Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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My ten favorite books I read in the year of 2025. Note that these are not 2025 releases, and that the list is unranked.


Books discussed, along with any videos in which I discuss them:
- Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century by Dorothy Roberts

- These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore
youtube.com/watch?v=oYqKWYuFMrg&t=407s

- The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
youtube.com/watch?v=yDt6GK7rpkU&t=1097s

- Revolutionary Letters by Diane DiPrima
youtube.com/watch?v=RzV7KXoUptk&t=2s

- Dance Dance Revolution by Cathy Park Hong
Hong reading her poetry: youtube.com/watch?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3LvsCw8bZw&t=1328s

- The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later by Moisés Kaufman et al.
youtube.com/watch?v=tIr3ASpBbDQ&t=315s

- The Labor of Life: Selected Plays by Hanoch Levin (trans. Barbara Harshav)
youtube.com/watch?v=RUp9hiDXuoY

- Christianity: The First 3,000 Years by Diarmaid MacCulloch
youtube.com/watch?v=oYqKWYuFMrg&t=407s

- After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam by Lesley Hazelton
youtube.com/watch?v=2U31H9uN1G4&t=14s

- Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson