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2025
Year in Books
6,949
pages read
18
books read


Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Shortest Book
168
pages
To Hell and Back by Ian Kershaw
Longest Book
640
pages

Average book length in 2025
386
pages

Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Most Shelved
951,079
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The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time by Roberto Mangabeira Unger
Least Shelved
4
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Serdar’s average rating for 2025
4.3
4.3

Free for All by Kenneth Turan
Highest Rated on Goodreads
4.54 average

The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time by Roberto Mangabeira Unger

Serdar’s first review of the year

it was amazing
This book has given me more to think about in re physics and cosmology than almost everything else I've read in the past decade put together. If that's enough to spur you to read it, consider my job here done.

What we have here is not a theory as such, but an outline of a possible set of theories -- a prolegomena to a possible future cosmology, you could call it -- in which the dead ends of string theory and the untestable speculations of multiver
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SERDAR’S 2025 BOOKS
Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig
The Legend of Kamui by Sanpei Shirato
The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time by Roberto Mangabeira Unger
it was amazing
The Firm by Duff McDonald
The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time by Roberto Mangabeira Unger
To Hell and Back by Ian Kershaw
Free for All by Kenneth Turan
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories by Bruno Schulz
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
it was amazing
Time Reborn by Lee Smolin
What Money Can't Buy by Michael J. Sandel
Killing Them Softly by George V. Higgins
Out by Natsuo Kirino
The People in the Playground by Iona Opie
Up the Walls of the World by James Tiptree Jr.
At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien
Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg

Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg

Serdar’s last review of the year

really liked it
I think I came to this book a little late. I've already spend some fifteen-plus years actively engaged in Zen practices, and many more years on top of that as a casual student of it, and at least as long as all that trying to be a writer. So by the time I sat down with Goldberg's text, a lot of what it had to say seemed pat and familiar.

Not bad, mind you. The lesson of this book is simple: at least half of being a writer is about giving yourself
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