2025 Reading List

  1. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
  2. Bird By Bird by Anee Lamott
  3. Day Trading Attention by Gary Vaynerchuck
  4. Slaying Leviathan by Glenn S. Sunshine
  5. The Defining Decade by Meg Jay
  6. The Mamba Mentality by Kobe Bryant.
  7. Lumumba – Africa’s Lost Leader by Leo Zeilig.
  8. How to be a Happier Parent by KJ Dell’Antonia
  9. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
  10. Not with a Bug but with a Sticker by Ram Shankar and Hyrum Anderson
  11. There’s Always This Year by Hanif Abdurraquib
  12. The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
  13. Company of One by Paul Jarvis
  14. The Chronicles of Doom by S.H. Fernando Jr.
  15. High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove
  16. Reps by Jusin Keane
  17. The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows by John Koenig
  18. Atomic Habits by James Clear
  19. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
  20. Trauma: The Invisible Epidemic by Paul Conti
  21. Empire of AI by Karen Hao
  22. This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends by Nicole Perlroth
  23. The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
  24. The Unsettling of America by Wendell Berry
  25. Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed
  26. Draft No. 4 by John McPhee
  27. Outlive by Peter Attia
  28. Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall
  29. Co-Intelligence by Ethan Mollick
  30. Nothing More of this Land by Joseph Lee
  31. Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows
  32. From Strength to Strength by Arthur Brooks
  33. Orbiting the Giant Hairball by Gordan MacKenzie
  34. The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
  35. Supercommunicators by Charles Duhigg
  36. Sloppy by Rax King
  37. AI Snake Oil by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor
  38. Power and Progress by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson
  39. More Everything Forever by Adam Becker
  40. The Art of Spending Money by Morgan Housel
  41. The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
  42. Enshittification by Corey Doctorow
  43. The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019-2015 by Dwarkesh Patel with Gavin Leech
  44. Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
  45. The Code by Margaret O’Mara
  46. On Writing by Stephan King
  47. Nudge by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein
  48. White Fragility by Robin Diangelo
  49. Misunderstood by Allen Iverson
  50. Against the Machine by Paul Kingsnorth
  51. The Answer to How is Yes by Peter Block