About

The book, the author, and the one question behind it all

A meditation on regret, memory, and the quiet courage it takes to begin again.

About the book

A story that began with a single, unanswerable question.

99 Regrets is part memoir, part meditation — a collection of ninety-nine moments that shaped a life, told with the warmth of a letter to an old friend.

Across its pages, Ahmad gathers the small and seismic regrets we all carry: words unsaid, doors unopened, love half-given. Not to dwell on them, but to set them down gently — and walk on lighter.

"We do not carry our regrets because they are heavy. We carry them because we have never been taught how to put them down." — from the opening chapter

Editions

Three covers. One conversation.

Choose the edition that feels most like home — each one carries the same ninety-nine chapters.

Hardcover Edition

The keepsake edition — cloth-bound, foil-stamped, made to be passed down.

Paperback Edition

The travel companion — soft, weathered, ready for margin notes and dog-eared pages.

Original Cover

The first edition cover — for readers who want the book exactly as it first arrived.

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The regrets that hurt the most are the ones we mistook for safety. The phone call we didn't make. The dream we negotiated down. The version of ourselves we kept on a shelf for later.
— From Chapter 12, The Weight of Almost Download the Ebook Now

Ahmad T. Jallow

Author & Storyteller

About the author

Ahmad Tijan Jallow writes the way he listens — slowly, carefully, completely.

Born between two worlds and at home in neither, Ahmad spent years collecting other people's stories before he found the courage to tell his own.

99 Regrets is his first book — written over seven years, in airports and waiting rooms, on quiet mornings and long, sleepless nights. It is the book he wished someone had handed him at twenty.

"I wanted to write the kind of book you could open on any page and feel less alone." — Ahmad
Reader voices

Words from those who've already turned the page.

★★★★★
"I read it slowly, on purpose. Every chapter felt like a conversation I needed to have with myself five years ago."
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Mariam K.
Reader, London
★★★★★
"Ahmad writes the way a wise older brother talks — calm, kind, and impossible to ignore. This one stays with you."
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David O.
Reader, Lagos
★★★★★
"I expected a sad book. I got a hopeful one. The last chapter alone is worth the whole shelf."
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Sara H.
Reader, Toronto

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