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2025

• Lessons in chemistry – Bonnie Garmus
• Ti amo – Hanne Ørstavik
• Timequake – Kurt Vonnegut
• 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 – Antoind 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

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