2023

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Diaries (Lithuanian edition)
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The Warmth of Other Suns
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How Did We Get Into This Mess?
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Rating: 5 out of 5.

The Science of Storytelling
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The Age of AI and Our Human Future
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Rating: 1 out of 5.

Brilliant Blunders
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Rating: 5 out of 5.

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Galatea
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Rating: 2.5 out of 5.

Pranešėjas ir Prezidentas
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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

Being You: A New Science of Consciousness
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I Who Have Never Known Men
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Rating: 3 out of 5.

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Burning Questions
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Spare Parts
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The Gene
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin

Rating: 3 out of 5.

Belly Woman: Birth, Blood & Ebola: The Untold Story
Benjamin Black

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Spoon-Fed
Tim Spector

Rating: 5 out of 5.

2022

A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara

Rating: 5 out of 5.

My Dark Vanessa
Kate Elizabeth Russell

Rating: 3 out of 5.

Hunger
Roxane Gay

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Beautiful World Where are You
Sally Rooney

Rating: 2.5 out of 5.

Blue Mind
Wallace J. Nichols

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Losing Eden
Lucy Jones

Rating: 5 out of 5.

In The Pines
Paul Scraton

Rating: 3 out of 5.

A Moth to A Flame
Stig Dagerman

Rating: 2 out of 5.

The White Book
Han Kang

Rating: 3 out of 5.

The Witches of New York
Ami McKay

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Ornament and Silence: Essays on Women’s Lives
Kennedy Fraser

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Where The Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Verity
Colleen Hoover

Rating: 2 out of 5.

Animal
Lisa Taddeo

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Upstream
Mary Oliver

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Violet Bent Backwards over the Grassc
Lana Del Rey

Rating: 2 out of 5.

Collages
Anaïs Nin

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Her Body and Other Parties

Carmen Maria Machado

Rating: 2 out of 5.

Queenie
Candice Carty – Williams

Rating: 2 out of 5.

I Am A Girl From Africa
Elizabeth Nyamayaro

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Luster
Raven Leilani

Rating: 3 out of 5.

Sex Matters: How Male-Centric Medicine Endangers Women’s Health
Alyson J. McGregor, MD

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Open Water
Caleb Azumah Nelson

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Bad Science
Ben Goldacre

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

Strange Weather in Tokyo
Hiromi Kawakami

Rating: 2 out of 5.

The Maidens
Alex Michaelides

Rating: 3 out of 5.

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

Carlo Rovelli

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Ariadne

Jennifer Saint

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Time is a Mother
Ocean Vuong

Rating: 1 out of 5.

Girl, Interrupted
Susanna Kaysen

Rating: 3 out of 5.

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Caitlin Doughty

Rating: 5 out of 5.

The Sun and Her Flowers

Rupi Kaur

Rating: 1 out of 5.

Water and Dreams
Gaston Bachelard

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Greenlights
Matthew McConaughey

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Essays (Lithuanian edition)
Albert Camus

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Simple Passion
Annie Ernaux

Rating: 1.5 out of 5.

My Body
Emily Ratajkowski

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Rules of Civility
Amor Towles

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Delivering Happiness
Tony Hsieh

Rating: 5 out of 5.

History’s Eminent Surgoens
Dr Chris de Gara

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

The Midnight Library
Matt Haig

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

The Coral Sea
Patti Smith

Rating: 4 out of 5.

To Kill a Kingdom
Alexandra Christo

Rating: 2 out of 5.

Murder on the Orient Express
Agatha Christie

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

Virtuoso
Yelena Moskovich

Rating: 1 out of 5.

War Doctor

David Nott

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Unnatural Causes
Dr Richard Shepherd

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Cold Enough For Snow
Jessica Au

Rating: 4 out of 5.

The Starless Sea
Erin Morgenstern

Rating: 5 out of 5.

The Body Keeps the Score
Bessel van der Kolk

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Unaccountable
Marty Makary, M.D.

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Lean in
Sheryl Sandberg

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

Nine Pints
Rose George

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

I Would Leave Me If I Could

Halsey

Rating: 3 out of 5.

What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Dr Tony Bleetman

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Difficult Loves
Italo Calvino

Rating: 3 out of 5.

