My Library

So here it is. My library. The way I categorized the books is by all means not professional, it's just the way I do it. The yellow titles are the ones I have read. As you can, I have A LOT of reading to do!


Novels

General Fiction
  1. The Shadow Of The Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafón
  2. Measuring the World – Daniel Kehlmann
  3. The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende
  4. Eva Luna – Isabel Allende
  5. Sarah´s Key – Tatiana de Rosnay
  6. The Twins – Tessa de Loo
  7. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
  8. Q and A – Vikas Swarup
  9. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
  10. Mister Pip – Lloyd Jones
  11. A Far Country – Daniel Mason
  12. The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
  13. Cathedral of the Sea – Ildefonso Falcones
  14. The Historian – Elizabeth Kostova
  15. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer – Patrick Suskind
  16. Atonement – Ian McEwan
  17. The Boy In the Striped Pyjamas – John Boyne
  18. Girl With a Pearl Earring – Tracy Chevalier
  19. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur S. Golden
  20. The Invention of Solitude – Paul Auster
  21. The Crimson Petal and the White – Michel Faber
  22. The Little Friend – Donna Tartt 2x
  23. The Secret History – Donna Tartt 2x
  24. The Curious Incident of Dog in the Night Time – Mark Haddon
  25. The Gargoyle – Andrew Davidson 2x
  26. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society – Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows
  27. Precious (Push) – Sapphire
  28. The Time Traveler's Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
  29. Water for Elephants – Sara Gruen
  30. The Help – Kathryn Stockett
  31. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie – Alan Bradley
  32. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry – Rachel Joyce
  33. Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
  34. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
  35. Yrsa – Margit Sandemo
  36. The Casual Vacancy – J.K. Rowling
  37. The Reader – Bernhard Schlink
  38. High Society – Ben Elton
  39. The Losers – Clifford Irving
  40. World Without End – Ken Follett
  41. The Age of Miracles – Karen Thompson Walker
  42. The Cuckoo's Calling – Robert Galbraith
  43. Fight Club – Chuck Palahniuk
  44. Darkly Dreaming Dexter – Jeff Lindsay
  45. Moral Disorder and other Stories – Margaret Atwood
  46. The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories – E.b Malcom Bradbury
  47. My Best Story, first series
  48. Recollections: Ten Short Stories on Five Themes – E.b. Alex Adkins, Mark Shackleton
  49. The Clan of the Cave Bear – Jean M. Auel
  50. The Valley of Horses – Jean M. Auel
  51. The Mammoth Hunters – Jean M. Auel
  52. The Plains of Passage – Jean M. Auel
  53. The Secret of Shambhala – James Redfield
  54. The Legend of the Icepeople 1-47 – Margit Sandemo
  55. The Mists of Avalon – Marion Zimmer Bradley
  56. The Ultimate Hitchhiker´s Guide – Douglas Adams
  57. A Game of Thrones – George R.R. Martin
  58. A Clash of Kings – George R.R. Martin
  59. A Storm of Swords – George R.R. Martin
  60. A Feast of Crows – George R.R. Martin
  61. A Dance with Dragons – George R.R. Martin
  62. The Notebook – Nicholas Sparks
  63. The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic – Sophie Kinsella
  64. Shopaholic ties the Knot – Sophie Kinsella
  65. Shopaholic and baby – Sopie Kinsella
  66. Sex and the City– Candace Bushnell
  67. The Devil Wears Prada – Lauren Weisberger
  68. Bridget Jones Diary - Helen Fielding
  69. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason – Helen Fieldin
  70. Midnight Bayou – Nora Roberts
  71. The Friday Night Knitting Club - Kate Jacobs
  72. Enzo – Garth Stein
  73. Mrs. Fry's Diary – Mrs. Stephen Fry
  74. Flowers for Mrs Harris – Paul Gallico
  75. Mrs Harris Goes to New York – Paul Gallico
  76. A Far Cry from Kensington – Muriel Sparks
  77. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood – Rebecca Wells
  78. Aunt Erma's Cope Book – Terma Bombeck
  79. What's Michael – Makoto Kobayashi
  80. The Mammoth Book of Dracula – Ramsey Campbell, Charlaine Harris.....
  81. Henry VIII: Wolfman – A.E.Moorat
  82. House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski
  83. The Black House – Paul Theroux
  84. Married with Zombie – Jesse Petersen
  85. Flip this Zombie – Jesse Petersen
  86. Eat, Slay, Love – Jesse Petersen
  87. The Woman in Black – Susan Hill
  88. More Great Ghost Stories – E.b. John Canning
  89. The Vampire Chronicles – Anne Rice
Classics
  1. To the Devil a Daughter – Dennis Wheatley
  2. Don´t Look Now – Daphne du Maurier
  3. One Thousand and One Ghosts – Alexandre Dumas
  4. The Collector – John Fowles
  5. The Picture of Dorian Grey – Oscar Wilde
  6. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
  7. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
  8. The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins
  9. Being There – Jerzy Kosinski
  10. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
  11. Dubliners – James Joyce
  12. The Stranger – Albert Camus
  13. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
  14. The Pickwick Papers – Charles Dickens
  15. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
  16. Five Novels – Mark Twain
  17. Don Quixote – Cervantes
  18. The Divine Comedy – Dante
  19. The Complete Stories of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  20. The Merry Wives of Winsor – Shakespear
  21. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
  22. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
  23. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
  24. Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
  25. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
  26. Agnes Grey – Anne Bronte
  27. The Tenant of Wildfell – Anne Bronte
  28. Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe
  29. Gulliver´s Travels – Jonathan Swift
  30. The Woodlanders – Thomas Hardy
