geir friestad ... literature 
I have, for now, decided to keep a list of books that I've read/am currently reading. The list is a pure braindump, and is very likely incomplete. Since a chronological order is impossible, I've just done a simple alphabetical sort:

2007:

  1. American Gods | Neil Gaiman (reread)
  2. Black Green Swan | David Mitchell
  3. Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman | Haruki Murakami
  4. Bridge to Terabithia | Katherine Paterson
  5. The Brooklyn Follies | Paul Auster
  6. Catcher in the Rye | J.D. Salinger (reread)
  7. The Earthsea Quartet | Ursula Le Guin
  8. Fragile Things | Neil Gaiman
  9. Hokkaido Highway Blues | Will Ferguson
  10. Hundekjørernes Alaska | Bjørn Gabrielsen
  11. Kitano Takeshi | Aaron Gerow
  12. Korea: A Walk through the Land of Miracles | Simon Winchester
  13. Lutefisk på prærien | Bjørn Gabrielsen (reread)
  14. The Neon Bible | John Kennedy Toole (currently reading)
  15. Neverwhere | Neil Gaiman (reread)
  16. The Schreiber Theory | David Kipen
  17. Stardust | Neil Gaiman (reread)
  18. Vinterkrigen | Bjørn Gabrielsen (reread)

2006:

  1. Anansi Boys | Neil Gaiman
  2. Animated Films | James Clarke
  3. Buddha | Osamu Tezuka
  4. Godzilla On My Mind | William Tsutsui
  5. Headcrash | Bruce Bethke (reread)
  6. A Hundred Years of Japanese Film | Donald Richie
  7. An Introduction to Japanese Society | Yoshio Sugimoto (currently reading)
  8. Kometen kommer | Tove Jansson
  9. Martian Time-Slip | Philip K. Dick
  10. Outlaw Masters of Japanese Film | Chris Desjardins
  11. Patlabor the Movie Archives | Various authors
  12. Peter Jackson: From Gore to Mordor | Paul A. Woods (Editor)
  13. A Scanner Darkly | Philip K. Dick (reread)
  14. Shopgirl | Steve Martin (reread)
  15. Short Cuts | Raymond Carver
  16. Stand on Zanzibar | John Brunner
  17. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan | Isabella L. Bird
  18. Veien ut | Bjørn Gabrielsen

2005:

  1. Ask the Dust | John Fante
  2. Audrey Hepburn, An Elegant Spirit | Sean Ferrer
  3. The Cinema of Japan and Korea | Justin Bowyer (editor)
  4. Cloud Atlas | David Mitchell
  5. Den som frykter ulven | Karin Fossum
  6. Epileptic | David B.
  7. Factotum | Charles Bukowski
  8. The Fifth Elephant | Terry Pratchett (reread)
  9. Fugitives and Refugees | Chuck Palahniuk
  10. Going Postal | Terry Pratchett
  11. In the Miso Soup | Ryu Murakami
  12. Kafka on the Shore | Haruki Murakami
  13. Led Zeppelin (33 1/3) | Erik Davis
  14. Lyra's Oxford | Philip Pullman
  15. Make Love! The Bruce Campbell Way | Bruce Campbell
  16. Monstrous Regiment | Terry Pratchett
  17. Moving Pixels: Blockbuster Animation, Digital Art and 3D Modelling Today | Peter Weishar
  18. Night Watch | Terry Pratchett
  19. Parfymen | Patrick Süskind
  20. A Scanner Darkly | Philip K. Dick
  21. Shadow Divers | Robert Kurson
  22. Slacker | Richard Linklater
  23. Slaughterhouse 5 | Kurt Vonnegut
  24. Strangers | Taichi Yamada
  25. Thief of Time | Terry Pratchett
  26. Ubik | Philip K. Dick
  27. The Unseen Force | John Kenneth Muir
  28. Vibrator | Mari Akasaka
  29. Writing in Restaurants | David Mamet

2004:

  1. The Art of Deception | Kevin D. Mitnick (currently reading)
  2. Battle Royale | Koushun Takami
  3. Blankets | Craig Thompson
  4. The Blind Watchmaker | Richard Dawkins (currently reading)
  5. The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick: Vol. 1 | Philip K. Dick
  6. The Coming Global Superstorm | Art Bell / Whitley Strieber
  7. Diary | Chuck Palahniuk
  8. Doctor Zhivago | Boris Pasternak (currently reading)
  9. Dogs and Demons | Alex Kerr
  10. Farlig midtsommer | Tove Jansson
  11. Giving Up the Gun | Noel Perrin
  12. Granta #84: Over There | Various authors
  13. Hear the Wind Sing | Haruki Murakami
  14. In the Land of White Death | Valerian Albanov
  15. Into the Wild | Jon Krakauer
  16. The Last Place on Earth | Roland Huntford
  17. Mannen som elsket Yngve | Tore Renberg
  18. Monkey Brain Sushi | Various authors
  19. Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH | Robert C. O'Brien
  20. Mummipappa på eventyr | Tove Jansson
  21. Møte med Tove Jansson | Tordis Ørjasæter
  22. Ninety Degrees North | Fergus Fleming
  23. Non-Fiction | Chuck Palahniuk
  24. On Parole | Akira Yoshimura
  25. Oracle Night | Paul Auster
  26. Pattern Recognition | William Gibson
  27. Quicksilver | Neal Stephenson (currently reading)
  28. San Francisco | John Erik Riley
  29. Sent i november | Tove Jansson
  30. The Spirit of Aikido | Kisshomaru Ueshiba
  31. Stray Dog of Anime: The Films of Mamoru Oshii | Brian Ruh
  32. Tideland | Mitch Cullin
  33. Tim Burton | Jim Smith / J. Clive Matthews
  34. Trollmannens hatt | Tove Jansson
  35. Trollvinter | Tove Jansson
  36. Det usynlige barnet | Tove Jansson
  37. The Zombie Survival Guide | Max Brooks

