Favorites and Lists

• A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Odyssey, Homer (audiobook read by Ian McKellen)
• Innsirkling 3, Cal Frode Tiller
• Nexus, Yuval Harari
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
• Uncommon Grounds, Marc Pendergrast
• Straw Dogs, John Gray

• Innsirkling 2, Carl Frode Tiller
• The Great God Pan, Arthur Machen
• The Once and Future King, T.H. White
• The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch
• Innsirkling 1, Carl Frode Tiller
• Thomas F's siste nedtegnelser til almenheten, Kjell Askildsen
• Assorted Stories by H.P. Lovecraft
• Mysterier, Knut Hamsun
• Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus, Mary Shelley
• The First 90 Days, Michael Watkins
• Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes
• Jonas, Jens Bjørneboe
• Stakkar, Mathias Faldbakken
• On Writing: A Memoir on the Craft, Stephen King
• On Writing Well, William Zinsser
• Apology, Crito and Phaedo, Platon
• The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, Thomas Ligotti
• The Fall of the House of Usher, Edgar Allan Poe
• The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, Philip K. Dick
• A Personal Matter, Kenzaburo Oe
• Before the Coffee Gets Cold, Toshikazu Kawaguchi
• Kokoro, Soseki Natsume
• Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, Satoshi Yagisawa
• Greenlights, Matthew McConaughey
• De Knuste Hjerters Land, Ingrid Brekke
• Die Welt von Gestern, Stefan Zweig
• Fat Tail, Ian Bremmer and Preston Keat

• Min Kamp 2, Karl Ove Knausgård
• The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Sorcerer's Apprentices, Lisa Abend
• Sustainable Energy: Without the Hot Air, David J.C. MacKay
• Roumeli, Patrick Leigh Fermor
• Debt, David Graeber
• The Unicorn Project, Gene Kim
• Fyr og Flamme, Kjartan Fløgstad
• Impossible Country, Brian Hall
• Permutation City, Greg Egan
• Rational Choice in an Uncertain World, Robyn M. Dawes
• Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, Edwin Lefèvre
• Unknown Market Wizards, Jack D. Schwager
• Superforecasting, Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner
• Bambi: Eine Lebensgeschichte aus dem Walde, Siegmund Salzmann
• Longitude, Dava Sobel
• Bleak House, Charles Dickens
• Inadequate Equilibria, Eliezer Yudkowsky

• Mythos, Stephen Fry
• How to Build A Car, Adrian Newey
• Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
• Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman
• The Puzzler, A.J. Jacobs
• Vårofferet, Lars Mytting
• This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom
• Min Kamp 1, Karl Ove Knausgård
• Hundene i Thessaloniki, Kjell Askildsen
• Crucial Conversations, Joseph Grenny
• Deep Thinking, Gary Kasparov
• The Knowledge, Lewis Dartnell
• To Engineer is Human, Henri Petroski
• A Canticle for Leibowitz, William J. Miller
• How To Skate a 10k, Nils Van Der Poel
• Mason & Dixon, Thomas Pynchon

• Radically Condensed Instructions for Being Just as You Are, J. Matthews
• Four Thousand Weeks, Oliver Burkeman
• Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Franklin
• The Heroic Age of American, L. Sprague de Camp
• Invention: A Life, James Dyson
• The City and the City, China Miéville
• How the World Was One, Arthur C. Clarke
• Mother Earth Mother Board, Neal Stephenson
• The Death of Ivan Ilych, Leo Tolstoy
• Life: A User's Manual, George Perec
• Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie
• The Coffee Atlas, James Hoffman
• Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-free Productivity, David Allen
• Our Ancestors, Italo Calvino
• Shopclass as Soulcraft, Matthew Crawford
• The Salmon of Doubt, Douglas Adams
• Ten Great Ideas About Chance, Persi Diaconis and Brian Skyrms
• The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow
• Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, John le Carre
• Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software, Nadia Eghbal
• Code, Charles Petzold
• Sirens of Titan, Kurt Vonnegut
• Energy and Civilization, Vaclav Smil
• The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, Douglas Adams

