2025 Reading

A listing of the 67 books I have read so far in 2025. Clicking on the image will take you to the Amazon (paid link) page for the book; clicking on the title will take you to my blog entry for the book.

Liberalism as a Way of Life by Alexandre Lefebvre	We Solve Murders by Richard Osman	Woodrow Wilson — The Light Withdrawn by Christopher Cox	In Too Deep by Lee Child and Andrew Child	Poodle Springs by Raymond Chandler and Robert B. Parker	The Big Empty by Robert Crais
The End of Everything — How Wars Descend into Annihilation by Victor Davis Hanson	The Alaska Sanders Affair by Joël Dicker	The Cat Who Walks through Walls by Robert A. Heinlein	The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias	The Book of Ayn by Lexi Freiman	The Indispensible Right — Free Speech in an Age of Rage by Jonathan Turley
Pictures from an Institution by Randall Jarrell	Hot Property by Mike Lupica	I Used to Like You Until... — (How Binary Thinking Divides Us) by Kat Timpf	The Mystery Guest by Nita Prose	We Have Never Been Woke — The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite by Musa al-Gharbi	Sideswipe by Charles Willeford
Libertarianism — A Primer by David Boaz	The Debt Collector by Steven Max Russo	The Spy Who Loved Me by Ian Fleming	Death at the Sign of the Rook by Kate Atkinson	The Anxious Generation — How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt	Battle Mountain by C. J. Box
The War on the West by Douglas Murray	Suspect by Robert Crais	Don't Let the Devil Ride by Ace Atkins	On the Edge — The Art of Risking Everything by Nate Silver	Bonk — The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach	The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
Red Queen by Juan Gómez-Jurado	John Adams by David McCullough	The Technological Republic — Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West by Alexander C. Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska	To Sail Beyond the Sunset by Robert A. Heinlein	City of Dreams by Don Winslow	Bad Therapy — Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up by Abigail Shrier
Democracy – The God That Failed — The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy and Natural Order by Hans-Hermann Hoppe	Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky	The Promise by Robert Crais	What Have We Done by Alex Finlay	Ask Not — The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed by Maureen Callahan	Build, Baby, Build — The Science and Ethics of Housing Regulation by Bryan Caplan
The In Crowd by Charlotte Vassell	Believe — Why Everyone Should Be Religious by Ross Douthat	Science and the Good — The Tragic Quest for the Foundations of Morality by James Davison Hunter and Paul Nedelisky	On Her Majesty’s Secret Service by Ian Fleming	Nightshade by Michael Connelly	The Whole Story — Adventures in Love, Life, and Capitalism by John Mackey
The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton	Slow Horses by Mick Herron	Freedom Regained — The Possibility of Free Will by Julian Baggini	Fair Play by Louise Hegarty	Why Nothing Works — Who Killed Progress―and How to Bring It Back by Marc J. Dunkelman	Enchanted Pilgrimage by Clifford D. Simak
Dead in the Frame by Stephen Spotswood	Stiff — The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach	Anima Rising by Christopher Moore	The Year of Living Constitutionally — One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning by A. J. Jacobs	The Maniac by Benjamín Labatut	The Meaning of Mind — Language, Morality, and Neuroscience by Thomas Szasz
To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip José Farmer	The Raceless Antiracist — Why Ending Race Is the Future of Antiracism by Sheena Michele Mason	Dead Lions by Mick Herron	The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World… by David Graeber	Fever Beach by Carl Hiaasen	Hotel Ukraine by Martin Cruz Smith
The Maid's Secret by Nita Prose