2003:

  1. Amphigorey | Edward Gorey
  2. The Book of Illusions | Paul Auster
  3. Bombad & sänkt | Arne Anka
  4. Coraline | Neil Gaiman
  5. Crypto | Steven Levy
  6. Everything Can Be Beaten | Scolex and Scrambly
  7. A Farewell to Arms | Ernest Hemingway
  8. The Gashlycrumb Tinies | Edward Gorey
  9. Hackers | Steven Levy
  10. His Dark Materials I: The Golden Compass | Philip Pullman
  11. His Dark Materials II: The Subtle Knife | Philip Pullman
  12. His Dark Materials III: The Amber Spyglass | Philip Pullman
  13. The House of Nire | Morio Kita
  14. Howl's Moving Castle | Diana Wynne Jones
  15. Land of a Thousand Balconies | Jack Stevenson
  16. One Man's Justice | Akira Yoshimura
  17. Pappaen og havet | Tove Jansson
  18. The Right Stuff | Tom Wolfe
  19. The Quiet American | Graham Greene
  20. The Salmon of Doubt | Douglas Adams
  21. Shipwrecks | Akira Yoshimura
  22. Something at the Window is Scratching | Roman Dirge
  23. Summer Light | Andrew Stevenson
  24. True Tales of American Life | Edited by Paul Auster
  25. Yakuza: Japan's Criminal Underworld | David L. Kaplan / Alec Dubro

2002:

  1. After the Quake | Haruki Murakami
  2. All Tomorrow's Parties | William Gibson
  3. Almost Transparent Blue | Ryu Murakami
  4. American Gods | Neil Gaiman
  5. Big Fish | Daniel Wallace
  6. A Capote Reader | Truman Capote
  7. Choke | Chuck Palahniuk
  8. Fakta om Finland | Erlend Loe
  9. Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said | Philip K. Dick
  10. Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence | Doris Pilkington / Nugi Garimara
  11. Girl, Interrupted | Susanna Kaysen (reread)
  12. Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words | Jay Rubin
  13. The Hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkien (reread)
  14. The Lord of the Rings | J.R.R. Tolkien (reread)
  15. Lullaby | Chuck Palahniuk
  16. Lutefisk på prærien | Bjørn Gabrielsen
  17. The Minority Report | Philip K. Dick
  18. Den misunnelige frisøren | Lars Saabye Christensen
  19. Mitt liv som film | Anne Hoff
  20. Mørkets øyne: Filmkritikk, vurdering og analyse | Anne Gjelsvik
  21. Populärmusik från Vittula | Mikael Niemi
  22. The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer | Jennifer Lynch (reread)
  23. Tokyoscope | Patrick Macias
  24. The Trial | Franz Kafka
  25. The Truth | Terry Pratchett
  26. Vinterkrigen | Bjørn Gabrielsen

2001:

  1. The Big U | Neal Stephenson
  2. Breakfast at Tiffany's | Truman Capote
  3. Chi | Alexander Besher
  4. Concrete Island | J.G. Ballard
  5. A Confederacy of Dunces | John Kennedy Toole
  6. Cryptonomicon | Neal Stephenson
  7. Ghostwritten | David Mitchell
  8. Hand to Mouth | Paul Auster
  9. The Hungry Ocean | Linda Greenlaw
  10. If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B-Movie Actor | Bruce Campbell
  11. Interface | Stephen Bury
  12. Invisible Monsters | Chuck Palahniuk
  13. Last Exit to Brooklyn | Hubert Selby Jr.
  14. Lost Japan | Alex Kerr
  15. Norwegian Wood | Haruki Murakami (reread)
  16. Number 9 Dream | David Mitchell
  17. On the Road | Jack Kerouac
  18. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Ken Kesey
  19. Requiem for a Dream | Hubert Selby Jr.
  20. Samurai Cat Goes to Hell | Mark E. Rogers
  21. Shopgirl | Steve Martin
  22. Slam | Lewis Shiner
  23. Smoke and Mirrors | Neil Gaiman
  24. Sputnik Sweetheart | Haruki Murakami
  25. Survivor | Chuck Palahniuk
  26. Tea From an Empty Cup | Pat Cadigan
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