(I'm not very active anymore and haven't updated the information below in a few years, so it's probably pretty out of date.)

Catch rate of wild releases: 26/93 (28%)
Wild books found: 6

Countries I've released books in: Czech Republic (0/1), Finland (20/73), France (1/2), Germany (2/8), Spain (1/2), USA (2/7)

Finnish provinces I've released books in: Itä-Uusimaa, Kainuu, Pirkanmaa, Pohjois-Savo, Uusimaa

Countries I've sent books to: Argentina, Australia, Finland, Portugal, Romania, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sweden, United Kingdom, USA

Countries I've received books from: Argentina, Finland, France, Singapore, Sri Lanka, United Kingdom, USA

I like to see the books travel, so I'm always open to trading anything in my Available list, and I'm usually able to send anywhere in the world. I may also lend out books from my Permanent Collection, but they are ones I eventually want back, so they're pretty much available only to people I know. And don't just ask for a book without offering a trade in return unless you know me well enough to know I wouldn't mind.

If you receive a book through me, either by finding one I've released or by me giving it to you, you are free to do with it anything you want; I don't consider books I've let go to be my property in any way (of course, this doesn't apply to bookrings or similar things). Still, I would appreciate it if you kept the book circulating. So if you want to keep such a book in your PC, it's fine with me, but please consider at least occasionally lending it out, ringing it, and so forth.

I have also donated some books to the 1001-library shelf. The above two paragraphs naturally don't apply to them; go see the 1001-library shelf for the rules on those.

I try to rate the books that I read, but don't rely too much on the ratings or even my comments. Sometimes they just reflect how the book matched my expectations and not be any sort of absolute measure, so I might pan a good book that wasn't as good as I expected or vice versa. I always try to give some information that helps people decide whether to read the book, but I might not succeed as well as I'd hope.

Wild Books Caught and Found

Caught books with release locations:

1. Ken Follett: The Eye of the Needle (Book recycling shelf)
2. Douglas Coupland: Microserfs (University CS department)
3. Isaac Asimov: The Stars like Dust (Bus)
4. Piers Anthony: Total Recall (Movie theater)
5. Isaac Asimov: Forward the Foundation (University CS department)
6. Bill Bryson: A Short History of Nearly Everything (University CS department)
7. Diana Wynne Jones: The Dark Lord of Derkholm (Research institute)
8. Wendy Northcutt: Darwinin palkinnot 2 (Book recycling shelf)
9. Robert Forward: Dragon's Egg (Space museum)
10. Donald E. Westlake: The Ax (Metro station)
11. Walter M. Miller, Jr.: A Canticle for Leibowitz (Park)
12. Jari Tervo: Tuulikaappimaa (Bus)
13. Ingrid Noll: Rakkaat vainajat (Railway station)
14. Robert A. Heinlein: The Man Who Sold the Moon (City square)
15. Lloyd Alexander: Kolmen kertomus (Book recycling shelf)
16. Isaac Asimov: Pebble in the Sky (University)
17. Edgar Allan Poe: Rue Morguen murhat ja muita kertomuksia (Shopping mall)
18. Mary Higgins Clark: Lottovoittaja (Gas station café)
19. Cory Doctorow: Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (University CS department)
20. Agatha Christie: Murder in Mesopotamia (City square)
21. Donald E. Westlake: Älkää ampuko baarimikkoa (Café)
22. Umberto Eco: Foucault's Pendulum (University library)
23. Mel Odom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Unnatural Selection (Subway station)
24. Robert A. Heinlein: The Menace from Earth (Monument)
25. Arthur C. Clarke: Profiles of the Future (University CS department)
26. George Lucas: Star Wars (Book recycling shelf)

Found books with locations:

1. Jussi Siirilä: Ison auton tuntu (Book recycling shelf)
2. Bill Hayes, William Hoffer: Keskiyön pikajuna (Book recycling shelf)
3. Anita Shreve: The Last Time They Met: A Novel (Book recycling shelf)
4. Nick Duerden: Sidewalking (Library)
5. Sheri S. Tepper: The Bones (Book recycling shelf)
6. Eeva Nikoskelainen: Heta Hörkkö ja kaksoiskierteen lumo (Book recycling shelf)

