The best books of 2025

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My favorite read in 2025

Book cover of Coming Up Short

Robert David Crane ❤️ loved this book because...

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Teach 🥈 Writing
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Robert B. Reich ,

Why should I read it?

2 authors picked Coming Up Short as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From political economist, cabinet member, beloved professor, media presence, and bestselling author of Saving Capitalism and The Common Good, a deeply felt, compelling memoir of growing up in a baby-boom America that made progress in certain areas, fell short in so many important ways, and still has lots of work to do

"Important and galvanizing.” —Senator Bernie Sanders

"Essential reading for understanding this moment in American history.” —Molly Jong-Fast, New York Times bestselling author of How to Lose Your Mother

A thought-provoking, principled, clear-eyed chronicle of the culture, politics, and economic choices that have…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2025

Book cover of Notes to John

Robert David Crane ❤️ loved this book because...

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Emotions 🥈 Writing
  • Writing style

    👍 Liked it
  • Pace

    🐕 Good, steady pace

By Joan Didion ,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked Notes to John as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

'Utterly fascinating' NEW YORK TIMES

'A profound, rich document' NEW STATESMAN

'An act of intimate storytelling' VOGUE

A recently discovered journal from one of America's most iconic writers, Joan Didion, the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue Nights.

In November 1999, Joan Didion began seeing a psychiatrist because, as she wrote to a friend, her family had had 'a rough few years'. She described the sessions in a journal she created for her husband, John Gregory Dunne.

For several months, Didion recorded conversations with the psychiatrist in meticulous detail. The initial sessions…


My 3rd favorite read in 2025

Book cover of Robert Redford

Robert David Crane ❤️ loved this book because...

  • Loved Most

    🥇 Immersion 🥈 Writing
  • Writing style

    ❤️ Loved it
  • Pace

    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Michael Feeney Callan ,

Why should I read it?

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

What is this book about?

A revelatory biography of Robert Redford, written in close collaboration with the extraordinary actor and director himself, revealing the complex man beneath the Hollywood façade.

“As incisive a biography of Redford as there is ever likely to be.” —The New York Times

Among the most widely admired Hollywood stars of his generation, Redford has appeared onstage and on-screen, in front of and behind the camera, earning Academy, Golden Globe, and a multitude of other awards and nominations for acting, directing, and producing, and for his contributions to the arts. His Sundance Film Festival transformed the world of filmmaking; his films…


Don‘t forget about my book 😀

Three-Cornered Circle

By Robert David Crane , Christopher Fryer ,

Book cover of Three-Cornered Circle

What is my book about?

A moving and insightful examination of how we traverse grief and sorrow when life is coming at us. Bob works for movie star John Candy. His wife, Kari, has a successful career as a landscape designer. She is given a cancer diagnosis. Kari and Bob must decide what is important and figure out how to balance life and marriage when the realities of mortality are imminent. Three-Cornered Circle is a story of love, laughter, and loss.

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