Declan Wilson

Writer, Father, Solopreneur

My Yearly Reading List

I’ve compiled a list of books I’ve read since 2018 and am sharing it with you here. If you have any recommendations, please send them to declan [at] declanwilson [dot] co.

2018

  1. Ego is the Enemy – Ryan Holiday
  2. Sapiens – Yuval Noah Harari
  3. When Breath Becomes Air – Paul Kalanithi
  4. Vlog Like a Boss – Amy Schmittauer
  5. Creativity, Inc – Ed Catmull
  6. The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye – David Lagercrantz
  7. The Girl in the Spider’s Web – David Lagercrantz
  8. Organize Tomorrow Today – Dr. Jason Selk and Tom Bartow
  9. Perennial Seller – Ryan Holiday
  10. The 4 Hour Work Week – Tim Ferriss
  11. Spectacles – Sue Perkins
  12. Make it Stick – P. Brown, H. Roediger, M. McDaniel
  13. The Phantom Tollbooth – Norton Juster
  14. Purple Cow – Seth Godin
  15. Le Petit Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
  16. L’Art de la Simplicite – Dominique Loreau
  17. This is Marketing – Seth Godin

2019

  1. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
  2. Deliverance – James Dickey
  3. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
  4. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
  5. Company of One – Paul Jarvis
  6. The Right Story – Bernadette Jiwa
  7. 1984 – George Orwell
  8. Classic Scrapes – James Acaster
  9. Bird Box – Josh Malerman
  10. The Devil in the White City – Erik Larson
  11. Rich Dad Poor Dad – Robert Kiyosaki
  12. Factfulness – Hans Rosling
  13. Geography of Bliss – Eric Weiner
  14. The Pioneers – David McCullough
  15. Everything is F*cked – Mark Manson
  16. John Adams – David McCullough
  17. A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking
  18. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck – Mark Manson
  19. Alexander Hamilton – Ron Chernow
  20. Rats – Robert Sullivan

2020

  1. Outliers – Malcolm Gladwell
  2. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
  3. Freakonomics – S. Levitt and S. Dubner
  4. The Tipping Point – Malcolm Gladwell
  5. Make Money on Medium – Nicole Akers
  6. Homo Deus – Yuval Noah Harari
  7. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
  8. Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
  9. Why: What Makes Us Curious – Mario Livio
  10. Writing to Persuade – Trish Hall
  11. Nudge – Thaler and Sunstein
  12. Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
  13. The Wright Brothers – David McCullough
  14. The Grand Design – Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow
  15. What If? – Randall Munroe
  16. Children of Men – P.D. James
  17. Talking to Strangers – Malcolm Gladwell
  18. Dishonesty is the Second-Best Policy – David Mitchell
  19. The Ocean at the End of the Lane – Neil Gaiman
  20. Total Money Makeover – Dave Ramsey
  21. The Power of Habit – Charles Duhigg
  22. Range – David Epstein
  23. Bird by Bird – Anne Lamott
  24. Originals – Adam Grant
  25. Macbeth – William Shakespeare
  26. The Body – Bill Bryson
  27. Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor Frankl
  28. The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
  29. At Home – Bill Bryson
  30. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass – Frederick Douglass

2021

  1. Blink – Malcolm Gladwell
  2. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
  3. Neither Here Nor There – Bill Bryson
  4. Station Eleven – Emily St. John Mandel
  5. How to Take Smart Notes – Sönke Ahrens
  6. Deep Work – Cal Newport
  7. Moby Dick – Herman Melville
  8. Mother Night – Kurt Vonnegut
  9. The Club – Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg
  10. Benjamin Franklin an American Life – Walter Isaacson