Björn Brynjúlfur

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A list of the 127 books I have read since 2018 (except for a few embarrassing ones). The ratings are at the time of finishing each book.

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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval Noah Harari (2011)

Date read:
2021-06-10

Fátækt fólk

Tryggvi Emilsson (1976)

Date read:
2021-05-28

Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know

Malcolm Gladwell (2019)

Date read:
2021-05-06

The Trial

Franz Kafka (1925)

Date read:
2021-04-27

Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire

Simon Baker (2006)

Date read:
2021-04-07

The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk

Al Ries, Jack Trout (1993)

Date read:
2021-03-08

Málsvörn

Einar Kárason (2021)

Date read:
2021-02-23

Snerting

Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson (2020)

Date read:
2021-02-12

Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It

Chris Voss (2016)

Date read:
2021-02-05

The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn

Richard Hamming (1996)

Date read:
2021-01-28

Limitless: Core Techniques to Improve Performance, Productivity, and Focus

Jim Kwik (2020)

Date read:
2021-01-18

When Breath Becomes Air

Paul Kalanithi (2016)

Date read:
2021-01-09

Vetrarmein

Ragnar Jónasson (2020)

Date read:
2021-01-04

Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics By Its Most Brilliant Teacher

Richard P. Feynman (1962)

Date read:
2020-11-14

A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing

Burton G. Malkiel (1973)

Date read:
2020-11-14

The Star Principle: How It Can Make You Rich

Richard Koch (2008)

Date read:
2020-11-10

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

Eric Jorgenson (2020)

Date read:
2020-11-02

The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story

Hyeonseo Lee (2015)

Date read:
2020-07-29

Hell Yeah or No: what's worth doing

Derek Sivers (2020)

Date read:
2020-07-27

Kokkáll

Dóri DNA (2019)

Date read:
2020-04-15

Ærumissir

Davíð Logi Sigurðsson (2018)

Date read:
2020-04-15

Svínshöfuð

Bergþóra Snæbjörnsdóttir (2019)

Date read:
2020-04-13

Korngult hár, grá augu

Sjón (2019)

Date read:
2020-04-08

Where Good Ideas Come from: The Natural History of Innovation

Steven Johnson (2010)

Date read:
2020-03-30

Sólarhringl

Huldar Breiðfjörð (2019)

Date read:
2020-03-08

Hlaupabókin

Arnar Pétursson (2019)

Date read:
2020-03-01

Norwegian Wood

Haruki Murakami (1987)

Date read:
2020-02-14

The Kite Runner

Khaled Hosseini (2003)

Date read:
2020-02-13

Little Fires Everywhere

Celeste Ng (2017)

Date read:
2020-02-12

Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness

Scott Jurek (2012)

Date read:
2020-01-17

2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)

Arthur C. Clarke (1968)

Date read:
2020-01-14

Understanding Michael Porter: The Essential Guide to Competition and Strategy

Joan Magretta (2011)

Date read:
2020-01-12

Siddartha

Hermann Hesse (1922)

Date read:
2020-01-11

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

Christopher McDougall (2009)

Date read:
2020-01-06

Skjáskot

Bergur Ebbi (2019)

Date read:
2019-12-31

Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself

Rich Roll (2012)

Date read:
2019-12-27

How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease

Michael Greger (2015)

Date read:
2019-12-15

Total Immersion: A Revolutionary Way to Swim Better and Faster

Terry Laughlin (1996)

Date read:
2019-12-03

Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide

Richard Dawkins (2019)

Date read:
2019-11-25

Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

Trevor Noah (2016)

Date read:
2019-11-25

The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

Miguel Ruiz (1997)

Date read:
2019-11-17

Um tímann og vatnið

Andri Snær Magnason (2019)

Date read:
2019-10-29

Any Human Heart

William Boyd (2002)

Date read:
2019-10-29

Vicious

V.E. Schwab (2013)

Date read:
2019-10-12

Super Thinking: Upgrade Your Reasoning and Make Better Decisions with Mental Models

Gabriel Weinberg (2019)

Date read:
2019-10-10

Educated

Tara Westover (2018)

Date read:
2019-10-06

Flowers for Algernon

Daniel Keyes (1959)

Date read:
2019-09-28

Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

Brian Christian (2016)

Date read:
2019-09-25

Kane and Abel

Jeffrey Archer (1979)

Date read:
2019-09-11

How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

Scott Adams (2013)

Date read:
2019-08-31

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

John Carreyrou (2018)

Date read:
2019-08-20

The Art of Learning: A Journey in the Pursuit of Excellence

Josh Waitzkin (2007)

Date read:
2019-08-17

Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

Richard H. Thaler (2008)

Date read:
2019-08-17

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

Steven D. Levitt (2005)

Date read:
2019-08-17

The Complete Guide to Fasting: Heal Your Body Through Intermittent, Alternate-Day, and Extended Fasting

Jason Fung (2016)

Date read:
2019-08-12

Hello, Startup: A Programmer's Guide to Building Products, Technologies, and Teams

Yevgeniy Brikman (2015)

Date read:
2019-08-09

Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships

Marshall B. Rosenberg (1999)

Date read:
2019-07-28

The Art of War

Sun Tzu (-500)

Date read:
2019-07-14

The Magic of Thinking Big

David J. Schwartz (1959)

Date read:
2019-07-13

Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE

Phil Knight (2016)

Date read:
2019-07-13

How to Write Copy That Sells: The Step-By-Step System for More Sales, to More Customers, More Often

Ray Edwards (2016)

Date read:
2019-07-08

The Selfish Gene

Richard Dawkins (1976)

Date read:
2019-07-07

The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World

Brad Stone (2017)

Date read:
2019-06-30

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

Robert B. Cialdini (1984)

Date read:
2019-06-30

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

David Allen (2001)

Date read:
2019-06-30

The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

Eric Ries (2011)

Date read:
2019-06-21

Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial Destiny!

