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Book of the Year 2025 | Book Huddle with Todd Sattersten
Description
Find yourself avidly scanning the end of year Best Books lists? I'm addicted. Publisher Todd Sattersten is back with us, today sharing his annual analysis of every major end-of-year list to reveal which books actually rose to the top.
We discuss the two books that dominated 2025 in the US, why one of them is uncomfortably obsessed with death + mortality + why book nerds like us love a good list.
Plus, why year-end lists tell us more about reviewers than books + what the 2020s theme of "doing bigger things" reveals about our collective anxiety.
Todd’s a regular - look for his 4-part mini-series about the business book industry + what makes books actually work.
One Author, One Year, Million-Copy Results #1
Only 37 Business Books Sell 1,000+ Copies Weekly #2
This Number Determines Book Success #3
Author Interview with Todd #4 – this ones about his recent 100 Best Books for Work and Life
Books discussed in this episode:
Abundance - Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
Five Types of Wealth - Sahil Bloom
Slow Productivity - Cal Newport
The Coming Wave - Mustafa Suleyman
Stolen Focus - Johan Hari
The Conversation - Robert Livingston
No Rules Rules - Reid Hastings and Erin Meyer
When - Dan Pink
Deep Work - Cal Newport
100 Best Books for Work and Life - Todd Satterson
4000 Weeks - Oliver Berkman
Die Empty - Todd Henry
How Big Things Get Done - (author not mentioned)
The Right Kind of Wrong - Amy Edmondson
Loon Shots - Safi Bacali
Uncharted - Margaret Hafferman
Todd's Website: bardpress.com
Todd's Blog with more commentary on the 2025 list: bardpress.com/blog
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