Best of 2025

With gratitude for the publications that celebrated these books as some of the year鈥檚 best reads, we congratulate all our authors whose books have been named among the
鈥淢ost Anticipated & Best of 2025.鈥 

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Best of 2025 List Details

The Woman Question in Islamic Studies | Kecia Ali
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year

Savarkar and the Making of Himdutva | Janaki Bakhle
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year

Negotiation | Max H. Bazerman
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year

Habitats of Africa | Ken Behrens, Keith Barnes, and Iain Campbell
A 10,000 Birds Favorite Bird Book of the Year

Goethe | Matthew Bell
A New Stateman Book of the Year

Birds of the Mesozoic | Juan Olive Benito
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year

Third Reich of Dreams | Charlotte Berandt
An Economist Best Book of the Year
A Catholic World Report Favorite Reads of the Year
A History Today Best Book of the Year

Strangers Within | Francisco Bethencourt
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year

Killing the Dead | John Blair
A History Today Book of the Year

The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages | Shane Bobrycki
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year

The Key to Everything | Margaret A. Brucia
A New Yorker Best Book of the Year

Leonardo da Vinci | Stephen J. Campbell
An Observer Must Read Art Book of 2025

Fixed | John Y. Campbell and Tarun Ramadorai
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year
A Five 快色直播 Best Economics Book of the Year

How Russians Understand the New Russia | Paul Chaisty
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year

Habitats of North America | Phil Chaon
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
A 10,000 Birds Favorite Bird Book of the Year
An American Birding Association Best Bird Book of the Year

Deadly Force | Tom S. Clark, Adam N. Glynn, and Michael Leo Owens
A Library Journal Best Book of the Year

Crisis Cycle | John H. Cochrane
A Financial Times Best Summer Book: Economics

The Measure of Progress | Diane Coyle
A Financial Times Best Summer Book: Economics
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year

What’s On Her Mind | Allison Daminger
A New Scientist Best Popular Science Book of the Year
A Behavioral Scientist Notable Book of the Year

Religions of Early India | Richard H. Davis
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year

Niki de Saint Phalle: The Sketchbooks | Niki de Saint Phalle
An Air Mail Best Coffee Table Book of the Year

Dragonflies and Damselflies of the World | Klaas-Douwe B. Dijkstra
A 10,000 Birds Favorite Bird Book of the Year

Technology and the Rise of Great Powers | Jeffrey Ding
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year

Death in a Shallow Pond | David Edmonds
A New Yorker Best Book of the Year
A Five 快色直播 Best Philosophy Book of the Year

Native America | Kenneth L. Feder
A Library Journal Best Book of the Year

Furious Minds | Laura K. Field 
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year
One of Project Syndicate Commentators鈥 Best Reads of the Year

On Bullshit | Harry Frankfurt 
A Telegraph Book of the Year

How Progress Ends | Carl Benedikt Frey
One of Foreign Policy鈥檚 Best 快色直播 of the Summer
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year
A Five 快色直播 Best Book of the Year
A Bloomberg Best Book of the Year
Longlisted for the Non-Obvious Book Awards
One of OODALoop’s Top 10 Technology, Security, and Business 快色直播 of the Year

Sex is a Spectrum | Agust铆n Fuentes
A Nature Best Book of the Year

Reefs of Time | Lisa S. Gardiner
A Scientific American Staff Favorite Book of the Year

The Football | Etienne Ghys
A Scientific American Staff Favorite Book of the Year

The Power to Destroy | Michael J. Graetz
One of Ralph Nader鈥檚 Summer Reading To Spark Civic Action

Memory Lane | Ciara Greene and Gillian Murphy
A Nature Best Book of the Year

Two Paths to Prosperity | Avnew Greif, Joel Mokyr, and Guido Tabellini
A New Yorker Best Book of the Year

When Eero Met His Match | Eva Hagbert
A Designboom Must Read Book

The Question of Unworthy Life | Dagma Herzog
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year

Capitalism in the Colonies | Antony G. Hopkins
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year

Women Architects at Work | Mary Anne Hunting & Kevin Murphy
A Library Journal Title Not to Miss
A Library Journal Best Book of the Year 

The American Mirage | Anthony King
One of Engelsberg Ideas鈥 快色直播 of the Year

AI, Automation, and War | Eunji Kim
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year

