2011

Avsluttet/Completed

Antikken / Antiquity

1. Shanks, Hershel (ed.). Understanding the Dead Sea Scrolls. A Reader from the Biblical Archaeological Review.  New York: Vintage, 1993. – 336 s.
2. Tacitus. The Agricola and The Germania. Penguin, 1970. – 175 s.
3. Wohlmayr, Wolfgang. Die römische Kunst. Ein Handbuch. Darmstadt: WBG, 2011. – 399 s.

Middelalderen / Middle Ages

Historie generelt / General history

1. Diamond, Jared. Collapse. How societies choose to fail or succeed. Penguin Books, 2006. – 575 s.
2. Gleick, James. Isaac Newton. London: Harper Perennial, 2004. – 289 s.
3. Gleick, James. The Information. A History. A Theory. A Flood. Amazon Kindle, 2011
4. Havel, Václav. To the Castle and back. London: Portobello, 2009. – 383 s.
5. Needham, Joseph. The Shorter Science and Civilization in China. Volume 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978. – 326 pp.*
6. Pico, Fernando. Historia general de Puerto Rico. San Juan (PR), Huracan, 2008 (1986). – 336 s
7. Winchester, Simon. The man who loved China. New York: Harper, 2009. – 316 s. About Joseph Needham.

* An abridgement of Joseph Needham’s original text, by Colin A. Ronan. Corresponds to volumes I and II of the major series.

Fiksjon / Fiction

1. Nesbø, Jo. Frelseren. Oslo: Aschehoug, 2005. – 461 s.
2. Francis, Dick & Felix Francis. Even money. Penguin, 2010. – 398 s.
   

Filosofi / Philosophy

1. Foucault, Michel. Abnormal. Lectures at the College de France 1974-1975.  New Delhi: Navayana, 2010 (Verso, 2003). . – 374 s.
2. Foucault, Michel. “Society must be defended”. Lectures at the College de France 1975-76.  New York: Picador, 2003. – 310 s.
3. Habermas, Jürgen. Sprachtheoretische Grundlegung der Soziologie. – 410 s. Frankfurt a.M, Suhrkamp, 2009. (= Band 1. Philosophische Texte)
4. Habermas, Jürgen. Rationalitäts- und Sprachtheorie. – 390 s.  Frankfurt a.M, Suhrkamp, 2009. (= Band 2. Philosophische Texte)
5. Habermas, Jürgen. Diskursethik. – 472 s.  Frankfurt a.M, Suhrkamp, 2009. (= Band 3. Philosophische Texte)
6. Horkheimer, Max; Theodor von Adorno. Dialektik der Aufklärung.  Philosophische Fragmente.  Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 1988. – 275 s.
7. Shusterman, Richard (ed.). Bourdieu. A critical reader. London: Blackwell, 1999. – 277 s.

Litteraturteori og -historie/Literary theory and history

1. Agøy, Nils Ivar. Mytenes mann. J.R.R. Tolkien og hans forfatterskap. Oslo: Tiden, 2003. – 202 s.
2. Auerbach, Erich. Mimesis. Dargestellte Wirklichkeit in der abendlandischen Literatur. Tübingen/Basel: Francke, 2001 (1946). – 524 s.
3. Curtius, Ernst Robert. Europäische Literatur und Lateinisches Mittelalter.  Tübingen/Basel: Francke, 2001 (1946). -1993 (1948). – 608 s.
4. Escarpit, Robert. Litteratursosiologi. Oslo: Cappelen, 1971  (1958). – 126 s.
5. Johannesen, Georg. Rhetorica Norvegica. Oslo: Cappelen, 1987. – 331 s.
6. Lagercrantz, Olof. Om kunsten å lese og skrive. Bokvennen, 1988. – 68 s.
7. Langslet, Lars Roar. Den store ensomme – en biografi om Ludvig Holberg. Oslo: Press, 2005 (2001). – 502 s.
8. Levin, Irene. Hva er sosialt arbeid? Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 2002. – 157 s.
9. Norheim, Marta. Røff guide til samtidsliteraturen. Oslo: Samlaget, 2007. – 329 s.