  31. Tess of the D'Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
  32. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
  33. Maggie: A Girl of the Streets – Stephen Crane
  34. The Emigrants – Vilhelm Moberg
  35. Unto a Good Land – Vilhelm Moberg
  36. Breakfast at Tiffany´s – Truman Capote
  37. True Grit – Charles Portis
  38. Sincerely – Warwick Deeping
  39. Tales of the North – Jack London
  40. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
  41. A Streetcar Named Desire – Tennesse Williams
  42. Animal Farm – George Orwell
  43. English Fairy Tales
  44. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
  45. Emma – Jane Austen
  46. Persuasion – Jane Austen
  47. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
  48. Daniel Deronda – George Eliot
  49. Middlemarch – George Eliot
  50. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
  51. The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
  52. Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell
  53. Molloy – Samuel Beckett
  54. Uncle Tom's Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe
  55. Crime and Punishment – Fedor Dostoevsky
  56. To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
  57. The Woman of Rome – Alberto Moravia
  58. The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
  59. Journey to the Center of the Earth – Jules Verne
  60. Leave Her to Heaven – Ben Ames Williams
  61. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? - Henry Farrell
  62. Gone with the Draft – Park Kendall
Children's and YA
  1. Blitzcat – Robert Westall
  2. A Great and Terrible Beauty – Libba Bray
  3. The Island of Adventure – Enid Blyton
  4. The Valley of Adventure – Enid Blyton
  5. The Castle of Adventure – Enid Blyton
  6. The Sea of Adventure – Enid Blyton
  7. The Circus of Adventure – Enid Blyton
  8. The River of Adventure – Enid Blyton
  9. Five on a Treasure Island – Enid Blyton
  10. Five go to Mystery Moor – Enid Blyton
  11. Five go to Billycock Hill – Enid Blyton
  12. Five go to Smuggler's Top – Enid Blyton
  13. Five Have a Wonderful Time – Enid Blyton
  14. Five on a Hike Together – Enid Blyton
  15. The Ragamuffin Mystery – Enid Blyton
  16. The Mystery of the Burnt Cottage – Enid Blyton
  17. The Mystery of the Strange Bundle – Enid Blyton
  18. Heidi – Johanna Spyri
  19. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them – Newt Scamander
  20. Quidditch Through the Ages – Kennilworthy Whisp
  21. Harry Potter and the Philosophers's Stone – J.K Rowling
  22. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – J.K Rowling
  23. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – J.K Rowling
  24. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – J.K Rowling
  25. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – J.K Rowling
  26. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince – J.K Rowling
  27. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – J.K Rowling
  28. Moominsummer Madness – Tove Jansson
  29. Moominvalley in November – Tove Jansson
  30. Black Beauty – Anna Sewell
  31. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
  32. Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson
  33. The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
  34. The Complete Winnie the Pooh – A.A. Milne
  35. Captured by Vikings – Torill Thorstad Hauger
  36. Escape from the Vikings – Torill Thorstad Hauger
  37. Sigurd the Dragon Slayer – Torill Thorstad Hauger (title translated by me)
  38. The Book of Lost Things – John Connolly
  39. The Gates – John Connolly
  40. The Chronicles of Narnia – C.S. Lewis
  41. Looking for Alaska – John Green
  42. An Abundance of Katherines – John Green
  43. Paper Towns – John Green
  44. The Fault in our Stars – John Green
  45. Will Greyson, Will Greyson – John Green, David Levithan
  46. The Wind in the Willows– Kenneth Grahame
  47. 80 Fairy Tales – Hans Christian Andersen
  48. Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
  49. Nancy Drew, The Secrets of Shadow Ranch – Carolyn Keene
  50. Nancy Drew, The Greek Symbol Mystery – Carolyn Keene
  51. Nancy Drew, The Secret in the Old Lace – Carolyn Keene
  52. Nancy Drew, Mystery of Crocodile Island – Carolyn Keene
  53. Nancy Drew, The Kachina Doll Mystery – Carolyn Keene
  54. Nancy Drew, The Swamis Ring – Carolyn Keene
  55. The Jungle Book – Rudyard Kipling
  56. The Railway Children – E. Nesbit
Icelandic books
  1. Reisubók Guðríðar Símonardóttir – Steinunn Jóhannesdóttir (icelandic)
  2. Sniglaveislan – Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson (icelandic)
  3. Bítlaávarpið – Einar Már Guðmundsson (icelandic)
  4. Hnífur Abrahams – Óttar M. Norðfjörð (icelandic)
  5. Afturelding – Viktor Arnar Ingólfsson (Icelandic)
  6. Hrafninn – Vilborg Davíðsdóttir (Icelandic)
  7. Slóð fiðrildanna – Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson (Icelandic)
  8. Höll minningana – Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson (Icelandic)
  9. Sakleysingjarnir - Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson (Icelandic)
  10. Málverkið - Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson (Icelandic)
  11. Fyrirgefning syndanna – Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson (Icelandic)
  12. Eiríkur Hansson, Bernskan – Jóhann Magnús Bjarnason (Icelandic)
  13. Drottning rís upp frá dauðum – Ragnar Arnalds (Icelandic)
  14. Karlsvagninn – Kristín Marja Baldursdóttir (Icelandic)
  15. Sögur frá Bretlandi – Úrvalssögur menningasjóðs (Icelandic)
  16. Leiðin lá til Vesturheims – Sveinn Auðunn Sveinsson (Icelandic)
  17. Korter – Sólveig Jónsdóttir (Icelandic)
  18. Fótspor á himnum – Einar Már Guðmundsson (Icelandic)
  19. Snorri á Húsafelli – Þórunn Valdimarsdóttir (Icelandic)
Icelandic Children's books
  1. Dóra í álfheimum – Ragnheiður Jónsdóttir (Icelandic)
  2. Dóra og Kári – Ragnheiður Jónsdóttir (Icelandic)
  3. Dóra verður átján ára – Ragnheiður Jónsdóttir (Icelandic)
  4. Dóra í dag – Ragnheiður Jónsdóttir (Icelandic)
  5. Vala – Ragnheiður Jónsdóttir (Icelandic)
  6. Vala og Dóra – Ragnheiður Jónsdóttir (Icelandic)


