In January, I told myself that I would try to read 26 books in 2025. 

A book every two weeks.

I haven’t read any yet.

Now, that I’ve started my personal New Year, I figured that I should try to get moving on that goal.

The thing is that “reading 26 books” or “reading a book every two weeks” is still kind of vague.

What I need is specificity!

What are the books that I’m going to read?

So, I compiled a list of books that I’m going to start off reading.

With the caveat that if I find that book isn’t for me, I will stop reading it.  And choose another book.

Life is too short to struggle to read a book that isn’t for you.  There are too many other books out there to waste time like that.

Here’s my preliminary list of books to read this year:

• Do the Work by Steven Pressfield
• Reset by Dan Heath
• Siege 13 by Tamas Dobozu
• This is Strategy by Seth Godin
• Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
• The Courage to be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi
• The Art of Dramatic Writing by Lajos Egri
• The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
• The Hunger Habit by Judson Brewer
• The Dramatic Writer’s Companion by Will Dunne
• The Golden Bough by James George Frazer
• Making a Good Writer Great by Linda Seger
• On Writing by Stephen King
• Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari
• Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
• Tiny Experiments by Anne-Laure Le Cunff

A couple of them I’ve read before, but I’m ready for a re-read.  And a couple of them, I’ve started but never finished, so it’s time to start from the beginning and get them done.

Having the list makes it real.

Now, I know “what” I’m supposed to read. Now, I can get started.

This should take me until the end of August to complete.

But I’ll check in towards the end of May to let you know how I’m doing.