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Books I've read and loved

This is a list of books that had a great impact on the way I think and behave:

Atomic Habits, James Clear

Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

Dune, Frank Herbert

For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway

Foundation, Isac Asimov

From Good to Great, Jim Collins

Harry Potter (first 5 books), J. K. Rowling

How To Win Friends And Influence People, Dale Carnegie

Jack, Ulf Lundell

Jerusalem, Selma Lagerlöf

On the Road, Jack Kerouac

Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut

Stealing Fire, Jamie Wheal and Steven Kotler

Röde Orm, Frans G. Bengtsson

The Bible (Svenska Kärnbibeln, Svenska Folkbibeln 2015, Barnens Bästa Bibel)

The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything Fast, Josh Kaufman

The Lean Startup, Eric Ries

The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway

The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway

Vägen till Klockrike, Harry Martinson

$100M Offers: How To Make Offers So Good People Feel Stupid Saying No, Alex Hormozi


Other books I've read and liked:

12 Rules for Life, Jordan Peterson

Arn Trilogy (Vägen till Jerusalem, Tempelriddaren, Riket vid vägens slut), Jan Guillou

Coq Rouge, Jan Guillou

Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert

Hamlet, William Shakespeare

Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka

Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari

Syntheism - Creating God in the Internet Age, Alexander Bard, Jan Söderqvist

The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde

The Netocrats, Alexander Bard, Jan Söderqvist

The Silmarillion, J. R. R. Tolkien

The Trial, Franz Kafka

The Wheel of Time (The Eye of the World, The Great Hunt, The Dragon Reborn),  Robert Jordan

Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu


Books I've read and didn't live up to the hype:

Lord of the Rings trilogy,  J. R. R. Tolkien

The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown 

The Wheel of Time (book 4 and beyond),  Robert Jordan


Books I'm reading now:

Meditations, Marcus Aurelius

Can’t Hurt Me - David Goggins

$100M Dollar Leads, Alex Hormozi


Books I'm considering reading soon:

Animal Farm, George Orwell

Built to Last, Jim Collins

Children of Dune, Frank Herbert

Deep Work, Cal Newport

Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk

Frankenstein,  Mary Shelley

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams

I, Robot, Isaac Asimov

Inferno, August Strindbergs

Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov

Min vän Björn, Navid Modiri

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey

Process and Event, Alexander Bard and Jan Söderqvist

The Art of War, Sun Tzu

Zero to One, Peter Thiel

Work with Source, Tom Nixon


Other books I want to read:

2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur C Clarke

Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand

Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche

Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K Dick

Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury

God Emperor of Dune, Frank Herbert

Heaven and Hell, Emanuel Swedenborg

Hemsöborna, August Strindberg

Man’s Search for Meaning, Victor Frankel

Röda rummet, August Strindberg

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, Carlo Rovelli

Solaris, Stanislaw Lem

The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho

The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank

The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Power of Now, Echart Tolle

The Road, Cormac McCarthy

The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology, Ray Kurzweil

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas S. Kuhn

Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert M. Pirsig


Books on leadership I'm considering reading

First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't

Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

The 5 Levels of Leadership: Proven Steps to Maximize Your Potential

Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity

Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time