2025 Book List

In 2025 I read 9 books and 4 Mangas. As we move towards a more federated and decentralized internet, I now track my reading habits with Bookwyrm. Please join the fediverse and follow me via Bookwyrm.

My favorite book was Unsong by Scott Alexander.

Here is the full 2025 book list:

Books

Title: I Who Have Never Known Men
Author: Jacqueline Harpman
Comment: A lost story, that became relevant. Not sure why. Reading the book makes you curious to learn more about the author.
Rating: 4/5
Link: https://bookwyrm.social/book/416044/s/i-who-have-never-known-men
Finished: Oct. 7, 2025

Title: Die Verkrempelung der Welt
Author: Gabriel Yoran
Comment: This books does a good job at explaining enshittification to non-tech people. The language is simple. I was very impressed by references to projects that I expected to be totally irrelevant outside the tech realm.
Rating: 4/5
Link: https://bookwyrm.social/book/1987830/s/die-verkrempelung-der-welt
Finished: Oct. 3, 2025

Title: Unsong
Author: Scott Alexander
Comment: A story like now other. Hard to explain without sounding like a schizophrenic delulu. There are fighting scenes, but instead of swords or guns, they cite the bible and talmund. Everything is taken literally.
Rating: 5/5
Link: https://bookwyrm.social/book/1793156/s/unsong
Finished: Oct. 3, 2025

Title: Dragon’s egg
Author: Robert L. Forward
Comment: Rock-solid sci-fi book. The story explores the idea that life can flourish under very different conditions to ours.
Rating: 3/5
Link: https://bookwyrm.social/book/42702/s/dragons-egg
Finished: Aug. 9, 2025

Title: The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect
Author: Roger Williams
Comment: Singularity puts everybody into a simulation. Death is defied, but not the humand condition.
Rating: 3/5
Link: https://bookwyrm.social/book/199543/s/the-metamorphosis-of-prime-intellect
Finished: July 12, 2025

Title: Lords of Uncreation
Series: The Final Architecture #3
Author: Adrian Tchaikovsky
Comment: The awaited and final book of the series. A space opera that delivers everything you wish for.
Rating: 4/5
Link: https://bookwyrm.social/book/817598/s/lords-of-uncreation
Finished: April 10, 2025

Title: Reinventing organizations
Author: Frederic Laloux
Comment: Frederic fundamentally changed my understanding of organisations are supposed to work. This book provides the answer to many problems employees face in hierarchical organisations.
Rating: 5/5
Link: https://bookwyrm.social/book/1011193/s/reinventing-organizations
Finished: April 14, 2025

Title: A Short Stay in Hell
Author: Steven L. Peck
Comment: Don’t underestimate the amount of pages and words it takes to fuck up your imagination. This story did a very good job of triggering the fear of endlessness and dullness.
Rating: 5/5
Link: https://bookwyrm.social/book/44622/s/a-short-stay-in-hell
Finished: July 7, 2025

Title: Survival of the Richest
Author: Douglas Rushkoff
Comment: If you already read and listen to Rushkoff, this book does offer nothing new.
Rating: 3/5
Link: https://bookwyrm.social/book/550662/s/survival-of-the-richest
Finished: July 5, 2025

Mangas

Title: Dorohedoro
Author: Oda Eiichiro
Comment: I love the dark atmosphere. Magic is not something beautiful. It smokey, stinky and killing. The story is entwined and well paced. Recommend to everyone.
Rating: 5/5
Link: https://bookwyrm.social/series/by/294625?series_name=Dorohedoro
Finished: July 1, 2025

Title: Delicious in Dungeon
Author: Ryoko Kui
Comment: The friend that recommended my this manga is a cook by profession. However, this manga is not only about cooking. It is funny dungeon crawler, but has the necessary spice to blend into well cooked story.
Rating: 4/5
Link: https://bookwyrm.social/series/by/742?series_name=Delicious%20in%20Dungeon
Finished: December 1, 2025

Title: The Fable
Author: Katsuhisa Minami
Comment: The archetype of professional assassins trying the modest life, but then for various reasons are taken accountable for their past. The Fable is group is feared assassins, but all with peculiar personalities.
Rating: 4/5
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fable
Finished: September 1, 2025

Title: The Fable: The Second Contact
Author: Katsuhisa Minami
Comment: The second part starts with COVID. A difficult time for manga artists and so we see some personal thoughts of the author. But then the story goes back into the well-known style of the first series.
Rating: 4/5
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fable
Finished: October 1, 2025