The Economist Books 2025 India. They have much to say about india’s troubles: “whatever you can rightly say about india, the opposite is also true.” for those new to the country and for old.

In 2023 there were probably 160m unique books in the world, lining shelves, adorning coffee tables or (if your family is anything like mine) arranged in tall piles. The best books of 2025, as chosen by the economist.