Bloomberg · 2025

Bloomberg's Best Books of 2025

Bloomberg's Best Books of 2025 is a 2025 best-books selection from Bloomberg, featuring 82 titles. Below is the full list with our Consensus Score for each book.

SHORTLIST archives the fact of each title's inclusion on Bloomberg's 2025 selection; our commentary is our own and we link to the original list.

Source: Bloomberg — original list ↗

Drayton and Mackenzie
Alexander Starritt
The 5 Types of Wealth
Sahil Bloom
Look Closer
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Ambigrammia
Douglas Hofstadter
Good Things
Samin Nosrat
Wild Cities
Chris Fitch
Abundance
Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
Francesco. Il primo italiano
Aldo Cazzullo
Poems & Prayers
Matthew McConaughey
Orbital
Samantha Harvey
Life in Three Dimensions
Shigehiro Oishi
Le Barman du Ritz
Philippe Collin
Super Agers
Eric Topol
100 Hotels of a Lifetime
Annie Fitzsimmons
Some Sizes Fit All
Akhil Gupta
Iron Hope
James Lawrence
Strangers in the Land
Michael Luo
Flesh
David Szalay
Making Sense of Chaos
J. Doyne Farmer
Hostage
Eli Sharabi
Truth and Truthfulness
Bernard Williams
The Golden Rule
Lucy Pollock
The Doorman
Chris Pavone
Defy
Sunita Sah
The Art of Uncertainty
David Spiegelhalter
Everything Is Not Enough
Lola Akinmade Akerstrom
Horror Movie
Paul Tremblay
Unforgiving Places
Jens Ludwig
Stop Letting Everything Affect You
Daniel Chidiac
Range
David Epstein
How Economics Explains the World
Andrew Leigh
After the North Pole
Erling Kagge
The Message
Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Mission
Tim Weiner
The Gunfighters
Bryan Burrough
1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in History
Andrew Ross Sorkin
The Black Loch
Peter May
Mark Twain
Ron Chernow
All That Glitters
Orlando Whitfield
Fall of Civilizations
Paul Cooper
The Gods of New York
Jonathan Mahler
The Secret of Secrets
Dan Brown
Question 7
Richard Flanagan
Things Become Other Things
Craig Mod
How Progress Ends
Carl Benedikt Frey
Don't Build, Rebuild
Aaron Betsky
The Fate of the Day
Rick Atkinson
Lawless Republic
Josiah Osgood
Recursion
Blake Crouch
The Skill Code
Matt Beane
Superagency
Reid Hoffman and Greg Beato
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows
Steven Pinker
The Transformation Principles
Hemant Taneja
Can We Be Great Again?
Jeremy Hunt
Culpability
Bruce Holsinger
Nexus
Yuval Noah Harari
The History of Money
David McWilliams
Chokepoints
Edward Fishman
What Is Intelligence?
Blaise Aguera y Arcas
The Next Day
Melinda French Gates
A Brief History of Intelligence
Max Bennett
The Coming Wave
Mustafa Suleyman
American Apocalypse
Kurt Schlichter
The Future of Truth
Werner Herzog
How to Stand up to a Dictator
Maria Ressa
The Systems Leader
Robert E. Siegel
Gambling Man
Lionel Barber
The First King of England
David Woodman
Smart Rivals
Feng Zhu and Bonnie Yining Cao
The Innovation Edge
Merle Symes
A Different Kind of Power
Jacinda Ardern
Who Knew
Barry Diller
Moral Ambition
Rutger Bregman
The Let Them Theory
Mel Robbins and Sawyer Robbins
Apple in China
Patrick McGee
The Good Sport
Kevin White
Wind and Truth
Brandon Sanderson
The Bottomless Cup
Kevin Boehm
Henry V
Dan Jones
The Favorites
Layne Fargo
Dream Chasing
Bob Weis
The Outsiders
William N. Thorndike