Financial Times Business Book of the Year 2025 (16 books)

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1	Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare by Edward Fishman (Goodreads Author) 4.36 avg rating — 981 ratings score: 191, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	Your Life Is Manufactured: How We Make Things, Why It Matters and How We Can Do It Better by Tim Minshall 3.64 avg rating — 215 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	House of Huawei: The Secret History of China's Most Powerful Company by Eva Dou 3.89 avg rating — 1,688 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	The Genius Myth: The dangerous allure of rebels, monsters and rule-breakers by Helen Lewis 3.89 avg rating — 691 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Drayton and Mackenzie by Alexander Starritt 4.40 avg rating — 419 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Outclassed: How the Left Lost the Working Class and How to Win Them Back by Joan C. Williams 4.16 avg rating — 192 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations by Carl Benedikt Frey 4.29 avg rating — 73 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It by Cory Doctorow (Goodreads Author) 4.15 avg rating — 3,097 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Consumed: How Big Brands Got Us Hooked on Plastic: Longlisted for the FT Business Book of the Year by Saabira Chaudhuri (Goodreads Author) 4.17 avg rating — 84 ratings score: 93, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	The Land Trap: A New History of the World's Oldest Asset by Mike Bird 4.28 avg rating — 90 ratings score: 92, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future by Dan Wang (Goodreads Author) 4.20 avg rating — 3,753 ratings score: 90, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	Dirtbag Billionaire: How Yvon Chouinard Built Patagonia, Made a Fortune, and Gave It All Away by David Gelles (Goodreads Author) 4.16 avg rating — 710 ratings score: 89, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	Abundance: How We Build a Better Future by Ezra Klein 3.95 avg rating — 36,081 ratings score: 88, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI by Karen Hao 4.04 avg rating — 6,169 ratings score: 87, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson by Gardiner Harris 4.17 avg rating — 12,964 ratings score: 86, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip by Stephen Witt 4.34 avg rating — 2,045 ratings score: 85, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars