january:

• the fault in our stars, by john green
• the hobbit, by j.r.r. tolkien
• the blind assassin, by margaret atwood
• picnic at hanging rock, by joan lindsay
• gone girl, by gillian flynn
• thérèse raquin, by émile zola

february:

• asleep, by banana yoshimoto
• little birds, by anaïs nin
• cloudstreet, by tim winton

march:

• the cuckoo's calling, by robert galbraith
• underground, by haruki murakami
• burial rites, by hannah kent
• oryx and crake, by margaret atwood

april:

• allspice - $4.25
• basil leaf - $4.45
• cayenne pepper - $5.25
• chilli hot (crushed) - $5.25
• chinese five spice - $7.95
• cinnamon - $8.75
• clove (whole) - $5.70
• cocoa (double dutch) - $5.95
• cumin seed (ground) - $4.95
• garam masala - $6.50
• garlic salt - $15.75
• ginger (powder) - $5.25
• kosher salt - $8.95
• marlborough flaky sea salt - $10.95
• nutmeg (ground) - $4.95
• oregano - $4.90
• paprika - $5.95
• roast vegetable salt - $10.95
• thyme - $4.90
• turmeric - $4.25

• the adventures of robin hood, by roger green
• a little princess, by frances hodgson burnett
• all the birds, singing, by evie wyld
• anne of green gables, by l. m. montgomery
• the bell jar, by sylvia plath
• between shades of gray, by ruta sepetys
• the book of barely imagined beings: a 21..., by caspar henderson
• the buddha in the attic, by julie otsuka
• cannery row, by john steinbeck
• the chronology of water, by lidia yuknavitch
• the diary of a provincial lady, by e. m. delafield
• the daughters of mars, by thomas keneally
• east of eden, by john steinbeck
• elijah's mermaid, by essie fox
• the flame alphabet, by ben marcus
• the forrests, by emily perkins
• the fox in the attic, by richard hughes
• the garden of evening mists, by tan twan eng
• garden spells, by sarah addison allen
• the gift of rain, by tan twan eng
• the girl on the stairs, by louise welsh

• aubergine - eggplant; a dark purple colour
• azure - light or sky blue
• beige - light creamy white-brown
• celeste - sky blue
• cerulean - sky blue; dark blue; sea-green
• chartreuse - yellow-green colour
• goldenrod - dark golden yellow
• isabelline - greyish yellow
• lurid - red-yellow; yellow-brown
• mauve - light bluish purple
• mazarine - rich blue or reddish blue colour
• melanic - black; very dark
• meline - canary-yellow
• periwinkle - a bluish or azure colour
• primrose - pale yellow
• saffron - orange-yellow
• sarcoline - flesh-coloured
• taupe - brownish grey

• tokyo metropolitan government building, tokyo
• top of the rock, new york city
• the standard hotel, new york city
• rundetårn, copenhagen
• prague castle, prague
• halászbástya, budapest
• festung hohensalzburg, salzburg
• hallstatt upper valley, hallstatt
• seegrube, innsbruck
• heidelberger schloss, heidelberg
• arthur’s seat, edinburgh
• basilica di san miniato al monte, florence
• torre del mangia, siena
• park güell, barcelona
• mount igueldo, san sebastian
• basilique du sacre cœur, paris
• montparnasse tower, paris

• museum of modern art, new york city
• reykjavíc museum of photography, reykjavík
• the national gallery, oslo
• städel museum, frankfurt
• van gogh museum, amsterdam
• tate modern, london
• national portrait gallery, london
• foundation baur musée des arts d’extrême-orient, geneva
• peggy guggenheim collection, venice
• galleria dell’accademia, florence
• galleria degli uffizi, florence
• musei vaticani, rome
• museo nacional del prado, madrid
• rena sofia gallery, madrid
• museu picasso, barcelona
• musée du louvre, paris
• pinacothèque de paris, paris
• musée d’orsay, paris

• the antlers - i don't want love
• the black keys - lonely boy
• bon iver - calgary
• fleet foxes - lorelai
• florence & the machine - no light, no light
• gotye - easy way out
• jay-z & kanye west - no church in the wild {ft. frank ocean}
• m83 - midnight city
• radiohead - lotus flower
• santigold - go {ft. karen o}

• antichrist
• bottle rocket
• dazed & confused
• fanny & alexander
• fear and loathing in las vegas
• fish tank
• hunger
• the last metro
• naked
• paris, texas
• rushmore
• the darjeeling limited
• seven samurai
• the seventh seal
• the thin red line
• three colours trilogy
• yojimbo

january:

• breakfast at tiffany's, by truman capote
• harry potter and the half-blood prince, by j.k. rowling
• all the birds, singing, by evie wyld
• the girl on the train, by paula hawkins
• harry potter and the deathly hallows, by j.k. rowling

february:

• yes please, by amy poehler
• the strange library, by haruki murakami
• the waves, by virginia woolf

• a modern way to eat, by anna jones
• breakfast, lunch, tea: the many little m..., by rose carrarini
• breakfast - morning, noon and night
• cairo kitchen
• community, by hetty mckinnon
• the complete middle eastern cookbook
• easy
• honey and jam, by hannah queen
• how to eat, by nigella lawson
• how to boil an egg, by rose carrarini
• how to eat
• istanbul
• jerusalem, by yotam ottolenghi
• the kinfolk table
• new york cult recipes
• nigella express, by nigella lawson
• nopi, by yotam ottolenghi
• persiana, by sabrina ghayour
• scandinavian baking, by trine hahnemann
• the smitten kitchen cookbook, by deb perelman
• speakeasy, benny roff

margaret atwood:

• surfacing

susan hill

• the mist in the mirror
• the small hand

george r. r. martin

• a game of thrones
• a clash of kings
• a feast for crows
• a dance with dragons

daphne du maurier

• jamaica inn
• my cousin rachel
• rebecca

yukio mishima

• after the banquet
• patriotism

january

• the sending, by isobelle carmody
• zombie, by joyce carol oates
• vanity fair, by william makepeace thackeray

february

• big stone gap, by adriana trigiani
• the great gatsby, by f. scott fitzgerald
• the book thief, by markus zusak

march

• slaughterhouse five, by kurt vonnegut
• blind willow, sleeping woman, by haruki murakami
• alice's adventures in wonderland and through the looking glass, by lewis carroll
• snow country, by yasunari kawabata
• ender’s game, by orson scott card

april

• visions, by grimes
• sun, by cat power
• an awesome wave, by alt-j
• m b v, by my bloody valentine
• heartthrob, by tegan & sara
• wolf's law, by the joy formidable

• alice in the country of hearts
• alice in the country of clover
• the book of human insects
• chi’s sweet home
• the kurosagi corpse delivery service

• amalienburg, copenhagen
• christiansborg castle, copenhagen
• stockholm palace, stockholm
• the royal palace, oslo
• schloss sanssouci, potsdam
• potsdamer stadtschloss, potsdam
• schloss charlottenburg, berlin
• prague castle, prague
• český krumlov castle, český krumlov
• schloss nymphenburg, munich
• schloss belvedere, vienna
• schloss schönbrunn, vienna
• hofburg palace, vienna
• schloss mirabel, salzburg
• heidelberger schloss, heidelberg
• residenz, würzburg
• palace of holyroodhouse, edinburgh
• buckingham palace, london
• palace of versailles, versailles

• muse - 3,022 plays
• radiohead - 1,639 plays
• sufjan stevens - 1,379 plays
• tegan & sara - 1,294 plays
• air - 1,274 plays
• cat power - 1,224 plays
• the strokes - 1,201 plays
• arcade fire - 1,120 plays
• fleet foxes - 1,033 plays
• bloc party - 854 plays