Rings and Rays

Incoming rings and rays:

1. George Eliot: Middlemarch (JonAsp)
2. Letter Game (cat02886)
3. Surprise Bookring (cat02886)
4. Jessica Valenti: Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman's Guide to Why Feminism Matters (CandyDarling)
5. Spelling Bookcrossing (cat02886)
6. Kuplamuovi (Rakuna)
7. Riitta Vartti: Tulikärpänen (CandyDarling)

Rings and rays currently with me:

1. Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway (Sobergirl)
2. Ursula Le Guin: The Telling (oofiri)
3. Karel Čapek: Salamanterisota (Chania)
4. Isaac Asimov Science Fiction valikoima 2 (MiuM)

Rings and rays I've passed on:

1. Eero Holmila, Lauri Kovanen, Jouni Saarenpää: Troolattua saimaannorppaa ja 124 muuta: teekkarijäynien historiaa (Niora)
2. Banana Yoshimoto: NP (Aspen72)
3. Tinni Ernsjöö Rappe, Jennie Sjögren: Liian tunnollinen (CandyDarling)
4. Helvi ja Ensio Ängeslevä: Satuhyrrä (Tarna)
5. Kate Atkinson: Museon kulisseissa (chirel)
6. Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen: Lumikko ja yhdeksän muuta (chirel)
7. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.: God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (davemurray101)
8. Mark Haddon: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (halonhakkaaja)
9. Ken Saro-Wiwa: Vankilapäiväkirja (Ahava)
10. Banana Yoshimoto: Kitchen (Liinuskainen)
11. Michael Bond: A Bear Called Paddington (Rakuna)
12. Uusi suuri sikasäkki (Piiku)
13. Françoise Xenakis: Hitto, rouva unohtui (dotdot)
14. Melissa P: Sata harjanvetoa ennen nukkumaanmenoa (LaPitchoune)
15. Arvoitusarkku V (lottuli)
16. Hanne Ørstavik: Rakkaus (Alejanda)
17. Liza Marklund, Lotta Snickare: Helvetissä on erityinen paikka naisille, jotka eivät auta toisiaan (CandyDarling)
18. Hanne Ørstavik: Yhtä totta kuin olen todellinen (Niksu)
19. Allyson Beatrice: Will the Vampire People Please Leave the Lobby? (True Adventures in Cult Fandom) (Guinneth)
20. Hanne Ørstavik: Pappi (lukutuoli)
21. Amélie Nothomb: Vaitelias naapuri (Margih)
22. Risto Isomäki: 34 tapaa estää maapallon ylikuumeneminen (Ametisti)
23. Anna Kontula: Tästä äiti varoitti (CandyDarling)
24. Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Neitsythäkki (Perdue)
25. ABC Bookray (cat02886)
26. Linda Skugge, Belinda Olsson, Brita Zilg: Pilluparvi (Piparjuuri)
27. John Grisham: The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town (UbSiA)
28. Juhani Laulajainen: Äärettömän hyvä nainen (ruzena)
29. Margaret Atwood: Moral Disorder and Other Stories (oofiri)
30. Yevgeny Zamyatin: We (davemurray101)
31. Henrik Lange: 90 kirjaklassikkoa kiireisille (Jennynen)

Rings and rays started by me:

1. Nick Hornby: Triple Platinum: Fever Pitch / High Fidelity / About a Boy
2. Richard Dawkins: The Blind Watchmaker
3. Carrie Vaughn: Kitty Norville series (spiral)

Challenges

Participating in:

