Books Read 2025

  1. Philosophy as a Way of Life by Piette Hadot
  2. Molly’s Game by Molly Bloom
  3. 1984 by George Orwell
  4. The Man with the Golden Typewriter by Fergus Fleming
  5. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
  6. The Baby on The Fire Escape by Julie Phillips
  7. Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI by Ethan Mollick
  8. Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
  9. The Big Short by Michael Lewis
  10. To Love is to Act: Les Misérables and Victor Hugo’s Vision for Leading Lives of Conscience by Marva A. Barnett
  11. The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Master and Man by Leo Tolstoy
  12. Transcendentalism and the Cultivation of the Soul by Barry M. Andrews
  13. Writing My Wrongs by Shaka Senghor
  14. Drawing From Life: The Journal as Art by Jennifer New
  15. The Mind on Fire by Robert D. Richardson
  16. Writing as a Way of Healing by Louise DeSalvo
  17. What You’re Made For by George Raveling and Ryan Holiday 
  18. The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
  19.  101 Things I Learned in Product Design School by Sung Jang, Martin Thaler, and Matthew Frederick
  20. The Art of Slow Writing by Louise DeSalvo
  21. The Courage To Create by Rollie May
  22. The Artist’s Way Toolkit by Julia Cameron
  23. Write for Life by Julia Cameron
  24. Fahrenheit 182 by Mark Hoppus
  25. Vertigo by Louise DeSalvo
  26. Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green
  27. Abundance by Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson
  28. Correction: Parole, Prison, and the Possibility of Change by Ben Austen
  29. Journal of a Solitude by May Sarton
  30. An Interrupted Life and Letters from Westerbork by Etty Hillesum
  31. The Courage to See by Greg Garrett and Sabrina Fountain
  32. Still Writing by Dani Shapiro
  33. A Calendar of Wisdom by Leo Tolstoy (fifth time)
  34. The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday and Steve Hanselman (fifth or sixth time)
  35. The Daily Stoic Meditations 2023 by Ryan Holiday
  36. Etty Hillesum: A Life Transformed by Patrick Woodhouse
  37. So Gay For You by Leisha Hailey and Kate Moenning
  38. Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
  39. The Jungian Inspired Holocaust Writings of Etty Hillesum: To Write is to Act by Barbara Morrill
  40. On Solitude by Montaigne
  41. Company K by William March
  42. Enduring Lives: Living Portraits of Women and Faith in Action by Carol Lee Flinders
  43. Epictetus: The Complete Works by Robin Waterfield
  44. Discipline is Destiny by Ryan Holiday
  45. Address Unknown by Kathrine Kressmann Taylor
  46. Reading Etty Hillesum in Context edited by Klaas A.D. Smelik, Gerrit Van Oord, Jurjen Wiersma
  47. Upstream by Mary Oliver
  48. Socrates by Paul Johnson
  49. Perennial Seller by Ryan Holiday
  50. Courage Under Fire by James Bond Stockdale
  51. A Marriage at Sea by Sophie Elmhirst
  52. How To Think Like Socrates by Donald J. Robertson
  53. You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith
  54. Marcus Aurelius: The Stoic Emperor by Donald J. Robertson
  55. Socrates by Anthony Gottlieb
  56. With the Old Breed by E. B. Sledge 
  57. American Kings: A Biography of the Quarterback by Seth Wickersham
  58. Buckley: The Life and Revolution that Changed America by Sam Tanenhaus
  59. Wisdom Takes Work by Ryan Holiday
  60. The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper by Roland Allen
  61. How To Be Caring by Shantideva
  62. Lincoln on Leadership by Donald T. Phillips
  63. The Inner Game of Tennis by W. Timothy Gallwey
  64.  History Matters by David McCullough
  65. The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule
  66. Moral Ambition by Rutger Bregman
  67. New Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton
  68. Where Men Win Glory by Jon Krakauer
  69. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

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