{"id":1557680,"date":"2025-11-04T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/?p=1557680"},"modified":"2025-10-30T17:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T21:38:09","slug":"notable-business-books-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/notable-business-books-in-2025","title":{"rendered":"Notable Business Books in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the time of year when publications and organizations issue &#8220;best of&#8221; book lists. This year&#8217;s business award winners, best sellers, and shortlisters include titles on Facebook, entrepreneurship, Shopify, China, and, yes, AI.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"clear: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tertulia.com\/book\/careless-people-a-cautionary-tale-of-power-greed-and-lost-idealism-sarah-wynn-williams\/9781250391230\">Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism<\/a><\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_1557686\" style=\"width: 110px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tertulia.com\/book\/careless-people-a-cautionary-tale-of-power-greed-and-lost-idealism-sarah-wynn-williams\/9781250391230\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1557686\" class=\"wp-image-1557686 size-full\" title=\"Cover of Careless People\" src=\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/careless-people.png\" alt=\"Cover of Careless People\" width=\"100\" height=\"151\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1557686\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Careless People<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>by Sarah Wynn-Williams<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A New York Times bestseller, this tell-all memoir by a former Facebook executive portrays the company&#8217;s leadership as careless and its culture as dysfunctional. It made McKinsey &amp; Company&#8217;s annual &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mckinsey.com\/featured-insights\/annual-book-recommendations\">what to read next<\/a>&#8221; list, The Economist&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/culture\/2025\/06\/05\/the-40-best-books-published-so-far-this-year\">40 best books<\/a>, Barnes &amp; Noble&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/blog\/the-best-business-books-of-2025\/\">best business books of 2025<\/a>, and Goodreads&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/blog\/show\/2918-readers-hit-new-books-of-the-year-so-far\">hit new books of the year<\/a>, as well as the Times&#8217; own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/07\/books\/best-books-2025-so-far.html#link-4700b7ab\">best books of the year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"clear: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tertulia.com\/book\/the-thinking-machine-jensen-huang-nvidia-and-the-world-s-most-coveted-microchip-stephen-witt\/9780593832691\">The Thinking Machine<\/a><\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_1557683\" style=\"width: 110px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tertulia.com\/book\/the-thinking-machine-jensen-huang-nvidia-and-the-world-s-most-coveted-microchip-stephen-witt\/9780593832691\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1557683\" class=\"wp-image-1557683 size-full\" title=\"Cover of The Thinking Machine\" src=\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/the-thinking-machine.png\" alt=\"Cover of The Thinking Machine\" width=\"100\" height=\"151\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1557683\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Thinking Machine<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>by Stephen Witt<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I included the story of NVIDIA&#8217;s rise from obscure gaming company to global tech disruptor in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/spring-books-on-b2b-nvidia-bill-gates-more\">my spring roundup<\/a> of new books. Since then, it has landed on best-of lists by McKinsey and The Economist, and shortlisted for &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/8b2a63d9-f1be-493e-b6b4-082cf7f1d5bb\">best business book of 2025<\/a>&#8221; by the Financial Times and Schroders, the investment firm.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"clear: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tertulia.com\/book\/abundance-ezra-klein\/9781668023488\">Abundance<\/a><\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_1557682\" style=\"width: 110px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tertulia.com\/book\/abundance-ezra-klein\/9781668023488\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1557682\" class=\"wp-image-1557682 size-full\" title=\"Cover of Abundance\" src=\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/abundance.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of Abundance\" width=\"100\" height=\"151\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1557682\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Abundance<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This ambitious book by Klein, The New York Times podcast host, and Thompson, editor of The Atlantic, argues that the policies of the past cannot solve today&#8217;s problems, and what&#8217;s needed is a shift from a scarcity mindset to one of abundance. It&#8217;s a New York Times bestseller, a best-of-year selection by McKinsey and Goodreads, and shortlisted for best business book by the Financial Times and Schroders.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/tertulia.com\/book\/start-scale-exit-repeat-serial-entrepreneurs--secrets-revealed-colin-c-campbell\/9798887506142\">Start. Scale. Exit. Repeat.