After reading 35 books this year, on a diverse set of topics, I’ve learned a lot and blew away my own goals and expectations for 2025.

I’ve included a link from Goodreads, summarizing all that I’ve read. You’ll notice titles that discuss AI & technology, biographies, business & management, and international relations.

  • Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology, Chris Miller

  • The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity, Amy Webb

  • Autocracy, Inc., Anne Applebaum

  • Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment, Jason Schreier

  • The Genesis Machine: Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology, Amy Webb

  • Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft’s Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone, Satya Nadella

  • From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin’s Russia, Michael McFaul

  • The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet, Jeff Jarvis

  • The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource, Chris Hayes

  • Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism, Sarah Wynn-Williams

  • Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror, Michael Hayden

  • Beneath a Surface, Brad Sams

  • America’s New Map, Thomas P.M. Barnett

  • Facts & Fears: Hard Truths from a Life in Intelligence, James Clapper

  • On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, Timothy Snyder

  • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, Yuval Noah Harari

  • Who Knew, Barry Diller

  • Illiberal Trends and Anti-EU Politics in East Central Europe, Astrid Lorenz & Lisa H. Anders

  • AI Valley: Microsoft, Google, and the Trillion-Dollar Race to Cash In on Artificial Intelligence, Gary Rivlin

  • Nuclear War: A Scenario, Annie Jacobsen

  • Desi Arnaz: The Man Who Invented Television, Todd Purdum

  • No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention, Reed Hastings & Erin Meyer

  • Building a Second Brain, Tiago Forte

  • Electrify: An Optimist’s Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future, Saul Griffith

  • Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You, Ali Abdaal

  • Zillow Talk: The New Rules of Real Estate, Spencer Rascoff & Stan Humphries

  • Magazine, Jeff Jarvis

  • Apple in China: The Capture of the World’s Greatest Economy, Patrick McGee

  • Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty, Hillary Clinton

  • A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership, James Comey

  • 107 Days, Kamala Harris

  • Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language, Adam Aleksic

  • Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism, Rachel Maddow

  • Smart Brevity: The Power of Saying More with Less, Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, & Roy Schwartz

For more information about what I’ve read this year, you can find summaries from my Goodreads account.