WHAT TO READ IN 2025?
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Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts
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Oliver Burkeman
4.28 avg rating — 11,089 ratings 4. 
Pull: How Gravity Shapes Your Body, Steadies the Mind, and Guides Our Health
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Brennan Spiegel
4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings 4. 
What Is Your Good Name? (The Conscious Living Series)
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Michael Martin
it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating 7. 
The Ideological Brain: The Radical Science of Flexible Thinking
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Leor Zmigrod
3.70 avg rating — 261 ratings 8. 
Right Thing, Right Now: Justice in an Unjust World
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Ryan Holiday
4.14 avg rating — 4,508 ratings 
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Break the Cycle: A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma
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Mariel Buqué
4.23 avg rating — 869 ratings 11. 
And How Does That Make You Feel?: Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Therapy
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Joshua Fletcher
4.19 avg rating — 2,859 ratings 12. 
What We Fear Most: Reflections on a Life in Forensic Psychiatry
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Ben Cave
4.24 avg rating — 1,214 ratings 13. 
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While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence
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Meg Kissinger
4.27 avg rating — 15,945 ratings 15. 
If You Live To 100, You Might As Well Be Happy: Lessons for a Long and Joyful Life
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Rhee Kun Hoo
3.76 avg rating — 560 ratings 16. 
But What Will People Say?: Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love, and Family Between Cultures
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Sahaj Kaur Kohli
4.48 avg rating — 923 ratings 
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Should We Go Extinct?: A Philosophical Dilemma for Our Unbearable Times
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Todd May
3.41 avg rating — 367 ratings 19. 
The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience
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Adam Frank
3.96 avg rating — 158 ratings 20. 
The Mind Electric: A Neurologist on the Strangeness and Wonder of Our Brains
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Pria Anand
3.99 avg rating — 143 ratings 21. 
The Shape of Things Unseen: A New Science of Imagination
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Adam Zeman
3.80 avg rating — 61 ratings 22. 
The Catalyst: RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life's Deepest Secrets
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Thomas R. Cech
4.30 avg rating — 557 ratings 23. 
This Is Why You Dream: What Your Sleeping Brain Reveals About Your Waking Life
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Rahul Jandial
3.78 avg rating — 903 ratings 24. 
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A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? 4.03 avg rating — 6,103 ratings
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Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI 4.17 avg rating — 34,296 ratings
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Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
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James Bridle
4.17 avg rating — 1,977 ratings 29. 
Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters
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Charan Ranganath
3.93 avg rating — 2,487 ratings 
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The Revolt Against Humanity: Imagining a Future Without Us
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Adam Kirsch
4.07 avg rating — 309 ratings 
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Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
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Ashley Shew
4.30 avg rating — 2,380 ratings 34. 
The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance
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Dan Egan
4.22 avg rating — 2,125 ratings 
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Under a Metal Sky: A Journey Through Minerals, Greed and Wonder
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Philip Marsden
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 23 ratings 
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The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
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Olivia Laing
3.89 avg rating — 2,924 ratings 42. 
Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks
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Marcia Bjornerud
4.26 avg rating — 469 ratings 
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Africonomics: A History of Western Ignorance and African Economics
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Bronwen Everill
3.47 avg rating — 30 ratings 
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Foreign Agents: How American Lobbyists and Lawmakers Threaten Democracy Around the World
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Casey Michel
4.12 avg rating — 288 ratings 
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Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 248 ratings
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Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future 4.45 avg rating — 2,268 ratings
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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
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Omar El Akkad
4.66 avg rating — 12,633 ratings 58. 
All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess
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Becca Rothfeld
3.55 avg rating — 1,128 ratings 
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Less: Stop Buying So Much Rubbish: How Having Fewer, Better Things Can Make Us Happier
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Patrick Grant
4.20 avg rating — 1,123 ratings 61. 
Mother Media: Hot and Cool Parenting in the Twentieth Century
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Hannah Zeavin
4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings 62. 
Motherdom: Breaking Free of Bad Science and Good Mother Myths
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Alex Bollen
4.16 avg rating — 31 ratings 63. 
The Good Mother Myth: Unlearning Our Bad Ideas About How to Be a Good Mom
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Nancy Reddy
3.62 avg rating — 1,287 ratings 64. 
Animals, Robots, Gods: Adventures in the Moral Imagination
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Webb Keane
3.54 avg rating — 50 ratings 65. 
Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
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Dan Saladino
4.30 avg rating — 2,471 ratings 66. 
Rebel Bodies: A guide to the gender health gap revolution
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Sarah Graham
4.18 avg rating — 205 ratings 67. 
All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today
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Elizabeth Comen
4.35 avg rating — 8,620 ratings 68. 
Lost Boys: A Personal Journey Through the Manosphere
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James Bloodworth
3.80 avg rating — 74 ratings 69. 
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
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Siddharth Kara
4.36 avg rating — 14,151 ratings 70. 
Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change
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W. David Marx
3.89 avg rating — 1,215 ratings 
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The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
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Mustafa Suleyman
3.82 avg rating — 12,123 ratings 73. 
Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality 4.04 avg rating — 1,756 ratings
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Protocols: An Operating Manual for the Human Body really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution
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Tania Branigan
3.85 avg rating — 1,657 ratings 78. 
Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century
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Joya Chatterji
4.23 avg rating — 100 ratings 79. 
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Ką jie mums padarė: Lietuvos gyvenimas traumų psichologijos žvilgsniu 4.33 avg rating — 1,376 ratings
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Autizmas – dalis manęs: autistiški suaugusieji savo pačių žodžiais ir specialistų akimis 4.63 avg rating — 279 ratings
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Total Garbage: How We Can Fix Our Waste and Heal Our World
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Edward Humes
4.24 avg rating — 340 ratings 86. 
Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present
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Yanis Varoufakis
3.82 avg rating — 2,447 ratings