Books I Read in 2025 |

I recently finished reading my first book of 2026 (The Case Against Reality by Don Hoffman) and I thought it would be a great time to recap the books I read in 2025.

A few years ago, I made a personal goal to read at least 10 books a year. I know there are some people who can whip through books at the speed of light, but 10 books is a good number for me and makes it feel like a stretch without feeling like I’m less than.
Mainly because I don’t just read fiction. I like memoirs and personal development books. I like reading about psychology and other topics that generally require me to re-read pages because the content cannot be understood on a whim. Essentially if I’m reading a book that interests me I usually cannot habit stack (like not even listen to music) because I need to pay close attention to understand and follow the content.

When I do read fiction it’s usually dystopian sci-fi or about the human condition (growth, the meaning of life etc) and so also can be heavy / intensive.

So if these types of books interest you, here are the books I read in 2025. The only one I don’t recommend is “Pretties”. I had NO idea it was YA – and if I had I wouldnt have read it (I had watched the movies and liked it, but the book was definitely more YA rom-com than sci-fi.

The books I highly recommend are: The Miracle Morning, What I talk about when I talk about running and The light we carry. I found these books inspirational and touching!

Happy Reading!

I recently read “What I talk about when I talk about running” by Haruki Murakami. If you are runner, I’m sure you’ve stumbled upon this as a book to add to your TBR. I found it beautiful! Haruki Murakami’s stoic sharing of running as an act of meditation, resiliency and goal setting completely resonated with me. And because he took those themes and applied them to being an artist (him being a writer) was the icing on the cake for me.

The book is a very easy read and can be easily finished in a day. For me, books really come alive when they have ah-ha moments – really good quotable parts of the text that make me stop and write down what I read. Here are a few of those moments (and moments of me running as well!)

Commute & Read (Library Books as much as possible)

The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can’t be learned at school.

I’m the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I’m the type of person who doesn’t find it painful to be alone. I find spending an hour or two every day running alone, not speaking to anyone, as well as four or five hours alone at my desk, to be neither difficult nor boring. I’ve had this tendency ever since I was young, when, given a choice, I much preferred reading books on my own or concentrating on listening to music over being with someone else. I could always think of things to do by myself.

Say you’re running and you think, ‘Man, this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The ‘hurt’ part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand anymore is up to the runner himself.

People sometimes sneer at those who run every day, claiming they’ll go to any length to live longer. But I don’t think that’s the reason most people run. Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest. If you’re going to while away the years, it’s far better to live them with clear goals and fully alive than in a fog, and I believe running helps you do that. Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that’s the essence of running, and a metaphor for life.

Sometimes taking time is actually a shortcut.

Being active every day makes it easier to hear that inner voice.

I just run. I run in void. Or maybe I should put it the other way: I run in order to acquire a void

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My fav quote from “What I talk about when I talk about running”