What I read in 2025

ProgressiveProgressive overload is a concept in the field of strength training that suggests steadily and continuously ramping up the stress on your muscles. This year, as I sought to spend more time offline, I inadvertently applied the concept to reading: Why grab one book per library visit when I could read two? Or three? Or … Look, things escalated.

The result: I read lots of books — almost all of them good. (One might also argue that this was strength training seeing as I had to schlepp more and more books home from the library.)

There are surely thematic concerns that can be inferred from this list, though much of the sequencing is a function of when hold requests came in. The only conclusion that I endorse, however, is that it’s a gift to live in a city with many good libraries.