10 months ago

Breakdown on my 2025 nonfiction Reading List. Hopefully it will inspire nonfiction readers to pick up a book or two for your own reading list in 2025.

—- Theme of the year—
Positioning yourself in the age of acceleration.
Understanding grand patterns in social change and human behavior.

— Reading List 2025 —

🎭Psychology:

On becoming a person - Carl Rogers
Parasitic mind
Against the gods (on risktaking)
The road to serfdom (political philosophy/history)

🫀Human nature:

Theories of games and economic behavior
Human action - Austrian economics
The idea of the work - A multi-disciplinary argument for the mental nature of reality (10h)

📜History:

How China escaped the poverty trap
Energy and Civilization
The Story of Civilization: The Renaissance

🏘️ Societal change

The ordeal of change - Eric Hoffer
Softwar
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire (on teaching better)

🤖 📈 Tech/finance:

Layered money
Zero to one by Peter Tiel
Quantum finance
The Creature from Jekyll island (on central banking)

🧬 Science/First Principles

Scale: The Universal Laws of Life, Growth, and Death in Organisms, Cities, and Companies
The pleasure of finding things out - Richard Feynman

🪶 Classics
Catch 22
The wizard of oz

--- Chapters --
00:00 - 01:45 - Intro
01:45 - 04:40 - Psychology books
04:40 - 07:10 - Human Nature books
07:10 - 10:03 - History books
10:03 - 14:17 - Social Change books
14:17 - 16:43 - Finance/Tech books
16:43 - 17:46 - Science/First Principle books
17:46 - 20:19 - Classic books
20:19 - 20:56 - Upcoming Review and Videos