What I Read in 2025
Full list here. Recommendations always welcome.
Favorites
- Ways of Seeing — John Berger
- The Republic – Plato
- Kafka on the Shore — Haruki Murakami
- East of Eden — John Steinbeck
- The Dehumanization of Art – José Ortega y Gasset
Honorable Mentions
- Rich Dad Poor Dad — Robert Kiyosaki
- The Screwtape Letters — C.S. Lewis
- After Dark — Haruki Murakami
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle — Haruki Murakami
- Norwegian Wood — Haruki Murakami
- Dance Dance Dance — Haruki Murakami
- Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World — Haruki Murakami
- A Wild Sheep Chase — Haruki Murakami
- 1Q84 — Haruki Murakami
- Heart of Darkness — Joseph Conrad
- The Trial — Franz Kafka
- Tender Is the Flesh — Agustina Bazterrica
- Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein
- In Praise of Commercial Culture - Tyler Cowen
- When We Cease to Understand the World — Benjamín Labatut
- Autobiography of a Yogi — Paramahansa Yogananda
- Henry J. Kaiser: Western Colossus — Mark S. Foster
- Hillbilly Elegy — J. D. Vance
- Who Is Michael Ovitz? — Michael Ovitz
- Unreasonable Hospitality — Will Guidara
- Double Your Profits — Robert Fifer
- The Scaling Era — Dwarkesh Patel
- Atomic Habits — James Clear
- Traction — Gino Wickman
- All Desire Is a Desire for Being — René Girard
- Empire of AI — Karen Hao
- How Countries Go Broke — Ray Dalio
- The Revolt of the Public — Martin Gurri
- The Shape of Time — George Kubler
- The War of Art — Steven Pressfield
- Picasso’s War — Hugh Eakin
- The Eyes of the Skin — Juhani Pallasmaa
- Design as Art — Bruno Munari
- The Creative Act: A Way of Being — Rick Rubin
- The Artist’s Way — Julia Cameron
- Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice — Austin Kleon