Books I Read in 2025

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This year I am not using only Goodreads for yearly books review, I am using also the Bookshelf plugin in Obsidian. I still use Goodreads for checking the books reviews and add the books that I want to read. The main difference of the stats is that in Obsidian I track all readings, including pages of books I abandoned and the ones that are not finished during the year. So the stats are more accurately.

In 2025 I didn’t manage to reach my 22 books, I read only 18.
I read two fewer books than in 2024 and four more compared to 2023. 2025 was a rather regular year for reading.
I managed to read 5630 pages compared to 6213 pages in 2024 and 3762 in 2023, the shortest book being “The Red Notebook” by Paul Auster of 104 pages and the longest “Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes” of 435 pages. The average books length in 2025 is 264 pages.

2025 monthly pages

From 18 books, 6 books arewere non-fiction, 6 biographies, and 6 fiction. Interesting this year I read the same number of books for each category. I believe because was reading less fiction this year, I was slowing reading.

2025 reading streak

My books ranking :

  1. When Nietzsche Wept by Yalom, Irvin D.
  2. When Breath Becomes Air by Kalanithi, Paul
  3. Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results by Parrish, Shane
  4. Reinventing Your Life: The Breakthrough Program to End Negative Behavior…and Feel Great Again by Jeffrey E. Young, Janet S. Klosko, Aaron T. Beck (Foreword)
  5. Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography by Rob Wilkins
  6. The Echo Wife by Sarah Gaeyil
  7. The Red Notebook: True Stories by Paul Auster
  8. The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain by Annie Murphy Paul
  9. Sempre Susan by Sigrid Nunez
  10. A System for Writing: How an Unconventional Approach to Note-Making Can Help You Capture Ideas, Think Wildly, and Write Constantly - A Zettelkasten Primer by Bob Doto
  11. The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune
  12. The Next Day: Transitions, Change, and Moving Forward by Melinda French Gates
  13. Strategii si unelte pentru a gestiona stresul si anxietatea by Andrei Roșca
  14. Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World by Anne-Laure Le Cunff
  15. How to Age Disgracefully by Clare Pooley
  16. The Unusual Second Life of Thomas Weaver (Middle Falls Time Travel, #1) by Shawn Inmon
  17. An Education by Lynn Barber
  18. Adultery by Paulo Coelho

I didn’t reach the number of books I had planned, but I stayed close to reading as a daily habit. I noticed that when fiction was missing, reading became slower and more effortful, while stories helped me stay connected. This year reminded me that reading is something to live with, allowing it to adapt to who I am at different moments.

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