Best Books 2025: Business Leaders Recommend Their Must-Reads

Nov. 17, 2025, 7:00 AM UTC

What do some of the world’s most important business leaders want from a book right now? The same thing most of us want: understanding, hope and a dose of escapism.

Our annual survey of chief executive officers and entrepreneurs, politicians and philanthropists, and other varied newsmakers highlights nonfiction writing about managing colleagues and the onslaught of artificial intelligence, history books on the kings of England and the CIA, and a range of more personal works of fiction. (See our lists from 2024, 2023, 2022 and 2021.)

Three books — 1929 by CNBC host Andrew Ross Sorkin, Abundance by journalists Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, ...

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