buying copies of this, I think this is the third one? But it's the ultimate Robin Hood for me!)
33. Pako kielletystä laaksosta (another Finnish hardcover collection of Don Rosa comics)
34. [[Magical Beginnings]] by various incl Megan Lindholm (well this one's still somewhere between the US and my home...)

Looking at that list, I think I need to make a pact with myself. NO NEW BOOKS until these have been read. And the ones from the year before (I'm working on that with the Liavek volumes atm...) Exceptions include those I've read previously but only purchased to have a copy at hand.

Other books I know I've read this year include the four 3,5 Finnish fantasy books that were nominated for Kuvastaja Award (given out by the Finnish Tolkien Society), the Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera, Elizabeth: the Apprenticeship by David Starkey (audiobook), [[Forging Dragons]] by John Howe, the first Temeraire book by Naomi Novik and GRRM's A Storm of Swords and A Feast for Crows. Ooh and [[Assassin's Apprentice]] & the first [[Liavek]]. Brian Sibley's Peter Jackson biography. So I guess that makes about 20 books + something I've probably forgotten.