• agnès varda
• agnieszka holland
• agnieszka smoczynska
• allison anders
• amma asante
• amy heckerling
• ana lily amirpour
• andrea arnold
• angelina jolie
• ann hui
• anna boden
• anna muylaert
• anna rose holmer
• anne fontaine
• anne hamilton
• anocha suwichakornpong
• ava duvernay
• barbra streisand
• brenda chapman
• catherine hardwicke
• claire denis

• central park, nyc
• union square park, nyc
• blue lagoon, grindavík
• kongens have, copenhagen
• tivoli, copenhagen
• munke mose, odense
• kungsparken, malmö
• skansen, stockholm
• royal gardens, oslo
• nordnesparken, bergen
• mount fløyen, bergen
• tiergarten, berlin
• hirschgarten, munich
• englischer garten, munich
• stadtpark, vienna
• sarsteinwald, hallstatt
• seegrube, innsbruck
• schlossgarten, stuttgart
• hofgarten, würzburg
• vondelpark, amsterdam
• arthur’s seat, edinburgh

penguin hardcover classics:

• a christmas carol
• anna karenina
• bleak house
• the canterbury tales
• the count of monte cristo
• cranford
• the divine comedy
• dracula
• emma
• far from the maddening crowd
• frankenstein
• gulliver’s travels
• jabberwocky and other nonsense
• lady chatterly’s lover
• mansfield park
• middlemarch
• moby dick
• oliver twist
• pride and prejudice
• the sonnets

• vienna
• heidelberg
• venice
• oxford
• paris
• copenhagen
• lucca
• lauterbrunnen
• reykjavík
• rothenburg ob der tauber
• florence
• kyoto
• hallstatt
• san sebastian
• český krumlov
• nikko
• strasbourg

• after the banquet, by by yukio mishima
• amrita, by banana yoshimoto
• asleep, by banana yoshimoto
• audition, by ryū murakami
• beauty & sadness, by yasunari kawabata
• be with you, by takuji ichikawa
• black rain, by masuji ibuse
• the book of tea, by kakuzō okakura
• coin locker babies, by ryū murakami
• the decay of the angel, by yukio mishima
• the devotion of suspect x, by keigo higashino
• the diving pool, by yoko ogawa
• the gate, by natsume soseki
• goodbye tsugumi, by banana yoshimoto
• grotesque, by natsuo kirino
• the housekeeper and the professor, by yoko ogawa
• i am a cat, by natsume sōseki
• in ghostly japan, by lafcadio hearn
• naoko, by keigo higashino
• nip the buds, shoot the kids, by kenzaburō ōe
• the old capital, by yasunari kawabata

• museum of natural history, nyc
• national museum of iceland, reykjavík
• hans christian anderson museum, odense
• malmö museum, malmö
• nobel museum, stockholm
• history museum, stockholm
• topography of terror, berlin
• pergamon museum, berlin
• ethnography museum, budapest
• house of terrors, budapest
• haus der musik, vienna
• mercedes benz museum, stuttgart
• deutsches filmmuseum, frankfurt
• anne frank museum, amsterdam
• dutch resistance museum, amsterdam
• national museum of scotland, edinburgh
• national railway museum, york
• the beatles story, liverpool
• u-boat story, liverpool
• museum of science and industry, manchester

• buy travel insurance
• organise prepaid phone for multiple countries
• youth hostel membership
• work visa for germany
• american entry visa
• eurail passes
• buy flights home
• immunisations for thailand
• photocopies of important stuff
• get new birth control prescription

• 1994: germany, czech republic, france, switzerland, singapore
• 1997: singapore, bali
• 2000: singapore, malaysia, thailand
• 2003: singapore, thailand
• 2009: japan
• 2011: japan
• 2012: usa, iceland, denmark, sweden, norway, germany, czech republic, hungary, austria, the netherlands, scotland