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Burial Rites (Hardcover)
by (shelved 492 times as iceland)
avg rating 4.04 — 129,820 ratings — published 2013
Independent People (Paperback)
by (shelved 409 times as iceland)
avg rating 4.11 — 16,265 ratings — published 1934
Jar City (Inspector Erlendur, #3)
by (shelved 259 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.81 — 33,184 ratings — published 2000
Snowblind (Dark Iceland, #1)
by (shelved 224 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.55 — 28,484 ratings — published 2010
The Blue Fox (Paperback)
by (shelved 218 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.71 — 10,562 ratings — published 2003
Last Rituals (Þóra Guðmundsdóttir, #1)
by (shelved 176 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.59 — 12,663 ratings — published 2005
Silence of the Grave (Inspector Erlendur, #4)
by (shelved 147 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.96 — 22,265 ratings — published 2001
The Darkness (Hidden Iceland #1)
by (shelved 142 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.53 — 23,140 ratings — published 2015
Heaven and Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 134 times as iceland)
avg rating 4.16 — 7,988 ratings — published 2007
Names for the Sea: Strangers in Iceland (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.69 — 3,539 ratings — published 2012
The Draining Lake (Inspector Erlendur, #6)
by (shelved 120 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.89 — 14,032 ratings — published 2004
Under the Glacier (Vintage International)
by (shelved 120 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.54 — 3,355 ratings — published 1968
Miss Iceland (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.85 — 8,829 ratings — published 2018
I Remember You (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.80 — 14,296 ratings — published 2022
The Fish Can Sing (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.87 — 3,257 ratings — published 1957
The Sagas of Icelanders (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as iceland)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,307 ratings — published 1997
Arctic Chill (Inspector Erlendur, #7)
by (shelved 109 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.82 — 13,067 ratings — published 2005
How Iceland Changed the World: The Big History of a Small Island (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as iceland)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,120 ratings — published 2021
Voices (Inspector Erlendur, #5)
by (shelved 106 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.86 — 15,910 ratings — published 2002
Hypothermia (Inspector Erlendur, #8)
by (shelved 103 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.88 — 12,147 ratings — published 2007
Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.65 — 5,365 ratings — published 2013
Hotel Silence (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 98 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.81 — 13,298 ratings — published 2016
Iceland's Bell (Vintage International)
by (shelved 96 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,475 ratings — published 1943
My Soul to Take (Þóra Guðmundsdóttir, #2)
by (shelved 92 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.75 — 8,507 ratings — published 2006
Butterflies in November (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.36 — 4,697 ratings — published 2004
The Island (Hidden Iceland, #2)
by (shelved 89 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.79 — 13,560 ratings — published 2016
DNA (Children's House, #1)
by (shelved 88 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.94 — 14,130 ratings — published 2014
Rosa candida (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.82 — 7,295 ratings — published 2007
Nightblind (Dark Iceland, #2)
by (shelved 87 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.76 — 10,741 ratings — published 2014
Blackout (Dark Iceland, #2)
by (shelved 87 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.66 — 10,822 ratings — published 2011
Reykjavík (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 83 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.64 — 14,024 ratings — published 2022
Reykjavík Nights: Murder in Reykjavík (Young Inspector Erlendur, #2)
by (shelved 82 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.69 — 6,979 ratings — published 2012
Outrage (Inspector Erlendur, #9)
by (shelved 79 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.80 — 9,232 ratings — published 2008
Njal's Saga (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.92 — 5,656 ratings — published 1270
Ashes to Dust (Þóra Guðmundsdóttir, #3)
by (shelved 73 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.71 — 5,668 ratings — published 2007
Furðustrandir (Inspector Erlendur, #11)
by (shelved 72 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.92 — 6,920 ratings — published 2010
From the Mouth of the Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.46 — 2,084 ratings — published 2008
The Creak on the Stairs (Forbidden Iceland, #1)
by (shelved 68 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.89 — 9,203 ratings — published 2018
Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.96 — 6,772 ratings — published 2005
Black Skies (Inspector Erlendur, #10)
by (shelved 67 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.70 — 6,583 ratings — published 2009
Angels of the Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as iceland)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,597 ratings — published 1993
Sogið (Children's House, #2)
by (shelved 62 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.96 — 8,696 ratings — published 2015
Woman at 1,000 Degrees (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.84 — 3,700 ratings — published 2011
Rupture (Dark Iceland, #3)
by (shelved 59 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.79 — 9,122 ratings — published 2012
The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as iceland)
avg rating 4.15 — 16,316 ratings — published 1220
101 Reykjavik (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.24 — 1,406 ratings — published 1996
The Day is Dark (Þóra Guðmundsdóttir, #4)
by (shelved 57 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.69 — 4,883 ratings — published 2008
The Atom Station (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.52 — 1,705 ratings — published 1948
Death at the Sanatorium (Helgi, #1)
by (shelved 55 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.64 — 8,824 ratings — published 2019
The Mist (Hidden Iceland #3)
by (shelved 55 times as iceland)
avg rating 3.92 — 11,713 ratings — published 2017
“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
“تشمخ الجبال فوق الحياة والموت، وهذه البيوت المتلاصقة على اللسان الساحلي. نحن نعيش في قاع تجويف، يمر الصباح ،يتحول الى مساء، تغمره سكينة العتمة، تتوهج النجوم. نجوم تتألق الى الأبد فوقنا كما لو أن لديها رسالة عاجلة، إنما أي رسالة وممن؟ ماذا تريد منا، او لعل الأهم ربما ،ماذا نريد نحن منها؟”
― Himnaríki og helvíti
― Himnaríki og helvíti
