Reading List

Currently Reading

• Anathem / Neal Stephenson
• Against the Day / Thomas Pynchon

2025

• Stäppvargen / Hermann Hesse
• The Hour of the Star / Clarice Lispector
• Cryptonomicon / Neal Stephenson
• ⭐ The Consolation of Philosophy / Boethius
• Butcher’s Crossing / John Williams
• The Dispossessed / Ursula K. Le Guin
• Sailing to Sarantium / Guy Gavriel Kay
• How to Focus: A Monastic Guide for an Age of Distraction / John Cassian
• The Courage to Be Disliked / Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga
• Fahrenheit-182 / Mark Hoppus & Dan Ozzi
• The Crying of Lot 49 / Thomas Pynchon
• Lord of Emperors / Guy Gavriel Kay
• Tortilla Flat / John Steinbeck
• The Burnout Society / Byung-Chul Han
• Iron John / Robert Bly
• The Memory Police / Yoko Ogawa
• Splendor / Stefan Lindberg
• After Stoicism: Last Words of the Last Roman Philosopher / Thomas M. Ward
• Om natten i Chile / Roberto Bolaño
• Tracers in the Dark / Andy Greenberg
• Competing in the Age of AI / Marco Iansiti & Karim R. Lakhani
• The Catcher in the Rye / J.D. Salinger
• Amusing Ourselves to Death / Neil Postman
• Nuclear War: A Scenario / Annie Jacobsen

2024

• The Last Emperox / John Scalzi
• The Yellow Wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• The Three-Body Problem / Cixin Liu
• The Prophet / Khalil Gibran
• A Psalm for the Wild-Built / Becky Chambers
• Fahrenheit 451 / Ray Bradbury
• The Talented Mr. Ripley / Patricia Highsmith
• Fiktioner / Jorge Luis Borges
• The Dark Forest / Cixin Liu
• Bröderna Karamazov vol.2 / Fjodor Dostojevskij
• Mr. Mulliner Stories / P.G. Wodehouse
• The PARA Method / Tiago Forte
• The Metamorphosis / Franz Kafka
• Death’s End / Cixin Liu
• The Things They Carried / Tim O’Brien
• Revolten, Rörelsen, Refused / Patrik Wirén
• Why Read? / Mark Edmundson
• ⭐️ Stoner / John Williams
• In the Heart of the Heart of the Country / William H. Gass
• The Annotated Hamlet / William Shakespeare
• Lessons in Stoicism / John Sellars
• The Wager / David Grann
• Daily Rituals / Mason Currey
• Sommarboken / Tove Jansson
• Hands of Time / Rebecca Struthers
• His Name was Death / Rafael Bernal
• Meditations / Marcus Aurelius
• Savage Gods / Paul Kingsnorth
• Cartoons / Kit Schluter
• White Nights & Bobok / Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• ⭐️ Letters to a Young Poet / Rainer Maria Rilke
• Dune Messiah / Frank Herbert
• Hard Rain Falling / Don Carpenter
• The Screwtape Letters / C.S. Lewis
• The Fellowship of the Ring / J.R.R. Tolkien
• A Prayer for the Crown-Shy / Becky Chambers
• Nicomachean Ethics / Aristotle
• Blod Eld Död : En svensk metalhistoria / Ika Johannesson & Jon Jefferson Klingberg
• Treasure Island / Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Turn of the Screw / Henry James
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle / Shirley Jackson
• Digital Minimalism / Cal Newport
• Den halvfärdiga himlen / Tomas Tranströmer
• The Two Towers / J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Return of the King / J.R.R. Tolkien

2023

• Project Hail Mary / Andy Weir
• Let Me Be Frank with You / Richard Ford
• Poetry / Wilfred Owen
• Steal Like an Artist / Austin Kleon
• V / Thomas Pynchon
• Slow Learner / Thomas Pynchon
• ⭐️ Skunk Works / Ben R. Rich & Leo Janos
• You Are Not Expected to Understand This / Torie Bosch
• The Road / Cormac McCarthy
• Child of God / Cormac McCarthy
• Bleeding Edge / Thomas Pynchon
• How to Blow up a Pipeline / Andreas Malm
• Crash / J.G. Ballard
• The Time Machine Did It / John Swartzwelder
• Be Mine / Richard Ford
• Death of Democracy / Benjamin Carter Hett
• Killers of the Flower Moon / David Grann
• Sapiens / Yuval Noah Harari
• Nazis and the Occult / Paul Roland
• Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art / James Nestor
• 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed / Eric H.Cline
• Invisible Cities / Italo Calvino
• The Atrocity Exhibition / J. G. Ballard
• ⭐️ Mason & Dixon / Thomas Pynchon
• Klätterbaronen / Italo Calvino
• Friends of Eddie Coyle / George V. Higgins
• Pan / Knut Hamsun
• The Collapsing Empire / John Scalzi
• The Consuming Fire / John Scalzi

