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McKinsey's 2025 Annual Book Recommendations Summary

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McKinsey's 2025 annual book recommendations feature a diverse selection of over 90 titles across various categories, including AI, biography, fiction, health, history, personal development, politics, sustainability, and workplace culture. These books are recommended by a range of influential leaders, including CEOs, ambassadors, authors, and academics, reflecting a broad spectrum of interests and expertise.

Main Categories and Key Titles

Artificial Intelligence

• The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want by Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna
  Recommended by: Mohamed Nanabhay (Mozilla Ventures)

• Building a God: The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence and the Race to Control It by Christopher DiCarlo
  Recommended by: María Eugenia del Castillo Cabrera (Dominican Republic)

• Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit by Henry A. Kissinger, Craig Mundie, and Eric Schmidt
  Recommended by: Maribel Pérez Wadsworth (Knight Foundation)

• A Kids Book About AI Bias by Avriel Epps
  Recommended by: Cristina Mancini (Black Girls Code)

• The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip by Stephen Witt
  Recommended by: Alan Murray (WSJ Leadership Institute)

• The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future by Keach Hagey
  Recommended by: Kathy Bloomgarden (Ruder Finn)

Biography and Memoir

• The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child by Francisco Jiménez
  Recommended by: Daniel Porterfield (Aspen Institute)

• The Devil at His Elbow: Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty by Valerie Bauerlein
  Recommended by: Jeff Bussgang (Flybridge Capital Partners)

• G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage
  Recommended by: Shelley Stewart III (McKinsey)

• How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair
  Recommended by: Andrew Simon (Chronicle of Philanthropy)

• The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony by Annabelle Tometich
  Recommended by: Maribel Pérez Wadsworth (Knight Foundation)

• Mark Twain by Ron Chernow
  Recommended by: Gillian Tett (Financial Times)

• Matriarch by Tina Knowles
  Recommended by: Yael Taqqu (McKinsey)

• Patriot: Alexei Navalny by Tina Knowles
  Recommended by: Tracy Francis (McKinsey)

• Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America by Clay Risen
  Recommended by: Alan Murray (WSJ Leadership Institute)

• The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality by William Egginton
  Recommended by: Adam Falk (Wildlife Conservation Society)

• The Sing Sing Files: One Journalist, Six Innocent Men, and a Twenty-Year Fight for Justice by Dan Slepian
  Recommended by: Rebecca Blumenstein (NBC News)

• This American Woman: A One-in-a-Billion Memoir by Zarna Garg
  Recommended by: S. Mitra Kalita (URL Media)

• Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow
  Recommended by: Alan Schnitzer (The Travelers Companies)

Business

• The Book on Rental Property Investing by Brandon Turner
  Recommended by: Maya Horgan Famodu (Ingressive Capital)

• A CEO for All Seasons: Mastering the Cycles of Leadership by Carolyn Dewar, Kurt Strovink, Scott Keller, and Vikram Malhotra
  Recommended by: Raju Narisetti (McKinsey)

• Inevitable: Inside the Messy, Unstoppable Transition to Electric Vehicles by Mike Colias
  Recommended by: Jamie Heller (Business Insider)

• Leading Through Disruption: A Changemaker's Guide to Twenty-First Century Leadership by Andrew N. Liveris
  Recommended by: Zubaida Bai (Grameen Foundation)

• The New Lunar Society: An Enlightenment Guide to the Next Industrial Revolution by David A. Mindell
  Recommended by: Amy Brand (MIT Press)

• Our Dollar, Your Problem: An Insider's View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance, and the Road Ahead by Kenneth Rogoff
  Recommended by: Glenn Hubbard (Columbia University)

• The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness by Morgan Housel
  Recommended by: Maya Horgan Famodu (Ingressive Capital)

• Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein
  Recommended by: Malcolm Gladwell (Revisionist History)

• Red Helicopter—a Parable for Our Times: Lead Change with Kindness (Plus a Little Math) by James Rhee
  Recommended by: Cristina Mancini (Black Girls Code)

• There's Nothing Like This: The Strategic Genius of Taylor Swift by Kevin Evers
  Recommended by: Ellen Desmarais (Harvard Business Publishing)

• The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions—and How the World Lost Its Mind by Dan Davies
  Recommended by: Paul Hudson (Sanofi)

Fiction

• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
  Recommended by: Kathy Bloomgarden (Ruder Finn)

• All Fours by Miranda July
  Recommended by: S. Mitra Kalita (URL Media)

• Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
  Recommended by: Patrick Awuah (Ashesi University)

• The Culture series by Iain Banks
  Recommended by: Sven Smit (McKinsey)

• Dinosaurs by Lydia Millet
  Recommended by: Jamie Heller (Business Insider)

• The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
  Recommended by: Julia Beizer (Bloomberg Media)

• Hadji Murat by Leo Tolstoy
  Recommended by: Mina Al-Oraibi (National)

• James by Percival Everett
  Recommended by: John King Jr. (SUNY)

• Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
  Recommended by: Ida Auken (Denmark)

• The Life Impossible by Matt Haig
  Recommended by: Samar Ali (Millions of Conversations)

• The Maniac by Benjamin Labatut
  Recommended by: Adam Falk (Wildlife Conservation Society)

• Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez
  Recommended by: John King Jr. (SUNY)

• Orbital by Samantha Harvey
  Recommended by: Ellen Desmarais (Harvard Business Publishing)

