[Veltzeh]'s reading list

that is, stuff I've read or should read.
I've marked stuff I read only in English and stuff I read only in Finnish. If I haven't specified a language, I've read it in both Finnish and English at least partly.

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Some of the first books I read when I was a kid were
Watership Down / Ruohometsän kansa by Richard Adams
Rottaodysseia by Andrzej Zaniewski (Finnish)
Some Uppo-Nalle books by Elina Karjalainen (Finnish) (Sad, I know.)
Huge stacks of veterinarian books, in fact all I could find in the library (Finnish)
The last vet book (series) I read I left unfinished. I remember extremely vividly one scene from there, though. Two girls had been cruel to a horse or something, and when the vet got his chance, he grabbed a whip and chased the two girls like a madman! Veterinarian gore. Ecstasy.

Tales from Watership Down by Richard Adams (Finnish)

Tripodien aika / The Tripods by John Christopher (Samuel Youd) (Finnish)
1: Viimeinen tukikohta / The White Mountains
2: Lyijykaupunki / The City of Gold and Lead
3: Tulinen pyörre / The Pool of Fire

Several sci-fi books whose names I have forgotten (se jossa ihmiset kiinnittelevät koneita aivoihinsa, Tohtori L, peilijuttu, se jossa monta tyyppiä muodostaa kokonaisuuden, se jossa lapset kehittyvät ja ihmiskunta tuhoutuu, Mars–Maa–Venus-seikkailu, surkea nuorisokirja) (Finnish)

Matilda, Jaakko ja jättipersikka, Kuka pelkää noitia, Me salamestarit (that is, a lot of books and probably more and I've forgotten their names already) by Roald Dahl (Finnish)

School reading:
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (English)
MacBeth by Shakespeare (play) (English)
Hamlet (play) by Shakespeare (Finnish)
Crime and Punishment by Fedor Mihailovitš Dostojevski (Finnish)
Sivullinen by Albert Camus (Finnish)
Short story collection (?) (short stories) by several writers (Finnish)
Equus (play) by Peter Shaffer (English)
Educating Rita (play) by Willy Russell (English)
Absent Friends (play?) (?) by ? (English)
Viimeinen lapsitähti (short stories) by Maarit Verronen (Finnish)
Seitsemän veljestä by Aleksis Kivi (Finnish)
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle (English)
Tuntematon sotilas by Väinö Linna (Finnish) (unfinished)
Laulu tulipunaisesta kukasta by Johannes Linnankoski (play?) (Finnish)
Pöytään ja vuoteeseen: jatkokertomus kuukausi kuukaudelta, mukana rakkautta, ruokaohjeita ja kotoisia parannuskeinoja / Como aqua para chocolate: novela de enteregas mensuales con recetas, amores y remedios by Laura Esquivel (Finnish)
Sadan vuoden yksinäisyys / Cien anos de soledad by Gabriel García Márquez (Finnish)
Kristalliruusu (short stories) by Risto Isomäki (Finnish)
Sirens of Titan / Titanin seireenit by Kurt Vonnegut

I admit that my parents forced me to read Harry Potter. After that I read three/two/one (can't remember) books more out of curiosity and don't remember anything about them. I wrote a review about the first book for English class (it had been about 2–3 years, I'd only read it in Finnish and was confusing scenes with the other books but got a pretty okay grade from it). Looking back at the review, it sucks big time.

Kyberias / Cyberiada by Stanislaw Lem (Finnish)

Some finnish sci-fi book by ? (Finnish) (unfinished)

Ikuisuuden loppu / End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov (Finnish) (unfinished)

Imajica by Clive Barker

By Ursula Le Guin:
Pimeyden vasen käsi / Left Hand of Darkness
The Dispossessed / Osattomien planeetta (Finnish)
The Word for World is Forest / Maailma, vihreä metsä (Finnish)
Winter's King (short story)
To be read: the rest of the Ekumen series... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekumen#Novels

Babylon 5: The Psi Corps Trilogy by Gregory J. Keyes (English)
Dark Genesis
Bester Ascendant
Final Reckoning

The Reindeer People by Megan Lindholm (English) (unfinished)

Wraeththu by Storm Constantine (English)
The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit
The Bewitchments of Love and Hate
The Fulfilments of Fate and Desire
To be read: the rest of it?

"–All you zombies–" (short story) by Robert Heinlein
Aye, and Gomorrah (short story) by Samuel R. Delany (http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/classics/classics_archive/delany3/delany31.html)

Ringworld / Rengasmaailma by Larry Niven (Finnish)
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Finnish)
Brave New World / Uljas uusi maailma by Aldous Huxley (Finnish)

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