My Bookshelf for 2025

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My Bookshelf for 2025

Reading is my daily mental workout. Here’s the list of books I’ve read and reread in 2025 so far.

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Reading is both a joy and a vital routine for me. 
I love building a system of good routines, but if I had to choose just only one routine, it would be reading.

Each month, I list the books I’ve read to strengthen my reading routines.

Here’s my bookshelf for 2025 so far:

January

  1. How to Write a Book — David Kadavy
  2. Digital Zettelkasten — David Kadavy
  3. The Professor Is In — Karen Kelsky
  4. Mastering AI Prompt — Adriano Damiao
  5. Not By Chance Alone — Elliot Aronson
10K Book Challenge 2025–5 Books I Read in January
Reading is a mental exercise for your mind.

February

  1. How to Read a Book — Mortimer J. Adler and Charles van Doren
  2. On Writing Well — William Zinsser
  3. The Heart to Start — David Kadavy
  4. Apollo’s Arrow — Nicholas A. Christakis
  5. An American Sickness — Elisabeth Rosenthal
10K Book Challenge 2025–5 Books I Read in February
Workout everyday for a healthy body. Read everyday for a healthy mind.

March

  1. Co-Intelligent — Ethan Mollick
  2. Think Like a Monk — Jay Shetty
10K Book Challenge 2025–2 books I Read in March
Two books. One on working smarter with AI. One on living more peacefully with yourself.

April

  1. The AI Revolution in Medicine — Peter Lee, Carey Goldberg, and Isaac Kohane
  2. Thinking, Fast and Slow — Daniel Kahneman
  3. How to Write a Thesis — Umberto Eco
April Reads: Minds, Medicine, and Writing Methods
Discover insights on AI in medicine, biases in thinking, and writing in thesis.

May

  1. Tools of Titans — Tim Ferriss
  2. Doughnut Economics — Kate Raworth
  3. The Meaning of It All — Richard Feynman
May Reads: Titans’ Tools, Economic Insights, and Feynman’s Wisdom
Three books on building routines, understanding science, and rethinking economics for today’s world.

June

  1. Building a Second Brain — Tiago Forte
  2. The PARA Method — Tiago Forte
June Reads: From Digital Overwhelm to a Dynamic Organizing System
My search for a better way to manage digital files led me to two interesting books on Personal Knowledge Management.
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