• Heimskringla, del 1, Snorri Sturluson
• Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, Douglas Adams
• Energy: A Beginner's Guide, Vaclav Smil
• The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself and Win, Maria Konnikova
• Der Verwandlung, Franz Kafka
• Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure, Nadia Eghbal
• Uncle Petros and the Goldbach Conjecture, Apostolos Doxiadis
• The Magus, John Fowles
• Babel-17, Samuel R. Delany
• Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostojevski (Ignat Avsey translation)
• Logicomix, Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos Papadimitriou
• Der Kleine Prinz, Antoine Saint-Expury
• Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, Edwin A. Abbott
• Den Perfekte Spion, John Le Carré
• The Lessons of History, Will and Ariel Durant,
• The Book of Trees: Visualizing Branches of Knowledge, Manual Lima
• Sangen om Solomon, Toni Morrison
• The Leopard, Guiseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
• Bury My Heart at the Wounded Knee, Dee Brown
• Travels, Michael Crichton
• An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic, Daniel Mendelsohn
• The Wright Brothers, David McCullough
• The Design of Everyday Things, Don Norman
• Unflattening, Nick Sousanis
• Edison, Edmund Morris
• OptArt, Robert Bosch
• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Gerald Sussman, Harald Abelson
• The Annotated Turing, Charles Petzold
• The Mythical Man Month, Fred Brooks
• Pragmatic Programmer, Andy Hunt and David Thomas
• Every Tool is a Hammer, Adam Savage

• Markens Grøde, Knut Hamsun
• The Emperor of All Maladies
• Austerlitz, W.G. Sebald
• Blood River, Timothy Butcher
• Creative People at Work (12 Case Studies), Doris B. Wallace and Howard E. Gruber
• The End of the Affair, Graham Greene
• Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi
• The Empty Family, Colm Tóibín
• Men of Mathematics, E.T Bell
• Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The Intelligent Investor, Benjamin Graham & Jason Zweig
• Kim, Rudyard Kipling
• How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, Arnold Bennett
• The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman
• Getting to Yes, Roger Fisher
• Siddhartha, Herman Hesse
• The River of Consciousness, Oliver Sacks

• Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, David Foster Wallace
• The View from the Cheap Seats, Neil Gaiman
• The Remarkable Story of Risk, Peter L. Bernstein
• Children of Time, Adrian Tchaikovsky
• The Opposing Shore, Julian Gracq
• Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
• Second Variety, Philip K. Dick
• The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Robert Heinlein
• The Mirror Maker, Primo Levi
• Land ingen har sett, Edvard Hoem
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: an American Slave, Frederick Douglass
• Bror din på prærien, Edvard Hoem
• The Lathe of Heaven, Ursula K. Guin
• A Mathematicians Apology, G. H. Hardy
• Dubliners, James Joyce
• Road to Serfdom: With the Intellectuals and Socialism, Friedrich Hayek
• Slåttekar i Himmelen, Edvard Hoem
• Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, Ben Fountain

