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
- Ego is the Enemy – Ryan Holiday
- Sapiens – Yuval Noah Harari
- When Breath Becomes Air – Paul Kalanithi
- Vlog Like a Boss – Amy Schmittauer
- Creativity, Inc – Ed Catmull
- The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye – David Lagercrantz
- The Girl in the Spider’s Web – David Lagercrantz
- Organize Tomorrow Today – Dr. Jason Selk and Tom Bartow
- Perennial Seller – Ryan Holiday
- The 4 Hour Work Week – Tim Ferriss
- Spectacles – Sue Perkins
- Make it Stick – P. Brown, H. Roediger, M. McDaniel
- The Phantom Tollbooth – Norton Juster
- Purple Cow – Seth Godin
- Le Petit Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
- L’Art de la Simplicite – Dominique Loreau
- This is Marketing – Seth Godin
2019
- The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
- Deliverance – James Dickey
- Lord of the Flies – William Golding
- Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
- Company of One – Paul Jarvis
- The Right Story – Bernadette Jiwa
- 1984 – George Orwell
- Classic Scrapes – James Acaster
- Bird Box – Josh Malerman
- The Devil in the White City – Erik Larson
- Rich Dad Poor Dad – Robert Kiyosaki
- Factfulness – Hans Rosling
- Geography of Bliss – Eric Weiner
- The Pioneers – David McCullough
- Everything is F*cked – Mark Manson
- John Adams – David McCullough
- A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck – Mark Manson
- Alexander Hamilton – Ron Chernow
- Rats – Robert Sullivan
2020
- Outliers – Malcolm Gladwell
- Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
- Freakonomics – S. Levitt and S. Dubner
- The Tipping Point – Malcolm Gladwell
- Make Money on Medium – Nicole Akers
- Homo Deus – Yuval Noah Harari
- To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
- Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
- Why: What Makes Us Curious – Mario Livio
- Writing to Persuade – Trish Hall
- Nudge – Thaler and Sunstein
- Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
- The Wright Brothers – David McCullough
- The Grand Design – Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow
- What If? – Randall Munroe
- Children of Men – P.D. James
- Talking to Strangers – Malcolm Gladwell
- Dishonesty is the Second-Best Policy – David Mitchell
- The Ocean at the End of the Lane – Neil Gaiman
- Total Money Makeover – Dave Ramsey
- The Power of Habit – Charles Duhigg
- Range – David Epstein
- Bird by Bird – Anne Lamott
- Originals – Adam Grant
- Macbeth – William Shakespeare
- The Body – Bill Bryson
- Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor Frankl
- The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
- At Home – Bill Bryson
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass – Frederick Douglass
2021
- Blink – Malcolm Gladwell
- Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
- Neither Here Nor There – Bill Bryson
- Station Eleven – Emily St. John Mandel
- How to Take Smart Notes – Sönke Ahrens
- Deep Work – Cal Newport
- Moby Dick – Herman Melville
- Mother Night – Kurt Vonnegut
- The Club – Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg
- Benjamin Franklin an American Life – Walter Isaacson