The books I read in 2025

1. Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor
2. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition
3. The Unit: My Life Fighting Terrorists as One of America’s Most Secret Military Operatives
4. Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter
5. Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy
6. China After Mao
7. Year of Living Constitutionally
8. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
9. Ghost Wars
10. American Soldier
11. Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
12. American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon
13. Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East
14. The Wire
15. Someone Who Isn’t Me
16. Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House
17. Why I Cook
18. Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service
19. World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century
20. Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994–2007)
21. Unrestricted Warfare
22. Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
23. White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy
24. Comanches: The History of a People
25. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder
26. None of This Rocks: A Memoir
27. The Guns of August
28. Down with the System: A Memoir
29. Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future
30. Odyssey: The Greek Myths Reimagined
31. Stories of Your Life and Others
32. Accidental Presidents: Eight Men Who Changed America
33. Sailing True North: Ten Admirals and the Voyage of Character
34. Right Moves: The Conservative Think Tank in American Political Culture since 1945