I’m pleased to share what I consider the most promising, must-read nonfiction titles scheduled for release in March 2025.
These titles will be included in our longlist of potential titles for Season 26 of the Next Big Idea Club. In a couple of months, our curators—Susan Cain, Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Grant, and Daniel Pink—will review all of my monthly selections, narrow the list down to a handful of finalists and, ultimately, choose our two official season titles, which we will send the members.
All must-read authors are invited to create a “Book Bite”, a short audio self-recording that features five key insights from their book. Imagine chatting with a stranger while waiting in line at the supermarket—only that person just happened to write a fascinating nonfiction book.
And now, the March 2025 titles are…
Dimming the Sun: The Urgent Case for Geoengineering
By Thomas Ramge
Publication Date: March 4, 2025
A vital examination of solar geoengineering―how it works, what it risks, how we might implement it―as a last-ditch effort to buy us time during this ever-heightening climate crisis. View on Amazon
The Art of Uncertainty: How to Navigate Chance, Ignorance, Risk, and Luck
By David Spiegelhalter
Publication Date: March 4, 2025
An invaluable, data-driven guide for understanding―and learning to embrace―risk and uncertainty in our daily lives. View on Amazon
The Narrowing: A Journey Through Anxiety and the Body
By Alexandra Shaker
Publication Date: March 4, 2025
An exploration of the connection between anxiety and the body by a clinical psychologist, arguing that only through understanding anxiety’s role in our lives can we transform it into resilience. View on Amazon
You’re the Boss: Become the Manager You Want to Be (and Others Need)
By Sabina Nawaz
Publication Date: March 4, 2025
This must-read guide from elite executive coach Sabina Nawaz reveals the leadership secrets of highly successful managers. View on Amazon
On Privacy: Twenty Lessons to Live By
By Lawrence Cappello
Publication Date: March 4, 2025
Lessons on privacy in the information age, with practical advice on what you can do right now to protect yourself. View on Amazon
How to Feed the World: The History and Future of Food
By Vaclav Smil
Publication Date: March 4, 2025
An indispensable analysis of how the world really produces and consumes its food—and a scientist’s exploration of how we can successfully feed a growing population without killing the planet. View on Amazon
World Eaters: How Venture Capital is Cannibalizing the Economy
By Catherine Bracy
Publication Date: March 4, 2025
A window into how the most pernicious aspects of the venture capital ethos is reaching all areas of our lives, into everything from healthcare to food to entertainment to the labor market and leaving a trail of destruction in its wake. View on Amazon
Reinventing the Heartland: How One City’s Inclusive Approach to Innovation and Growth Can Revive the American Dream
By Nicholas Lalla
Publication Date: March 4, 2025
The story of one Heartland city’s efforts to reinvent itself for the innovation age is a powerful example of the change America needs. View on Amazon
Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World
By Anne-Laure Le Cunff
Publication Date: March 4, 2025
A transformative guide to rethinking our approach to goals, creativity, and life itself from a neuroscientist and entrepreneur, and the creator of the popular Ness Labs newsletter. View on Amazon
Managing Up: How to Get What You Need from the People in Charge
By Melody Wilding
Publication Date: March 4, 2025
An indispensable guide to navigating power dynamics, building effective relationships with higher-ups, and earning more authority, freedom, and confidence at work. View on Amazon
World Without End: An Illustrated Guide to the Climate Crisis
By Christophe Blain & Jean-Marc Jancovici
Publication Date: March 11, 2025
A rich and colorful French graphic novel that has become a word-of-mouth sensation and transformed the way hundreds of thousands of people think about climate change. View on Amazon
Me, But Better: The Science and Promise of Personality Change
By Olga Khazan
Publication Date: March 11, 2025
Is it really possible to change your entire personality in a year? The Atlantic journalist Olga Khazan proves that it is in Me, But Better, which covers her year-long experiment in personality change. View on Amazon
The Broken Rung: When the Career Ladder Breaks for Women–and How They Can Succeed in Spite of It
