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Lists of 2009, 2010, 2011.
All books are in English unless there's another language between brackets.
Updated each time I finish a book.
# before the number means it's re-read (that I've read the book at least once before).
& means that I've cried at one point during reading the book.

All reviews are in English except if noted. Even for the non-English books, the reviews are in English except for the excerpt/back cover text. The reason for this is that you can still look for a translation of the book then if you want (I note the original title in the review as well). Most of the time I give a short English summary as well if the back cover text is not English.

January:
1. 電影少女 Video Girl Ai volume 1 失恋 (Japanese) by Katsura Masakazu (review)
2. 電影少女 Video Girl Ai volume 2 消滅 (Japanese) by Katsura Masakazu (review)
3. 電影少女 Video Girl Ai volume 3 再生 (Japanese) by Katsura Masakazu
4. Ashma (compiled and translated from Shani into Chinese by the Yunnan People's Cultural Troupe, translated into English by Gladys Yang) (review)
5. 電影少女 Video Girl Ai volume 4 体験 (Japanese) by Katsura Masakazu
6. 電影少女 Video Girl Ai volume 5 刺客 (Japanese) by Katsura Masakazu
7. Open Boek - handboek leesbevordering (Dutch) by Jos Walta (Dutch review)
8. 電影少女 Video Girl Ai volume 6 破局 (Japanese) by Katsura Masakazu
9. Suske en Wiske #315 - De bananenzangers (Dutch) by Willy Vandersteen
10. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy #5 - Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams (review)
11. Rurouni Kenshin #10 by Nobuhiro Watsuki
12. Rurouni Kenshin #11 by Nobuhiro Watsuki
13. Rurouni Kenshin #12 by Nobuhiro Watsuki
14. Keiko-san's Story: An Account of the Minamata Tragedy by Eustacia Tan (review)
15. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy #6 - And another thing... by Eoin Colfer (review)
16. De prinses en de stroper - twee fabels (Dutch) by Roald Dahl (review)
# 17. The girl who heard dragons by Anne McCaffrey (review)
18. De verborgen universiteit #1 - De erfenis van Richard Grenville (Dutch) by Natalie Koch (review)

February:
19. Suske en Wiske #314 - Het lijdende Leiden (Dutch) by Willy Vandersteen
#& 20. Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey (review)
21. Blauwtje en Geeltje (Dutch) by Leo Lionni (review)
22. Rurouni Kenshin #13 by Nobuhiro Watsuki
23. Rurouni Kenshin #14 by Nobuhiro Watsuki
24. Rurouni Kenshin #15 by Nobuhiro Watsuki
25. Rurouni Kenshin #16 by Nobuhiro Watsuki
26. Rurouni Kenshin #17 by Nobuhiro Watsuki
27. Rurouni Kenshin #18 by Nobuhiro Watsuki
28. Agency and the Semantic Web (chapters 2.1, 2.2, 5.1, 5.2) by Christopher Walton (review)
29. Vision Science: Photons to Phenomenology (chapter 1, 4.2, 5) by Stephen E. Palmer (review)
30. An Introduction to the Event-Related Potential Technique (chapter 1) by Steven J. Luck (review)
31. Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (chapter 8) by Scott A. Huettel, Gregory McCarthy, Allen W. Song (review)

