Books I read in 2025 [blog]

This post is mostly data driven (from my own web site’s data) to give me a sense of the quality of the books I’ve read, otherwise individual reviews are all linked in this post or available on my books page.
Longest book: Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI – 496 pages
Shortest book: The Time Machine – 107 pages
Quickest read: 3 days – The Radleys by Matt Haig (341 pages)
Longest read: 2 months, 2 days – Butter by Asako Yuzuki (464 pages)
Diversity of authors:

Women: 9
Men: 5

Rated books
5 stars

Minority Rule: Adventures in the Culture War – 319 pages

4 stars

Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI – 496 pages
In Bloom (Sweetpea, #2) – 432 pages
Sweetpea (Sweetpea, #1) – 480 pages
The Radleys – 341 pages
The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2) – 422 pages
The Echo Wife – 347 pages

Books by decade
1890

1895: The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

1960

1969: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

2010

2010: The Radleys by Matt Haig
2013: Spike Milligan: Man of Letters by Spike Milligan
2017: Butter by Asako Yuzuki
2017: Sweetpea (Sweetpea, #1) by C.J. Skuse
2018: In Bloom (Sweetpea, #2) by C.J. Skuse
2019: Reasons to Be Cheerful by Nina Stibbe

2020

2021: The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2) by Richard Osman
2021: The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey
2022: The Satsuma Complex (Gary Thorn, #1) by Bob Mortimer
2025: Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI by Karen Hao
2025: Minority Rule: Adventures in the Culture War by Ash Sarkar
2025: Making a Killing (DI Fawley #7) by Cara Hunter