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My Reads For 2025

Every year I share the books I read. Here’s my list for 2025 – in no particular order.

Non-Fiction

  • Living at the Bottom of the Ocean – Dr David Schnarch unpublished manuscript (read 3 times)
  • Meditations for Mortals – Oliver Burkeman
  • Strong Ground: The Lessons of Daring Leadership, the Tenacity of Paradox, and the Wisdom of the Human Spirit – Brené Brown
  • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen – David Brooks
  • The Art of Spending Money: Simple Choices for a Richer Life – Morgan Housel
  • Everything Is Never Enough: Ecclesiastes’ Surprising Path to Resilient Happiness – Bobby Jamieson
  • The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change Your Life, and Achieve Real Happiness – Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga
  • MeatEater’s Campfire Stories: Discoveries, Revelations & Near Misses – Steven Rinella
  • MeatEater’s Campfire Stories: Narrow Escapes & More Close Calls – Steven Rinella
  • Slow Down: How Doing Nothing Makes Us Better Humans – Constance Kassor
  • Living with Borrowed Dust: Reflections on Life, Love, and Other Grievances – James Hollis PhD
  • MeatEater’s Campfire Stories: Close Calls – Steven Rinella
  • Endure: How to Work Hard, Outlast, and Keep Hammering – Cameron Hanes
  • Embrace Discomfort: Lean Into Challenge to Improve Your Life – Michael Easter
  • Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity – Peter Attia MD, Bill Gifford

Fiction

  • The Camel Club – Baldacci, David
  • Exit Strategy: A Reacher Novel (Jack Reacher) – Child, Lee; Child, Andrew
  • King and Maxwell (King & Maxwell Series Book 6) – Baldacci, David
  • The Sixth Man (King & Maxwell Series Book 5) – Baldacci, David
  • First Family (King & Maxwell Series Book 4) – Baldacci, David
  • Simple Genius (King & Maxwell Series Book 3) – Baldacci, David
  • Hour Game (King & Maxwell Series Book 2) – Baldacci, David
  • Split Second (King & Maxwell Series Book 1) – Baldacci, David
  • Agent in Place (Gray Man Book 7) – Greaney, Mark
  • A Calamity of Souls – Baldacci, David
  • Gunmetal Gray (Gray Man Book 6) – Greaney, Mark
  • Back Blast (A Gray Man Novel Book 5) – Greaney, Mark
  • Demon Copperhead: A Novel – Kingsolver, Barbara
  • Dead Eye (A Gray Man Novel Book 4) – Greaney, Mark
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