1. Edith Wharton: House of Mirth
2. Arto Paasilinna: Den elskelige giftblandersken (translated from Finnish into Norwegian. It doesn’t seem to be in English translation but would be something like “the dear poisoner”)
3. Agatha Christie: The Secret Adversary
4. E. M. Forster: Howards End (I can’t tell you how much I loved this book)
5. Karl Ove Knausgård: Min Kamp 1 (in Norwegian – volume 1 of a 6-volume autobiographical novel (!))
6. Siri Hustvedt: The Shaking Woman, or a History of my Nerves
7. Michael Pollan: The Omnivore’s Dilemma
8. Nigel Slater: Tender I
9. Jonathan Safran Foer: Eating Animals *
10. Per Petterson: Det er greit for meg (in the original Norwegian (read him if you haven’t already!))
11. Jonathan Safran Foer: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
12. Samantha Harvey: The Wilderness
13. E. M. Forster: A Passage to India *
14. Haruki Murakami: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
15. Simone de Beauvoir: En ung pikes erindringer (her early memoirs in Norwegian translation)
16. Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love
17. Colm Toibín: Brooklyn
18. P.D. James: The Private Patient
19. Sara Paretsky: Indemnity Only
20. Dennis Lehane: A Drink Before the War
21. Joseph O’Neill: Netherland
22. Ilse Crawford: Home Is Where the Heart Is?
23. Colin Dexter: Service For All the Dead

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(an asterisk means that I’m currently reading this book and haven’t finished it yet)