Abundance
by Ezra Klein
★ Top 10 book of 2025 · #7 on Best Books of 2025
Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson explore why the United States struggles to deliver ambitious projects, from affordable housing to infrastructure and climate change. The nonfiction work became a New York Times Best Seller.
Best for: Readers curious about why American housing, infrastructure and climate efforts keep stalling
Abundance is #7 on BookWard's Best Books of 2025, out of 30 2025 books that cleared our data bar.
What Abundance is about
Why does the United States struggle to build things on a grand scale? Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson take up that question, looking at the habits, rules and politics that slow ambitious projects down. They focus on three areas where the problem is easy to see: homes people can afford, public infrastructure, and the response to climate change. A New York Times Best Seller published in March 2025, it examines the reasons behind the lack of progress on ambitious projects in the United States, including those related to affordable housing, infrastructure, and climate change.
Abundance on the Best Books of 2025
Abundance came out in 2025. Of the 30 books first published in 2025 that met BookWard's data bar, it ranks #7 on our Best Books of 2025 list.
Why it made the list: 300 readers have shelved it on Open Library; its Wikipedia page averaged 8,991 views a month recently. The list ranks each year’s books on how many readers have picked them up, how highly readers rate them, and how many are reading them right now.
Nearby on the 2025 list
- If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies Eliezer Yudkowsky, #5
- Wild Dark Shore Charlotte McConaghy, #6
- The Court of the Dead Rick Riordan, #8
- Regretting You Colleen Hoover, #9
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The numbers behind it
- Readers: 17 want to read it, 2 are reading it now and 3 have read it, according to Open Library.
- Wikipedia: its article averaged 8,991 views a month recently.
| Signal | This book (0 to 100) | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| Reach | 90 | 45% |
| Reader love | 67 | 20% |
| Being read right now | 73 | 15% |
| Attention | 63 | 20% |
Questions about Abundance
When was Abundance published?
Abundance by Ezra Klein was first published in 2025.
Was Abundance one of the best books of 2025?
Abundance is #7 on BookWard's Best Books of 2025, out of 30 2025 books that cleared our data bar. 300 readers have shelved it on Open Library; its Wikipedia page averaged 8,991 views a month recently.
Why is Abundance on the Best Books of 2025 list?
300 readers have shelved it on Open Library; its Wikipedia page averaged 8,991 views a month recently.
More of the best books of 2025
- The Secret of Secrets Dan Brown, #1
- Katabasis R. F. Kuang, #2
- Atmosphere Taylor Jenkins Reid, #3
- Onyx Storm Rebecca Yarros, #4
- If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies Eliezer Yudkowsky, #5
- Wild Dark Shore Charlotte McConaghy, #6
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How we know
This page uses public data: Open Library reader counts and ratings, and Wikipedia page views for recent years. The description is paraphrased from real source text. Rankings reflect reading interest, not quality or sales, and can be affected by data gaps. Lists update monthly.
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