Happy New Year’s Day! It’s already 2026, but still time to let you know what books I found interesting in 2025. It’s high time I did so, as the last edition in this series was What to Read 2023. You might consider reviewing it as well, as there’s bound to be something in that ’23 list that will fascinate you.
My goal is to make this ’25 list contain books that will seriously intrigue you. So here we go. What I’ll do is provide the Amazon link to each so you can consult the reader reviews then decide for yourself if it’s worth the purchase. I always get the Kindle edition as it’s cheaper plus it’s on my iPad in a few minutes.
I have very eclectic interests, so there will be a wide variety of topics, at least one or two (hopefully more) of which should ring your bell. They all rang mine! So here we go.
We start with the McCloskey/Carden book above. It’s a summation of McCloskey’s masterpiece trilogy explaining how the world stagnated in total global wealth for thousands of years, then suddenly skyrocketed 30,000% in the last 250 years. The trilogy, in order:
The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce; Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World; and Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World.
All three are worthwhile but it will take you months. Start with the summation, which you’ll find illuminating on its own.
We’ll close with TTP’s own Dr. Joel Wade. All of the above are informative and enlightening, while Joel’s is the book that will make a major difference to the quality of your life. Happy New Year and happy reading!
