12 books I'm going to read in 2025

I’m not saying my cold changed my life, but it did reshape my reading list for the next year.

I caught a nasty cold on the last day of our Christmas skiing trip to Italy. It wasn’t just a sniffle, either—proper head-throbbing, bone-aching misery. I barely made it down to breakfast and only managed one cup of cappuccino before feeling so dizzy I had to abandon my croissant and shuffle back to the room. Once there, I collapsed on the bed and didn’…