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2026

  • The baron in the trees – Italo Calvino
  • Empire of deterrence: Nuclear weapons and the containment of politics – Michael Gardiner
  • Turn to stone: A memoir – Emily Meg Weinstein
  • The year of the hare – Arto Paasilinna
  • Solaris – Stanislaw Lem
  • Common sense – Thomas Paine
  • In a flight of starlings: The wonder of complex systems – Giorgio Parisi
  • Warfighting – U.S. Marine corps
  • The handmaid’s tale – Margaret Atwood
  • On earth we’re briefly gorgeous – Ocean Voung
  • I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
  • If Russia wins: A scenario – Carlo Masala
  • The prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
  • Offensive cyber operations: Understanding intangible warfare – Daniel Moore
  • Kallocain – Karin Boye
  • Notes on complexity: A scientific theory of connection, consciousness and being – Neil Theise
  • Nexus: A brief history of information networks from the stone age to AI – Yuval Noah Harari

2025

  • European universalism: The rethoric of power – Immanuel Wallerstein
  • Alternativt statsbudsjett: Løsninger for landet som ble for rikt – Martin Bech Holte
  • Sociopath: a memoir – Patric Gagne
  • The unbearable lightness of being – Milan Kundera
  • Flowers for Algernon – Daniel Keyes
  • Forward the foundation – Isaac Asimov
  • Hvad er retten til videnskab – og hvad kan den bruges til? – Helle Porsdam
  • Choice theory: A very short introduction – Michael Allingham
  • Uro – Finn Skårderud
  • Prelude to foundation – Isaac Asimov
  • Det nye totalforsvaret – Per M. Norheim-Martinsen (red.)
  • Foundation and earth – Isaac Asimov
  • Ice – Anna Kavan
  • En gatekatt ved navn Bob – James Bowen
  • Kampen om verdiene: Om velferdsstaten og landet som fikk for mange rike – Ola Innset
  • The corona crash: How the pandemic will change capitalism – Grace Blakeley
  • The invisible doctrine: The secret history of neoliberalism – George Monbiot & Peter Hutchison
  • Norwegian wood – Haruki Murakami
  • Lessons in stoicism – John Sellars
  • We – Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Dinner for vampires: Life on a cult TV show – Bethany Joy Lenz
  • The great Gatsby – Francis Scott Fitzgerald
  • Foundations edge – Isaac Asimov
  • The sailor who fell from grace with the sea – Yukio Mishima
  • Psychopolitics – Byung-Chul Han
  • Too late to awaken: What lies ahead when there is no future? – Slavoj Žižek
  • Technofeudalism: What killed capitalism – Yanis Faroufakis
  • How to solve it – George Pólya
  • A dog’s heart – Mikhail Bulgakov
  • Second foundation – Isaac Asimov
  • Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes
  • Einstein and the quantum revolutions – Alain Aspect
  • Chaos: Making a new science – James Gleick
  • At genkende den fremmede: Om Palæstina og narrativer – Isabella Hammad
  • Flatland – Edwin A. Abbot
  • Landet som ble for rikt: Hvordan Norge endte opp i Oljefondets felle – Martin Bech Holte
  • Mindf*ck – Christopher Wylie
  • Foundation and empire – Isaac Asimov
  • Cats cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
  • Writing your dissertation in fifteen minutes a day – Joan Bolker
  • Thinking fast and slow – Daniel Kahneman
  • Foundation – Isaac Asimov
  • Lessons in chemistry – Bonnie Garmus
  • Ti amo – Hanne Ørstavik
  • Timequake – Kurt Vonnegut
  • Samtaler fra Memorosa – Carl Korsnes
  • Tao te ching – Lao Tzu
  • Normal people – Sally Rooney
  • Nihilism – Nolen Gertz
  • Conversations with children – Ronald D. Laing
  • 4x4: Historien om de enkle og revolusjonerende intervallene – Jan Helgerud and Jan Hoff

