2025 reading list
My 2025 reading list – what I read in 2025
A record of my reading in 2025. This is a page to keep track of what I read (and what I don’t finish) in 2025.
I read 30 books in in 2024, so I’m hoping to at least match that.
Books I finished in 2025
- The Woman’s Voice by Patsy Rodenburg
- The Rain Heron by Robbie Arnott
- I’ll Keep Her Safe by Jen Morris
- Slow Productivity by Cal Newport
- Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon
- Gunnawah by Ronnie Salt
- Out of the Ordinary by Kate Jenkins
- The Lemongrass Project by Janet Richardson
- Macbeth by William Shakespeare
- A Flat Place by Noreen Masud
- What is Poetry? by Michael Rosen
- Into the Woods by John Yorke
- Year of Wonders by Karen Brooks
Books I’ve started reading

- Presence by Patsy Rodenburg
- The Humming Effect by Jonathan Goldman and Andi Goldman
- Living Drama by Bruce Burton
- Atlas of the Heart by Brené Brown
- What Color is Your Parachute? by Richard Nelson Bolles
- The White Wash by Siang Lu
- CUSP: James Henry Esmond Dorney Architect by Paddy Dorney
- Architectural Photography and Composition by Steven Brooke
- The Use of the Self by FM Alexander
- Body and Breath by Jill Miller
- Van Diemen’s Land by James Boyce
- Body, Breath and Being by Carolyn Nicholls
- Tranquility by Tuesday by Laura Vanderkam
- The Little Red Writing Book by Mark Tredinnick
- How To Train Your Political Animal by Melinda Maddock
- Crucial Conversations by Kerry Patterson, Jospeh Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler
- The Good Ally by Nova Reid
- Meditations for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
- The Good Life by Robert Waldinger and Marc Schulz
- Food for Menopause by Linia Patel
- Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year by Allie Esiri
- Minds Went Walking: Paul Kelly’s Songs Reimagined, edited by Mark Smith, Neil A. White & Jock Serong
- The Ode Less Travelled by Stephen Fry
- Sadvertising by Ennis Cehic