2022

• The Storyteller / Dave Grohl (audiobook)
• Rendezvous with Rama / Arthur C.Clarke
• Memoir: A Life in Computer Games / Sid Meier
• The Darkest Web / Eileen Ormsby
• Underworld / Don DeLillo
• Enemy of all Mankind / Steven Johnson
• ⭐️ Our Band Could Be Your Life / Michael Azerrad
• Lost Face / Jack London
• Vineland / Thomas Pynchon
• The Descent / Jeff Long
• Laughter in the Dark / Vladimir Nabokov
• Min vän Maigret / Georges Simenon
• Hell Yeah or No / Derek Sivers
• All the Pretty Horses / Cormac McCarthy

2021

• Piranesi / Susanna Clarke
• Animal Farm / George Orwell
• American Psycho / Bret Easton Ellis
• Cows / Matthew Stokoe
• Dreaming in Chinese / Deborah Fallows
• No Longer Human / Osamu Dazai
• Shoe Dog / Phil Knight
• Dune / Frank Herbert
• Turtle Island / Gary Snyder (P)
• The Silence / Don DeLillo
• ⭐️ Gravity’s Rainbow / Thomas Pynchon
• The Sluts / Dennis Cooper
• The Old Man and the Sea / Ernest Hemingway
• Blood Meridian / Cormac McCarthy
• Norwegian Wood / Haruki Murakami
• På väg från Atocha / Ben Lerner
• Jamilia / Chinghiz Aitmatov
• Silence / Shusaki Endo
• Petersburgnoveller / Nikolaj Gogol
• Strange Angel / George Pendle
• Bröderna Karamazov vol.1 / Fjodor Dostojevskij

2020

• Pale Fire / Vladimir Nabokov
• Game Over / Viktor Johansson
• Passionen enligt GH / Clarice Lispector
• Eterneller / Viktor Johansson
• High Windows / Philip Larkin (P)
• The Vegetarian / Han Kang
• The Armageddon Conspiracy / Mike Hockney
• The Pearl / John Steinbeck
• ⭐️ Masters of Doom / David Kushner
• How to disappear and never be found / Doug Richmond
• Gun Love / Jennifer Clement
• Hemlig Lycka / Clarice Lispector
• My Man Jeeves / P.G. Wodehouse
• With my Dog-Eyes / Hilda Hilst
• Old Man’s War / John Scalzi
• Neuromancer / William Gibson
• Blåsa liv / Clarice Lispector
• Deaf Republic / Ilya Kaminsky (P)
• Averno / Louise Glück (P)
• Handbok i livets konst / Epiktetos
• The Writing Life / Annie Dillard
• Lay of the Land / Richard Ford

2019

• 1793 / Niklas Natt och Dag
• Mao II / Don DeLillo
• ⭐️ Levande vatten / Clarice Lispector

2018

• Snow Crash / Neal Stephenson
• Ivan Iljitjs död / Leo Tolstoj
• Slakthus 5 / Kurt Vonnegut
• Philosophy / Kevin Perry
• Nytt & Gammalt & Gralstänk / Gustaf Fröding (P)
• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck / Mark Manson
• Pedro Paramo / Juan Rulfo
• Vad jag pratar om när jag pratar om löpning / Haruki Murakami
• Fragment för att bemästra döden / Alejandra Pizarnik (P)
• ⭐️ The Haunted Bookshop / Christopher Morley
• Siddhartha / Hermann Hesse

2017

• The Eye of the World / Robert Jordan
• White Noise / Don Delillo
• Ariel / Sylvia Plath
• The Bell Jar / Sylvia Plath
• The Secret History of Twin Peaks / Mark Frost
• American Gods / Neil Gaiman
• Sleeping Giants / Sylvain Neuvel
• Waking Gods / Sylvain Neuvel
• Zer0es / Chuck Wendig
• The Stars are Legion / Kameron Hurley
• The Alchemist / Paulo Coelho
• The Stranger / Albert Camus
• Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? / Raymond Carver
• Cathedral / Raymond Carver
• ⭐️ The Sea / John Banville
• Dark Lies The Island / Kevin Barry
• Prince of Thorns / Mark Lawrence
• All the Birds in the Sky / Charlie Jane Anders
• 1922 / Stephen King
• Annihilation / Jeff Vandermeer
• Authority / Jeff Vandermeer

2016

• ⭐️ The Sportswriter / Richard Ford
• Independence Day / Richard Ford
• Brave New World / Aldous Huxley
• The Collected Poems / Sylvia Plath