BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2025 LONGLIST

The Land Trap: A New History of the World's Oldest Asset

by Mike Bird

Hodder Press (UK), Portfolio (US)

Consumed: How Big Brands Got Us Hooked on Plastic

by Saabira Chaudhuri

Blink Publishing (UK)

Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What To Do About It

by Cory Doctorow

Verso Books (UK), MCD (US)

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)

The Genius Myth: The Dangerous Allure of Rebels, Monsters and Rule-Breakers

by Helen Lewis

Jonathan Cape (UK), Thesis (US)

Your Life Is Manufactured:  How We Make Things, Why It Matters and How We Can Do It Better

by Tim Minshall

Faber & Faber (UK), Ecco Press (US)

Dirtbag Billionaire: How Yvon Chouinard Built Patagonia, Made a Fortune, and Gave It All Away

by David Gelles

Text Publishing (UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada), Simon & Schuster (US)

Empire of AI: Inside the Reckless Race for Total Domination

by Karen Hao

Allen Lane (UK), Penguin Press (US)

No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson

by Gardiner Harris

Random House (UK and US)

Drayton and Mackenzie

by Alexander Starritt

Swift Press (UK)

Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future

by Dan Wang

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

Outclassed:  How the Left Lost the Working Class and How to Win Them Back

by Joan C. Williams

St. Martin's Press (UK and 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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