The Economist's best books of 2025
The top 3 according to 9 votes from people: Buckley — Sam Tanenhaus · Careless People — Sarah Wynn-Williams · Dark Renaissance — Stephen Greenblatt. (Updated Nov 22, 2025.)
Fifteen of the books chosen by The Economist for its best books of 2025, published on 20 November 2025: biography, non-fiction and some fiction.
Automatically translated (original in Français). See the original
Top 15
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1
Buckley — Sam Tanenhaus
Picked by The Economist.
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2
Careless People — Sarah Wynn-Williams
Picked by The Economist.
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3
Dark Renaissance — Stephen Greenblatt
Picked by The Economist.
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4
Mother Mary Comes to Me — Arundhati Roy
Picked by The Economist.
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5
Zbig — Edward Luce
Picked by The Economist.
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6
1929 — Andrew Ross Sorkin
Picked by The Economist.
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7
House of Huawei — Eva Dou
Picked by The Economist.
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8
The Thinking Machine — Stephen Witt
Picked by The Economist.
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9
Electric Spark — Frances Wilson
Picked by The Economist.
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10
Raising Hare — Chloe Dalton
Picked by The Economist.
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11
Storyteller — Leo Damrosch
Picked by The Economist.
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12
Chokepoints — Edward Fishman
Picked by The Economist.
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13
The Corporation in the 21st Century — John Kay
Picked by The Economist.
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14
The Genius Myth — Helen Lewis
Picked by The Economist.
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15
How to End a Story — Helen Garner
Picked by The Economist.
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