The Best Books of 2025

Overall — ranked by Consensus Score

Every credible 2025 list combined, across all genres.

1. 1

   

   The Anxious Generation

   Jonathan Haidt

   100Definitive7 lists
2. 2

   

   Abundance

   Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson

   91Definitive5 lists
3. 3

   

   Flesh

   David Szalay

   89Definitive4 lists
4. 4

   

   The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

   Kiran Desai

   85Definitive4 lists
5. 5

   

   All Fours

   Miranda July

   75Strong4 lists
6. 6

   

   Orbital

   Samantha Harvey

   74Strong4 lists
7. 7

   

   The Thinking Machine

   Stephen Witt

   65Strong3 lists
8. 8

   

   Mother Mary Comes to Me

   Arundhati Roy

   62Notable3 lists
9. 9

   

   Chokepoints

   Edward Fishman

   62Notable3 lists
10. 10

    

    The Coming Wave

    Mustafa Suleyman

    59Notable4 lists
11. 11

    

    The Safekeep

    Yael van der Wouden

    59Notable3 lists
12. 12

    

    In Covid's Wake

    Stephen Macedo

    59Notable3 lists

1. 1

   

   Flesh

   David Szalay

   89Definitive4 lists
2. 2

   

   The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

   Kiran Desai

   85Definitive4 lists
3. 3

   

   All Fours

   Miranda July

   75Strong4 lists
4. 4

   

   Orbital

   Samantha Harvey

   74Strong4 lists
5. 5

   

   The Safekeep

   Yael van der Wouden

   59Notable3 lists
6. 6

   

   Audition

   Katie Kitamura

   42Notable2 lists
7. 7

   

   The South

   Tash Aw

   42Notable2 lists
8. 8

   

   Endling

   Maria Reva

   42Notable2 lists
9. 9

   

   Fundamentally

   Nussaibah Younis

   41Notable2 lists
10. 10

    

    The Eleventh Hour

    Salman Rushdie

    40Notable2 lists

1. 1

   

   The Anxious Generation

   Jonathan Haidt

   100Definitive7 lists
2. 2

   

   Mother Mary Comes to Me

   Arundhati Roy

   62Notable3 lists
3. 3

   

   In Covid's Wake

   Stephen Macedo

   59Notable3 lists
4. 4

   

   Wild Thing

   Sue Prideaux

   56Notable3 lists
5. 5

   

   Mark Twain

   Ron Chernow

   54Notable3 lists
6. 6

   

   When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows

   Steven Pinker

   52Notable3 lists
7. 7

   

   Raising Hare

   Chloe Dalton

   42Notable2 lists
8. 8

   

   Storyteller: The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson

   Leo Damrosch

   42Notable2 lists
9. 9

   

   Electric Spark

   Frances Wilson

   40Notable2 lists
10. 10

    

    The Revolutionists

    Jason Burke

    40Notable2 lists

1. 1

   

   Abundance

   Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson

   91Definitive5 lists
2. 2

   

   The Thinking Machine

   Stephen Witt

   65Strong3 lists
3. 3

   

   Chokepoints

   Edward Fishman

   62Notable3 lists
4. 4

   

   The Coming Wave

   Mustafa Suleyman

   59Notable4 lists
5. 5

   

   House of Huawei

   Eva Dou

   44Notable2 lists
6. 6

   

   How Progress Ends

   Carl Benedikt Frey

   41Notable2 lists
7. 7

   

   1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in History

   Andrew Ross Sorkin

   39Listed2 lists
8. 8

   

   Careless People

   Sarah Wynn-Williams

   39Listed2 lists
9. 9

   

   How Economics Explains the World

   Andrew Leigh

   36Listed2 lists
10. 10

    

    The Art of Uncertainty

    David Spiegelhalter

    36Listed2 lists

Every 2025 list we track

• The New York TimesThe 10 Best Books of 2025
• The EconomistThe Economist's Books of the Year 2025
• The Booker PrizeThe Booker Prize 2025 Shortlist
• Financial TimesFT Business Book of the Year 2025
• The Wall Street JournalThe Wall Street Journal's 10 Best Books of 2025
• Women's Prize for FictionThe Women's Prize for Fiction 2025 Shortlist
• The GuardianThe Best Books of 2025
• McKinsey & CompanyMcKinsey Annual Book Recommendations 2025
• BloombergBloomberg's Best Books of 2025
• J.P. MorganJ.P. Morgan Summer Reading List 2025
• Bill Gates (Gates Notes)Bill Gates: Five Books to Read This Winter (2025)

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