I read forty books in 2025, including all of the Southern Reach trilogy, three books on parenting, and Milton's Paradise Lost. My favourite non-fiction book was Christopher Clark's Revolutionary Spring, and while I read a lot of great fiction, Max Porter's Shy was perhaps the most surprisingly powerful.
Fiction (18):
- The Factory - Hiroko Oyamada
- Assembly - Natasha Brown
- The Little Snake - A.L. Kennedy
- The Hole - Hiroko Oyamada
- Shy - Max Porter
- Train Dreams - Denis Johnson
- Killing Time - Alan Bennett
- Wonders Will Never Cease - Robert Irwin
- Orbital - Samantha Harvey
- Flaubert's Parrot - Julian Barnes
- V. - Thomas Pynchon
- Annihilation - Jeff Vandermeer
- Space Invaders - Nona Fernández
- Child of God - Cormac McCarthy
- Authority - Jeff Vandermeer
- The Vegetarian - Han Kang
- Acceptance - Jeff Vandermeer
- The Death of Francis Bacon - Max Porter
Poetry (2):
- Paradise Lost - John Milton
- Four Quartets - T.S. Eliot
Business (7):
- How Brands Grow - Byron Sharp
- The Nvidia Way - Tae Kim
- Never Split the Difference - Chris Voss
- Turn the Ship Around! - L. David Marquet
- Zero to One - Peter Thiel
- Click - Jake Knapp
- Wardley Maps - Simon Wardley
Parenting (3):
- The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read - Philippa Perry
- The Birth Partner - Penny Simkin
- Brain Rules for Baby - John Medina
Other non-fiction (10):
- "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" - Richard P. Feynman
- Why We Die - Venki Ramakrishnan
- Young Forever - Mark Hyman
- Watling Street - John Higgs
- Exterminate/Regenerate - John Higgs
- I Love You, Byeee - Adam Buxton
- Revolutionary Spring - Christopher Clark
- Careless People - Sarah Wynn-Williams
- Tiny Habits - B.J. Fogg
- Meditations for Mortals - Oliver Burkeman