March: (my Fantasy Challenge journal entry)
32. Attention (Studies in Cognition) (chapter 1) by Harold Pashler (review)
33. Japan - From prehistory to modern times by John Whitney Hall (review)
34. Servants of Ark #1 - The First Named by Jonathan Wylie (review)
35. Suske en Wiske #316 - Krimsonia (Dutch) by Willy Vandersteen
36. Ranger's Apprentice #1 - The ruins of Gorlan by John Flanagan (review)
# 37. Clover #1 (Japanese) by CLAMP (review)
38. Clover #2 (Japanese) by CLAMP (review)
39. Clover #3 (Japanese) by CLAMP (review)
40. Clover #4 (Japanese) by CLAMP (review)
41. De Hopeloze Heks #5 - De hopeloze heks redt de school (Dutch) by Jill Murphy (review)
42. Servants of Ark #2 - The center of the circle by Jonathan Wylie (review)
43. De Hopeloze Heks #6 - De hopeloze heks weet het beter! (Dutch) by Jill Murphy (review)
44. Servants of Ark #3 - The Mage-Born Child by Jonathan Wylie (review)
45. Arisa #1 by Natsumi Ando (review)
46. Night head genesis #1 by George Iida and You Higuri (review)
47. Rurouni Kenshin #19 by Nobuhiro Watsuki
48. Rurouni Kenshin #20 by Nobuhiro Watsuki
49. Rurouni Kenshin #21 by Nobuhiro Watsuki
50. Rurouni Kenshin #22 by Nobuhiro Watsuki
51. Rurouni Kenshin #23 by Nobuhiro Watsuki
52. Rurouni Kenshin #24 by Nobuhiro Watsuki
53. Rurouni Kenshin #25 by Nobuhiro Watsuki
54. Rurouni Kenshin #26 by Nobuhiro Watsuki
55. Rurouni Kenshin #27 by Nobuhiro Watsuki
56. Rurouni Kenshin #28 by Nobuhiro Watsuki
57. The story of Saiunkoku #1 by Sai Yukino
58. The story of Saiunkoku #2 by Sai Yukino
59. The story of Saiunkoku #3 by Sai Yukino
60. The story of Saiunkoku #4 by Sai Yukino
61. The story of Saiunkoku #5 by Sai Yukino (review)
62. Kilala Princess #3 (German) by Rika Tanaka (review)
63. Kilala Princess #4 (German) by Rika Tanaka (review)
64. Kilala Princess #5 (German) by Rika Tanaka (review)
65. 電影少女 Video Girl Ai volume 7 再現 (Japanese) by Katsura Masakazu (review)
66. De avonturen van kapitein Roodstorm (Dutch) by Raphael Lafferty (review)
67. Nevelen van Avalon (Dutch) by Marion Bradley (review)
68. De rat van roestvrij staal (Dutch) by Harry Harrison (review)
69. De stalen rat neemt wraak (Dutch) by Harry Harrison (review)

April
70. Kitchen Princess #1 by Natsumi Ando (review)
71. Kasumi #2 by Surt Lim
72. Kitchen Princess #2 by Natsumi Ando (review)
73. Syndroom van Asperger (Dutch) by Peter Vermeulen & Thomas Fondelli (review)
74. De stalen rat redt de wereld (Dutch) by Harry Harrison (review)
75. Planeet der verdoemden (Dutch) by Harry Harrison (review)
76. Ik mis je, ik mis je! (Dutch) by Peter Pohl and Kinna Gieth (review)
77. Wat autisme met je doet (Dutch) by John Foran & Karin Harsevoort-Zoer (review)
78. The Adamantine palace by Stephen Deas (review)
& 79. Het hoog sensitieve kind - Help je kinderen op te groeien in een wereld die hen overweldigt (Dutch) by Elaine N. Aron (review)
80. Ender's game by Orson Scott Card (review)
81. Artificial Intelligence - A philosophical introduction by Jack Copeland (review)
82. Aspergirls (Dutch) by Rudy Simone (review)

May
83. Werken met Asperger (Dutch) by Rudy Simone (review)
84. Omnitopia #1 - Omnitopia Dawn by Diane Duane (review)
85. Hooggevoeligheid als uitdaging (Dutch) by Marian van den Beuken (Dutch review)
86. Hooggevoeligheid als levenskunst (Dutch) by Marian van den Beuken (Dutch review)
87. The Balancing Act: Combining Symbolic and Statistical Approaches to Language by Judith Klavans and Philip Resnik, chapter: Statistical methods and linguistics by Steven Abney
& 88. Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Dark Congress by Christopher Golden (review)
89. An Invitation to Cognitive Science: Vol. 3: Thinking edited by Edward E. Smith and Daniel N. Osherson, chapter: "The mind as the software of the brain" by Ned Block
90. Modern philosophy of mind by William Lyons (editor) (review)
91. Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature by Richard Rorty (review)
92. Mind - An introduction to cognitive science by Paul Thagard (review)
93. Being There - Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again by Andy Clark (review)
94. Cognition, Computation, & Consciousness by Masao Ito e.a. (review)
95. Tarzan #6 - Jungle tales of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs (review)
96. The Princess Bride by William Goldman (review)
97. Ranma 1/2 #1 (VIZ edition) by Takahashi Rumiko (review)
98. Ranma 1/2 #2 (VIZ edition) by Takahashi Rumiko
99. Ranma 1/2 #3 (VIZ edition) by Takahashi Rumiko
100. Forever Young Eternity 3: Sonaï (pre-publication, beta-reading) by Kim Houtzager
101. Machine Learning by Tom Mitchell (chapter 3)

