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Burial Rites (Hardcover)
by (shelved 487 times as iceland)
avg rating 4.04 — 128,897 ratings — published 2013
Independent People (Paperback)
by (shelved 406 times as iceland)
avg rating 4.11 — 15,925 ratings — published 1934
Jar City (Inspector Erlendur, #3)
by (shelved 258 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.81 — 33,061 ratings — published 2000
Snowblind (Dark Iceland, #1)
by (shelved 223 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.55 — 28,175 ratings — published 2010
The Blue Fox (Paperback)
by (shelved 218 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.71 — 10,491 ratings — published 2003
Last Rituals (Þóra Guðmundsdóttir, #1)
by (shelved 175 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.59 — 12,562 ratings — published 2005
Silence of the Grave (Inspector Erlendur, #4)
by (shelved 148 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.96 — 22,193 ratings — published 2001
The Darkness (Hidden Iceland #1)
by (shelved 141 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.54 — 22,819 ratings — published 2015
Names for the Sea: Strangers in Iceland (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.69 — 3,517 ratings — published 2012
Heaven and Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as iceland)
avg rating 4.16 — 7,847 ratings — published 2007
The Draining Lake (Inspector Erlendur, #6)
by (shelved 121 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.89 — 13,986 ratings — published 2004
The Fish Can Sing (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.87 — 3,210 ratings — published 1957
Under the Glacier (Vintage International)
by (shelved 118 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.54 — 3,312 ratings — published 1968
I Remember You (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.81 — 14,162 ratings — published 2022
Miss Iceland (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.85 — 8,728 ratings — published 2018
The Sagas of Icelanders (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as iceland)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,293 ratings — published 1997
Arctic Chill (Inspector Erlendur, #7)
by (shelved 110 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.82 — 13,015 ratings — published 2005
Voices (Inspector Erlendur, #5)
by (shelved 107 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.86 — 15,839 ratings — published 2002
How Iceland Changed the World: The Big History of a Small Island (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as iceland)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,998 ratings — published 2021
Hypothermia (Inspector Erlendur, #8)
by (shelved 103 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.88 — 12,095 ratings — published 2007
Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.65 — 5,324 ratings — published 2013
Hotel Silence (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 98 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.81 — 13,190 ratings — published 2016
Iceland's Bell (Vintage International)
by (shelved 95 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,458 ratings — published 1943
Butterflies in November (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.36 — 4,658 ratings — published 2004
My Soul to Take (Þóra Guðmundsdóttir, #2)
by (shelved 91 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.75 — 8,455 ratings — published 2006
Rosa candida (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.82 — 7,182 ratings — published 2007
Nightblind (Dark Iceland, #2)
by (shelved 88 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.76 — 10,638 ratings — published 2014
The Island (Hidden Iceland, #2)
by (shelved 88 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.79 — 13,365 ratings — published 2016
DNA (Children's House, #1)
by (shelved 86 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.95 — 13,907 ratings — published 2014
Blackout (Dark Iceland, #2)
by (shelved 86 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.66 — 10,712 ratings — published 2011
Reykjavík Nights: Murder in Reykjavík (Young Inspector Erlendur, #2)
by (shelved 82 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.68 — 6,920 ratings — published 2012
Reykjavík (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 81 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.64 — 13,741 ratings — published 2022
Outrage (Inspector Erlendur, #9)
by (shelved 79 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.80 — 9,178 ratings — published 2008
Njal's Saga (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,628 ratings — published 1270
Ashes to Dust (Þóra Guðmundsdóttir, #3)
by (shelved 73 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.71 — 5,639 ratings — published 2007
Furðustrandir (Inspector Erlendur, #11)
by (shelved 72 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.92 — 6,892 ratings — published 2010
From the Mouth of the Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.46 — 2,066 ratings — published 2008
The Creak on the Stairs (Forbidden Iceland, #1)
by (shelved 68 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.90 — 9,043 ratings — published 2018
Angels of the Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as iceland)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,577 ratings — published 1993
Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.96 — 6,642 ratings — published 2005
Black Skies (Inspector Erlendur, #10)
by (shelved 66 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.70 — 6,541 ratings — published 2009
Sogið (Children's House, #2)
by (shelved 61 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.96 — 8,567 ratings — published 2015
Woman at 1,000 Degrees (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.84 — 3,662 ratings — published 2011
The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as iceland)
avg rating 4.15 — 16,224 ratings — published 1220
Rupture (Dark Iceland, #3)
by (shelved 58 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.79 — 9,013 ratings — published 2012
101 Reykjavik (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.24 — 1,387 ratings — published 1996
The Day is Dark (Þóra Guðmundsdóttir, #4)
by (shelved 57 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.69 — 4,861 ratings — published 2008
The Atom Station (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.52 — 1,685 ratings — published 1948
The Shadow District (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 55 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.73 — 5,483 ratings — published 2013
Where the Shadows Lie (Fire & Ice #1)
by (shelved 55 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.84 — 3,849 ratings — published 2009
“Við vorum stödd á Ægisíðunni. Það var dimmt úti og stjörnubjart. Nóttin hélt okkur föstum í viðjum sínum. Það voru norðurljós á himninum. Þau voru græn og leiftrandi. En mér fannst það ekki skipta máli. Ég hafði séð þau áður. Ég hafði séð svo margt áður. Hvolfið þakti það sem umlukti okkur og hún rykkti höfðinu til hliðar og upp. En hún var ekki að horfa á stjörnurnar. Stjörnurnar voru að horfa á hana,”
― Sara og Dagný og ég
― Sara og Dagný og ég
“The Icelanders were struck by the number of times I'd visited their country: That trip, in 2009, was number fourteen. Hjalti came over and quizzed me, in Icelandic, patiently reframing his questions until, with my limited grasp of the language, I finally understood, but still some were hard to answer: Why do you come here so often? I kept Icelandic horses at home, so it wasn't just the riding. How to explain that, in Iceland, I was a different person? At home, I was a master of words and grammar. Here, I spoke like a child. I was spoken to as a child. They told me stories.
I love the sagas, I said, all the old stories.
Hjalti nodded, satisfied, but I knew it wasn't a complete answer. In 1992, I attended a lecture at the International Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo, Michigan. In Iceland, Gillian Overing noted, the center is the margin. Geography is inside out. People settle on the temperate edges of the island, while its interior is a glacial desert, cold, inhospitable, and not even crossable most of the year. "What kind of self," she mused, "might these places reflect?" What kind of self has wilderness at its heart?”
― Looking for the Hidden Folk: How Iceland's Elves Can Save the Earth
I love the sagas, I said, all the old stories.
Hjalti nodded, satisfied, but I knew it wasn't a complete answer. In 1992, I attended a lecture at the International Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo, Michigan. In Iceland, Gillian Overing noted, the center is the margin. Geography is inside out. People settle on the temperate edges of the island, while its interior is a glacial desert, cold, inhospitable, and not even crossable most of the year. "What kind of self," she mused, "might these places reflect?" What kind of self has wilderness at its heart?”
― Looking for the Hidden Folk: How Iceland's Elves Can Save the Earth
