The Best Books I Read in 2025: A short list

This year, I read 24 books. That averages two per month, which is a coincidence as I didn’t set myself a target. Most of them I wrote about here. My favorites were:

These are the books I liked best in 2025, not the best books of 2025. With the exception of Mathematica, which came out in 2024, they were published more than a decade ago.