The "brick of cheese" is actually our family Bible which is pretty worn out.
Most of the books are in Finnish and they are quite random as well. I tend to put the older/fancier books in this shelf as this has glass doors.
Top row: Old children's books (Grimm and others), poems by Kaarlo Kramsu and Rudyard Kipling (totally unrelated), hollow "books" containing shot glasses, Herder's "Ideen zur Philosophie der Geschichte der Menschheit", J. L. Runeberg, "Canterbury Tales", Lord Byron, Shakespeare's plays in Finnish (brown books), more Runeberg, Goethe, Finnish folk poetry (Kanteletar), Old bible and some old religious/prayer books, Schiller's poems and Johannes Sleidanus' "De quatuor summis imperiis" (printed in 1683, the thick white book).
Middle row: There's Mika Waltari, Olavi Paavolainen, Katri Vala, Edith Södergran and Matti Kurjensaari on the left (they were all early 20th century modernists). Then there's Oswald Spengler, some Greeks/Romans (Horatius, Tacitus, Ovidius etc.), some books written by my relatives (on municipal politics, on chess and some wartime propaganda), then some philosophy like Schopenhauer, Stefan Zweig and Platon and on the right there's "Complete works of Shakespeare", some old fiction, Montaigne's Essays, Edward Westermarck's "Christianity and Morals" and Rafael Karsten's "Inca state".
Bottom row: The family Bible from 1849, Louis Sparre's book on Karelia, Aleksis Kivi's "Seitsemän veljestä", biographies of Mika Waltari, Mikael Agricola and C.G.E. Mannerheim, some old books on Finnish folk religion and folklore, Homer's "Iliad and Odyssey", Kalevipoeg, book on Elias Lönnrot (the collector of Kalevala), V.A. Koskenniemi's poems, some Finnish essays, books on Byzantine empire, Wien 1890-1920, Valaam monastery and Finnish counties, Gustav Bang's "Our time".