Shortlist for the 2025 Business Book of the Year Award announced

The Financial Times and Schroders have announced the shortlist for the 2025 Business Book of the Year Award. Now in its twenty-first year, the award is an essential calendar fixture for authors, publishers and the global business community. Each year it recognises a book which provides the ‘most compelling and enjoyable insight into modern business issues’.

This year’s shortlisted books, selected by the eleven distinguished judges, are: House of Huawei: Inside the Secret World of China’s Most Powerful Company by Eva Dou, published by Abacus (UK), Portfolio (US); Chokepoints: How the Global Economy Became a Weapon of War by Edward Fishman, published by Elliott & Thompson (UK), Portfolio (US); How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations by Carl Benedikt Frey, published by Princeton University Press (UK and US); Abundance: How We Build a Better Future by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, published by Profile Books (UK), Simon & Schuster (US); Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future by Dan Wang, published by Allen Lane (UK), W. W. Norton & Company (US); and The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World’s Most Coveted Microchip by Stephen Witt, published by The Bodley Head (UK), Viking (US).

The winner of the 2025 Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award will be announced on December 3 at an event in London hosted by FT Editor Roula Khalaf, Group Chief Executive of Schroders Richard Oldfield, and Nikkei Inc. Managing Director for Global Business Daisuke Arakawa.