If you are going to read just one book from this list

• Grant – Give and Take

If you are going to read just one more book from this list

•  Taleb – Antifragile

Premium fiction and nonfiction

• Adams – Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
• Asplund – Det sociala livets elementära former (Swedish)
• Burgess – A Clockwork Orange
• Card – Ender’s Game + Speaker for the Dead
• Coupland – Generation A
• Dostoyevsky – Crime and Punishment
• Eco – Foucault’s Pendulum
• Hemingway – Garden of Eden + the short stories
• Hesse – Steppenwolf + Siddhartha
• Hofstadter – Gödel, Escher, Bach
• Höeg – The Quiet Girl + Tales of the Night
• Irving – A Prayer for Owen Meany
• Jansson – Comet in Moominland + The Memoirs of Moominpappa + Moominsummer Madness + Moominland Midwinter + Tales from Moominvalley + Moominpappa at Sea + Moominvalley in November
• Johnstone – Impro for Storytellers
• Joyce – Finnegans Wake
• Krauss – The History of Love
• Lagerlöf – The Story of Gösta Berling
• Le Guin – The Wizard of Earthsea + The Tombs of Atuan + The Farthest Shore
• Lyckad nedfrysning av herr Moro (Swedish)
• Mead – Mind, Self and Society
• Mitchell – Ghostwritten
• Moore – Watchmen + From Hell
• Morrison – Beloved + Song of Solomon + Paradise
• Orwell – 1984
• Palahniuk – Choke + Survivor
• Perttu – Förståelsens Frukter (Swedish)
• Pirsig – Lila (But you’d better read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance first)
• Rushdie – Midnight’s Children + Shame
• Safran Foer – Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
• Salinger – Franny and Zooey + Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters
• Saramago – The Cave
• Stenmark – Känslan man har (Swedish)
• Vonnegut – Slapstick + Slaughterhouse 5

Nonfiction

• Ong – Orality and Literacy
• Campbell – A Hero with a thousand faces
• Ödeen – Dramatiskt berättande + Den upplysta scenen (Swedish)
• Drummond & Cauty – The Manual
• Cialdini – Influence
• Carnegie – How to Win Friends and Influence People
• Affärstankar (Swedish)
• Fox – How to Become a Rainmaker
• Gladwell – Outliers + The Tipping Point + Blink
• Wijnberg – Who Needs a Shrink? + Everybody is Nobody
• Sun Tzu – Art of War
• Gardell – Om Jesus (Swedish)
• Graham – The Intelligent Investor
• Schwager – Stock Market Wizards
• Schwartz – The Magic of Thinking Big
• Collings – Good to Great
• Taleb – Fooled by Randomness
• Hylland Eriksen – Storeulvssyndromet (Norweigan)
• Musashi – The Book of Five Rings
• Wilson – Prometheus Rising
• Asplund – Genom huvudet (Swedish)
• Nörretranders – The Generous Man
• Moalem – The Survival of the Sickest
• Jaynes – The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
• Carlson – The Big Book of Small Stuff
• Arden – It’s Not How Good You Are + Whatever You Think, Think the Opposite
• Debord – Society of the Spectacle
• Solanas – SCUM Manifesto
• Eberhard – I trygghetsnarkomanernas land (Swedish)
• Beauvoir – The Second Sex
• Snyder – Save the Cat
• Camus – The Myth of Sisyphus

Fiction

• Pirsig – Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
• Bach – Illusions + Jonathan Livingstone Seagull
• Hesse – The Glass Bead Game
• Quinn – Ishmael
• Hill – Heart-shaped Box
• Palahniuk – Lullaby
• Danielewski – House of Leaves
• Kristof – The Notebook
• Christie – And Then There Where None + The ABC Murders + The Murder of Roger Ackroyd + Murder on the Orient Express
• Moore – V for Vendetta
• Dostoyevsky – The Double + The Gambler
• Orwell – Animal Farm
• Steinbeck – Of Mice and Men + The Grapes of Wrath
• Hemingway – The Sun Also Rises + The Old Man and the Sea
• Coupland – Generation X
• Rushdie – The Satanic Verses
• Eco – The Name of the Rose
• Bukowski – Post Office + Factotum + Hollywood
• Höeg – The Elephant’s Keeper’s Children + Borderliners + The History of Danish Dreams+ The Woman and the Ape
• Adams – Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency + The Long Dark Tea-Time for the Soul
• Vonnegut – Cat’s Cradle + Mother Night
• Smith – The Ruins
• Camus – The Stranger + The Plague
• Irving – Garp och His World
• Hornby – High Fidelity + About a Boy + How to be Good + A Long Way Down + Juliet, Naked
• Saint-Exupery – The Little Prince
• Roy – The God of Small Things
• Walker – Color Purple
• Thiongo – A Grain of Wheat
• Coetzee – Disgrace
• Saramago – All the Names
• Salinger – The Catcher in the Rye + Nine Stories
• Coelho – Veronika Decides to Die
• Cave – And the Ass Saw the Angel
• Tolkien – Bilbo + The Lord of the Rings
• Marquez – Hundred Years of Loneliness
• Haddon – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
• Gibran – The Prophet
• Stephenson – Snow Crash
• Dahl – The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More
• Lindbergh – Gift From the Sea

Swedish Fiction

• Niemi – Popular music from Vittula + Astrotruckers + Skjut apelsinen (Swedish)
• Said – Väldigt sällan fin (Swedish)
• Lagerkvist – Onda sagor (Swedish)
• Dagerman – A Burnt Child + Wedding Worries + The Snake + The Island of the Doomed
• Lowden – Allt (Swedish)
• Martinson – The Road to Klockrike
• Johnsson – Return to Ithaca
• Söderberg – The Serious Game + Doctor Glas + Martin Birck’s Youth + Anectodes
• Danielsson – Sagor för barn över 18 år (Swedish)
• Almqvist – The Queen’s Tiara
• Jansson – Finn Family Moomintroll + Who Will Comfort Toffle + The Summer Book
• Gardell – Vill gå hem + Ett ufo gör entré (Swedish)
• Lindgren – Light + The Way of the Serpent + Till sanningens lov (Swedish)

Drama

• Shakespeare – Hamlet + A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• Williams – A Streetcar Named Desire + Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
• Miller – Death of a Salesman
• Strindberg – Miss Julie + The Father
• Ibsen – A Doll’s House + Ghosts + The Wild Duck
• Genet – The Maids
• Checkov – The Seagull + The Cherry Orchard
• Albee – Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf

Poetry

• Crane, Stephen – Complete works
• Bukowski – Complete works
• Lindbergh – The Unicorn and other Poems

Not really worth reading, but should be read anyhow

• Kafka – The Process
• Proust – In Search of Lost Time
• The Bible

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