June
102. Suske en Wiske #317 - Het bizarre blok (Dutch) by Willy Vandersteen (review)
103. Kitchen Princess #4 by Natsumi Ando (review)
104. Kitchen Princess #9 by Natsumi Ando (review)
105. Kitchen Princess #10 by Natsumi Ando (review)
106. Kitchen Princess: Search for the Angel Cake by Miyuki Kobayashi (review)
107. Ranma 1/2 #4 (VIZ edition) by Takahashi Rumiko
108. Ranma 1/2 #5 (VIZ edition) by Takahashi Rumiko
109. Ranma 1/2 #6 (VIZ edition) by Takahashi Rumiko
110. Ranma 1/2 #7 (VIZ edition) by Takahashi Rumiko
111. Ranma 1/2 #8 (VIZ edition) by Takahashi Rumiko
112. Ranma 1/2 #9 (VIZ edition) by Takahashi Rumiko
113. Ranma 1/2 #10 (VIZ edition) by Takahashi Rumiko
114. Ender #2 - Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card (review)
115. Ranma 1/2 #11 (VIZ edition) by Takahashi Rumiko
116. Ranma 1/2 #12 (VIZ edition) by Takahashi Rumiko
117. Ranma 1/2 #13 (VIZ edition) by Takahashi Rumiko
118. Ranma 1/2 #14 (VIZ edition) by Takahashi Rumiko
119. Epotoransu! Mai #1 (online) by Watase Yuu
120. Epotoransu! Mai #2 (online) by Watase Yuu
121. Ranma 1/2 #15 (online, VIZ numbering) by Takahashi Rumiko
122. Ranma 1/2 #16 (online, VIZ numbering) by Takahashi Rumiko
123. Ranma 1/2 #17 (online, VIZ numbering) by Takahashi Rumiko
124. Ranma 1/2 #18 (online, VIZ numbering) by Takahashi Rumiko
125. LovePlus: Kanojo no kako (online) by Hiroaki Wakamiya
126. Ranma 1/2 #19 (online, VIZ numbering) by Takahashi Rumiko
127. Ranma 1/2 #20 (online, VIZ numbering) by Takahashi Rumiko
128. Ranma 1/2 #21 (online, VIZ numbering) by Takahashi Rumiko
129. Ranma 1/2 #22 (online, VIZ numbering) by Takahashi Rumiko
130. Ranma 1/2 #23 (online, VIZ numbering) by Takahashi Rumiko
131. Ranma 1/2 #24 (online, VIZ numbering) by Takahashi Rumiko
132. Ranma 1/2 #25 (online, VIZ numbering) by Takahashi Rumiko
133. Ranma 1/2 #26 (online, VIZ numbering) by Takahashi Rumiko
134. Ranma 1/2 #27 (online, VIZ numbering) by Takahashi Rumiko
135. Ranma 1/2 #28 (online, VIZ numbering) by Takahashi Rumiko
136. Ranma 1/2 #29 (online, VIZ numbering) by Takahashi Rumiko
137. Ranma 1/2 #30 (online, VIZ numbering) by Takahashi Rumiko
138. Ranma 1/2 #31 (online, VIZ numbering) by Takahashi Rumiko
139. Ranma 1/2 #32 (online, VIZ numbering) by Takahashi Rumiko
140. Ranma 1/2 #33 (online, VIZ numbering) by Takahashi Rumiko
141. Ranma 1/2 #34 (online, VIZ numbering) by Takahashi Rumiko
142. Ranma 1/2 #35 (online, VIZ numbering) by Takahashi Rumiko
143. Ranma 1/2 #36 (online, VIZ numbering) by Takahashi Rumiko
& 144. Helen esp #1 (online) by Katsuhisa Kigitsu
& 145. Helen esp #2 (online) by Katsuhisa Kigitsu
146. Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata (review)
147. Mama wa shougaku 4-nensei #1 (online) by Ito Nakamori
148. Mama wa shougaku 4-nensei #2 (online) by Ito Nakamori
149. Da Capo #1 (online) by CIRCUS, Tanihara Natsuki
150. Da Capo #2 (online) by CIRCUS, Tanihara Natsuki
151. Densha Otoko - Net Hatsu, Kakueki Teisha no Love Story Manga #1 (online) by Nakano Hitori, Hara Hidenori
152. Densha Otoko - Net Hatsu, Kakueki Teisha no Love Story Manga #2 (online) by Nakano Hitori, Hara Hidenori
153. Discworld #12 - Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett (review)
154. Ender #3 - Xenocide by Orson Scott Card (review)
155. Foundations of statistical natural language processing by C. Manning and H. Schütze (review)
156. The Help by Kathryn Stockett (review)