• A Confederancy of Dunces, Peter O’Toole
• Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
• Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
• Rings of Saturn, W.G. Sebald
• 1984, George Orwell
• A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawkins
• A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
• A Journey through Genius, William Dunham
• A Leg to Stand On, Oliver Sacks
• A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines, Janna Levin
• A Movable Feast, Ernest Hemingway
• A Painted House, John Grisham
• A Song of Ice and Fire, George R.R. Martin
• About a Boy, Nick Hornby
• Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
• Alkymisten, Paulo Coelho
• All the King’s Men, Robert Penn Warren
• All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
• American Gods, Neil Gaiman
• Beatles, Lars Saabye Christensen
• Bly, Lars Saabye Christensen
• Bisettelsen, Lars Saabye Christensen
• Behind the Door, Philip K. Dick
• Birth of a Theorem, Cedric Villani
• Black Hole Blues, Janna Levin
• Black Swan Green, David Mitchell
• Blankets, Craig Thompson
• Blindness, Jose Saramago
• Born Standing Up, Steve Martin
• Born to Run, Christopher McDougall
• Burmese Days, George Orwell
• Catch 22, Joseph Heller
• Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
• Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell
• Descent into Hell, Charles Williams
• Det Var Mine Tankers Djervheh: Matematikeren Sophus Lie, Arild Stubhaug
• Die Vollständige Maus, Art Spiegelman
• Diverse, Dan Brown
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick
• Doppler, Erlend Loe
• Dracula, Bram Stoker
• Dune, Frank Herbert
• Einstein’s Dreams, Alan Lightman
• El Principito, Antoine De Saint-Exupury
• Endurance: Shackleton’s Voyage, Alfred Lansing
• Fakta om Finland, Erlend Loe
• Fictions, Jose Borges
• Finding Moonshine: A Mathematician's Journey Through Symmetry, Marcus du Sautoy
• Flash Boys, Michael Lewis
• Fooled By Randomness, Nassim Taleb
• For Whom the Bells Toll, Ernest Hemingway
• Genanse og Verdighet, Dag Solstad
• Genius at Play, Sionhan Roberts
• Georgs Magiske Medisin, Roald Dahl
• Mathilda, Roald Dahl
• Ghostwritten, David Mitchell
• God is Not Great, Christopher Hitchens
• Good Omens, Neil Gaiman
• Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
• Haiene, Jens Bjørneboe
• Ham on Rye, Charles Bukowski
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, J.K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, J.K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, J.K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, J.K. Rowling
• Havets Katedral, Ildefonso Falcones
• Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
• High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
• Hobbiten, J.R.R. Tolkien
• I am Legend, Richard Matheson
• Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer
• In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
• Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
• Invisible Monsters, Chuck Palahniuk
• Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami
• Kon-Tiki, Thor Heyerdahl
• L, Erlend Loe
• Life of Pi, Yann Martel
• Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad
• Lord of the Rings, J.R.R Tolkien
• Love and Math, Edward Frenkl
• Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl
• Matilda, Roald Dahl
• Matterhorn, Karl Marantes
• Mengele Zoo, Gert Nygårdshaug
• Middlemarch, George Eliot
• Millenium-trilogien, Stig Larsson
• Min Bror: Fremmedlegionen, Elisabeth Nord
• Muleum, Erlend Loe
• Musicophilia, Oliver Sacks
• Naiv.Super, Erlend Loe
• Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
• Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami
• Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
• On Beauty, Zadie Smith
• On the Move, Oliver Sacks
• Playing for Pizza, John Grisham
• Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
• Quiet, Susan Cain
• Rubicon, Tom Holland
• Sailing Alone Around the World, Joshua Slocum
• Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, Carlo Rovelli
• Shantaram, Gregory David Roberts
• Sherlock Holmes, Conan A. Doyle
• Slam, Nick Hornby
• Slaughterhouse 5, Kurt Vonnegut
• Snow Falling on Cedars, David Guterson
• Snow, Orhan Pamuk
• Sofie’s verden, Jostein Gaarder
• Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson
• Sult, Knut Hamsun
• The Art of Travel, Alain de Botton
• The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson
• The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler
• The Blade Itself, Joe Abercrombie
• The Bone Clocks, David Mitchell
• The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz
• The Dirt: Motley Crue, Neil Strauss
• The Fault in Our Stars, John Green
• The Firm, John Grisham
• The Forever War, Joe Haldeman
• The Game, Neil Strauss
• The Garden of Evening Mists, Tan Twan Eng
• The Great Gatsby, Scott Fitzgerald
• The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
• The King of Torts, John Grisham
• The Kite Runner, Khaleid Hosseini
• The Last Juror, John Grisham
• The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch
• The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neil Gaiman
• The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
• The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
• The Rainmaker, John Grisham
• The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Edmund Morris
• The Road, Cormac McCarthy
• The Secret, Rhonda Byrne
• The Shallows, Nicholas Carr
• The Stranger, Albert Camus
• The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
• The Talented Mr. Ripley, Patricia Highsmith
• The Tales of Beedle the Bard, J.K. Rowling
• The Tartar Steppe, Dino Buzzati
• The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, David Mitchell
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
• The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami
• The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allan Poe
• The Worldly Philosophers, William Dunham
• Things Fall Apart, Chinua Abebe
• Tusen Strålende Soler, Khaleid Hosseini
• Upstream, Mary Oliver
• Ut Å Stjæle Hester, Per Petterson
• V for Vendetta, Alan Moore
• Vildanden, Henrik Ibsen
• Volvo Lastvagnar, Erlend Loe
• Wait, Frank Portnoy
• Walden, Henry Thoreau
• War, Sebastian Junger
• Watchmen, Alan Moore
• What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Haruki Murakami
• Wheel of Time 1, Robert Jordan
• When Breath Becomes Air, Paul Kalanithi
• Wind, Sand and Stars, Antoine De Saint-Exupury
• Women, Charles Bukowski
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig
• Zorba the Greek, Nikos Kazantzaki

These are movies that struck something within me and most of them I have watched several times:

• Spirited Away
• Grave of the Fireflies
• Hell or High Water (2016)
• In Bruges (2008)
• Lord of the Rings

• Alex G, God Save The Animals