Our 2025 reading had a pretty wild and wonderful range—crime, grief, empathy, power, masculinity, obsession, magic, and meaning. The men all showed up with curiosity and generosity, and I’m really grateful for that.
Our 2025 Reading List
- January: Never Split the Difference — Chris Voss
- February: The Voyeur’s Motel — Gay Talese
- March: Serpentine: The True Story of a Serial Killer’s Reign of Terror from Europe to South Asia — Thomas Thompson
- April: For the Love of Men — Liz Plank
- May: H is for Hawk — Helen Macdonald
- June: The Third Person — Emma Grove
- July: The Art Thief — Michael Finkel
- August: The Psychology of Totalitarianism — Mattias Desmet
- September: The Empathy Exams — Leslie Jamison
- October: The Serpent and the Rainbow — Wade Davis
- November: Four Seasons of Loneliness: A Lawyer’s Case Stories — J.W. Freiberg
- December: Christmas: A Candid History — Bruce David Forbes
How We Keep Reading Interesting
If your “to-be-read” pile could use a little direction (and a lot of curiosity), download our Men-Who-Read 2nd Edition Reading Prompts (2025) and see where the pages take you.