Biographies and autobiographies
  1. Howards End is on the Landing – Susan Hill
  2. The Country Diaries – Edited by Alan Taylor
  3. Diaries of the London call girl – Belle de Jour
  4. I Want to Live – Nina Lugovskaya
  5. Night – Elie Wiesel
  6. Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank
  7. My Wicked, Wicked Ways, the Autobiography of Errol Flynn – Errol Flynn
  8. Hana´s Suitcase – Karen Levine
  9. J.K.Rowling, the Wizard Behind Harry Potter – Marc Shapiro
  10. In His Own Write – John Lennon
  11. I Me Mine – George Harrison
  12. The Beatles – Bob Spitz
  13. Here Comes the Sun – Joshua M. Greene
  14. Lennon Legend: An Illustrated Life of John Lennon
  15. Moab is my Washpot – Stephen Fry
  16. The Fry Chronicles – Stephen Fry
  17. The Happy Hoofer – Celia Imrie
  18. Tolkien – Michael White
  19. John Lennon – John Wyse Jackson
  20. Hancox, a House and a Family – Charlotte Moore
  21. Turner – Peter Ackroyd
  22. Poe, a Life Cut Short – Peter Acrkoyd
  23. Out of this World, the Story of Muse – Mark Beaumont
  24. King´s Speech – Mark Louge, Peter Conradi
  25. Oscar´s Books – Thomas Wright
  26. Born Wild – Tony Fitzjohn
  27. 127 Hour, Between a Rock and a Hard Place – Aron Ralston
  28. Long Way Down – Ewan McGregor, Charley Boorman
  29. Byron in Love – Edna O´Brien
  30. Having our say – Sarah I. Delany, A. Elizabeth Delany
  31. Below Stairs – Margaret Powell
  32. The Pianist – Wladislaw Szpilman
  33. Child of the Jungle – Sabine Kuegler
  34. My Family and Other Animals– Gerald Durrel
  35. Blessings in Disguise – Alec Guinness
  36. Dewey – Vicki Myron
  37. Angela's Ashes – Frank McCourt
  38. ´Tis, a memoir – Frank McCourt
  39. Confessions of an English opium-eater – Thomas De Quincey
  40. Joy of Life – Margit Sandemo
  41. Confessions of an Immigrant's Daughter – Laura Goodman Salverson
  42. Oscar Wilde – H. Montgomery Hyde
  43. Swanson by Swanson – Gloria Swanson
  44. The Glass Castle – Jeanette Walls
  45. Smashed, Growing Up a Drunk Girl – Koren Zailckas
  46. A Girl Named Zippy – Haven Kimmel
  47. Beatrix Potter – Linda Lear
  48. Is It Just Me? - Miranda Hart
  49. Our Queen – Robert Hardman
  50. A Street Cat Named Bob – James Bowen
Icelandic Biographies
  1. Ingibjörg – Margrét Gunnarsdóttir (Icelandic)
  2. Sagnamaðurinn Örn Clausen (Icelandic)
  3. Múrinn í Kína – Huldar Breiðfjörð (Icelandic)
  4. Mynd af Ragnari í Smára – Jón Karl Helgason (Icelandic)


