The best books of 2025

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My favorite read in 2025

Book cover of The City and Its Uncertain Walls

Wade Richardson ❤️ loved this book because...

This is the best fictional book I have ever read. Murakami takes magic realism to a whole new level, creating blurred distinctions between worlds and among various characters while weaving in the telepathic sharing of consciousness.

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    ❤️ Loved it
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    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Haruki Murakami , Philip Gabriel (translator) ,

Why should I read it?

3 authors picked The City and Its Uncertain Walls as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

STEP INTO THE CITY

When a young man's girlfriend mysteriously vanishes, he sets his heart on finding the imaginary city where her true self lives. His search will lead him to take a job in a remote library with mysteries of its own.

When he finally makes it to the walled city, a shadowless place of horned beasts and willow trees, he finds his beloved working in a different library - a dream library. But she has no memory of their life together in the other world and, as the lines between reality and fantasy start to blur, he must…


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My 2nd favorite read in 2025

Book cover of Only Forward

Wade Richardson ❤️ loved this book because...

This is a non-stop wild science fiction ride that penetrates the dream world and explores shared consciousness. A magnificent read!

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    ❤️ Loved it
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    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Michael Marshall Smith ,

Why should I read it?

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

What is this book about?

Michael Marshall Smith's surreal, groundbreaking, and award-winning debut which resonates with wild humour interlaced with dark recollections of an emotional minefield.

May we introduce you to Stark.

Oh, and by the way - good luck.

Stark is the private investigator who goes to work when Something Happens to you. And when a Something happens it's no good chanting 'go away go away go away' and cowering in a corner, because a Something always comes from your darkest past and won't be beaten until you face it. And that's not easy in a city where reality is twisting and broken, a…


My 3rd favorite read in 2025

Book cover of Man’s Search for Meaning

Wade Richardson ❤️ loved this book because...

The world continues to witness genocide through many of the decades following World War II. While genocide is the worst tragedy of civilization, human suffering is ubiquitous. Frankl outlines how we can find meaning in the greatest of suffering. He saw three possible sources of meaning: in taking responsible action in work or doing something significant; in love and caring for others; and in courage toward one’s choice of attitude in difficult times. He saw suffering as meaningless, but suffering is given meaning by how we respond to it.

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    ❤️ Loved it
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    🐇 I couldn't put it down

By Viktor Frankl ,

Why should I read it?

50 authors picked Man’s Search for Meaning as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

One of the outstanding classics to emerge from the Holocaust, Man's Search for Meaning is Viktor Frankl's story of his struggle for survival in Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps. Today, this remarkable tribute to hope offers us an avenue to finding greater meaning and purpose in our own lives.


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The Psychedelic Mindmeld: Telepathically Exploring Shared Consciousness

By Wade Richardson ,

Book cover of The Psychedelic Mindmeld: Telepathically Exploring Shared Consciousness

What is my book about?

An experienced psychonaut's guide to telepathically sharing consciousness

* Teaches you how to work in pairs to meld your consciousness and explore the inner universe together with the help of psychedelics

* Presents techniques for entering and maintaining a psychedelic mindmeld, including holotropic breathing and Vipassana meditation

* Looks at safe set and setting for psychedelic telepathic work, including preparations, finding the right partner, safety protocols, and potential challenges

Many psychonauts have spontaneously experienced telepathy, but how does one intentionally share consciousness? In this guide to psychedelic mindmelding, experienced psychonaut Wade Richardson shows how, with the aid of psychedelics, sharing consciousness is possible.

Drawing on years of personal experience with mindmelding, Richardson teaches you how to work in pairs to telepathically share consciousness and explore the inner universe with the help of psychedelics. He details techniques for entering and maintaining a telepathic mindmeld, including Vipassana meditation practices and holotropic breathwork, and explains what to expect during your sessions as well as presenting a map of the territory of consciousness to be explored. He also looks at safe set and setting for telepathic work, including dosages, types of psychedelics, physical and mental health preparations, structuring the session, finding the right partner, safety protocols, and potential challenges.

Sharing accounts from the many sessions he has participated in or facilitated, the author shows how mindmelders can fully experience each other's emotions, help process and release each other's traumas, jointly travel to other worlds and dimensions, and enter into the non-dual infinity of what Buddhists call "Clear Light Mind." He stresses that this process not only makes visible the shadows you carry, but also those of your fellow psychonaut. Offering guidance for debriefing and integrating telepathic sessions, he recommends treating these experiences as something more akin to a dream and, like the fluid nature of a dream, open to different interpretations.

As Richardson reveals, psychedelic journeying with a partner can help you shatter illusions, expand consciousness, dissolve our egoic separations, and enable a cooperative exploration of non-duality.

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