A more modest list for what I hope will be a more modest year:
- Perhaps the Stars by Ada Palmer
- Feline Philosophy by John Gray
- Human Action by Ludwig von Mises
- How Romantics and Victorians Organized Information by Jillian M. Hess
- Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
- The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
- Defeat at Gallipoli by Nigel Steel & Peter Hart
- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
- A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor by John Berger
- The Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis
- A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
- For Blood and Money by Nathan Vardi
- The Billion Dollar Molecule by Barry Werth
- Broken Stars by Various
- The Armies of the Night by Norman Mailer
Remember, it’s the books you don’t read that count. And here are last year’s wish lists: 2024 — 2023 — 2022.