5 Up-to-Date Business Books You Should Read to Have a Successful Year

You toiled twice as hard last year for a yield of 50%. You have the opportunity to make 2025 your best year yet with some strategic actions. I am certain of this. What separates the most fulfilled and prosperous version of yourself from where you are today is in the people you encounter and the literature you peruse. Seek out new acquaintances. Curl up with a good book.

If you want to up your business game, motivation, and outlook, read one of these five new books. They will teach you to think big, redefine success, and break down an empire into its component pieces.

If you want to make 2025 the year of transformation in a rational and motivating way, read them from top to bottom.

Top business books for aspiring creators in 2025

What's Your Dream?: Find Your Passion. Love Your Work. Build a Richer Life. Simon Squibb, Penguin

If you haven’t started your business, you need a plan. If you’re already running one, you need to avoid the mistakes that transform hope into failure. Simon Squibb, an entrepreneur who launched his first firm while homeless at fifteen and later sold his agency to PwC for more money than he’ll ever need, has seen it all when it comes to building big and overcoming barriers. Squibb sees too many entrepreneurs “being trapped by aspirations that aren’t true dreams, falling prey to popular myths that stop us from achieving our goals, giving into the fear that prevents us from taking action” and wants to make it stop.

The book covers analyzing risk, developing a community of super fans, understanding when to quit and pivot, and, of course, thinking big about what you can achieve. Your rich life starts today.

Seven Myths About Money: And the Truth About Finding Financial Freedom. Rob Dix, Penguin

Your money knowledge isn’t benefitting you. Your money beliefs aren’t either. Too many people walk around believing that money doesn’t grow on trees, money is hard to come by, and money is for people who aren’t like them. It’s just not true. Rob Dix, the bestselling author of The Price of Money, talks down the seven fallacies about money that you need to let go of right now.

Dix feels that, “over the last decade, the world of money has transformed—but the mainstream financial advice hasn’t caught up.” Taking outdated money advice can only take you further from your financial goals, because the genuine route to riches is dramatically different from what you’ve been told. There’s a new game, so learn the new rules.

The new way to think? Savings are a fraud, retirement is a trap, renting beats purchasing, risk isn’t all bad, and diversity can be keeping you playing small. Keep an open mind. Rework your money beliefs to serve your richest self.

The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life. Sahil Bloom, Ballantine Books

But it’s not just about money. To live your best life, evaluate the 5 categories of wealth and try to obtain all of them. The debut book of Sahil Bloom, whose social insights and newsletter are read by millions, aims to help you break free from the daily grind, experience true fulfillment, and establish a life of endless prosperity.

What are the five types? Time wealth, social wealth, mental wealth, physical wealth, and financial riches. Only spend your days with tasks that offer you energy. Having more free time. Creating strong relationships and a powerful network. Engaging your mission to ignite ongoing growth, maximize your health, and achieve financial freedom based on your definition of enough.

Building a business while sacrificing every other part of your life will leave you unhappy and burned out. Don’t be rich with regret. Become a well-rounded, complete human being when you take a more holistic view of your life and job.

The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can't Stop Talking About. Mel Robbins, Hay House

Now you’re dreaming big and have your plan; you’ve smashed your moneybeliefs,s and you’reoptimizingg for the five sorts ofwealth.,Makee sure you’re focused on your own game. How? Let other folks do their thing while you do yours. Mel Robbins, a well-respected expert on motivation, confidence, and mentality, says that “if you've ever felt stuck, overwhelmed, or frustrated with where you are, the problem isn't you. The problem is the power you give to other people.”

Stop handing up your power. Stop wasting your energy on things you can’t control. Stop allowing other people to take your time. Let them go. In this book, Robbins shows how you can break free from fear and self-doubt, build resilience against everyday pressures and distractors, quit comparing yourself to other people, and design your own route to success.

You do you, whether they like it or not. Find out how much power you truly have, then start using it. Your new chapter begins when you break free of the necessity to regard other people as much as you do. The Let Them Theory will show you how.

Superagency: What Could Possibly Go Right with Our AI Future. Reid Hoffman and Greg Beato, Authors Equity

If AI hasn’t yet changed your business, this year it will. Technology is advancing, processes are being rewritten, and it’s another way the rules are altering for businesses. Don’t miss this shift. Reid Hoffman co-founded LinkedIn before selling it to Microsoft. He was executive vice president and a founding board member at PayPal and currently focuses on establishing products that can reach hundreds of millions of participants and businesses that have network effects.

If anyone can spot profitable trends, it’s this guy. And he feels that AI isn’t all evil. Superagency proposes a blueprint for harnessing AI inclusively and adaptively to improve our lives and achieve positive change. Disinformation and employment disruption are tiny fees to pay for the promise of AI, including boosting human autonomy and achieving better outcomes for society as a whole.

Hoffman and Beato picture a world of AI tutors tailoring schooling for each child, researchers fast discovering solutions for diseases like Alzheimer's and cancer, and AI advisers allowing people to traverse complex systems and achieve their goals. Read this book to help develop it.

Brand new business books to make 2025 your finest year

Your best year in business is getting started right now, and these five books will keep you on track and developing each day. Dream big about what you can produce, reverse the money beliefs not benefiting you, and evaluate the five various sorts of riches. Let other people do their thing as you do yours, and don’t overlook the inevitable part that AI will play. Get reading, take action, let’s go.