History
  1. The German Invasion of Norway – Geirr H. Haarr
  2. A History of Britain, The British Wars 1603-1776 – Simon Schama
  3. London, The Biography – Peter Ackroyd
  4. London´s Strangest Tales – Tom Quinn
  5. London...A Sinister City – Steve Jones
  6. Remember, Remember (The Fifth of November) – Judy Parkinson
  7. An Utterly Exasperated History of Modern Britain or... 60 years of making the same mistakes as always – John O´Farrell
  8. Necropolis – Catharine Arnold
  9. Underground London – Stephen Smith
  10. Con Men and Cutpurses: Scenes from The Hogarthian Underworld – E.b. Lucy Moore
  11. Brief Lives of The English Monarchs – Carolly Erickson
  12. Daughters of Britannia – Katie Hickman
  13. Band of Brothers – Stephen E. Ambrose
  14. The Rise of Rome, Books 1-5 – Livy
  15. Shockwave: The Countdown to Hiroshima – Stephen Walker
  16. Horrible Histories: The Blitzed Brits – Terry Deary
  17. In Europe – Geert Mak
  18. Almanac of World History
  19. Egyptian Myths – George Hart
  20. Greek Myths – Lucilla Burn
  21. Roman Myths – Jane E. Gardner
  22. The History of Prostitution – W.W. Sanger
  23. The Royals– Kitty Kelley
  24. Bedlam – Paul Chambers
  25. Bréf Vestur-Íslendinga – Böðvar Guðmundsson (Icelandic)
  26. A Little History of the World – E.H. Gombrich
  27. The Ice Master- Jennifer Niven
  28. Virgins, a Cultural History – Anke Bernau
  29. D-Day – Antony Beevor
  30. The World's Wickedest Women – Margaret Nicholas
  31. The Arsenic Century: How Victorian Britain was Poisoned at Home, Work, and Play – James C. Whorton
  32. Medieval Life – Paul Lacroix
  33. The Lost Battles – Johnathan Jones


