What will you be reading in 2025?

Dr Claire Plumbly
Burnout: how to manage your nervous system before it manages you
Yellow Kite
Dr Plumbly's professional insights as a therapist working with clients experiencing anxiety and trauma, this book will help everyone understand how to prepare and manage burnout. I found useful tools from it that help with the challenges of modern life; be it at work, at home and in relationships.
Eszter Vuity
See The burning issue of how to approach burnout

Pete Wharmby
Untypical: how the world isn't built for autistic people and what we should all do about it
Mudlark
I think the title says all we need to know. Just like his book What I Want To Talk About (described as a 'love letter to the phenomenon of autistic hyperfixation'), Pete writes with warmth and humour which makes his writing readable and relatable. I've found his posts and musings on LinkedIn have helped me in both my professional life, as a clinical psychologist in neurodevelopmental services, and in my personal life as someone keen to be a good ally to neurodivergent people and as a mother to children with autistic best friends.
Samantha Riches

My pile is ever-growing but currently reading Free to Learn by Peter Gray,
Quiet by Susan Cain and The Meaning of Everything by Simon Winchester.
@sarahjwm22.bsky.social

About halfway through The Gift of Therapy by Irvin Yalom (fantastic read!). Next up is Concepts at the Interface by Nicholas Shea (concept-driven cognition), The Neuroscience of You by Chantel Prat, and Unmasking Autism by Devon Price.
@wescontreras.com

Robert B Cialdini
Influence, New and Expanded: The Psychology of Persuasion 
Harper Business
This is the best social psychology book ever written in my opinion and certainly the one with most applications in day-to-day life. I used what I learned all the time in business (and still do), because ultimately you need to persuade people to buy something, and even before that you need to get them on side and 'in your camp.' I first read an earlier version in the 90s, but the new version has an additional topic/weapon of influence, which is 'Unity,' the use of shared social identity to help persuade others.
Alan Bradshaw

Max Bazerman and Ann Tenbrunsel
Blindspots: Why We Fail to do What's Right and What to do About it
Princeton University Press
This is a good few years old now but perhaps it's more relevant than ever. This book is positioned at the intersection between psychology and business ethics and I'll be re-reading it this year.
Lucinda Soon

Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina 
Penguin Classics
I find that reading more psychological text in my spare time can burn me out quite a bit (though some might say reading Anna Karenina is a more demanding task!) One big thing I appreciate about the book, is how Tolstoy immerses you into Russian aristocracy, and, being such an accessible read, it's amazing to reflect on how much character interaction and plot development he packs into just a couple pages. He also has an excellent skill of describing the human experience in such a realistic way.
Gemima Kabunda

Jenny Odell
How To Do Nothing
Melville House
…And then her most recent book, Saving Time.
Merideth Gattis

Bryony Gordon
Mad Woman
Headline Publishing Group
Explores the impact of menopause, binge eating and OCD. She writes compassionately from her own lived experience..
Meg Trinder

Robert Tyminski
The Psychological Effects of Immigrating
Routledge
Working with migrants and multicultural people, I sometimes struggle to find a psychological reflection that doesn't only analyse migration as a social phenomenon but also examines the individual experience and what specific issues it can bring such as identity, trauma and isolation.
Valeria Giannuzzi

Pete Etchell
Unlocked: The Real Science of Screen Time
Piatkus
I'm getting a lot of insight and benefit from Pete's book. It's a great mix of personal reflections with explanations of the research, and, it's incredibly useful in work with worried parents, CYP, and policymakers.
James McTaggart
See 'It's down to you to be more reflective around screen use'

Ross White
The Tree That Bends
Quercus
An exploration of embracing difficult emotions and acting in ways that are deeply meaningful. I read a little bit of this book every day.
Aspa Paltoglou
See A change is (nearly) as good as a rest

Also on your bookshelves…

• Sarah Butler's Polyvagal Theory in the Classroom
• Dan Siegel's Intraconnected (both suggested by Nicola Kilkullen)
• Tiffany Yu's The Anti-Ableist Manifesto
• Susan Solomon's Solvable – How we healed the Earth and how we can do it again (both suggested by Saima Eman)
• Dr Shanna Swan's Count Down (Tony Wainwright)