These are my nine favorite books of 2025.

Of the 38 books I read in 2025, only nine were my favorites this year, which of course must have influenced me in one way or another.

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The 9 books are as follows:

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1️⃣ The Way of the Superior Man.

This book helps to understand the essence of masculinity and femininity, making us deal with gender with more understanding, which is very important because the way we deal with women beside us is how we deal with the world.

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2️⃣ could die tomorrow.

This book squeezed my life into the present moment and showed me that if I die now, there will be something to regret and how to spend the rest of my time more valuable and meaningful.

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3️⃣ Out of the Maze.

Last year I read Who Moved My Cheese?, and this year I read Out of the Maze, which is the conclusion of the previous book. His sequel retains the same fun and simplicity of telling it. It also has more concrete tools. I read this book a lot.

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4️⃣ The Alchemist.

I have no doubt about why this book has become a world-class literature. This is a book that has really influenced me, not only this year, but the years to come. For me, this book is the end, and we can read it for fun or for thought.

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5️⃣ Your Brain on Porn

This opened up my view of porn a lot. I remember that in the book Think and Grow Rich was told to control my sexual desires, The Way of Superior Man also said, but I didn't understand why I had to do that until I read this book! Although Your Brain on Porn did not have any formal research, it explained in science what happens in our brains when we watch porn!

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6️⃣ Don't keep your emotions in pain.

For me, this book is like a psychologist who taught me to see my emotions truthfully and to give me more access to my real emotions. But before, I thought that frustration was an entry-level anger, but it was actually just a self-defense mechanism that I had to overlook. This understanding allowed me to embrace all the emotions inside, understand myself and others more.

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7️⃣ The Mountain is You.

It was the greatest discovery to know that the people who keep us from advancing or succeeding are ourselves. This book gave me a simple understanding of why getting up and doing new things is so difficult, and I stopped looking for techniques to accomplish them, because there are no more techniques. This is a book worth reading if you are a person who constantly fights with yourself.

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8️⃣ Meditations for Mortals

I used to be a Perfectionist who was focused on infinite self-improvement. To start each project, I had to wait for my knowledge of that before I did it, but after I finished reading this book, I stopped waiting for myself to be ready and act immediately, even if ready or unready, and then learned in the meantime that the book hurt me from sticking to an unreal "perfection" until I had to let it go.

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9️⃣ The Midnight Library.

This is undoubtedly the literature that works with my heart the most in 2025. It's an emotional book. It's fun to read, hopeful, but at the same time it's very shaken. I've been helping the characters throughout the story. From the first page to the last page, the peak of this story has me sitting almost completely unpadded. The grief, disappointment, and wounds of life are shaken away unkindly before gradually being healed by some beautiful meaning. This is the book that makes me want to live and use it best.

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This is my favorite book for 2025. What do your friends like? Let's share it in case I go along. ✨

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