July
157. Maak nooit je bed op (Dutch) by Rik Kuiper & Tonie Mudde
158. Zilverwolf: De val van Rome (Dutch) by Alice Borchardt (review)
159. The Witch's Trinity by Erika Mailman (review)
160. Vitaal zonder zuivel (Dutch) by Roy Martina
161. Katten & ander gespuis (Dutch) by Frits Abrahams (Dutch review)
162. Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle (review)

August
163. Pocahontas (Dutch) by Susan Donnell (review)
164. Cognitive Psychology by Margaret W. Matlin (review)
165. The Feckin' book of Everything Irish that'll have ye effin' an' blindin' wojus slang, blatherin' deadly quotations, beltin' out ballads while scuttered, cookin' an Irish Mammy's recipes, and saying things like 'I will in me arse.' by Colin Murphy & Donal O'Dea (review)
166. Met fluwelen pootjes (Dutch) by Vicki Myron & Bret Witter (review)
167. Suske en Wiske #138 - De suikerslaven (Dutch) by Willy Vandersteen
168. The Bourne Identity (Het Bourne bedrog) (Dutch) by Robert Ludlum (review)
169. Otogi Zoshi #2 by Narumi Seto (review)

September
170. Heaven's Will by Satoru Takamiya (review)
171. Peace Maker #1 by Nanae Chrono (review)
172. "Pre-editing and the use of simplified writing for MT: an engineer's experience of operating an MT system." by P.J. Pym in Translating and the computer 10: The translation environment ten years on by Pamela Mayorcas
173. Machine translation: How far can it go? by Makoto Nagao
174. Completeness of Compositional Translation by Willem-Olaf Huijsen
175. Translating the untranslatable: a solution to the problem of generating English determiners and numbers in machine translation from Japanese by Francis Bond
176. chapter 1, "An introduction to the Eurotra machine translation system", by A. Raw, F. van Eynde, P. ten Hacken, H. Hoekstra and B. Vandecapelle, in "Working papers in natural language processing", edited by F. van Eynde and P. ten Hacken
177. Het konijn op de maan (Dutch) by Paul Mennes (Dutch review)
178. Linguistic issues in machine translation by Frank van Eynde
179. Machine translation: An introductory guide by D. Arnold, L. Balkan, R. Lee Humpreys, S. Meijer, and L. Sadler
180. Example-based machine translation by Satoshi Sato
181. Multilingual aspects of information technology by P. Bennett, R. Johnson, J. McNaught, J. Pugh, H. Somers, J.C. Sager
182. The chapter "Analysis and generation grammars" by D. Gates, K. Takeda, T. Mitamura, L. Levin, and M. Kee, and the chapter "APAC - An experiment in machine translation" by Z. Kirschner and A. Rosen, and the chapter "Lexical description for NLP: The case of the French adverb presque" by C. Defrise, in the book Machine translation volume 4, ISSN 09226567
183. The chapter "The significance of sublanguage for automatic translation" by R.I. Kittredge in Machine translation: Theoretical and methodological issues by S. Nirenburg
184. Repairing texts: empirical investigations of machine translation post-editing processes by H.P. Krings
185. An introduction to machine translation by W.J. Hutchins and H.L. Somers
186. The snow child by Eowyn Ivey (review)
187. Microsoft Manual of Style, 4th edition by Microsoft Corporation
188. Microsoft Manual of Style for Technical Publications, 3rd edition by Microsoft Corporation
189. De vrouw van de dokter (Dutch) by Sawako Ariyoshi (Dutch review)
# 190. 冬のソナタ (Fuyu no sonata) #1 (Japanese) by 星合操 (Hoshiai Misao) (review)
191. 冬のソナタ (Fuyu no sonata) #2 (Japanese) by 星合操 (Hoshiai Misao)
192. 冬のソナタ (Fuyu no sonata) #3 (Japanese) by 星合操 (Hoshiai Misao)
193. 冬のソナタ (Fuyu no sonata) #4 (Japanese) by 星合操 (Hoshiai Misao)
194. 冬のソナタ (Fuyu no sonata) #5 (Japanese) by 星合操 (Hoshiai Misao)
195. Righting English that's gone Dutch (online, partly) by Joy Burrough-Boenisch
196. 冬のソナタ (Fuyu no sonata) #6 (Japanese) by 星合操 (Hoshiai Misao)
197. 冬のソナタ (Fuyu no sonata) #7 (Japanese) by 星合操 (Hoshiai Misao)
198. De technicolor tijdmachine (Dutch) by Harry Harrison (review)
199. A clockwork orange by Anthony Burgess (review)