Art History
  1. The Art Book
  2. Secret Lives of Great Artists – Elizabeth Lunday
  3. ...isms: Understanding Art – Stephen Little
  4. A Closer Look, Deception and Discoveries
  5. Renaissance – Manfred Wundram
  6. Caravaggio – Gilles Lambert
  7. Caspar David Friedrich – Norbert Wolf
  8. Art History for Dummies
  9. The Story of Art – E. H Gombrich
  10. Rembrandt – D.M Field
  11. French Impressionists
  12. 30.000 Years of Art
  13. The Arts – Hendrik Willem van Loon
  14. The Face of Jesus – Edward Lucie-Smith
  15. Gardner's Art Through the Ages – Fred S. Kleiner
  16. The Secret Language of Churches and Cathedrals – Richard Stemp
  17. Painting in America: The story of 450 years – E.P.Richardson
  18. Hieronymus Bosch – Sandra Forty
  19. Frá hellamálverkum til endurreisnar – Ingunn Þóra Magnúsdóttir (Icelandic)
  20. Frá endurreisn til impressjónisma – Þorsteinn Helgason (Icelandic)


Miscellaneous

  1. Scottish Tales of Magic and Mystery – Compiled by Marion Lochhead
  2. What´s in a Street Name? - Antony Badsey Ellis
  3. London Writing – Merlin Coverley
  4. Black Cats and April Fools, Origins of Old Wives tales and Superstitions in our daily lives – Harry Oliver
  5. Filthy Shakespear: Shakespear´s Most Outrageous Sexual Puns – Pauline Kiernan
  6. The Last Lecture – Randy Pausch
  7. Egyptians Book of Living and Dying – Johan Fletcher
  8. Medicine Through the Times – Nigel Kelly of fl.
  9. The Encyclopedia of Cats
  10. The Life of Mammals– David Attenborough
  11. The World Without Us – Alan Weisman
  12. Aku-Aku – Thor Heyerdahl
  13. Survival of the Sickest – Dr. Sharon Moalem
  14. The Devil´s Picnic – Taras Grescoe
  15. Nutrition for Dummies
  16. Fitness for Dummies
  17. World famous books in outline
  18. Reader's Digest of Books – Helen Rex Keller
  19. Samples of English Literature – Alan E. Boucher
  20. The Black Art – Rollo Ahmed
  21. In Search of England – H.V. Morton
  22. Mystery of the Nile – Richard Bangs og Pasquale Scaturro
  23. Self-confidence – Paul McGee
  24. The Novels of George Eliot – Barbara Hardy
  25. Plays and Players: Theatre Essays – Berndard Shaw
  26. A History of the World in 100 Objects – Neil MacGregor
  27. British History for Dummies
  28. The Etymologicon – Mark Forsyth
  29. The Horologicon – Mark Forsyth
  30. Scottish – English / English – Scottish
  31. Dictionary of Saints
  32. It´s Not How Good You Are, It´s How Good You Want to Be – Paul Arden
  33. Catrimony – the Feline Guide to Ruling the Relationship – Christine Montaquila
  34. Little Book of Cats – The British Museum
  35. The Book of Bunny Suicides – Andy Riley
  36. Return of the Bunny Suicides – Andy Riley
  37. London Encounter – Lonely Planet
  38. Eyewitness Travel – London
  39. 501 Must Visit Destinations, Travel Journal
  40. Mojo Collection
  41. Pockit Rockit music finder 2.0
  42. The Rules of Life
  43. 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die – Peter Boxall
  44. 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die – Stephen Farthing
  45. Europe on a Shoestring
  46. Harry Potter-Page to screen – McGabe
  47. Muse The Resistance Tour Photography Book.

Icelandic Miscellaneous
  1. Hetjur og Hugarvíl – Óttar Guðmundsson (Icelandic)
  2. Svarta bókin – Vera Illugadóttir og Helgi Hrafn Guðmundsson (Icelandic)
  3. Ferðabók I – Ólafur Olavius (Icelandic)
  4. Ferðabók II – Ólafur Olavius (Icelandic)

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