Books read in 2025

   Not much blogging going on here still, but here's my annual list of books read for 2025.

• Adam Becker, More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity
• Rutger Bregman, Humankind: A Hopeful History (2019)
• Samuel D. Brunson, Between the Temple and the Tax Collector: The Intersection of Mormonism and the State
• Kate Conger and Ryan Mac, Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter (2024)
• Mark Jonathan Davis, Grateful: 25 Years of Music, Movies, and Medical Emergencies with Richard Cheese & Lounge Against the Machine, Part One: Stranger in a Strange Lounge
• Renée DiResta, Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality (2024)
• Cory Doctorow, Picks and Shovels: A Martin Hench Novel
• Erle Stanley Gardner (Martin H. Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh, eds), The Human Zero: The Science Fiction Stories of Erle Stanley Gardner (1981)
• Brooke Harrington, Offshore: Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism (2024)
• Gabriel Kennedy, Chapel Perilous: The Life & Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson (2024)
• Thomas Levenson, So Very Small: How Humans Discovered the Microcosmos, Defeated Germs--and May Still Lose the War Against Infectious Disease
• Mary Roach, Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy
• Oliver Sacks, The Island of the Colorblind (1996)
• Oliver Sacks, The Mind's Eye (2010)
• Neil Sheehan, A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (1988, 2009 edition)
• Quinn Slobodian, Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right
• Dana Stevens, Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century (2023)
• Katherine Stewart, Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy
• Spencer Sunshine, Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason's Siege (2024)
• Sam Tanenhaus, Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America
• Mark S. Weiner, The Rule of the Clan: What an Ancient Form of Social Organization Reveals About the Future of Individual Freedom (2013)
• Tim Weiner, The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century
• Lawrence Wright, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (2006)
• Sarah Wynn-Williams, Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

Top for 2025 published in 2025: Tanenhaus, Levenson, Roach, Weiner, Davis, Wynn-Williams, Becker, Doctorow; other top reads for the year: Sheehan, M. Weiner, Sacks

A few planned or already (or still) in-progress reads for 2026:

Robert Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (1975)

G.A. Cohen, Self-Ownership, Freedom, and Equality (1995)

John Ferris, Behind the Enigma: The Authorised History of GCHQ, Britain's Secret Cyber-Intelligence Agency (2020)

Peter H. Wilson, The Holy Roman Empire: A Thousand Years of Europe's History (2017)

Arthur M. Melzer, Philosophy Between the Lines: The Lost History of Esoteric Writing (2014)

(Previously: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005.)