Tuesday, January 1, 2013

The books I read in 2012

Here is a list of all the books I read last year, fiction and non-fiction alike. The order is reversed chronological, and information is author, title of the book I read (original title), and the year it was first published.

Out of 38 books, 15 are read in the original English and 10 original Norwegian, the rest are translated to Norwegian or English from French, Swedish, Finnish, English and Japanese.

December
- Arild Hoksnes: Kunsten å ta feil, 2010
- Roy Jacobsen: Anger, 2011
- Svein Tindberg: Juleevangeliet, 2011 Illustrert av Håkon Bleken

November
- Roald Dahl: Danny og den store fasanjakten (Danny, the Champion of the World), 1975
Jonas JonassonHundreåringen som klatret ut av vinduet og forsvant (Hundraåringen som klev ut genom fönstret och försvann), 2009

October
- Suzanne Collins: Mockingjay, 2010
- G. K. Chesterton: Orthodoxy, 1908
- Suzanne Collins: Catching Fire, 2009
- Suzanne Collins: The Hunger Games, 2008
- Jan Wiese: Kvinnen som kledte seg naken for sin elskede, 1990 (Book club)

September
- Douglas Adams: The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, 1979
- Vigdis Hjorth: Hjulskift, 2007
- Zlatan Ibrahimovic: Jeg er Zlatan (Jag är Zlatan), 2011 (Book club)
- Geoffrey Chauser: The Canterbury Tales, 1475 (Unfinished) 

August
- Haruki Marukami: 1Q84, bok 3, 2010
- Tatiana de Rosnay: Bumerang (Boomerang), 2009
- Charles Dickens: Nicholas Nickleby, 1838-39
- Kjell Askildsen: Thomas F´s siste nedtegnelser til allmenheten, 1983

July
- Madeleine D'Engle: A wrinkle in time, 1962

June
- Bill Bryson: The Mother Tongue, 1990
- Sir Arthyr Conan Doyle: Sherlock Holmes samlede verker, (Sherlock Holmes, Complete works, volume 2), 1887-1927

May
- Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights, 1847
- Stories not for the nervous, 1965. Short stories presented by Alfred Hitchcock

April
Ragnar Hovland: 1964, 2006
- Kathryn Stockett: Barnepiken (The Help), 2009 (Book club)

March 
- Alexandre Dumas: Greven av Monte Cristo (Le Comte de Monte-Cristo), 1884
- Jonathan Acuff: Stuff Christians like, 2010
- Bill Bryson: At Home, 2010
- Geir Olav Jørgensen: Helmers reise, 1979, 2011
- Herbjørg Wassmo: Hundre år, 2009 (Book club)

February
- Sir Arthyr Conan Doyle: Sherlock Holmes samlede verker, (Sherlock Holmes, Complete works, volume 1), 1887-1927
- Gregory David Roberts: Shantaram, 2003

January
- Arto Paasilinna: Prosten og hans forunderlige tjener (Rovasti Huuskosen petomainen miespalvelilja), 1995
- Caroline Kaspara Palonen: Xeroxdager, 2011
- Anna Gavaldo: Eg elska ho (Je l'aimas), 2002
- Gabriel Scott: Kilden eller Brevet om fiskeren Markus, 1918 

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