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Czerwony pył
Ma Jian
Progress: 64/285 pages
The Rise Of Endymion (Hyperion Cantos #4)
Dan Simmons
Progress: 120/580 pages
Big Breasts & Wide Hips: A Novel
Mo Yan
Progress: 200/500 pages
Grotesque
Natsuo Kirino, Rebecca Copeland
Progress: 30/463 pages
Bailout Nation, with New Post-Crisis Update: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy
Barry Ritholtz

Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)

Mockingjay - Suzanne  Collins Surprisingly bitter-sweet to the very end. A great ending to an amazing story...

Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, Book 2)

Catching Fire - Suzanne  Collins Wow. If I thought the first part was messed up - this one is positively scary. Kinda makes me think of Orwell's 1984, too. Great read!

The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games  - Suzanne  Collins Surprisingly good and engaging. Well written, but also rather depressing - with the whole kids-killing-kids-for-evli-overlords'-amusement motive. Still - worth reading!
Eleven Minutes - Coelho Paulo

Surprisingly insightfull and enlightening. Very good read.

Veronika Decides to Die: A Novel of Redemption

Вероника решает умереть - Paulo Coelho Mye personal favourite by Coehlo, much better than "The Alchemist". A great story about learning to appreciate being alive... ^^

The Alchemist

The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho Frankly, I never understood the phenomenon of this book. It's readable, but not nearly prophetic or amazing enough to warrant such interest... ... or maybe I'm too stupid to get it ;)

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest: Book 3 of the Millennium Trilogy (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest: Book 3 of the Millennium Trilogy (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) - Stieg Larsson I quite literally swallowed the book. A great ending to a great story :)

The Girl Who Played with Fire: Book 2 of the Millennium Trilogy (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

The Girl Who Played with Fire: Book 2 of the Millennium Trilogy (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) - Stieg Larsson It's been a really long time since I've literally swallowed a book. ...and all the time while reading, I kept chanting "OMG! OMG! OMG!" ;) Great book!

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson It is rather quite amazing how you can quite literally swallow a mystery novel when you already know the whole mystery. I'm somewhat angry at myself that it took me this much time to read this book. Simply amazing work!

Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson Good book, very well written. Jobs' story was well-balanced - although that did not stop me, on several occassions, from getting very frustrated/angry with the guy. ... and admittedly, the last 30 pages or so, I kept hoping he would just die and get it over with ;)

Oliver Twist (Dover Thrift Editions)

Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens What can I say? It's a classic, after all ;)

Deus Irae

Deus Irae - Philip K. Dick Rather heavy and bizzare. Asks some interesting questions, too, though you might not like the answers. Or the world post-nuclear war, either... ;)

Little Women

Little Women - Louisa May Alcott One of those quaint little classics you just breeze through... ;)

The Picture of Dorian Gray (Dover Thrift Editions)

The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde A definite classic and a powerful book. (though some may wish to skip chapter XI)

Kafka on the Shore

Kafka on the Shore - Philip Gabriel, Haruki Murakami A tad too fantastic for my tastes, although an enjoyable book all the same :)

Dance Dance Dance

Dance Dance Dance - Haruki Murakami, Alfred Birnbaum Typically Murakami. Somewhat funny, somewhat mysterious. Straighforward and yet very bizzare. A good read.