2025 reading list

1.
Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology
Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology 4.11 avg rating — 3,658 ratings
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Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Moby-Dick or, The Whale 3.56 avg rating — 602,841 ratings
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The Stranger
The Stranger 4.03 avg rating — 1,315,873 ratings
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Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI
Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI 4.37 avg rating — 679 ratings
4.
Billy Budd, Sailor
Billy Budd, Sailor 3.19 avg rating — 19,174 ratings
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Lunch Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets Series)
Lunch Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets Series) 4.21 avg rating — 90 ratings
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Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet
Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet 3.96 avg rating — 1,974 ratings
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The Old Man and the Sea
The Old Man and the Sea 3.81 avg rating — 1,265,868 ratings
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American Psycho
American Psycho 3.80 avg rating — 349,226 ratings
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Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks
Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks 3.95 avg rating — 1,808 ratings
10.
Don Quixote
Don Quixote 3.91 avg rating — 297,052 ratings
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Giovanni’s Room
Giovanni’s Room 4.34 avg rating — 226,199 ratings
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The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI
The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI 4.33 avg rating — 4,126 ratings
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Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice 4.29 avg rating — 4,633,989 ratings
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Madonna in a Fur Coat
Madonna in a Fur Coat 4.37 avg rating — 83,489 ratings
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Most Delicious Poison: The Story of Nature's Toxins―From Spices to Vices
Most Delicious Poison: The Story of Nature's Toxins―From Spices to Vices 3.73 avg rating — 770 ratings
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Stoner
Stoner 4.35 avg rating — 221,318 ratings
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Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life 4.20 avg rating — 877 ratings
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The Ministry of Time
The Ministry of Time 3.59 avg rating — 170,648 ratings
20.
The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years
The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years 4.01 avg rating — 314 ratings
20.
I'm Glad My Mom Died
I'm Glad My Mom Died 4.44 avg rating — 1,350,819 ratings
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A Part Apart: The Life and Thought of B.R. Ambedkar
A Part Apart: The Life and Thought of B.R. Ambedkar 4.67 avg rating — 27 ratings
22.
The Corrections
The Corrections 3.84 avg rating — 194,266 ratings
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H-Pop : The Secretive World of Hindutva Pop Stars
H-Pop : The Secretive World of Hindutva Pop Stars 4.11 avg rating — 190 ratings
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Boulder
Boulder 3.91 avg rating — 14,151 ratings
26.
Fire On The Ganges: Life Among the Dead in Banaras
Fire On The Ganges: Life Among the Dead in Banaras 4.17 avg rating — 204 ratings
27.
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder 4.01 avg rating — 24,338 ratings
28.
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World 4.17 avg rating — 1,839 ratings
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Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century
Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century 4.23 avg rating — 100 ratings
30.
The Cooking of Books: A Literary Memoir
The Cooking of Books: A Literary Memoir 4.33 avg rating — 111 ratings
31.
Flowers for Algernon
Flowers for Algernon 4.23 avg rating — 763,703 ratings
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Gabriel García Márquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude 4.54 avg rating — 5,977 ratings
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The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time 4.20 avg rating — 5,133 ratings
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Rebel Sultans: The Deccan from Khilji to Shivaji
Rebel Sultans: The Deccan from Khilji to Shivaji 3.95 avg rating — 1,276 ratings
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India Is Broken: A People Betrayed, Independence to Today
India Is Broken: A People Betrayed, Independence to Today 4.24 avg rating — 256 ratings
36.
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy 4.09 avg rating — 3,941 ratings
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Dead Souls
Dead Souls 3.98 avg rating — 93,271 ratings
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The Iliad / The Odyssey
The Iliad / The Odyssey
by: Homer
4.07 avg rating — 82,150 ratings
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A House for Mr Biswas
A House for Mr Biswas 3.81 avg rating — 21,972 ratings
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Mother Cow, Mother India: A Multispecies Politics of Dairy in India
Mother Cow, Mother India: A Multispecies Politics of Dairy in India 4.05 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Forgotten Foods: Memories and Recipes from Muslim South Asia
Forgotten Foods: Memories and Recipes from Muslim South Asia really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 18 ratings
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The Crooked Timber Of New India: Essays on a Republic in Crisis
The Crooked Timber Of New India: Essays on a Republic in Crisis 4.32 avg rating — 155 ratings
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The Evolution of Pragmatism in India: Ambedkar, Dewey, and the Rhetoric of Reconstruction
The Evolution of Pragmatism in India: Ambedkar, Dewey, and the Rhetoric of Reconstruction 4.55 avg rating — 20 ratings