2024 and 2025 Reading Lists

For those who like to see other people's reading lists to build their own (like me!), I thought I would share my 2025 reading list. I am adding my 2024 list too. I was first-trimester-tired last December and didn't share it. Hope you find some books for your 2026 list...and happy to take recommendations for mine!
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2025 Reading List

I read less than usually this year. Sleep deprivation from baby number 4 (an absolutely lovely, happy baby who unfortunately does not love to sleep long stretches) stole some of my reading time. Teaching a class again on the side of my other work stole the rest. BUT...I still managed to read some great books, many of which I highly recommend (* is for top 5):

NON-FICTION

• Revenge of the Tipping Point (Gladwell)
• Meditations for Mortals: 4 weeks to embrace your limitations and have time for what counts (Burkeman)*
• How to Winter: Harness your mindset to thrive in cold, dark, or difficult days (Leibowitz)*
• Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT and the Race That Will Change the World (Olson)
• Growth: A history and a reckoning (Susskind)
• Moral Ambition: Stop wasting your talent and start making a difference (Bregman)
• How Big Things Get Done: The surprising factors that determine the fate of every project, from home renovations to space exploration and everything in between (Flyvbjerg and Gardner)
• Courage is Calling: Fortune favors the brave (Holiday)
• Abundance (Klein and Thompson)*
• The Sirens' Call: How attention became the world's most endangered resource (Hayes)*
• Reset: How to change what's not working (Heath)*

FICTION

• A Court of Mist and Fury (Maas)
• The Rose Code (Quinn)
• Swan Song (Hilderbrand)
• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Reid)
• Atlas: The story of Pa Salt (Riley)

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2024 Reading List

This was a better reading year for me. No coincidence, I did not have a baby in 2024. Writing these out reminded me how many great books I discovered in 2024, many I want to revisit! I used a * to mark my top 5 recommended books.

NON-FICTION

• The Right Kind of Wrong: The science of failing well (Edmondson)*
• The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the 21st C Greatest Dilemma (Suleyman and Bhaskar)*
• The Four Workarounds: Strategies from the world's scrappiest organizations for tackling complex problems (Savaget)
• Noise: A flaw in human judgement (Kahneman, Sibony, Sunstein)
• New York Amish: Life in the plain communities of the Empire State (Johnson-Weiner)
• Slow Productivity: The lost art of accomplishment without burnout (Newport)*
• The Ritual Effect: From habit to ritual, harness the surprising power of everyday actions (Norton)
• The 4-Hour Workweek (Ferriss)
• Code Dependent: Living in the shadow of AI (Murgia)
• The Global Forest: 40 ways trees can save us (Beresford-Kroeger)
• The Lazy Genius Way: Embrace what matters, ditch what doesn't, and get things done (Adachi) - reread
• Nudge: The final edition (Thaler and Sunstein)
• I Know How She Does It: How successful women make the most of their time (Vanderkam) - reread *
• Living Waters: Reading the rivers of the lower Great Lakes (Wooster)
• The Comfort of Crows: A backyard year (Renkl)*​

FICTION

• Familia: A novel (Rico)
• Mother Daughter Murder Night (Simon)
• The House in the Cerulean Sea (Klune)
• Things We Never Got Over (Score)
• Things We Hide From the Light (Score)
• Things We Left Behind (Score)
• Happiness Falls (Kim)
• A Court of Thorn and Roses (Maas)
• The Lost Summers of Newport (Williams, Willis, White)
• The Cliffs (Sullivan)

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