My Favourite Books of 2025

Here are the books that have stayed with me from 2025.

Reassessing masculine myths … and myths of masculinity.

Advice written to his 14-year-old son on what it means to inhabit a Black body. As a white man, it was a sobering reminder that ‘privilege is the things you don’t have to think about’.

Wonderful writing. Powerful story. I loved it.

Begins with the decline of the Western Roman Empire – which feels like it has parallels with today. And ends with the Protestant Reformation – which also feels like it has parallels with today…

The metacrisis – through the lens of matsutake mushrooms. Extraordinary book.

What happens throughout history when ‘elite overproduction’ and ‘popular immiseration’ have collided. [Sound familiar?!]

Rethinking politics as the conflict between ‘Moderns’ and ‘Terrestrials’ [i.e. between Modernity and Gaia], rather than between ‘Left’ and ‘Right’.

How to be an activist, Pussy Riot-style. A [slightly terrifying?!] mix of inspiring and intimidating.