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
My Name Is Red
Orhan Pamuk
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
The Cuckoo's Egg
Cliff Stoll
Good Strategy Bad Strategy
Richard Rumelt
Obviously Awesome
April Dunford
High Output Management
Andy Grove
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie
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
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
How to Get Rich
Felix Dennis
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
Modern Ireland: 1600-1972
R. F. Foster
Ireland: A History
Thomas Bartlett
The Transformation of Ireland
Diarmaid Ferriter
A Nation and Not a Rabble
Diarmaid Ferriter
Angela's Ashes
Frank McCourt
The Great Hunger
Cecil Woodham-Smith
The Graves Are Walking
John Kelly
The Wonder
Emma Donoghue
Making Sense of the Troubles
McKittrick & McVea
The Great Irish Famine
Cormac Ó Gráda
Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA
Richard English
The IRA: A History
Tim Pat Coogan
Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion
Charles Townshend
Star of the Sea
Joseph O'Connor
The Irish Story
R. F. Foster
The Easter Rising: A Guide to Dublin in 1916
Kostick & Collins
The Good People
Hannah Kent
Michael Collins: A Biography
Tim Pat Coogan
The Republic
Charles Townshend
The Princes of Ireland
Edward Rutherfurd
Trinity
Leon Uris
Troubles
J. G. Farrell
The Twelve Apostles
Tim Pat Coogan
The Rebels of Ireland
Edward Rutherfurd
A Short History of Ireland, 1500-2000
John Gibney
Ireland's Civil War
Calton Younger
The Green Flag
Robert Kee