It has been a year of reading, no doubt the most bookish in all my life. I'm not really a big reader in general, but the impetus came from my language learning, where reading books is a pleasant way to learn.
Aside from the number of books, it has been notable for the languages. Previously I had only read in Polish, Norwegian and English, as those were the languages I successively had in my life. But as I embarked upon my first novel in Italian, the language I was actively learning, I also thought I should try Swedish and Danish. Later this year I also read my first book in Dutch, the second language I'm learning these days.
Perhaps I should make it a goal to read at least one book in each language from now on.
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Against Intellectual Property ~ Stephan Kinsella |
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An Introduction to Twentieth Century Italian Literature ~ Robert Gordon |
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Anna Karenina ~ Lev Tolstoy |
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Avenger ~ Frederick Forsyth |
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Black Coffee ~ Agatha Christie |
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Bokhandleren i Kabul ~ Åsne Seierstad |
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Candide, ou l'Optimisme ~ Voltaire |
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Children of Dune ~ Frank Herbert |
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Code To Zero ~ Ken Follett |
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Cognitive Surplus ~ Clay Shirky |
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Compendio di psicoanalisi ~ Sigmund Freud |
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Crime and punishment ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Dave Barry's History Of The Millennium ~ Dave Barry |
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De autobiografie van Kluivert ~ Mike Verweij |
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Den hedervärde mördaren ~ Jan Guillou |
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Dico tutto ~ Antonio Cassano |
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Dune Messiah ~ Frank Herbert |
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En landsbydegns dagbog ~ Steen Steensen Blicher |
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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce ~ Slavoj Žižek |
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Fontamara ~ Ignazio Silone |
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Gli indifferenti ~ Alberto Moravia |
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Gli invisibili ~ Nanni Balestrini |
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God, The Failed Hypothesis ~ Victor Stenger |
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How To Learn Any Language ~ Barry Farber |
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How to Talk to Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere ~ Larry King |
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I Am America ~ Stephen Colbert |
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I Malavoglia ~ Giovanni Verga |
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Il Gattopardo ~ Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa |
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Il contesto ~ Leonardo Sciascia |
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Il deserto dei Tartari ~ Dino Buzzati |
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Il giorno della civetta ~ Leonardo Sciascia |
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Il male oscuro ~ Giuseppe Berto |
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Il nome della rosa ~ Umberto Eco |
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Il pallone nel burrone ~ Salvatore Napolitano |
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Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno ~ Italo Calvino |
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Infidel ~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali |
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Io non ho paura ~ Niccolò Ammaniti |
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Io speriamo che me la cavo ~ Marcello D'Orta |
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JavaScript: The Good Parts ~ Douglas Crockford |
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Jeg forbanner tidens elv ~ Per Petterson |
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King Rat ~ James Clavell |
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L'Élixir de longue vie ~ Honoré de Balzac |
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La coscienza di Zeno ~ Italo Svevo |
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La fine è il mio inizio ~ Tiziano Terzani |
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Le comte de Monte Cristo ~ Alexandre Dumas |
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Les Trois Mousquetaires ~ Alexandre Dumas |
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Life of Pi ~ Yann Martel |
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Markens grøde ~ Knut Hamsun |
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Moby Dick ~ Herman Melville |
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My ~ Evgenij Zamjátin |
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No god but God ~ Reza Aslan |
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Nomad ~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali |
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Oceano Mare ~ Alessandro Baricco |
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Per la verità ~ Diego Marconi |
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Play ~ Stuart Brown |
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Polyglot ~ Kato Lomb |
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Shōgun ~ James Clavell |
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Siddharta ~ Hermann Hesse |
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Sult ~ Knut Hamsun |
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Tao Te Ching ~ Lao Tzu |
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The Cobra ~ Frederick Forsyth |
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The Day of the Jackal ~ Frederick Forsyth |
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The Good Man Jesus And The Scoundrel Christ ~ Philip Pullman |
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The Hades Factor ~ Robert Ludlum |
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The King of Torts ~ John Grisham |
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The Kite Runner ~ Khaled Hosseini |
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The Lazarus Vendetta ~ Robert Ludlum |
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The Loom of Language ~ Frederick Bodmer |
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The Matarese Circle ~ Robert Ludlum |
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The No Asshole Rule ~ Robert I. Sutton |
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The Odessa File ~ Frederick Forsyth |
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The Road to Omaha ~ Robert Ludlum |
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The Shy Child ~ Philip Zimbardo |
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The Sigma Protocol ~ Robert Ludlum |
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The Stuff of Thought ~ Steven Pinker |
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The Success of Open Source ~ Steven Weber |
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The Time Paradox ~ Philip Zimbardo |
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The Veteran ~ Frederick Forsyth |
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Trevayne ~ Robert Ludlum |
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Tribal Leadership ~ John King |
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True Story ~ Bill Maher |
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Tutte le barzellette su Totti ~ Francesco Totti |
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Utilitarianism ~ John Stuart Mill |
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Victoria ~ Knut Hamsun |
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dansk* |
28 | ![]() |
english |
40 | ![]() |
italiano* |
3 | ![]() |
nederlands* |
5 | ![]() |
norsk |
2 | ![]() |
polski |
3 | ![]() |
svenska* |
84 | Total |
*debut in 2010
Bravo Martin,
Prima di tutto: Buon Anno!!!
Impressionante la lista, non ho parole.
Ci sentiamo più tardi,
Staf
hey what happend with spanish, the easiest one :P Saludos
Reading in 7 languages?
I'm jealous :D
[...] another prolific year in page turning. I’ve decided to scrap the idea of doing a long list like last year, it’s too dull. Instead I’m doing a brief [...]