Andre / Other

1. Ariely, Dan. Predictably irrational. London: Harper, 2009. – 368 p. Essays in behavioral economics
2. Dawkins, Richard. Climbing Mount Improbable. Penguin, 2006 (1996). – 308 s.
3. Flyvbjerg, Bent. Making social science matter. Why social inquiry fails and how it can succeed again. Cambridge UP, 2001. – 204 s.
4. Lafayette de Mente, Boyé. Etiquette guide to China. Know the rules that make the difference! North Clarendon, Vermont: Tuttle publishing, 2008. – 192 s.
5. Pomfret, John. Chinese lessons. Five classmates and the story of new China. New York: Henry Holt, 2006. – 312 s.
6. Radtke, Oliver Lutz. Chinglish. Found in translation. Layton, Utah: Gibbs Smith, 2007.
7. Radtke, Oliver Lutz. More Chinglish. Speaking in tongues. Layton, Utah: Gibbs Smith, 2008.
8. Rosenthal, Donna. The Israelis. Ordinary people in an extraordinary land. New York: Free Press, 2008 (2003). – 482 s.
9. Roth, Philip. Patrimony. A true story. London: Vintage, 1999 [1991]

Comment (in Norwegian)

• P 189/11: Årets bøker. Lest i 2011.

Underveis / Currently reading

Fiksjon / Fiction

• Gaiman, Neil. American Gods. The Author’s Preferred Text. London: Headline, 2002. – 640 s.
• Hauge, Olav H. Dikt i samling. Oslo: Det norske samlaget, 2009. – 326 s.
• Nesbø, Jo. Panserhjerte. Oslo: Aschehoug, 2009. – 639 s.
• Rothfuss, Patrick. The wise man’s fear. London: Gollansz, 2010. – 993 s.
• Smith, Cordwainer. The rediscovery of man. London: Gollansz, 2010. – 381 s.

Filosofi / Philosophy

• Gadamer, Hans-Georg. Sannhet og metode. Grunntrekk i en filosofisk hermeneutikk. Oslo: Pax, 2010. – 555 s.
• Mikics, David. Who was Jacques Derrida? New Haven: Yale UP, 2009. – 273 s.

Litteraturteori og -historie/Literary theory and history

• Andreassen, Trond. Bok-Norge. En litteratursosiologisk oversikt. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 2006 (1992). – 569 s.
• Jauss, Hans Robert. Ästhetische Erfahrung und literarische Hermeneutikk. Frankfurt a. M.: Suhrkamp, 1991 (1982). – 877 s.
• Schürer, Emil. A history of the Jewish people in the time of Jesus Christ. Political history of Palestine, from B.B. 175 to A.D. 135. Vol. 1. – 467 pp. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2009 [1890].

Andre / Other

• Byron, Robert. Veien til Oxiana. Oslo: Aschehoug, 2008. – 307 s.
• Chamberlain, Jonathan. Chinese gods. An introduction to Cinese folk religion. Hong Kong: Blacksmith, 2009. – 237 s.
• Geelmuyden, Niels Chr. Ubuden gjest. En brysom portrettintervjuers opptegnelser. Oslo: Schibsted, 2009. – 328 s.
• Hessler, Peter. Country driving. A Chinese road trip. Edinburgh: Canongate, 2010. – 550 s.
• Taleb, Nassim Nicholas. The Black Swan. The impact of the highly improbable. London: pEnguin, 2010.  – 444 pp.
• West, Rebecca. Black lamb and grey falcon.  A journey through Yugoslavia. Edinburgh: Cannongate, 1993 (1942). – 1181 s.

Ankommet / Arrived

• Derrida, Jacques. Marx’ spøkelser. Oslo: Pax 1996.- 222 s.
• Mallarmé, Stéphane. Collected poems and other verse. With parallell French text. Oxford: OUP, 2006. – 286 pp.
• Metternich, Wolfgang. Teufel, Geister und Dämonen. Das Unheimliche in der Kunst des Mittelalters.  Darmstadt: WBG, 2011. – 144 s.
• Sansom, C.J. Heartstone. London: Pan, 2011. – 725 s. = Bind 5 i serien om Shardlake
• Tanner, Marcus. Croatia. A nation forged in war. New Haven: Yale University, 2010 (1997). – 378 s.