What I Read in 2025
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A year of balancing academic reading with non-fiction and a few memorable novels.
In 2025 I tried to combine research-related material with more general non-fiction and some fiction (mostly to disconnect a bit). Adaptive Survey Design was particularly relevant for my doctoral work, while my non-fiction reading ended up focusing quite a bit on social inequality and the societal effects of new technologies. I especially enjoyed books by Patrick Radden Keefe (again, after Say Nothing) and Jonathan Haidt (who has changed my point of view on social media). I also came across books by Ingrid Robeyns and George Monbiot & Peter Hutchison in a very nice bookstore in Bristol.
I also read several novels. Cien años de soledad by Gabriel García Márquez and Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America were probably the highlights.
📚 Books
- Una família americana — J. D. Vance
- ⭐ Cien años de soledad — Gabriel García Márquez
- Cómo escribir y publicar una tesis doctoral — Jaime Rivera Camino
- Esclavos del algoritmo — Laura G. De Rivera
- La idea d’Europa — George Steiner
- Una breu història de la igualtat — Thomas Piketty
- Paradojas — Gareth Southwell
- Autocracia S.A. — Anne Applebaum
- ⭐ The invisible doctrine. The secret history of neoliberalism — George Monbiot & Peter Hutchison
- Yo vengo del sur. El legado de una vida política — Pepe Mujica
- ⭐ Limitarianism. The case against extreme wealth — Ingrid Robeyns
- Trabajar: un amor no correspondido — Sarah Jaffe
- El càstig — Guillem Sala
- ⭐ Adaptive Survey Design — Barry Schouten, Andy Peytchev & James Wagner
- Cómo mienten los mapas — Mark Monmonier
- ⭐ L’imperi del dolor. La història secreta de la dinastia Sackler — Patrick Radden Keefe
- Digitalización Democrática — Simona Levi
- Hijos de la medianoche — Salman Rushdie
- Filosofia per a exploradors polars — Erling Kagge
- La utilidad de lo inútil — Nuccio Ordine
- ⭐ La conjura contra América — Philip Roth
- Deep Work — Cal Newport
- Moral Ambition — Rutger Bregman
- ⭐ La generación ansiosa — Jonathan Haidt
- Slow Productivity — Cal Newport
- Calling Bullshit — Carl T. Bergstrom & Jevin D. West
- ¡Reconquista tu tiempo! — Jenny Odell