Reading in 2025
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What I am reading in 2025.
Very Short Introductions (continued)
Continuing from 2024 project, I plan to read 100 volumes and finish later this year. I am working on a thematic arrangement of the volumes, Figure 1 shows the current draft. The corners act as anchors: maths and physics, evolution, history and the Earth. From history rotate counter-clockwise, flowing up to meet biological science, left through chemistry and physics, and then down through astronomy to the Earth and Earth science. Economics sits in the middle to the left of history and right of science. Lots of interesting adjacencies!
| Wk | Starting | n | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 04 | 2025-01-27 | 78 | Extinction |
| 03 | 2025-01-20 | 77 | Dinosaurs |
| 02 | 2025-01-13 | 76 | The Industrial Revolution |
| 01 | 2025-01-06 | 75 | Banking |
| 74 | Nineteenth-Century Britain | ||
| 52 | 2024-12-30 | 73 | Eighteenth-Century Britain |
| 72 | The Stuarts | ||
| 52 | 2024-12-23 | 71 | The Tudors |
| 51 | 2024-12-16 | 70 | Medieval Britain |
| 50 | 2024-12-09 | 69 | The Norman Conquest |
| 68 | The Anglo-Saxon Age | ||
| 49 | 2024-12-02 | 67 | Ancient Egypt |
| 48 | 2024-11-25 | 66 | The Roman Empire |
| 47 | 2024-11-18 | 65 | The Roman Republic |
| 46 | 2024-11-11 | 64 | Roman Britain |
| 45 | 2024-11-04 | 63 | Habeas Corpus |
| 44 | 2024-10-28 | 62 | The British Empire |
| 43 | 2024-10-21 | 61 | American Slavery |
| 42 | 2024-10-14 | 60 | The Book of Common Prayer |
| 41 | 2024-10-07 | 59 | Locke |
| 40 | 2024-09-30 | 58 | Sound |
| 39 | 2024-09-23 | 57 | Light |
| 56 | The European Union | ||
| 38 | 2024-09-16 | 55 | Work |
| 37 | 2024-09-09 | 54 | The History of Chemistry |
| 36 | 2024-09-02 | 53 | Genes |
| 35 | 2024-08-26 | 52 | Molecules |
| 34 | 2024-08-19 | 51 | Black Holes |
| 50 | Galaxies | ||
| 33 | 2024-08-12 | 49 | Condensed Matter Physics |
| 32 | 2024-08-05 | 48 | Matter |
| 31 | 2024-07-29 | 47 | Rivers |
| 30 | 2024-07-22 | 46 | Superconductivity |
| 29 | 2024-07-15 | 45 | The Elements |
| 28 | 2024-07-08 | 44 | Chaos |
| 27 | 2024-07-01 | 43 | Forests |
| 26 | 2024-06-24 | 42 | Magnetism |
| 25 | 2024-06-17 | 41 | Plate Tectonics |
| 24 | 2024-06-10 | 40 | Particle Physics |
| 39 | Globalization | ||
| 23 | 2024-06-03 | 38 | Chemistry |
| 22 | 2024-05-27 | 37 | Waves |
| 21 | 2024-05-20 | 36 | Biogeography |
| 20 | 2024-05-13 | 35 | Geography |
| 19 | 2024-05-06 | 34 | Symmetry |
| 18 | 2024-04-29 | 33 | Mathematics |
| 17 | 2024-04-22 | 32 | Geology |
| 16 | 2024-04-15 | 31 | The Sun |
| 30 | Stars | ||
| 15 | 2024-04-08 | 29 | Human Evolution |
| 28 | Keynes | ||
| 14 | 2024-04-01 | 27 | The First World War |
| 26 | Climate Change | ||
| 13 | 2024-03-25 | 25 | Climate |
| 12 | 2024-03-18 | 24 | Weather |
| 23 | Isotopes | ||
| 11 | 2024-03-11 | 22 | Newton |
| 10 | 2024-03-04 | 21 | Planets |
| 20 | Geophysics | ||
| 9 | 2024-02-26 | 19 | The Ice Age |
| 18 | Earth System Science | ||
| 8 | 2024-02-19 | 17 | Tides |
| 7 | 2024-02-12 | 16 | Statistics |
| 6 | 2024-02-05 | 15 | Magna Carta |
| 5 | 2024-01-29 | 14 | The Laws of Thermodynamics |
| 4 | 2024-01-22 | 13 | The Earth |
| 3 | 2024-01-15 | 12 | Global Catastrophes |
| 2 | 2024-01-08 | 11 | Risk |
| 1 | 2024-01-01 | 10 | The Periodic Table |
| 2023-12 | 9 | Accounting | |
| 2014 | 8 | Global Economic History | |
| 2013 | 7 | Capitalism | |
| 2012 | 6 | Freud | |
| 2010 | 5 | Philosophy of Law | |
| 2010 | 4 | Darwin | |
| 2009 | 3 | Law | |
| 2009 | 2 | The Great Depression and the New Deal | |
| 2009 | 1 | Marx |
Note: the table should be read bottom up; it shows that n=18 (Earth System Science) was read in week 8.
