A running list of the books I read in 2025. A star indicates something I’d near-universally recommend.
- Beyond Chaos by Oleg Konovalov.
- Boyhood Island by Karl Ove Knausgård.
- The World-Ending Fire by Wendell Berry.
- A Man in Love by Karl Ove Knausgård.
- A Death in the Family by Karl Ove Knausgård.
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë.
- So Many Books by Gabriel Zaid.
- Against the Machine by Paul Kingsnorth. ★
- The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club by Christopher de Hamel.
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë.
- Strange News from Another Planet by Hermann Hesse.
- On Politics by Alan Ryan.
- The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan.
- The Crisis of Culture by Olivier Roy.
- Transformative Experience by L.A. Paul.
- Our Moon by Rebecca Boyle.
- The Strangest Man by Graham Farmelo.
- The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan.
- The Scientists by John Gribbin. ★
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni.
- Playground by Richard Powers.
- Joy on Demand by Chade-Meng Tan.
- Moonbound by Robin Sloan.
- Memorial Days by Geraldine Brooks. ★
- Cabin by Patrick Hutchison.
- A Line in the World by Dorthe Nors.
- The Outrun by Amy Liptrot.
- Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner.
- The Last Letter Home by Vilhelm Moberg.
- Your Money or Your Life by Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez.
- Meditations for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman.
- The Settlers by Vilhelm Moberg.
- The Wild Edge of Sorrow by Francis Weller.
- Behind the Cloud by Marc Benioff.
