Wale Okonkwo
@w_okonkwoJoined September 2025
I write about books for a small newsletter nobody asked for. Nonfiction, mostly. Memoir when it earns it.
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51 books
The Story of Art
Ernst Hans Gombrich
H Is for Hawk
Helen Macdonald
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcolm X
The Argonauts
Maggie Nelson
Empire of Pain
Patrick Radden Keefe
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
Just Kids
Patti Smith
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
Angela's Ashes
Frank McCourt
Educated
Tara Westover
Stoner
John Williams
Quiet
Susan Cain
The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Notes of a Native Son
James Baldwin
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt
Maus
Art Spiegelman
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
Cheer Up Love
Susan Calman
The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini
Caste
Isabel Wilkerson
The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor Emil Frankl
Lab Girl
Hope Jahren
When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi
Influence
Robert B. Cialdini, PhD
Reasons to Stay Alive
Matt Haig
Midnight in Chernobyl
Adam Higginbotham
Becoming
Michelle Obama
Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse
The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin
The Poisonwood Bible
Barbara Kingsolver
Born a Crime
Trevor Noah
Salt: A World History
Mark Kurlansky
The Silk Roads
Peter Frankopan
The Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson
Say Nothing
Patrick Radden Keefe
Beloved
Toni Morrison
Trick Mirror
Jia Tolentino
Persepolis
Marjane Satrapi
Bad Blood
John Carreyrou
Nineteen Eighty-four
George Orwell
A Moveable Feast
Ernest Hemingway
Kindred
Octavia E. Butler
Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche
Rebecca
Daphne Du Maurier
Hiroshima
John Hersey
Blindsight
Peter Watts
The Book Thief
Markus Zusak
Letters from a Stoic
Lucius Annaeus Seneca