Reading planning 2025

Going through what I read in 2024 and reflecting on what to read in 2025.

I planned to read a set of books in 2024, but these are the ones I did read:

What were the best books of 2024

Non-fiction

• 🤔 Meditations for Mortals: How to handle highs and lows of life. Or, “learn to go with the flow.”
• 🪦 Four Thousand Weeks: Yeah, that is a whole life. How are you “productive” in that time frame? (To “win” you have to step out of the game.)
• 👟 Shoe Dog: The story of how Nike was built! (Hustle porn!)
• 🛼 Storyworthy: How to tell a story! (It is a lot about shaving off things!)
• 👂 Supercommunicators: How to be a great communicator — and yes — that mostly means listening! (Changed the way I am at events!)

Fiction

• 🌈 The Great Believers: What “era” do we live in? And, how much are we to blame when a macro-event hits?
• 👨‍⚕️ Cutting for Stone: The arc of life — uprooting, family, belonging…
• 🐺 Once there were wolves: What is wild and what is “domesticated?”
• 🧑‍🦰 Demon Copperhead: A modern version of David Copperfield set in the rust belt.

What I plan to read in 2025

Non-fiction

• Jung vs Borg, Glen Slater: 538 pages.
• Protocols, Andrew D. Huberman: 384 pages.
• A Sting in the Tale, Dave Goulson: 288 pages.
• The Sleepwalkers, Christopher Clark: 682 pages.
• Skunk Works, Ben Rich: 382 pages.
• I Contain Multitudes, Ed Yong: 368 pages.
• The End of the World Is Just the Beginning, Peter Zeihan: 512 pages.
• Gray Matters, Theodore Schwartz: 512 pages.

Fiction

• My Friends, Fredrik Backman: 448 pages.
• Martyr!, Kaveh Akbar: 352 pages.
• The City and Its Uncertain Walls, Haruki Murakami: 464 pages.
• Shades of Grey, Jasper Fforde: 400 pages.
• A Darker Shade of Magic, Victoria Schwab: 400 pages.
• The Lion Women of Tehran, Marjan Kamali: 327 pages.
• The Covenant of Water, Abraham Verghese: 724 pages.
• Rose/House, Arkady Martine: 128 pages.
• Carrie Soto Is Back, Taylor Jenkins Reid: 384 pages.
• Solenoid, Mircea Cărtărescu: 840 pages.
• The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett: 343 pages.
• Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan: 128 pages.
• The Water Dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates: 416 pages.
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon: 656 pages.