Tony Robbins (1992)

Date read:
2019-06-21

Food Rules: An Eater's Manual

Michael Pollan (2008)

Date read:
2019-05-27

Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries

Safi Bahcall (2019)

Date read:
2019-05-22

The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement

Eliyahu M. Goldratt (1984)

Date read:
2019-05-02

Principles: Life and Work

Ray Dalio (2011)

Date read:
2019-05-02

Ego Is the Enemy

Ryan Holiday (2016)

Date read:
2019-05-02

Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

Matthew Walker (2017)

Date read:
2019-04-16

Unfu*k Yourself: Get Out of Your Head and Into Your Life

Gary John Bishop (2016)

Date read:
2019-03-19

The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature

Matt Ridley (1993)

Date read:
2019-03-04

Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now

Gordon Livingston (2004)

Date read:
2019-02-17

Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

Hans Rosling (2018)

Date read:
2019-02-12

So Good They Can't Ignore You

Cal Newport (2012)

Date read:
2019-01-29

Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds

David Goggins (2018)

Date read:
2019-01-29

Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2001)

Date read:
2019-01-22

I Don't Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression

Terrence Real (1997)

Date read:
2019-01-14

Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

James Clear (2018)

Date read:
2019-01-06

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

Yuval Noah Harari (2018)

Date read:
2018-11-05

Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age

Paul Graham (2004)

Date read:
2018-09-29

The Case Against Sugar

Gary Taubes (2016)

Date read:
2018-09-12

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character

Richard P. Feynman (1985)

Date read:
2018-09-04

The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph

Ryan Holiday (2014)

Date read:
2018-08-30

The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)

N.K. Jemisin (2015)

Date read:
2018-08-17

Liar's Poker

Michael Lewis (1989)

Date read:
2018-08-12

Thinking in Systems: A Primer

Donella H. Meadows (2008)

Date read:
2018-08-07

The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master

Andy Hunt (1999)

Date read:
2018-08-07

Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur

Derek Sivers (2011)

Date read:
2018-08-07

Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

Cal Newport (2016)

Date read:
2018-08-04

1984

George Orwell (1949)

Date read:
2018-08-02

Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor E. Frankl (1946)

Date read:
2018-08-01

The Gods Themselves

Isaac Asimov (1972)

Date read:
2018-07-30

The Fountainhead

Ayn Rand (1943)

Date read:
2018-07-30

The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho (1988)

Date read:
2018-07-30

Dark Matter

Blake Crouch (2016)

Date read:
2018-07-04

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

Peter Thiel (2014)

Date read:
2018-07-02

Unscripted: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Entrepreneurship

M.J. DeMarco (2017)

Date read:
2018-07-02

Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World

Timothy Ferriss (2017)

Date read:
2018-07-02

Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization

Dave Logan (2008)

Date read:
2018-07-02

Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers

Gabriel Weinberg (2014)

Date read:
2018-07-02

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Steven Pressfield (2002)

Date read:
2018-07-02

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

Mark Manson (2016)

Date read:
2018-07-02

The Slight Edge

Jeff Olson (2005)

Date read:
2018-07-02

The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business

Charles Duhigg (2012)

Date read:
2018-07-02

The Millionaire Fastlane

M.J. DeMarco (2010)

Date read:
2018-07-02

The God Delusion

Richard Dawkins (2006)

Date read:
2018-07-02

The 4-Hour Workweek

Timothy Ferriss (2007)

Date read:
2018-07-02

Stumbling on Happiness

Daniel Todd Gilbert (2006)

Date read:
2018-07-02

Stofuhiti

Bergur Ebbi (2017)

Date read:
2018-07-02

Steve Jobs

Walter Isaacson (2011)

Date read:
2018-07-02

Rework

Jason Fried (2010)

Date read:
2018-07-02

Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice

Bill Browder (2014)

Date read:
2018-07-02

Ready Player One

Ernest Cline (2011)

Date read:
2018-07-02

Living with a SEAL: 31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet

Jesse Itzler (2015)

Date read:
2018-07-02

Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow

Yuval Noah Harari (2017)

Date read:
2018-07-02

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

J.D. Vance (2016)

Date read:
2018-07-02

Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar--Your Brain's Silent Killers

David Perlmutter (2013)

Date read:
2018-07-02

Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

Ashlee Vance (2015)

Date read:
2018-07-02

Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose

Tony Hsieh (2010)

Date read:
2018-07-02

City of Thieves

David Benioff (2008)

Date read:
2018-07-02

Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley

Antonio García Martínez (2016)

Date read:
2018-07-02

A Short History of Nearly Everything

Bill Bryson (2003)

Date read:
2018-07-02

12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

Jordan B. Peterson (2018)

Date read:
2018-07-02