best books, essays, and poems of 2025
I’m not sad to be older...I used to impose personal timelines for my achievements, impossible ones, and tear myself apart for missing them: novel by 16, marathon by 18, PhD by 25, etc. Of course, none of it happened. But no more of that. I want only to make use of my time...to wake up with something to do, and go to sleep with something done. Even
Celine Nguyen • best books, essays, and poems of 2025
‘Stop trying so hard to turn yourself into a better person,’ Burkeman writes, ‘and focus instead on actually leading a more absorbing life.’