<\/a><\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_1557691\" style=\"width: 110px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tertulia.com\/book\/start-scale-exit-repeat-serial-entrepreneurs--secrets-revealed-colin-c-campbell\/9798887506142\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1557691\" class=\"wp-image-1557691 size-full\" title=\"Cover of Start. Scale. Exit. Repeat.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Start.scale_.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of Start. Scale. Exit. Repeat.\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1557691\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Start. Scale. Exit. Repeat.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>by Colin C. Campbell<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Included in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/books-on-startups-founders-investors\">my June roundup<\/a>, Campbell&#8217;s book has garnered numerous 2025 awards: the Dan Poynter <a href=\"https:\/\/globalebookawards.com\/2024-global-ebook-award-winners-2-2-2\/\">Global Ebook Award<\/a>, the Axiom Awards <a href=\"https:\/\/axiomawards.com\/blog\/2025-medalists\">Entrepreneurship \/ Small Business<\/a> gold medal, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nautilusbookawards.com\/\">Nautilus Awards<\/a> (&#8220;Better Books for a Better World&#8221;), among others, as well as being a Kirkus Best Indie Book of the Year for 2024 with a starred review that called it &#8220;top-notch how-to for business owners.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"clear: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tertulia.com\/book\/the-canary-code-a-guide-to-neurodiversity-dignity-and-intersectional-belonging-at-work-ludmila-n-praslova\/9781523005840\">The Canary Code: A Guide to Neurodiversity, Dignity, and Intersectional Belonging at Work<\/a><\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_1557685\" style=\"width: 110px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tertulia.com\/book\/the-canary-code-a-guide-to-neurodiversity-dignity-and-intersectional-belonging-at-work-ludmila-n-praslova\/9781523005840\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1557685\" class=\"wp-image-1557685 size-full\" title=\"Cover of The Canary Code\" src=\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/canary.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of The Canary Code\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1557685\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Canary Code<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>by Ludmila N. Praslova, PhD<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Praslova&#8217;s guide to inclusive workplaces earned gold medals from both the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibpabookaward.org\/winnners-business\">Independent Publishers Book Awards<\/a> and the Nautilus Awards.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"clear: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tertulia.com\/book\/the-optimist-sam-altman-openai-and-the-race-to-invent-the-future-keach-hagey\/9781324075967\">The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI and the Race to Invent the Future<\/a><\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_1557688\" style=\"width: 110px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tertulia.com\/book\/the-optimist-sam-altman-openai-and-the-race-to-invent-the-future-keach-hagey\/9781324075967\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1557688\" class=\"wp-image-1557688 size-full\" title=\"Cover of The Optimist\" src=\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/optimist.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of The Optimist\" width=\"100\" height=\"152\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1557688\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Optimist<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>by Keach Hagey<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hagey&#8217;s book made the &#8220;best of 2025&#8221; lists from McKinsey and The Economist, which called it &#8220;deeply researched and gripping.&#8221; For a different take on the same subject, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/tertulia.com\/book\/empire-of-ai-dreams-and-nightmares-in-sam-altman-s-openai-karen-hao\/9780593657508\">Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman&#8217;s OpenAI<\/a>&#8221; by Karen Hao was also listed by The Economist and shortlisted by the Financial Times and Schroders. Time magazine calls it &#8220;a page-turner.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"clear: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tertulia.com\/book\/from-click-to-boom-the-political-economy-of-e-commerce-in-china-lizhi-liu\/9780691254104\">From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-Commerce in China<\/a><\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_1557710\" style=\"width: 110px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tertulia.com\/book\/from-click-to-boom-the-political-economy-of-e-commerce-in-china-lizhi-liu\/9780691254104\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1557710\" class=\"wp-image-1557710 size-full\" title=\"Cover of From Click to Boom\" src=\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Click-to-Boom.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of From Click to Boom\" width=\"100\" height=\"152\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1557710\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From Click to Boom<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>by Lizhi Liu<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From Click to Boom&#8221; is the story of how China built a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/alibaba-exec-on-suppliers-tariffs-ip\">$2 trillion ecommerce market<\/a> \u2014 with 800 million users, 70 million jobs, and nearly 50% of global online retail sales \u2014 from scratch in just 20 years. It received the Axiom silver medal in International Business and Globalization.