VSI Library
100 titles total
- 003 Buddhism
- 007 Islam
- 017 Roman Britain
- 018 The Anglo-Saxon Age
- 019 Medieval Britain
- 020 The Tudors
- 021 Stuart Britain
- 022 Eighteenth-Century Britain
- 023 Nineteenth-Century Britain
- 028 Marx
- 032 Aristotle
- 035 Darwin
- 036 The European Union
- 045 Freud
- 066 Mathematics
- 069 Quantum Theory
- 084 Locke
- 086 Globalization
- 090 The Earth
- 096 Prehistory
- 100 Evolution
- 101 Molecules
- 104 The Elements
- 108 Capitalism
- 109 Particle Physics
- 112 Ancient Egypt
- 118 Climate Change
- 128 Dinosaurs
- 143 Human Evolution
- 145 Global Catastrophes
- 147 Philosophy of Law
- 150 The Roman Empire
- 154 The First World War
- 158 Newton
- 159 Chaos
- 166 The Great Depression and the New Deal
- 180 Law
- 182 Galaxies
- 185 Geography
- 190 Relativity
- 196 Statistics
- 204 Superconductivity
- 216 The Norman Conquest
- 226 The Laws of Thermodynamics
- 248 Keynes
- 254 Planets
- 258 Late Antiquity
- 270 Risk
- 282 Global Economic History
- 285 The Cell
- 286 Ancient Greece
- 289 The Periodic Table
- 309 Engineering
- 311 Rivers
- 317 Magnetism
- 321 Magna Carta
- 322 Stars
- 327 The Roman Republic
- 337 Work
- 353 Symmetry
- 355 The British Empire
- 358 Climate
- 380 The Ice Age
- 383 Accounting
- 396 American Slavery
- 399 Genes
- 404 The Middle Ages
- 417 Chemistry
- 425 Plate Tectonics
- 431 Forests
- 440 Water
- 446 Light
- 450 Moons
- 451 Sound
- 453 Black Holes
- 456 The History of Chemistry
- 464 Earth System Science
- 469 Crystallography
- 470 Astrophysics
- 476 Isotopes
- 502 Rocks
- 503 Banking
- 506 Weather
- 509 The Industrial Revolution
- 512 Gravity
- 560 Geophysics
- 574 Geology
- 576 The Book of Common Prayer
- 582 Adam Smith
- 590 Waves
- 599 Matter
- 605 Extinction
- 621 Tides
- 638 The Sun
- 647 Biogeography
- 661 Enzymes
- 680 Habeas Corpus
- 708 Fluid Mechanics
- 722 Condensed Matter Physics
- 739 Victorians
Unread
- 003 Buddhism
- 007 Islam
- 032 Aristotle
- 069 Quantum Theory
- 096 Prehistory
- 100 Evolution
- 190 Relativity
- 258 Late Antiquity
- 285 The Cell
- 286 Ancient Greece
- 309 Engineering
- 404 The Middle Ages
- 440 Water
- 450 Moons
- 469 Crystallography
- 470 Astrophysics
- 502 Rocks
- 512 Gravity
- 582 Adam Smith
- 661 Enzymes
- 708 Fluid Mechanics
- 739 Victorians