Here are the list of books I finished in 2025:

  • The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge — David McCullough
  • Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy — Cathy O’Neil
  • A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator’s Rise to Power — Paul Fischer
  • Fever Beach — Carl Hiaasen
  • Exodus — Peter F. Hamilton
  • Nuclear War: A Scenario — Annie Jacobsen
  • Caesar’s Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us — Sam Kean
  • Is a River Alive? — Robert Macfarlane
  • Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood Through Adulthood — Edward M. Hallowell
  • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow — Gabrielle Zevin
  • Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI — Ethan Mollick
  • Mickey 7 — Edward Ashton
  • Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism — Sarah Wynn-Williams
  • Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe — Steven H. Strogatz
  • The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-First Century’s Greatest Dilemma — Mustafa Suleyman
  • Beacon 23 — Hugh Howey
  • Odyssey — Stephen Fry
  • Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World — Jill Jonnes
  • The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values — Brian Christian

My goal was 24 books and I read… 20. This is the first time in years I didn’t hit my goal! Ooof. I was probably too busy listening to Benson Boone.