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"clear: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tertulia.com\/book\/the-shopify-story-how-a-startup-rocketed-to-e-commerce-giant-by-empowering-millions-of-entrepreneurs-larry-macdonald\/9781770417496\">The Shopify Story: How a Startup Rocketed to E-Commerce Giant by Empowering Millions of Entrepreneurs<\/a><\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_1557689\" style=\"width: 110px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tertulia.com\/book\/the-shopify-story-how-a-startup-rocketed-to-e-commerce-giant-by-empowering-millions-of-entrepreneurs-larry-macdonald\/9781770417496\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1557689\" class=\"wp-image-1557689 size-full\" title=\"Cover of The Shopify Story\" src=\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/shopify.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of The Shopify Story\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1557689\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Shopify Story<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>by Larry MacDonald<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Axiom gold medal for Corporate History went to this inspirational story that offers lessons for entrepreneurs, managers, employees, programmers, policymakers, and investors.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"clear: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tertulia.com\/book\/the-psychology-of-money-timeless-lessons-on-wealth-greed-and-happiness-morgan-housel\/9780857197689\">The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness<\/a><\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_1557692\" style=\"width: 110px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tertulia.com\/book\/the-psychology-of-money-timeless-lessons-on-wealth-greed-and-happiness-morgan-housel\/9780857197689 https:\/\/tertulia.com\/book\/the-art-of-spending-money-simple-choices-for-a-richer-life-morgan-housel\/9780593716625\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1557692\" class=\"wp-image-1557692 size-full\" title=\"Cover of The Psychology of Money\" src=\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/the-psychology-of-money.png\" alt=\"Cover of The Psychology of Money\" width=\"100\" height=\"151\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1557692\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Psychology of Money<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>by Morgan Housel<\/em><\/p>\n<p>McKinsey put this classic bestseller by Housel, a multi-award-winning author, on its &#8220;what to read next&#8221; list. His latest book, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/tertulia.com\/book\/the-art-of-spending-money-simple-choices-for-a-richer-life-morgan-housel\/9780593716625\">The Art of Spending Money<\/a>,&#8221; is about making the best of what you have.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s award winners and best sellers include titles on Facebook, entrepreneurship, Shopify, China, and, yes, AI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2444,"featured_media":1557724,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[58326],"tags":[55500],"class_list":["post-1557680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-schools-resources","tag-Books",""],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.2 (Yoast SEO v25.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Notable Business Books in 2025 - Practical Ecommerce<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This year&#039;s award winners and best sellers include titles on Facebook, entrepreneurship, Shopify, China, and, yes, AI.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/notable-business-books-in-2025\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Notable Business Books in 2025\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This year&#039;s award winners and best sellers include titles on Facebook, entrepreneurship, Shopify, China, and, yes, AI.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/notable-business-books-in-2025\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Practical Ecommerce\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/practicalecommerce\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JeanGazisBiz\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-11-04T10:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Notable-Business-Books-in-2025.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"360\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"240\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jean Gazis\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@yestare\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@practicalecomm\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jean Gazis\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/notable-business-books-in-2025#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/notable-business-books-in-2025\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Jean Gazis\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/#\/schema\/person\/5b4fc1e3d060639e77dcb828da590df3\"},\"headline\":\"Notable Business Books in 2025\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-11-04T10:00:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/notable-business-books-in-2025\"},\"wordCount\":667,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/notable-business-books-in-2025#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Notable-Business-Books-in-2025.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Books\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Schools &amp; 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