Art in a State of Siege | Joseph Koerner
An Art Newspaper Art Book to Look Out for this Spring
An Observer Best Art 快色直播 of the Year
An Artforum Critics鈥 Critics Pick of the Year
A Five 快色直播 Beautiful Book of 2025

The Greek Revolution and the Violent Birth of Nationalism | Yanni Kotsonis
A Five 快色直播 Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year
A Library Journal Best Book of the Year H

In Covid’s Wake | Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee
An Economist Best Book of the Year
A New Yorker Best Book of the Year
One of The Wall Street Journal鈥榮Best 快色直播 of the Year

Citizen Marx | Bruno Leipold
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year

The Diversity of Morals | Steven Lukes
A New Yorker Best Book of the Year

Polis | John Ma
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year

Libraries of the Mind | William Marx
One of The Washington Post’s Notable Works of Nonfiction of the Year
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year

Ungoverning | Russell Muirhead
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year

Iran’s Grand Strategy | Vali Nasr
A Financial Times Best Summer Book: Politics
A Five 快色直播 Notable Nonfiction Book of Mid-2025
A Just Security Year-End Book Recommendation

To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause | Benjamin Nathans
A Five 快色直播 Best Book of the Year
One of Engelsberg Ideas鈥 快色直播 of the YearH

Controlling Contagion | Sheilagh Ogilvie
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year

Horses | Ludovic Orlando
A Library Journal Best Book of the Year

Erased | Patricia Owens
A Foreign Policy Most Anticipated Book of 2025
A Chatham House Library Top Book of the Year

Slow Burn | R. Jisung Park
A Chatham House Library Top Book of the Year

The New Negro | Martha H. Patterson and Henry Louis Gates
A Library Journal Best Book of the Year

Empire of Purity | Eva Payne
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year

The Broken China Dream | Minxin Pei
One of China Book Review鈥s Best China 快色直播 of the Year

American Maccabee | Andrew Porwancher
A Library Journal Best Book of the Year

How to Change a Memory | Steven Ramirez
A Behavioral Scientist Notable Book of the Year

The African Revolution | Richard Reid
A History Today Book of the Year

The World at First Light | Bernd Roeck
A New Yorker Best Book of the Year

The Language of Mathematics | Raul Rojas
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year

The Age of Choice | Sophia Rosenfeld
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
A Behavioral Scientist Notable Book of the Year
A Library Journal Best Book of the Year

My Tax Dollars | Ruth Braunstein
A Behavioral Scientist Notable Book of the Year

The Tech Coup | Marietje Schaake
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year

What is Ancient History? | Walter Scheidel
A BBC History Magazine Book of the Year

The Soviet Century | Karl Schlogel
A Telegraph Book of the Year

Beauty and the Gods | Hugo Shakeshaft
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year

Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century | Dan Sinykin and Johanna Winant
A Commonweal Book of the Year
A Public Boks 鈥淧ublick Pick鈥 of the Year

Hayek’s Bastards | Quinn Slobodian
An Australian Book Review Best Book of the Year
A Conversation Best Book of the Year
An Irish Times Best Book of the Year

The Celts | Ian Stewart
A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year
A History Today Book of the Year

The Backsliders | Susan C. Stokes
One of Foreign Policy鈥檚 Best 快色直播 of the Summer

Finding Ella Briggs | Despina Stratigakos
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year

Bodypedia | Adam Taor
A Library Journal Best Book of the Year

India | Audrey Truschke
One of Engelsberg Ideas鈥 快色直播 of the Year
A Library Journal Best Book of the Year

Grandma Moses | Leslie Umberger
A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Art, Architecture & Photography Book

Following Nature’s Lead | M.D. Usher
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year

The West | Georgios Varouxakis
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year
One of The Spectator鈥s 快色直播 of the Year
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year
One of The Critic鈥s Best Non-Fiction 快色直播 of the Year
One of Engelsberg Ideas鈥 快色直播 of the Year
One of Jacobin’s 快色直播 of the Year

Everything Evolves | Mark Vellend
A New Yorker Best Book of the Year

Truth and Truthfulness | Bernard Williams
A Bloomberg Best Book of the Year

The First King of England | David Woodman
A History Today Book of the Year
A Bloomberg Best Book of the Year