2025 Reading

A listing of the 110 books I read 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Liberalism as a Way of Life by Alexandre Lefebvre	We Solve Murders by Richard Osman	Woodrow Wilson — The Light Withdrawn by Christopher Cox	In Too Deep by Lee Child and Andrew Child	Poodle Springs by Raymond Chandler and Robert B. Parker	The Big Empty by Robert Crais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	Challenger — A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham	Visible Hand — A Wealth of Notions on the Miracle of the Market by Matthew Hennessey	Progressive Myths by Michael Huemer	City In Ruins by Don Winslow	Everywhere an Oink Oink — An Embittered, Dyspeptic, and Accurate Report of Forty Years in Hollywood by David Mamet
The Essential Scalia — On the Constitution, the Courts, and the Rule of Law by Antonin Scalia	City by Clifford D. Simak	You Only Live Twice by Ian Fleming	Real Tigers by Mick Herron	Peace Like a River by Leif Enger	Boom — Bubbles and the End of Stagnation by Byrne Hobart and Tobias Huber
Hope I Get Old Before I Die — Why Rock Stars Never Retire by David Hepworth	The Fabulous Riverboat by Philip José Farmer	The Wanted by Robert Crais	The Last Equation of Isaac Severy by Nova Jacobs	Capitalism and Its Critics — A History: From the Industrial Revolution to AI by John Cassidy	Let Colleges Fail — The Power of Creative Destruction in Higher Education by Richard K. Vedder
Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera	Proto — How One Ancient Language Went Global by Laura Spinney	When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows . . . — Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life by Steven Pinker	The Oligarch's Daughter by Joseph Finder	A Choice of Gods by Clifford D. Simak	Analogia — The Emergence of Technology Beyond Programmable Control by George Dyson
Tribalism is Dumb — Where it Came From, How it Got So Bad, and What To Do About it by Andrew Heaton	Taking Religion Seriously by Charles Murray	The Sequel by Jean Hanff Korelitz	What's with Baum? by Woody Allen	Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson	Kills Well with Others by Deanna Raybourn
The Let Them Theory — A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can't Stop Talking About by Mel Robbins	The War on Science — Thirty-Nine Renowned Scientists and Scholars Speak Out About Current Threats to Free Speech, Open Inquiry, and the Scientific Process edited by Lawrence M. Krauss	The Origin of Politics — How Evolution and Ideology Shape the Fate of Nations by Nicholas Wade	Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove	Things Don't Break On Their Own by Sarah Easter Collins	Ulysses by James Joyce
Spook Street by Mick Herron	The Man with the Golden Gun by Ian Fleming	Replaceable You — Adventures in Human Anatomy by Mary Roach	The Parasitic Mind — How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense by Gad Saad	Time and Again by Clifford D. Simak	Reacher — The Stories Behind the Stories by Lee Child
James by Percival Everett	Future Boy — Back to the Future and My Journey Through the Space-Time Continuum by Michael J. Fox