--- title: Books in 2025 date: "2025-12-31T07:21:27Z" categories: - how-i-do-things - top-10-lists tags: - book --- ![Books in 2025](https://files.s-anand.net/images/2025-books.webp) I read 51 books in 2025 (about the same as in [2024](/blog/books-in-2024/), [2023](/blog/books-in-2023/), [2022](/blog/books-in-2022/), and [2021](/blog/books-in-2021/).) With a difference: [I used AI to read](/blog/i-count-ai-summarized-books-as-read/) 44 of them in the last week of the year. **Mind blowing** - [The Ants](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/115013.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)](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/203578847-wind-and-truth) 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](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30753738-the-choice) by Edith Eger - [Immune: A Journey Into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57517317-immune) by Philipp Dettmer - [Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31170723-behave) by Robert M. Sapolsky - [Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55339408-noise) by Daniel Kahneman - [How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57933312-how-minds-change) by David McRaney - [The Gene: An Intimate History](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27276428-the-gene) by Siddhartha Mukherjee - [Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31555.Phantoms_in_the_Brain) by V.S. Ramachandran - [Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52668915-entangled-life) by Merlin Sheldrake **Interesting** - [Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59696349-build) by Tony Fadell - [Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55723020-dopamine-nation) by Anna Lembke - [Ego Is the Enemy](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27036528-ego-is-the-enemy) by Ryan Holiday - [How the Mind Works](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/835623.How_the_Mind_Works) by Steven Pinker - [How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55655032-how-to-change) by Katy Milkman - [Lux (Texas Reckoners, #1)](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58419574-lux) by Brandon Sanderson - [Outcomes Over Output: Why customer behavior is the key metric for business success](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45186993-outcomes-over-output) by Josh Seiden - [Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61153739-outlive) by Peter Attia - [Reality is Not What it Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29767627-reality-is-not-what-it-seems) by Carlo Rovelli - [Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125116554-same-as-ever) by Morgan Housel - [Small Wins Every Day: 100 Powerful Ways to Transform Your Life and Health](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/144026501-small-wins-every-day) by Luke Coutinho - [The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5752.The_Blank_Slate) by Steven Pinker - [The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18693771-the-body-keeps-the-score) by Bessel van der Kolk - [The Cancer Code: A Revolutionary New Understanding of a Medical Mystery](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52163526-the-cancer-code) by Jason Fung - [The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22085568-the-culture-map) by Erin Meyer - [The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17349.The_Demon_Haunted_World) by Carl Sagan - [The Diabetes Code: Prevent and Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Naturally](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38227753-the-diabetes-code) by Jason Fung - [The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7170627-the-emperor-of-all-maladies) by Siddhartha Mukherjee - [The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science)](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61538.The_Extended_Phenotype) by Richard Dawkins - [The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England (Secret Projects, #2)](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60531410-the-frugal-wizard-s-handbook-for-surviving-medieval-england) by Brandon Sanderson - [The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/96884.The_Happiness_Hypothesis) by Jonathan Haidt - [The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5755.The_Language_Instinct) by Steven Pinker - [The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22478.The_Origin_of_Consciousness_in_the_Breakdown_of_the_Bicameral_Mind) by Julian Jaynes - [The Slight Edge](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/590652.The_Slight_Edge) by Jeff Olson - [The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60321392-the-song-of-the-cell) by Siddhartha Mukherjee - [The Structure of Evolutionary Theory](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33930.The_Structure_of_Evolutionary_Theory) by Stephen Jay Gould - [The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/373969.The_Stuff_of_Thought) by Steven Pinker - [The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8574712-the-tell-tale-brain) by V.S. Ramachandran - [Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/179311316-why-we-die) by Venki Ramakrishnan - [Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34466963-why-we-sleep) by Matthew Walker **Worth skipping** - [How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25663961-how-not-to-die) by Michael Greger - [Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43723901-lifespan) by David Sinclair - [Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53240367-metabolical) by Robert H. Lustig - [Price of the Modi Years](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59554236-price-of-the-modi-years) by Aakar Patel - [Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7640261-sex-at-dawn) 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](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38728977-the-molecule-of-more) by Daniel Z. Lieberman - [The Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24945404-the-obesity-code) by Jason Fung - [The Telomere Effect: A Revolutionary Approach to Living Younger, Healthier, Longer](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34458942-the-telomere-effect) by Elizabeth Blackburn **Re-reading** - [Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2)](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17332218-words-of-radiance) by Brandon Sanderson - [The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7235533-the-way-of-kings) by Brandon Sanderson - [Elantris (Elantris, #1)](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/68427.Elantris) by Brandon Sanderson Here's the [list on GoodReads, sorted by read date](https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/39713492-s-anand?order=d&ref=nav_mybooks&shelf=read&sort=date_read). 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