12 books for 2025

Few years ago I somehow lost the habit of reading, being caught up with various responsibilities as I grew out of teenagehood. It was once a source of pride, and I considered myself a well-read person. It slowly became a pervasive sense of shame, having abandoned a sort of intellectual routine which I had made part of my identity growing up, and seeing my vocabulary dwindle by the years. I decided to slowly get back to it in 2025, and attempt to keep a yearly trace of what I read.

Here a selection of books that accompanied me throughout last year:

• Neuromancer — William Gibson

• Consider Phlebas — Iain M. Banks

• The Player of Games — Iain M. Banks

• Use of Weapons — Iain M. Banks

• The State of the Art — Iain M. Banks

• Franchise — Isaac Asimov

• The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction — Walter Benjamin ^(re-read)

• Le Mage du Kremlin — Giuliano da Empoli

• Vous ne détestez pas le lundi, vous détestez la domination au travail — Nicolas Framont

• Appel à la vigilance — Edwy Plenel

• The Communist Manifesto — Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels ^(re-read)

• Saint Luigi — Nicolas Framont