October
200. Suske en Wiske #316 - Suske de rat (Dutch) by Willy Vandersteen
201. Twee vrouwen (Dutch) by Harry Mulisch (review)
202. Doen alsof je normaal bent - leven met het Asperger-syndroom (Dutch) by Liane Holliday Willey (review)
203. Grammatical error prediction (thesis) by Øistein E. Andersen
204. An Error Tagging System for Learner Corpora of Advanced Written English (thesis) by Věra Fialová
205. Blind willow, sleeping woman by Haruki Murakami (review)
206. Strijdlied van de tijgermoeder (Dutch) by Amy Chua (review)

November
& 207. Strangewood by Christopher Golden (review)
208. Het koningsgraf (Dutch) by Wilbur Smith (review)
209. Tanka - het lied van Japan (Dutch) by J. van Tooren (Dutch review)
210. The book of unholy mischief by Elle Newmark (review)
211. Moyasimon #2 - Tales of Agriculture by Masayuki Ishikawa (review)
212. Macht der gewoonte - Waarom we doen wat we doen en hoe we dat kunnen veranderen (Dutch) by Charles Duhigg (review)
213. Pichi Pichi Pitch Mermaid Melody #1 by Pink Hanamori
214. Pichi Pichi Pitch Mermaid Melody #2 by Pink Hanamori
215. Pichi Pichi Pitch Mermaid Melody #3 by Pink Hanamori
216. Pichi Pichi Pitch Mermaid Melody #4 by Pink Hanamori
217. Pichi Pichi Pitch Mermaid Melody #5 by Pink Hanamori
218. Pichi Pichi Pitch Mermaid Melody #6 by Pink Hanamori
219. Pichi Pichi Pitch Mermaid Melody #7 by Pink Hanamori
220. No Impact Man by Colin Beavan (review)

December
221. Thorgal/Wolvin 2 - De afgehakte hand van de god Tyr (Dutch) by Yann and Roman Surzhenko
222. Chinese calligraphy by Chen Tingyou (review)
223. The princess of Egypt must die by Stephanie Dray</a> (review)
224. Het witte feest (Dutch) by Lulu Wang (Dutch review)
225. De godengebieder 2 - Schaduwridder (Dutch) by James Clemens (review)
226. Australië op blote voeten (Dutch) by Marlo Morgan (review)
227. Revision: Cognitive and Instructional Processes edited by Linda Allal, Lucile Chanquoy, Pierre Largy (review)
228. DupliKate by Cherry Cheva (review)
229. An introduction to Japanese linguistics by Natsuko Tsujimura (review)
230. Katten en hun karakters (Dutch) by Margit Price-Bossard, Diana van Houten & Janine Verhoef-Verschure
231. Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb (review)

Japanese: 18
English: 163
Dutch: 47
German: 3

Number of #: 3
Number of &: 6

# before the number means it's re-read (that I've read the book at least once before).
& means that I've cried at one point during reading the book.

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Year challenges:
- my food challenge journal entry, Foodies reading challenge
- my Europe challenge journal entry, European Reading Challenge (reviews here)

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