Cured
Dr Jeff Rediger

Rating: 5 out of 5.

2021

The Annotated Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov

Rating: 3 out of 5.

The End of Loneliness
Benedict Wells

Rating: 2 out of 5.

Last Comes the Raven
Italo Calvino

Rating: 3 out of 5.

M Train
Patti Smith

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Mums reikia vado?
Mazvydas Jastramskis

Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

For Esmé with Love and Squalor
J. D. Salinger

Rating: 2.5 out of 5.

The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller

Rating: 2.5 out of 5.

Music by the Numbers
Eli Maor

Rating: 5 out of 5.

In the Shadow of Wolves
Alvydas Šlepikas

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Between Shades of Gray
Ruta Sepetys

Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

Winter Trees
Sylvia Plath

Rating: 2 out of 5.

Circe
Madeline Miller

Rating: 3 out of 5.

Understanding a Photograph
John Berger

Rating: 2 out of 5.

Middlegame
Seanan McGuire

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Becoming
Michelle Obama

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Caste
Isabel Wilkerson

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Exhalation
Ted Chiang

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

The Penguin Book of Mermaids
Cristina Bacchilega, Marie Alohalani Brown

Rating: 5 out of 5.

The Art of Gathering
Priya Parker

Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

The Snow Child
Eowyn Ivey

Rating: 2.5 out of 5.

The Winter of Our Discontent
John Steinbeck

Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran

Rating: 4 out of 5.

The Beauty Myth
Naomi Wolf

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Piranesi
Susanna Clarke

Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

Not Without My Ghost
Susan Aberth, Simon Grant, Lars Bang Larsen

Rating: 4 out of 5.

The Collected Schizophrenias
Esmé Weijun Wang

Rating: 4 out of 5.

The Sea Close By
Albert Camus

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Stories of the Law and How It’s Broken
The Secret Barrister

Rating: 5 out of 5.

When We Cease to Understand the World
Benjamín Labatut

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

The Hidden Life of Trees
Peter Wohlleben

Rating: 4 out of 5.

If Cats Disappeared From The World
Genji Kawamura

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro

Rating: 2 out of 5.

Outline
Rachel Cusk

Rating: 2 out of 5.

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Carson McCullers

Rating: 2 out of 5.

We Were Liars
Emily Lockhart

Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

Pareigos Kurios Nesibaigia
Valdas Adamkus

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Lost Japan
Alex Kerr

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Why We’re Polarized
Ezra Klein

Rating: 3 out of 5.

Men Without Women
Ernest Hemingway

Rating: 2 out of 5.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera

Rating: 3 out of 5.

The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Pine
Francine Toon

Rating: 1 out of 5.

Why We Sleep
Matthew Walker

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Intimations
Zadie Smith

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Christodora

Tim Murphy

Rating: 3 out of 5.

Beneath the Night
Stuart Clark

Rating: 4 out of 5.

First Person Singular
Haruki Murakami

Rating: 3 out of 5.

A Short History of Russia
Mark Galeotti

Rating: 3 out of 5.

The Third Plate
Dan Barber

Rating: 5 out of 5.

A Promised Land
President Barack Obama

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Year of The Monkey
Patti Smith

Rating: 2 out of 5.

Six Memos for the Next Millennium
Italo Calvino

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Film For Her
Orion Carloto

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Enchantment: The Life of Audrey Hepburn
Donald Spoto

Rating: 3 out of 5.

Consent: A Memoir
Vanessa Springora

Rating: 4 out of 5.

The Weight of the Earth – The Tape Journals of David Wojnarowicz
David Wojnarowicz

Rating: 2.5 out of 5.

Down and Out in Paris and London
George Orwell

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Not That Bad
Roxane Gay

Rating: 5 out of 5.

A Place for Us
Fatima Farheen Mirza

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse

Rating: 3 out of 5.

`Conversations With Friends
Sally Rooney

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

Numbers In The Dark
Italo Calvino

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Animal Farm: A Fairy Story
George Orwell

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Stoner
John Williams

Rating: 3 out of 5.

Normal People
Sally Rooney

Rating: 5 out of 5.

The Death of Vivek Oji
Akwaeke Emezi

Rating: 5 out of 5.

