Dom's top books of 2025

Top recommendations

1. The End of Reality: How Four Billionaires are Selling a Fantasy Future of the Metaverse, Mars, and Crypto
2. Shantaram
3. Unrig the Game: What Women of Color Can Teach Everyone About Winning
4. Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
5. Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir

The Murderbot Diaries

I listened to the Kevin R Free audiobooks for all of The Murderbot Diaries books, free on Hoopla through my local library. I really enjoyed the hacking and security-focused narration by the human/computer hybrid (known in Wells’ world as a Construct). The futuristic non-corporate utopia also reminded me of the controvertial last season of Sex Education.

All books

Here’s the full list on Goodreads.

1. Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6) (Wells, Martha)
2. Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5) (Wells, Martha)
3. Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4) (Wells, Martha)
4. Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3) (Wells, Martha)
5. Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries, #2) (Wells, Martha)
6. All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1) (Wells, Martha)
7. The Arab of the Future 3: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1985-1987 (Sattouf, Riad)
8. The Arab of the Future 2: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984 (Sattouf, Riad)
9. The Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984 (Sattouf, Riad)
10. Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In (Roger Fisher, William Ury, Bruce Patton)
11. A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1) (Chambers, Becky)
12. A Long Petal of the Sea (Allende, Isabel)
13. The End of Reality: How Four Billionaires are Selling a Fantasy Future of the Metaverse, Mars, and Crypto (Taplin, Jonathan)
14. The Glass Castle (Walls, Jeannette)
15. Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code (Benjamin, Ruha)
16. Unrig the Game: What Women of Color Can Teach Everyone About Winning (Daniel, Vanessa Priya)
17. Shantaram (Roberts, Gregory David)
18. Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools (Morris, Monique W.)
19. Raising Human Beings: Creating a Collaborative Partnership with Your Child (Greene, Ross W.)
20. Salvage the Bones (Ward, Jesmyn)
21. The Good News About Bad Behavior: Why Kids Are Less Disciplined Than Ever – And What to Do About It (Lewis, Katherine Reynolds)
22. Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things (Grant, Adam M.)
23. High Output Management (Grove, Andrew S.)
24. Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir (Monette, Paul)
25. My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1) (Ferrante, Elena)
26. The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart (Garza, Alicia)
27. Gods of Jade and Shadow (Moreno-Garcia, Silvia)
28. The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2) (Liu, Cixin)
29. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Jacobs, Harriet Ann)
30. How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective (Taylor, Keeanga)