1. TBR-vuoren louhintahaaste (30.4.2008) (Failed, read 3 out of 5 and most of the other 2)
2. VUH - Varttivuosisadan Uusi Haaste (30.9.2008) (Failed, gave up keeping track, do not read enough Finnish books)
3. Kesäkirjoja pikkupaikkakunnille (30.9.2008) (Completed, released in 3 towns)
4. Laskuhaaste (30.11.2008) (Completed 4 batches)
5. Ei kysyvä tieltä eksy (25.12.2008) (Made 2 releases)
6. Lukemisen aakkoset 2008 (31.12.2008) (Completed on 7.12.2008)
7. Pappi, lukkari, talonpoika (24.5.2009) (Completed on 17.7.2008)
8. TBR-vuoren louhintahaaste (30.9.2009) (Completed 2 batches)
9. Afrikan tähti (1.12.2010)
10. PRKL (31.7.2010)

Set by me:

1. Tieteenedistämishaaste (26.1.2008)
2. Kapinoi! (1.5.2008)
3. Monopoli-vapautuspeli (31.8.2009)
4. Luki-haaste (6.4.2010)

Reading Lists

I'm collecting here some book lists that I think would be interesting to read as a whole. In the list, the symbols mean
UR=unread, I do not own it
IC=incoming, I'm in a bookring or ray for it
TBR=to be read, I own it but have not read yet
WNR=will not read, I tried it but disliked it so much I will not finish
R=read, I have read it
Any Bookcrossing books are linked by title.

F/SF Award Winners

I read a lot of science fiction, so a couple of obvious lists are the Hugo and Nebula winning novels. I also include novels that have won the Tiptree Award, since expanding one's horizons is always worthwhile.

Year	Hugo	Nebula	Tiptree
2009	(UR) The Graveyard Book
2008	(R) The Yiddish Policemen's Union	(UR) Powers	(UR) The Knife of Never Letting Go (UR) Filter House
2007	(TBR) Rainbows End	(R) The Yiddish Policemen's Union	(R) The Carhullan Army
2006	(UR) Spin	(UR) Seeker	(UR) The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden (UR) Half Life
2005	(R) Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell	(R) Camouflage	(UR) Air
2004	(R) Paladin of Souls	(R) Paladin of Souls	(R) Camouflage (R) Not Before Sundown
2003	(UR) Hominids	(UR) The Speed of Dark	(UR) Set This House in Order: A Romance of Souls
2002	(R) American Gods	(R) American Gods	(UR) Light
2001	(R) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire	(UR) The Quantum Rose	(UR) The Kappa Child
2000	(R) A Deepness in the Sky	(UR) Darwin's Radio	(UR) Wild Life
1999	(UR) To Say Nothing of the Dog	(UR) Parable of the Talents	(UR) The Conqueror's Child
1998	(UR) Forever Peace	(UR) Forever Peace
1997	(UR) Blue Mars	(UR) The Moon and the Sun	(UR) Black Wine
1996	(UR) The Diamond Age	(UR) Slow River	(TBR) The Sparrow
1995	(UR) Mirror Dance	(UR) The Terminal Experiment	(UR) Waking the Moon (UR) The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein
1994	(TBR) Green Mars	(UR) Moving Mars	(UR) Larque on the Wing
1993	(R) A Fire Upon the Deep (R) Doomsday Book	(TBR) Red Mars	(UR) Ammonite
1992	(UR) Barrayar	(R) Doomsday Book	(UR) China Mountain Zhang
1991	(TBR) The Vor Game	(UR) Stations of the Tide	(UR) A Woman of the Iron People (UR) White Queen
1990	(R) Hyperion	(R) Tehanu
1989	(TBR) Cyteen	(UR) The Healer's War
1988	(UR) The Uplift War	(UR) Falling Free
1987	(R) Speaker for the Dead	(UR) The Falling Woman
1986	(R) Ender's Game	(R) Speaker for the Dead
1985	(TBR) Neuromancer	(R) Ender's Game
1984	(UR) Startide Rising	(TBR) Neuromancer
1983	(R) Foundation's Edge	(UR) Startide Rising
1982	(UR) Downbelow Station	(UR) No Enemy But Time
1981	(UR) The Snow Queen	(UR) The Claw of the Conciliator
1980	(UR) The Fountains of Paradise	(UR) Timescape
1979	(UR) Dreamsnake	(UR) The Fountains of Paradise
1978	(TBR) Gateway	(UR) Dreamsnake	(UR) Motherlines
1977	(TBR) Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang	(TBR) Gateway
1976	(R) The Forever War	(UR) Man Plus
1975	(TBR) The Dispossessed	(R) The Forever War	(R) The Female Man
1974	(TBR) Rendezvous with Rama	(TBR) The Dispossessed	(UR) Walk to the End of the World
1973	(R) The Gods Themselves	(TBR) Rendezvous with Rama
1972	(R) To Your Scattered Bodies Go	(R) The Gods Themselves
1971	(R) Ringworld	(UR) A Time of Changes
1970	(R) The Left Hand of Darkness	(R) Ringworld
1969	(UR) Stand on Zanzibar	(R) The Left Hand of Darkness	(R) The Left Hand of Darkness
1968	(TBR) Lord of Light	(UR) Rite of Passage
1967	(R) The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress	(UR) The Einstein Intersection
1966	(R) Dune (UR) This Immortal	(TBR) Babel-17 (R) Flowers for Algernon
1965	(UR) The Wanderer	(R) Dune
1964	(UR) Here Gather the Stars
1963	(R) The Man in the High Castle
1962	(R) Stranger in a Strange Land
1961	(R) A Canticle for Leibowitz
1960	(R) Starship Troopers
1959	(UR) A Case of Conscience
1958	(UR) The Big Time
1956	(R) Double Star
1955	(UR) They'd Rather Be Right
1953	(TBR) The Demolished Man
Total Read	24(+11)/57	14(+6)/45	5(+1)/26

