My reading wishlist
My wishlist is a curated mix of books, some recommended by friends, others discovered through podcasts, blogs, or favorite authors. A few continue stories I’ve already begun, while others open doors to entirely new topics. Each one is an invitation to learn, feel, and explore something new.
Sorted by reader rating, best first. The scores come from Open Library, weighted so that a book with hundreds of ratings outranks one carried by a single five-star vote. Anything Open Library has no ratings for sits at the bottom.
Exhalation
Ted Chiang
Shoe Dog
Phil Knight
Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman
The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson
Endurance
Alfred Lansing
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
Edmund Morris
A Bright Shining Lie
Neil Sheehan
How to Be Perfect
Michael Schur
Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson
Wild Swans
Jung Chang
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
Empire of Pain
Patrick Radden Keefe
Super Pumped
Mike Isaac
Cod
Mark Kurlansky
All About Love
bell hooks
Killing Thatcher
Rory Carroll
The Peregrine
J.A. Baker
Million Dollar Habits
Brian Tracy
The Great Hunger
Cecil Woodham-Smith
Star of the Sea
Joseph O'Connor
Cibola Burn
James S. A. Corey
The Bookseller of Kabul
Åsne Seierstad
Empire of Silence
Christopher Ruocchio
The Princes of Ireland
Edward Rutherfurd
The Anarchy
William Dalrymple
Kings of the Wyld
Nicholas Eames
High Output Management
Andy Grove
The Republic of Pirates
Colin Woodard
Invisible Cities
Italo Calvino
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie
The Overstory
Richard Powers
Never Split the Difference
Chris Voss
Hell's Angels
Hunter S. Thompson
The Lies of Locke Lamora
Scott Lynch
Founders at Work
Jessica Livingston
Tenth of December
George Saunders
Blindsight
Peter Watts
Ain't I a Woman
bell hooks
Feminism Is for Everybody
bell hooks
The Cold Start Problem
Andrew Chen
Dove
Robin Lee Graham
Amongst Women
John McGahern
The Stolen Queen
Fiona Davis
Putin's People
Catherine Belton
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Andrew Carnegie
David Nasaw
Fifth Sun
Camilla Townsend
Incorruptible
Eric Ries
How to Raise an Adult
Julie Lythcott-Haims
Selling to VITO
Anthony Parinello
Modern Ireland: 1600-1972
R. F. Foster
The Graves Are Walking
John Kelly
Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA
Richard English
The Good People
Hannah Kent
The Rebels of Ireland
Edward Rutherfurd
Ireland's Civil War
Calton Younger
Fifty Dead Men Walking
Martin McGartland
The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel
Douglas Brunt
One Good Turn
Witold Rybczynski
The Cuckoo's Egg
Cliff Stoll
Zero to One
Peter Thiel
Prophet Song
Paul Lynch
Quantum Computing Since Democritus
Scott Aaronson
Trinity
Leon Uris
Home
Witold Rybczynski
Working Backwards
Bryar & Carr
This Is How You Lose the Time War
El-Mohtar & Gladstone
Good Strategy Bad Strategy
Richard Rumelt
The Lean Startup
Eric Ries
The Broken Shore
Peter Temple
Demand-Side Sales 101
Bob Moesta
Making Sense of the Troubles
McKittrick & McVea
Stalingrad
Antony Beevor
Red Rising
Pierce Brown
A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles
Influence
Robert Cialdini
In a Sunburned Country
Bill Bryson
Angela's Ashes
Frank McCourt
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Ben Horowitz
The Dying Earth
Jack Vance
The Wonder
Emma Donoghue
Mao: The Unknown Story
Chang & Halliday
The Happiness Advantage
Shawn Achor
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Dee Brown
King Leopold's Ghost
Adam Hochschild
Salt
Mark Kurlansky
American Nations
Colin Woodard
The Third Policeman
Flann O'Brien
In the Woods
Tana French
Blood and Thunder
Hampton Sides
The Devils
Joe Abercrombie
Amp It Up
Frank Slootman
Made in Nepal
Binod Chaudhary
Maintenance: Of Everything
Stewart Brand
From Lab to Life
Collin Hogue-Spears
Obviously Awesome
April Dunford
Unleashing the Vajra
Sujeev Shakya
Astonish Me
Maggie Shipstead
Gambling Man
Lionel Barber
Dissolution
Nicholas Binge
Timmur: Stories and Flavours from Nepal
Prashanta Khanal
The Apocalypse
Deva Prakash Tripathi
History Upside Down
David Meir-Levi
The Science of Selling
David Hoffeld
Gap Selling
Keenan
Hope Is Not a Strategy
Rick Page
The Art of Closing the Sale
Brian Tracy
Personal Development for Smart People
Steve Pavlina
A Cypherpunk's Manifesto
Eric Hughes
The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto
Timothy C. May
A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
John Perry Barlow
Your Secret Right to Cash
Peter Van Valkenburgh
The Praxeology of Privacy
Max Hildebrand
Of Cypherpunks and Sousveillance
Patrick Anderson
Protecting Privacy with Electronic Cash
Hal Finney
Why I Wrote PGP
Philip Zimmermann
Definition of Democratic Civilization
Abdullah Öcalan
The Conscience of a Hacker
Loyd Blankenship
The Cyphernomicon
Timothy C. May
Meditations on Cypherpunk Nightmares
Michael Goldstein
T.A.Z.
Hakim Bey
The Beauty of eCash
Hal Finney
21 Lessons
Gigi
The Wizard of the Kremlin
Giuliano da Empoli
Ireland: A History
Thomas Bartlett
The Transformation of Ireland
Diarmaid Ferriter
A Nation and Not a Rabble
Diarmaid Ferriter
The Great Irish Famine
Cormac Ó Gráda
The IRA: A History
Tim Pat Coogan
Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion
Charles Townshend
The Irish Story
R. F. Foster
The Easter Rising: A Guide to Dublin in 1916
Kostick & Collins
Michael Collins: A Biography
Tim Pat Coogan
The Republic
Charles Townshend
The Twelve Apostles
Tim Pat Coogan
A Short History of Ireland, 1500-2000
John Gibney
The Green Flag
Robert Kee
The Lone Samurai
William Scott Wilson
My Name Is Red
Orhan Pamuk
How to Get Rich
Felix Dennis
Troubles
J. G. Farrell