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My 2025 Reading List
I’m ending 2025 with a list of books I’ve thoroughly enjoyed throughout the year. I read fiction and non-fiction, and almost every genre out there. And I read multiple books at the same time. One can safely say I have an ‘open relationship’ with books! I’ve put together a book collage that includes my annual… — read more
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“Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” by Philip K. Dick
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) opens with a “merry little surge of electricity” waking Rick Deckard, and from that moment onward, nothing feels entirely steady. In a society where emotions can be dialled in like morning radio, people still ache in recognisably human ways. We follow Rick Deckard, a bounty hunter tasked with… — read more
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Enduring Love: My Thoughts (Part 2)
If you have not read Enduring Love and chanced upon this post, please skip reading it (the post, not the book!). Three days after reading it, I’m still thinking about the story, and I kept going back to my notes, so I’m going to lay this to rest and share my thoughts here as an… — read more
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Enduring Love: My Thoughts (Part 1)
In Enduring Love, Ian McEwan pulls you into a story that unfolds as much inside the mind as it does in the outside world. The novel opens with a devastating balloon accident, but the real tension comes from the collapse of certainty where reason meets emotion, and order frays at the edges. The novel follows… — read more
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Cloud Atlas: My Thoughts
In Cloud Atlas, author David Mitchell masterfully employs a nested, matryoshka-doll structure, weaving six distinct narratives set across eras—from the 19th century to a post-apocalyptic future. Each story comes in two halves, and after the central, uninterrupted sixth narrative, the earlier ones unfold in reverse order (1-2-3-4-5-6-5-4-3-2-1). This palindromic arrangement underlines the themes of cyclicality… — read more
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When the pages run out: Onyx Storm
I closed Onyx Storm today, and for a while I just sat there—quiet, teary, suspended. It’s a strange sort of heartbreak, the kind that comes when a story you’ve lived inside suddenly stops, and the rest of it drifts just out of reach. Months, maybe years, before I’ll know what becomes of Violet and Xaden.… — read more
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In-between Worlds: Basgiath and Ojai
In the midst of listening my way through Jiddu Krishnamurti’s Ojai lectures, I’ve also been swept into another ‘storm’ entirely. I closed Iron Flame only to open Onyx Storm in the very next breath. Rebecca Yarros’ Empyrean Series, beginning with Fourth Wing, has me hooked—dragons, battles, love, betrayal—the whole ride. But it’s more than just… — read more
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Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Some novels undo us. One such novel is Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes’s classic, first published in 1966. It is tender, tragic, and piercingly human. It is told through the eyes of Charlie Gordon, a 32-year-old man with an IQ of 68. His uncle has arranged for him to hold a menial job at a… — read more
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Starship Troopers, by Robert A. Heinlein
Few science fiction novels straddle controversy and admiration, like Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein. The book was first published in 1959 and is often discussed in the same breath as military propaganda, libertarian fantasy, or dystopian satire. What is less often acknowledged is how meticulously Heinlein constructs a philosophical machine disguised as a war… — read more
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C.S. Lewis: PERELANDRA (1943)
As I left the railway station at Worchester and set out on the three-mile walk to Ransom’s cottage, I reflected that no one on that platform could possibly guess the truth about the man I was going to visit. The above is the first sentence of chapter one. After finishing Out of the Silent Planet,… — read more
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