By Kweilin Ellingrud, Lareina Yee & Maria del Mar Martinez
Publication Date: March 11, 2025
The broken rung: a phenomenon even more pervasive than the glass ceiling in holding women back from career success. This book explains it and gives you strategies for how to overcome it and fulfill your potential. View on Amazon
Stronger: The Untold Story of Muscle in Our Lives
By Michael Joseph Gross
Publication Date: March 11, 2025
A richly informative exploration of the central role of muscle in human life and health, Stronger sounds an urgent call for each of us to recognize muscle as the vital, inextricable and effective partner of the soul. View on Amazon
How to Love Better: The Path to Deeper Connection Through Growth, Kindness, and Compassion
By Yung Pueblo
Publication Date: March 11, 2025
If we see our relationships as opportunities to be fully present in our healing and growth, then we can transform and meet one another with compassion instead of judgment. View on Amazon
Inner Entrepreneur: A Proven Path to Profit and Peace
By Grant Sabatier
Publication Date: March 11, 2025
A comprehensive blueprint detailing how to start, build, buy, scale, and sell a business that expands your life. View on Amazon
Murder the Truth: Fear, the First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful
By David Enrich
Publication Date: March 11, 2025
An in-depth exposé of the broad campaign—orchestrated by elite Americans—to overturn sixty years of Supreme Court precedent, weaponize our speech laws, and silence dissent. View on Amazon
The Social Genome: The New Science of Nature and Nurture
By Dalton Conley
Publication Date: March 18, 2025
A pioneering scientist presents a mind-expanding account of the sociogenomics revolution, which promises to upend everything we know about human development. View on Amazon
Abundance
By Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson
Publication Date: March 18, 2025
A once-in-a-generation, paradigm-shifting call to rethink big, entrenched problems that seem mired in systemic scarcity: from climate change to housing, education to healthcare. View on Amazon
Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism and the Making of Modern America
By Clay Risen
Publication Date: March 18, 2025
The story of McCarthyism and the Red Scare—based in part on newly declassified sources—by an award-winning writer of history and New York Times reporter. View on Amazon
The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire: Why Our Species Is on the Edge of Extinction
By Henry Gee
Publication Date: March 18, 2025
Henry Gee envisions new opportunities for the future of humanity―a future that will reward facing challenges with ingenuity, foresight, and cooperation. View on Amazon
The Shape of Things Unseen: A New Science of Imagination
By Adam Zeman
Publication Date: March 18, 2025
From how infants perceive the world to how we can anticipate the thoughts of other people, from the benefits of play to mental disorders, The Shape of Things Unseen dazzles with insights into the workings of the human mind. View on Amazon
Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance
By Laura Delano
Publication Date: March 18, 2025
The powerful memoir of one woman’s experience with psychiatric diagnoses and medications, and her journey to discover herself outside the mental health industry. View on Amazon
Who is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service
By Michael Lewis
Publication Date: March 18, 2025
Who works for the government and why does their work matter? An urgent and absorbing civics lesson from an all-star team of writers and storytellers. View on Amazon
The Mysterious Mr. Nakamoto
By Benjamin Wallace
Publication Date: March 18, 2025
A thrilling investigation into the mysterious identity of Bitcoin’s creator and a deep dive into crypto’s utopian origin story. View on Amazon
More Human: How the Power of AI Can Transform the Way You Lead
By Rasmus Hougaard & Jacqueline Carter
Publication Date: March 18, 2025
AI has the potential to transform leadership and the human experience of work—or to lead us into an automated and uninspiring work reality. Which one will it be? View on Amazon
Conflict Resilience: Negotiating Disagreement Without Giving Up or Giving In
By Robert Bordone & Joel Salinas
Publication Date: March 18, 2025
Introducing conflict resilience: the radical act of sitting in and growing from conflict to break the bad habits that sabotage our politics, workplaces, and most important relationships. View on Amazon