The Country Challenge

The challenge here is to read a book from every country of the world. As I take it, either the book has to be set (mostly) in that country or the author has to be from there for it to qualify. As the country list, I'm using the list of sovereign states from Wikipedia. I will probably feel free to add any book that I have ever read to this list, not just books I've read since beginning to keep track.

Country	Author	Book
Afghanistan	Khaled Hosseini	Tuhat loistavaa aurinkoa
Argentina	Jorge Luis Borges	The Aleph
Canada	Margaret Atwood	Oryx ja Crake
China	Jung Chang	Villijoutsenet
Czech Republic	Milan Kundera	Pila
Denmark	Vita Andersen	Suu kiinni ja ole kaunis
Finland	Mika Waltari	Tähdet kertovat, komisario Palmu!
France	Amélie Nothomb	Vaitelias naapuri
Germany	Hermann Hesse	Arosusi
Greece	Apostolos Doxiadis	Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture
India	Arundhati Roy	Joutavuuksien jumala
Iran	Marjane Satrapi	Persepolis
Ireland	Roddy Doyle	Nimeni on Henry Smart
Italy	Marcello Fois	Sumu
Japan	Banana Yoshimoto	NP
Korea, Democratic People's Republic	Kim Hyun Hee	Sieluni kyyneleet
Lebanon	Hanan al-Shaikh	Kaukana Lontoossa
Namibia	André Brink	Hiljaisuuden tuolla puolen
Nigeria	Ken Saro-Wiwa	Vankilapäiväkirja
Norway	Hanne Ørstavik	Pappi
Poland	Stanisław Lem	The Futurological Congress
Russia	Anatoli Tomilin	Kuinka ihminen keksi että maapallo on pyöreä
Somalia	Ayaan Hirsi Ali	Neitsythäkki
South Africa	Dick Francis	Smokescreen
Sweden	Stieg Larsson	Miehet jotka vihaavat naisia
Turkey	Bill Hayes, William Hoffer	Keskiyön pikajuna
United Kingdom	Ben Elton	The First Casualty
United States	Abbie Hoffman	Varasta tämä kirja

1001 Books

The 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die list seems to be popular with Bookcrossers, and I also participate in the 1001-library so I thought it might be interesting to track them. I don't consider this to be a very serious effort in that I won't be especially hunting for books in this list; it's just something fun to do. Since the list is so big, I'm listing here only the non-UR books.

