McKinsey & Company · 2025

McKinsey Annual Book Recommendations 2025

McKinsey Annual Book Recommendations 2025 is a 2025 best-books selection from McKinsey & Company, featuring 72 titles. Below is the full list with our Consensus Score for each book.

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

Source: McKinsey & Company — original list ↗

The AI Con
Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna
Building a God
Christopher DiCarlo
Genesis
Henry A. Kissinger, Craig Mundie, and Eric Schmidt
A Kids Book About AI Bias
Jennifer Epps
The Optimist
Keach Hagey
The Thinking Machine
Stephen Witt
The Circuit
Francisco Jimenez
The Devil at His Elbow
Greg Bauerlein
G-Man
Beverly Gage
How to Say Babylon
Safiya Sinclair
The Mango Tree
Annabelle Tometich
Mark Twain
Ron Chernow
Matriarch
Tina Knowles
Patriot
Alexei Navalny
Red Scare
Clay Risen
The Rigor of Angels
William Egginton
The Sing Sing Files
Dan Slepian
This American Woman
Zainab Salbi
Titan
Ron Chernow
The Book on Rental Property Investing
Brandon Turner
A CEO for All Seasons
Carolyn Dewar, Kurt Strovink, Scott Keller, and Vikram Malhotra
Inevitable
Mike Colias
Leading Through Disruption
Andrew N. Liveris
The New Lunar Society
David Mindell
Our Dollar, Your Problem
Kenneth Rogoff
The Psychology of Money
Morgan Housel
Range
David Epstein
Red Helicopter
Jimmy Rhee
There's Nothing Like This: Taylor Swift
Jonathan Evers
The Unaccountability Machine
Dan Davies
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
All Fours
Miranda July
Children of Time
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Dinosaurs
Lydia Millet
The God of the Woods
Liz Moore
The Life Impossible
Matt Haig
The Maniac
Benjamin Labatut
Olga Dies Dreaming
Xochitl Gonzalez
Orbital
Samantha Harvey
The Personal Librarian
Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
Precipice
Robert Harris
Presumed Guilty
Scott Turow
Trust
Hernan Diaz
The Anxious Generation
Jonathan Haidt
Why We Sleep
Matthew Walker
Book and Dagger
Elyse Graham
Challenger
Adam Higginbotham
The Demon of Unrest
Erik Larson
A Little History of Philosophy
Nigel Warburton
The Memory Palace
Christine DiMeo
A Place Called Yellowstone
Randall K. Wilson
The Power Broker
Robert Caro
Unforgiving Places
Jens Ludwig
Clear Thinking
Shane Parrish
101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think
Brianna Wiest
How Will You Measure Your Life?
Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth, and Karen Dillon
Moral Ambition
Rutger Bregman
Ordinary Magic
Jamie Walton
Scarcity Brain
Michael Easter
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
Abundance
Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
The Haves and Have-Yachts
Evan Osnos
In Covid's Wake
Stephen Macedo
The Message
Ta-Nehisi Coates
People, Power, Change
Marshall Ganz
Poverty, by America
Matthew Desmond
Why Nothing Works
Marc J. Dunkelman
Every Living Thing
Jason Roberts
The Light Eaters
Zoe Schlanger
Careless People
Sarah Wynn-Williams
The Culture Map
Erin Meyer
Death by Meeting
Patrick Lencioni