The best books of 2025

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My favorite read in 2025

Book cover of Pure Human

Ellen Dee Davidson ❤️ loved this book because...

Braden shed light on some of the implications of AI. For a while now I’ve been intuiting that AI may be narrowing our possibilities to a human centric view. In contrast, Nature Intelligence can help us reclaim the lost abilities of our ancestors as well as develop unimaginable human potentials. Braden took these ideas much further than I had.

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    🥇 Outlook 🥈 Thoughts
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    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Gregg Braden ,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked Pure Human as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

In an age where technologies such as AI threaten to supplant human intelligence, an award-winning scientist offers a radical new view of our innate human technology and what we're truly capable of.

There are rare moments in time when we make choices that irreversibly change the world, and our lives, forever. Today is one of those moments.

Scientists, engineers and philosophers alike warn us that without a radical shift in our thinking, we are on track to be the last generation of pure humans that the world will know. Within a single generation we will devolve into a hybrid species…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2025

Book cover of The Body Is a Doorway

Ellen Dee Davidson ❤️ loved this book because...

Sophie Strand is a brilliant writer. She touched my heart and I cried while reading this very personal book that illuminates how we can still appreciate the beauty of nature even when our bodies cannot get well.

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    ❤️ Loved it
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    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Sophie Strand ,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked The Body Is a Doorway as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

In this lyrical, radically expansive self-portrait, celebrated poet, author, and lecturer Sophie Strand explores-with searing insight and honesty-the intersecting spaces of her own chronic illness, the complex ecology of a changing world, and the very nature of the stories we tell ourselves.

At age sixteen Sophie Strand-bright, agile, fearless-is suddenly beset by unexplained, debilitating illness while on a family trip abroad. Her once vibrant life becomes a tangled miasma of medication, specialists, anaphylaxis, and seemingly never-ending attempts to explain what has gone so terribly wrong. And, for many years thereafter, Sophie's life becomes subsumed with ideas not of "health," but…


My 3rd favorite read in 2025

Book cover of Joy as the Compass

Ellen Dee Davidson ❤️ loved this book because...

This book helped me learn how to say No. And taught me that Maybe is always No. That compass has been life changing for me!

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    👍 Liked it
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    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Edveeje Fairchild ,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked Joy as the Compass as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

In this honest, hard-hitting book, Edveeje Fairchild shares her story of walking away from her successful career as a non-profit executive to become the CEO of her own life. As she recovers from her addiction to activism, Edveeje learns several important truths:Leadership and activism do not require sacrifice, suffering, and hard work.We must first become the change before we can lead the change.Nature and the world don’t need saving. We do.Joy is the only meaningful life GPS.Joy as the Compass explores seven “activist addictions” that lead to inner ecological burnout while offering seven “wild remedies” that illuminate the path of…


Don‘t forget about my book 😀

Sacred Forest Bathing

By Ellen Dee Davidson ,

Book cover of Sacred Forest Bathing

What is my book about?

Advancing the practices of Forest bathing and nature therapy to mystical levels, Davidson explores the profound healing, heightened creativity, and intuitive states of consciousness available to us when we commune deeply with nature. Weaving together environmental science, wilderness adventure, goddess mythology, and the sentience of old growth redwoods, the author shows how to cultivate a sensitivity to the forest and open a channel to its wisdom.

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