BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2025 SHORTLIST

The Shortlist

FT Editor Roula Khalaf has announced the Business Book of the Year six finalists for 2025. Many congratulations to our shortlisted authors. Join us in-person and online on Wednesday 3 December for the winner’s ceremony in London. 

House of Huawei: Inside the Secret World of China's Most Powerful Company

by Eva Dou

 Abacus (UK), Portfolio (US)

Chokepoints: How the Global Economy Became a Weapon of War

by Edward Fishman

Elliott & Thompson (UK), Portfolio (US)

How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations

by Carl Benedikt Frey

Princeton University Press (UK and US)

Abundance:  How We Build a Better Future

by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson

Profile Books (UK), Simon & Schuster (US)

Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future

by Dan Wang

 Allen Lane (UK), W. W. Norton & Company (US)

The Thinking Machine:  Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip

by Stephen Witt

The Bodley Head (UK), Viking (US)

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