Current totals:
Read + Will Not Read: 68
To Be Read and Incoming: 44

1. (TBR) Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
2. (R) The Plot Against America – Philip Roth
3. (R) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
4. (TBR) Dead Air – Iain Banks
5. (TBR) Fury – Salman Rushdie
6. (R) The Human Stain – Philip Roth
7. (TBR) Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson
8. (R) The Hours – Michael Cunningham
9. (R) The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
10. (TBR) American Pastoral – Philip Roth
11. (TBR) Complicity – Iain Banks
12. (R) The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood
13. (TBR) The Crow Road – Iain Banks
14. (TBR) American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
15. (R) Wild Swans – Jung Chang
16. (TBR) Time's Arrow – Martin Amis
17. (TBR) Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
18. (TBR) A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
19. (R) Foucault's Pendulum – Umberto Eco
20. (R) The Player of Games – Iain M. Banks
21. (R) Watchmen – Alan Moore & David Gibbons
22. (R) Contact – Carl Sagan
23. (R) The Handmaid's Tale – Margaret Atwood
24. (R) The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
25. (TBR) The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
26. (TBR) Neuromancer – William Gibson
27. (TBR) The Life and Times of Michael K – J.M. Coetzee
28. (R) The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
29. (R) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
30. (R) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
31. (R) Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
32. (TBR) A Void/Avoid – Georges Perec
33. (R) 2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke
34. (R) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
35. (TBR) One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
36. (R) The Joke – Milan Kundera
37. (R) God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut
38. (TBR) One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
39. (R) A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
40. (R) Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein
41. (TBR) Solaris – Stanislaw Lem
42. (R) Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
43. (R) To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
44. (IC) Rabbit, Run – John Updike
45. (TBR) The Once and Future King – T.H. White
46. (R) The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
47. (R) Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
48. (R) The Story of O – Pauline Réage
49. (R) Lord of the Flies – William Golding
50. (R) Casino Royale – Ian Fleming
51. (R) The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
52. (R) Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham
53. (R) Foundation – Isaac Asimov
54. (R) I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
55. (R) Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
56. (R) Animal Farm – George Orwell
57. (R) Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges
58. (R) The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
59. (TBR) Finnegans Wake – James Joyce
60. (R) The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
61. (R) Keep the Aspidistra Flying – George Orwell
62. (R) At the Mountains of Madness – H.P. Lovecraft
63. (WNR) Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller
64. (WNR) The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas – Gertrude Stein
65. (R) Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
66. (R) Cakes and Ale – W. Somerset Maugham
67. (R) All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
68. (TBR) Berlin Alexanderplatz – Alfred Döblin
69. (R) Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse
70. (R) The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie
71. (WNR) Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
72. (TBR) The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
73. (R) The Trial – Franz Kafka
74. (R) We – Yevgeny Zamyatin
75. (TBR) Ulysses – James Joyce
76. (TBR) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
77. (TBR) Of Human Bondage – William Somerset Maugham
78. (R) Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs
79. (TBR) Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
80. (R) The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
81. (TBR) The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
82. (R) The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
83. (TBR) Dracula – Bram Stoker
84. (R) The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
85. (R) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
86. (R) The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
87. (TBR) The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
88. (R) Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
89. (TBR) Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
90. (IC) Middlemarch – George Eliot
91. (R) Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
92. (TBR) The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky
93. (R) Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
94. (R) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
95. (TBR) Les Misérables – Victor Hugo
96. (TBR) Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely – Harriet Beecher Stowe
97. (TBR) Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
98. (TBR) David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
99. (R) The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
100. (R) The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
101. (R) The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe
102. (R) The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe
103. (R) A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
104. (R) The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe
105. (TBR) Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
106. (TBR) Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
107. (TBR) Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
108. (TBR) The 120 Days of Sodom – Marquis de Sade
109. (TBR) Candide – Voltaire
110. (TBR) Fanny Hill – John Cleland
111. (R) Gulliver's Travels – Jonathan Swift
112. (TBR) Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra