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 from what to pick up next down to what can wait. Short, high-signal wins and series continuations first, then the personal picks (Irish and Nepal), then the meatier reads, with the long-term commitments and the overflow sales shelf at the bottom.
Exhalation
Ted Chiang
Cibola Burn
James S. A. Corey
The Devils
Joe Abercrombie
The Lies of Locke Lamora
Scott Lynch
Say Nothing
Patrick Radden Keefe
Empire of Pain
Patrick Radden Keefe
Never Split the Difference
Chris Voss
Shoe Dog
Phil Knight
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Ben Horowitz
Zero to One
Peter Thiel
The Cold Start Problem
Andrew Chen
Working Backwards
Bryar & Carr
Amp It Up
Frank Slootman
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
This Is How You Lose the Time War
El-Mohtar & Gladstone
Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson
Red Rising
Pierce Brown
Made in Nepal
Binod Chaudhary
Kings of the Wyld
Nicholas Eames
In the Woods
Tana French
The Third Policeman
Flann O'Brien
Prophet Song
Paul Lynch
Invisible Cities
Italo Calvino
A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles
Tenth of December
George Saunders
The Overstory
Richard Powers
Wild Swans
Jung Chang
Influence
Robert Cialdini
King Leopold's Ghost
Adam Hochschild
Killing Thatcher
Rory Carroll
Maintenance: Of Everything
Stewart Brand
Super Pumped
Mike Isaac
Good Strategy Bad Strategy
Richard Rumelt
Obviously Awesome
April Dunford
High Output Management
Andy Grove
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
Blindsight
Peter Watts
Unleashing the Vajra
Sujeev Shakya
The Bookseller of Kabul
Åsne Seierstad
The Broken Shore
Peter Temple
Dove
Robin Lee Graham
The Peregrine
J.A. Baker
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Dee Brown
Katabasis
R.F. Kuang
Astonish Me
Maggie Shipstead
Stalingrad
Antony Beevor
Amongst Women
John McGahern
Dubliners
James Joyce
Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman
The Stolen Queen
Fiona Davis
Gambling Man
Lionel Barber
Banker to the Poor
Muhammad Yunus
Dissolution
Nicholas Binge
The Dying Earth
Jack Vance
Timmur: Stories and Flavours from Nepal
Prashanta Khanal
The Apocalypse
Deva Prakash Tripathi
The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson
Empire of Silence
Christopher Ruocchio
Mao: The Unknown Story
Chang & Halliday
Putin's People
Catherine Belton
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Andrew Carnegie
David Nasaw
Fifth Sun
Camilla Townsend
History Upside Down
David Meir-Levi
Quantum Computing Since Democritus
Scott Aaronson
Founders at Work
Jessica Livingston
The Lean Startup
Eric Ries
The Science of Selling
David Hoffeld
The Happiness Advantage
Shawn Achor
Gap Selling
Keenan
Hope Is Not a Strategy
Rick Page
The Art of Closing the Sale
Brian Tracy
Million Dollar Habits
Brian Tracy
Demand-Side Sales 101
Bob Moesta
Selling to VITO
Anthony Parinello
The Wizard of the Kremlin - Giuliano da Empoli