2024

  • Orbital – Samantha Harvey
  • The crying of lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon
  • Litteratur – Dan Ringgaard
  • Trickledown: Poems and contemplations – Eric Andren
  • Who killed my father – Édouard Louis
  • Geniets notater – Edvard Munch
  • Revenge – Yōko Ogawa
  • Ways of seing – John Berger
  • Color out of space – Howard P. Lovecraft
  • Logicomix: An epic search for thruth – Apostlos Doxiadus and Christos Papadimitriou
  • Sandhed – Helge Kragh
  • Ekko: Et essay om algoitmer og begjær – Lena Lindgren
  • Is God a populist? - Christianity, populism and the future of Europe – Edited by Susan Kerr
  • Hvad vil vi med universiteterne? – Maja Horst and Alan Irwin
  • Existential physics: A scientist’s guide to life’s biggest questions – Sabine Hossenfelder
  • The houskeeper and the professor – Yōko Ogawa
  • Kitchen – Banana Yoshimoto
  • Siblings – Brigitte Reimann
  • Thousand cranes – Yasunari Kawabata
  • What is populism? – Jan-Werner Müller
  • Singularitet – Marita Fossum
  • Moshpit – Hermod Bjørklund
  • Behave – Robert M. Sapolsky
  • Create dangerously – Albert Camus
  • A cup of sake beneath the cherry trees – Kenkō
  • In praise of shadows – Jun’ichirō Tanizaki
  • The world itself: Consciousness and the everything of physics – Ulf Danielsson
  • Nothing but the night – John Williams
  • Identity – Milan Kundera
  • Stå fast – Svend Brinkmann
  • Ten thousand light-years from home – James Jr. Tiptree
  • Mostly harmless – Douglas Adams
  • Hvad skal vi med vitenskaben – Anja C. Andersen
  • So long, and thanks for all the fish – Douglas Adams
  • Why? The meaning of the universe – Philip Goff
  • Life, the universe and everything – Douglas Adams
  • The restaurant at the end of the universe – Douglas Adams
  • The hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy – Douglas Adams
  • Free will – Sam Harris
  • Other minds: The octopus, the sea, and the deep origins of consciousness – Peter Godfrey-Smith
  • Your conscious mind – New scientist
  • Hva er metafysikk – Einar Duenger Bøhn
  • Life 3.0 – Max Tegmark
  • The flip – Jeffrey J. Kripal
  • Appenes planet – Thomas Hylland Eriksen
  • Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë

2023

  • Gud – Svend Andersen
  • The fall of Icarus – Ovid
  • Musicophilia: Tales of music and the brain – Oliver Sacks
  • Surreal numbers – Donald E. Knuth
  • A christmas carol – Charles Dickens
  • Pond – Claire-Louise Bennett
  • Heroes – Stephen Fry
  • Design as art – Bruno Munari
  • Øyeblikkets tyranni – Thomas Hylland Eriksen
  • Kollektivt selvmord – Arto Paasilinna
  • Infinity and the mind – Rudy Rucker
  • The great philosophers: Hegel – Raymond Plant
  • The great philosophers: Turing – Andrew Hodges
  • A happy death – Albert Camus
  • The last night: Anti-work, Atheism, Adventure – Federico Campagna
  • The great philosophers: Voltaire – John Gray
  • The fourfold remedy – John Sellars
  • Dimension of miracles – Robert Sheckley
  • På naturens skuldre – Anne Sverdrup Thygeson
  • The end of everything (astrophysically speaking) – Katie Mack
  • The soul of the marionette: A short inquiry into human freedom – John Gray
  • The lady with the dog – Anton Chekov
  • The interpreter of maladies – Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Anthem – Ayn Rand
  • Trafalgar – Angélica Gorodischer
  • Maskiner som tenker – Inga Strümke
  • Chess – Stefan Zweig
  • The gates of perception & Heaven and hell – Aldous Huxley
  • Tal – Henrik Kragh Sørensen
  • The joy of small things – Hannah Jane Parkinson
  • Karma – Marianne Qvortrup Fibiger
  • Kreativitet – Jan Løhmann Stephensen
  • Ingenting – Martin Demant Fredriksen
  • Stoner – John Williams
  • Whereabouts – Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Gledens bok – Dalai Lama & Desmond Tutu
  • Is wildness over? – Paul Wapner
  • The prophet – Kahlil Gibran
  • One summer: America, 1927 – Bill Bryson
  • The time machine – Herbert G. Wells
  • The left-handed woman - Peter Handke
  • Letters from a stoic – Lucius Seneca
  • Slowness – Milan Kundera
  • Jonathan Livingston Seagull – Richard Bach
  • The death of Ivan Ilyich – Leo Tolstoy
  • Mary and the giant – Phillip K. Dick
  • Munken som solgte sin ferrari – Robin Sharma
  • Infinite powers: The story of calculus – Steven H. Strogatz
  • Ro – Iben Have
  • Men du ser ikke syk ut – Ragnhild Holmås

