If 2024 was the year the day job started bleeding into the reading list, 2025 went the other way: deep into the comfort of a re-read, picking up a childhood favourite series mid-binge from the tail end of last year and mostly not coming up for air. There’s still a clear professional thread running through some of the non-fiction below — forecasting, statistics, diplomacy — but the dominant note this year was nostalgia rather than work. A third of the list below is one extended re-read/listen,...