2020

The Uninhabitable Earth
David Wallace-Wells

Rating: 5 out of 5.

The Mind-Gut Connection
Emeran Mayer

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman

Rating: 4 out of 5.

The Complete Cosmicomics
Italo Calvino

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Between The World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Silent Spring
Rachel Carson

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Just Kids
Patti Smith

Rating: 5 out of 5.

If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
Italo Calvino

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

In Praise of Shadows
Junichiro Tanizaki

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Season of Migration to the North
Tayeb Salih

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Los Angeles Stories
Ry Cooder

Rating: 2 out of 5.

Romance or The End
Elaine Kahn

Rating: 1 out of 5.

Why Read the Classics?
Italo Calvino

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Wind, Sand and Stars
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Rating: 5 out of 5.

The Art of the Novel
Milan Kundera

Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

Out of Africa
Karen Blixen

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Under the Jaguar Sun
Italo Calvino

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

Women, Race & Class
Angela Y. Davis

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Collection of Sand
Italo Calvino

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Moon Tiger
Penelope Lively

Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

Answered Prayers
Truman Capote

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Absolutely On Music
Haruki Murakami, Seiji Ozawa

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Silva Rerum
Kristina Sabaliauskaite

Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Gail Honeyman

Rating: 3 out of 5.

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

Invisible Cities
Italo Calvino

Rating: 5 out of 5.

An Elegant Spirit
Sean Hepburn Ferrer

Rating: 5 out of 5.

But What If We’re Wrong?
Chuck Klosterman

Rating: 2.5 out of 5.

A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race
Reni Eddo-Lodge

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Little Book of Audrey Hepburn
Caroline Jones

Rating: 3 out of 5.

Three Women
Lisa Taddeo

Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

Forgotten Women: The Leaders
Zing Tsjeng

Rating: 3 out of 5.

Garcon Style
Jonathan Daniel Pryce

Rating: 5 out of 5.

101 Essays
Brianna Wiest

Rating: 2.5 out of 5.

Girl, Woman, Other
Bernardine Evaristo

Rating: 3 out of 5.

Blue Nights
Joan Didion

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

Drive
Daniel H. Pink

Rating: 3 out of 5.

The Rebel
Albert Camus

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Other Voices, Other Rooms
Truman Capote

Rating: 1 out of 5.

A Month in Siena
Hisham Matar

Rating: 2 out of 5.

The Effortless Experience
Matthew Dixon, Nicholas Toman, Rick DeLisi

Rating: 5 out of 5.

The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger

Rating: 3 out of 5.

Brave New World
Aldous Huxley

Rating: 3 out of 5.

The Door Into Summer
Robert A. Heinlein

Rating: 2 out of 5.

Birthday Girl
Haruki Murakami

Rating: 3 out of 5.

Paper Wife: A Novel
Laila Ibrahim

Rating: 3 out of 5.

Brief Answers to the Big Questions
Stephen Hawking

Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

Notes from No Man’s Land
Eula Biss

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Jog On
Bella Mackie

Rating: 4 out of 5.

If We Were Villains
M. L. Rio

Rating: 3 out of 5.

Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami

Rating: 1.5 out of 5.

2019

The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning
Maggie Nelson

Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

Men Without Women: Stories
Haruki Murakami

Rating: 3 out of 5.

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
Yuval Noah Harari

Rating: 3 out of 5.

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari

Rating: 5 out of 5.

The Testaments
Margareth Atwood

Rating: 4 out of 5.


The Beautiful and Damned
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Rating: 4 out of 5.

The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Japonisme: Ikigai, Forest Bathing, Wabi-Sabi and More
Erin Niimi Longhurst

Rating: 3 out of 5.

Forgotten Women: The Writers
Zing Tsjeng

Rating: 3 out of 5.

Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions
Valeria Luiselli

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Memoirs Of A Geisha
Arthur Golden

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Breakfast At Tiffany’s
Truman Capote

Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

Flux
Orion Carloto

Rating: 2 out of 5.

Silence: In the Age of Noise
Erling Kagge

Rating: 3 out of 5.

The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath

Rating: 3 out of 5.

When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

How Democracies Die
Levitsky, Ziblatt

Rating: 4 out of 5.

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