2022

  • Wuthering heights – Emily Brontë
  • Mortal engines – Stanislaw Lem
  • The road – Cormac McCarthy
  • There is no point of no return – Arne Næss
  • On happiness – Epicurus
  • The song of Achilles – Madeline Miller
  • Mother night – Kurt Vonnegut
  • One billion years to the end of the world – Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
  • Mans search for meaning – Viktor Frankl
  • Siddhartha – Hermann Hesse
  • Nature – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • The alchemist – Paulo Coelho
  • Meditation in action – Chögyam Trungpa
  • Saudi America: The thruth about fracking and how it is changing the world – Bethany McLean
  • The little prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  • In watermelon sugar – Richard Brautigan
  • Candide – Voltaire
  • On the shortness of life – Lucius Seneca
  • Bois – Runa Borch Skolseg
  • Reflections on the Guillotine – Albert Camus
  • Beatrice and Virgil – Yann Martel
  • Slapstick, or lonesome no more – Kurt Vonnegut
  • How the Marquis got his cote back – Neil Gaiman
  • Marcovaldo – Italo Calvino
  • The myth of Sisyphus – Albert Camus
  • One blade of grass – Henry Shukman
  • Mr Palomar – Italo Calvino
  • The ark Sakura – Kōbō Abe
  • Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
  • Meditations – Marcus Aurelius
  • Bartleby, the scrivener – Herman Melville
  • The midnight library –- Matt Haig
  • Big bang -– Simon Singh
  • A brief history of time – Stephen Hawking
  • A voyage to Arcturus – David Lindsay
  • The trials of Rumpole – John Mortimer
  • The great mathematical problems – Ian Stewart
  • The cyberiad – Stanislaw Lem
  • The future of an illusion – Sigmund Freud
  • Crime and punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • If on a winter’s night a traveler – Italo Calvino
  • Brief notes on the art and manner of arranging ones books – Georges Perec
  • Fictions – Jorge Luis Borges
  • Waiting for Godot – Samuel Beckett
  • The stranger – Albert Camus
  • Gunnars daughter – Sigrid Undset
  • Notes on nationalism – George Orwell
  • Sult – Knut Hamsun
  • Hamnet – Maggie O’Farrell
  • Homo deus – Yuval Noah Harari

2021

  • Scenes from a childhood – Jon Fosse
  • Slaughterhouse 5 – Kurt Vonnegut
  • Swimming – Roger Deakin
  • Why vegan? – Peter Singer
  • Black hole blues and other songs from outer space – Jenna Levin
  • Moby Dick – Herman Melville
  • Why look at animals? – John Berger
  • Black holes: The BBC Reith Lectures – Stephen Hawking
  • The battle for paradise – Naomi Klein
  • Aliens – Edited by Jim Al-Khalili
  • A universe from nothing – Lawrence M. Krauss
  • High-rise – James G. Ballard
  • A short history of nearly everything – Bill Bryson
  • Forbudte sanger – Pål Moddi Knutsen
  • Condition of the working class in England – Friedrich Engels
  • Invisible cities – Italo Calvino
  • The laundromat – Jake Bernstein
  • What if we stopped pretending - Jonathan Franzen
  • The elegant universe: Superstrings, hidden dimensions and the quest for the ultimate theory – Brian Greene
  • X+Y: A mathematicians manifesto for rethinking gender – Eugenia Cheng
  • Letter from Birmingham jail – Martin Luther King Jr.
  • On liberty – John Stuart Mill
  • Metamorphosis and other stories – Franz Kafka
  • We should all be feminists – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • Brave new world – Aldous Huxley
  • No one is too small to make a difference – Greta Thunberg
  • The fall – Albert Camus
  • Cat’s cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
  • On the shortness of life – Seneca
  • Mythos – Stephen Fry
  • Thus spake Zarathustra – Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Socialism: Utopian and scientific – Friedrich Engels
  • The communist manifesto – Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
  • Ten arguments for deleting your social media accounts right now – Jaron Lanier
  • The official TED guide to public speaking – Chris J. Anderson
  • The teachings of Karl Marx – Vladimir Lenin
  • Taming the infinite – Ian Stewart
  • The climate crisis and the global green new deal – Noam Chomsky, Robert Pollin
  • Fermat’s last theorem – Simon Singh
  • The book of lord Shang – Shang Yang
  • The art of war – Sun Tzu
  • Sapiens – Yuval Noah Harari
  • The old man and the sea – Ernest Hemingway
  • 1984 – George Orwell
  • Circularity: A common secret to paradoxes, scientific revolutions and humor – Ron Aharoni
  • How to practise – Dalai Lama XIV
  • Animal farm – George Orwell
  • A bouquet of Dyson – Jeremy Bernstein
  • Stalin – Claire Shaw
  • This book is anti-racist – Tiffany Jewell
  • A mathematician’s lament – Paul Lockhart

Summary

Year Fiction Non-fiction Total
2025 25 26 51
2024 19 27 46
2023 23 27 50
2022 33 17 50
2021 14 37 51