I read 51 books in 2025 (about the same as in 2024, 2023, 2022, and 2021.)
With a difference: I used AI to read 44 of them in the last week of the year.
Mind blowing
- The Ants by Bert Hölldobler. Finally, after 20 years of wanting to read it. It lives up to the hype.
- Wind and Truth (The Stormlight Archive, #5) by Brandon Sanderson. The only fiction I’ve taken notes for. (About 500 points.)
Life changing (or at least, perspective changing)
- The Choice: Embrace the Possible by Edith Eger
- Immune: A Journey Into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive by Philipp Dettmer
- Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky
- Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman
- How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion by David McRaney
- The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind by V.S. Ramachandran
- Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
Interesting
- Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making by Tony Fadell
- Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence by Anna Lembke
- Ego Is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday
- How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
- How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be by Katy Milkman
- Lux (Texas Reckoners, #1) by Brandon Sanderson
- Outcomes Over Output: Why customer behavior is the key metric for business success by Josh Seiden
- Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity by Peter Attia
- Reality is Not What it Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity by Carlo Rovelli
- Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes by Morgan Housel
- Small Wins Every Day: 100 Powerful Ways to Transform Your Life and Health by Luke Coutinho
- The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker
- The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk
- The Cancer Code: A Revolutionary New Understanding of a Medical Mystery by Jason Fung
- The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business by Erin Meyer
- The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan
- The Diabetes Code: Prevent and Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Naturally by Jason Fung
- The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
- The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science) by Richard Dawkins
- The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England (Secret Projects, #2) by Brandon Sanderson
- The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom by Jonathan Haidt
- The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language by Steven Pinker
- The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes
- The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson
- The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human by Siddhartha Mukherjee
- The Structure of Evolutionary Theory by Stephen Jay Gould
- The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature by Steven Pinker
- The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Quest for What Makes Us Human by V.S. Ramachandran
- Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality by Venki Ramakrishnan
- Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker
Worth skipping
- How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease by Michael Greger
- Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don’t Have To by David Sinclair
- Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine by Robert H. Lustig
- Price of the Modi Years by Aakar Patel
- Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality by Christopher Ryan
- The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity—and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race by Daniel Z. Lieberman
- The Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss by Jason Fung
- The Telomere Effect: A Revolutionary Approach to Living Younger, Healthier, Longer by Elizabeth Blackburn
Re-reading
- Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2) by Brandon Sanderson
- The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1) by Brandon Sanderson
- Elantris (Elantris, #1) by Brandon Sanderson
Here’s the list on GoodReads, sorted by read date.