Carbon: The Book of Life
By Paul Hawken
Publication Date: March 18, 2025
Hawken illuminates the subtle connections between carbon and our collective human experience and asks us to see nature, carbon, and ourselves as exquisitely intertwined—inseparably connected. View on Amazon
Make Money Easy: Create Financial Freedom and Live a Richer Life
By Lewis Howes
Publication Date: March 18, 2025
Align your financial goals with your Meaningful Mission to achieve lasting abundance and prosperity, from the host of School of Greatness. View on Amazon
The Next Conversation: Argue Less, Talk More
By Jefferson Fisher
Publication Date: March 18, 2025
From communication expert Jefferson Fisher, the definitive book on making your next conversation the one that changes everything. View on Amazon
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
By John Green
Publication Date: March 18, 2025
A passionate advocate for global healthcare reform tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world’s deadliest infectious disease. View on Amazon
The Instability of Truth: Brainwashing, Mind Control, and Hyper-Persuasion
By Rebecca Lemov
Publication Date: March 25, 2025
An acclaimed historian of science uncovers the history of brainwashing―and its troubling implications for today. View on Amazon
The Ideological Brain: The Radical Science of Flexible Thinking
By Leor Zmigrod
Publication Date: March 25, 2025
This authoritative, accessible and playful blend of psychology, politics and philosophy explores the cutting-edge of the emerging field of political neuroscience. View on Amazon
The Ageless Brain: How to Sharpen and Protect Your Mind for a Lifetime
By Dale Bredesen
Publication Date: March 25, 2025
Dr. Dale Bredesen offers a revolutionary new approach to preventing the onset of neurodegenerative disease and creating sustained brain health. View on Amazon
How to Be a Grown Up: The 14 Essential Skills You Didn’t Know You Needed (Until Just Now)
By Raffi Grinberg
Publication Date: March 25, 2025
A practical guide to adult life’s greatest mysteries that were never taught in school but should have been—including how to launch your career, find your purposes (for right now), invest your money, and much more. View on Amazon
Healing the Modern Brain: Nine Tenets to Build Mental Fitness and Revitalize Your Mind
By Drew Ramsey
Publication Date: March 25, 2025
An essential guide to cultivating Mental Fitness, providing direct, actionable techniques to improve brain function and emotional health. View on Amazon
Wild Courage: Go After What You Want and Get It
By Jenny Wood
Publication Date: March 25, 2025
A bold, empowering, and energizing guide to embracing your ambition and chasing after what you want from an executive who spent nearly two decades climbing the ranks at Google. View on Amazon
Ordinary Magic: The Science of How We Can Achieve Big Change with Small Acts
By Gregory Walton
Publication Date: March 25, 2025
Discover simple psychological shifts that build trust, belonging, and confidence—from the co-director of the Dweck-Walton Lab at Stanford University. View on Amazon
How to Menopause: Take Charge of Your Health, Reclaim Your Life, and Feel Even Better than Before
By Tamsen Fadal
Publication Date: March 25, 2025
The menopause (and perimenopause) manual that cuts through the chaos so you can take back control of your body, your confidence, and your life. View on Amazon
The Explorer’s Gene: Why We Seek Big Challenges, New Flavors, and the Blank Spots on the Map
By Alex Hutchinson
Publication Date: March 25, 2025
A fresh, provocative investigation into how exploration, uncertainty, and risk shape our behavior and help us find meaning. View on Amazon
AI Valley: Microsoft, Google, and the Trillion-Dollar Race to Cash In on Artificial Intelligence
By Gary Rivlin
Publication Date: March 25, 2025
A veteran Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist shadows the top thinkers in the field of Artificial Intelligence, introducing the breakthroughs and developments that will change the way we live and work. View on Amazon
Leading for Wellness: How to Create a Team Culture Where Everyone Thrives
By Patricia Grabarek & Katina Sawyer
Publication Date: March 25, 2025
Exclusive research-backed insights into the secrets to employee wellness and performance in today’s world of work. View on Amazon
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