Grattan releases PM summer reading list
Melbourne-based think tank Grattan Institute has announced its 2025 Summer Reading List for the Prime Minister.
Grattan Institute selects five books each year which it recommends to the prime minister, “and indeed all Australians”, for summer holiday reading. Of this year’s five books, three titles are written by Australian authors, Cordelia Fine, Jess Hill and Dominic Amerena.
The titles are:
- Exile Economics: What happens if globalisation fails (Ben Chu, Basic Books)
- Clearing the Air: A hopeful guide to solving climate change (Hannah Ritchie, Chatto & Windus)
- Patriarchy Inc.: What we get wrong about gender equality and why men still win at work (Cordelia Fine, Atlantic)
- Is a River Alive? (Robert Macfarlane, Penguin)
- Losing It: Can we stop violence against women and children? (Jess Hill, Quarterly Essay)
- I Want Everything (Dominic Amerena, Summit).
Grattan Institute said, “The five nonfiction choices we landed on range across topics and genres but share two things in common: they each grapple with one of the big issues of our age, and they each chart a vision for a better future. The fiction choice reminds us of the big Australian policy changes we now take for granted, and is also a captivating read.
“We’ve packaged them up and sent them off to the Lodge, in the hope that the PM might even take them on his honeymoon. They certainly deserve a spot in his beach bag – and in yours.”
The 2025 Summer Reading List will be launched at State Library Victoria on 11 December, with Grattan CEO Aruna Sathanapally in conversation with ABC politics and economics journalist Tom Crowley and author Cordelia Fine.
The thinking behind the selection of each book is outlined on the Grattan Institute website.
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