• The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
  Recommended by: Amy Brand (MIT Press)

• Precipice by Robert Harris
  Recommended by: Sven Smit (McKinsey)

• Presumed Guilty by Scott Turow
  Recommended by: Nicholas Kristof (New York Times)

• Trust by Hernan Diaz
  Recommended by: Yael Taqqu (McKinsey)

Health

• The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt
  Recommended by: Cristina Junqueira (Nubank)

• Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker
  Recommended by: Alan Schnitzer (The Travelers Companies)

History

• Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II by Elyse Graham
  Recommended by: Christopher Eisgruber (Princeton University)

• Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham
  Recommended by: Paul Hudson (Sanofi)

• The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson
  Recommended by: Bob Sternfels (McKinsey)

• The First Jesuits by John W. O'Malley
  Recommended by: Daniel Porterfield (Aspen Institute)

• The Islamic Secular by Sherman A. Jackson
  Recommended by: Farhan Latif (El-Hibri Foundation)

• Land Between the Rivers: A 5,000-Year History of Iraq by Bartle Bull
  Recommended by: Mina Al-Oraibi (National)

• A Little History of Philosophy by Nigel Warburton
  Recommended by: Michael Birshan (McKinsey)

• The Memory Palace: True Short Stories of the Past by Nate DiMeo
  Recommended by: Kat Downs Mulder (Yahoo News)

• A Place Called Yellowstone: The Epic History of the World's First National Park by Randall K. Wilson
  Recommended by: Glenn Hubbard (Columbia University)

• The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro
  Recommended by: Daniel Roth (LinkedIn)

• Sand, Snow, and Stardust: How US Military Engineers Conquered Extreme Environments by Gretchen Heefner
  Recommended by: Daniel Roth (LinkedIn)

• Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence by Jens Ludwig
  Recommended by: Malcolm Gladwell (Revisionist History)

• The World of the Cold War: 1945-1991 by Vladislav Zubok
  Recommended by: Michael Birshan (McKinsey)

Personal Development

• 101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think by Brianna Wiest
  Recommended by: Daniel Trujillo (McKinsey)

• Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results by Shane Parrish
  Recommended by: Cristina Junqueira (Nubank)

• How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth, and Karen Dillon
  Recommended by: Jeff (Jongyoon) Kim (Yanolja)

• A Little Daylight Left by Sarah Kay
  Recommended by: Raju Narisetti (McKinsey)

• Moral Ambition: Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference by Rutger Bregman
  Recommended by: Ida Auken (Denmark)

• Ordinary Magic: The Science of How We Can Achieve Big Change with Small Acts by Gregory M. Walton
  Recommended by: Tracy Francis (McKinsey), Yuval Atsmon (McKinsey)

• The Queen's Code by Alison A. Armstrong
  Recommended by: Maya Horgan Famodu (Ingressive Capital)

• The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth by M. Scott Peck
  Recommended by: Jeff (Jongyoon) Kim (Yanolja)

• Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough by Michael Easter
  Recommended by: Daniel Trujillo (McKinsey)

• Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
  Recommended by: Bob Sternfels (McKinsey)

• Your Hidden Genius: The Science-Backed Strategy to Uncovering and Harnessing Your Innate Talents by Betsy Wills and Alex Ellison
  Recommended by: Samar Ali (Millions of Conversations)

Politics

• Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
  Recommended by: Jeff Bussgang (Flybridge Capital Partners), Shelley Stewart III (McKinsey)

• The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of Gaza and the Occupied Territories by Ilan Pappe
  Recommended by: Sofana Dahlan (Sofana R. Dahlan Law Firm)

• The Guarantee: Inside the Fight for America's Next Economy by Natalie Foster
  Recommended by: Zubaida Bai (Grameen Foundation)

• The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich by Evan Osnos
  Recommended by: Stephanie Mehta (Mansueto Ventures)

• I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times by Mónica Guzmán
  Recommended by: Andrew Simon (Chronicle of Philanthropy)

• In Covid's Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us by Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee
  Recommended by: Christopher Eisgruber (Princeton University)

• Industrial Policy for the United States: Winning the Competition for Good Jobs and High-Value Industries by Marc Fasteau and Ian Fletcher
  Recommended by: Gillian Tett (Financial Times)

• The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates
  Recommended by: Mohamed Nanabhay (Mozilla Ventures)

• People, Power, Change: Organizing for Democratic Renewal by Marshall Ganz
  Recommended by: Farhan Latif (El-Hibri Foundation)

• Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond
  Recommended by: Deborah Archer (ACLU)

• Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch by Andrea Freeman
  Recommended by: Deborah Archer (ACLU)

• Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country by Patricia Evangelista
  Recommended by: Rebecca Blumenstein (NBC News)

• Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress—and How to Bring It Back by Marc J. Dunkelman
  Recommended by: Nicholas Kristof (New York Times)

Sustainability

• Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life by Jason Roberts
  Recommended by: Yuval Atsmon (McKinsey)

• The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth by Zoë Schlanger
  Recommended by: Kat Downs Mulder (Yahoo News)

Workplace Culture

• Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams
  Recommended by: Stephanie Mehta (Mansueto Ventures)

• The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business by Erin Meyer
  Recommended by: María Eugenia del Castillo Cabrera (Dominican Republic)

• Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable About Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business by Patrick Lencioni
  Recommended by: Sofana Dahlan (Sofana R. Dahlan Law Firm)