Guinness World Records 2025 (Hardback)

Join us in celebrating the platinum anniversary of theworld's biggest-selling annual book!

To mark GWR's 70th birthday, we're throwing a party, starting off with afeast of retro features in the opening chapter that look back over our lastseven decades. Of course, we're also highlighting the very best of recordbreaking from the past 12 months!

This new edition – fully revised and updated with 1,000-plus images –salutes our milestone while continuing the annual tradition of serving upthousands of awesome facts and feats for the whole family to enjoy. GWR arecelebrating our landmark year by bestowing platinum grade ICON status on aselect group of record breakers – including Taylor Swift and LeBronJames – who epitomize what it means to be a Guinness World Records titleholder.

Poster-style Flashback features within each chapter explore the history ofone key record category. We also speculate about the ultimate limits ofrecord-breaking – for instance, will we ever see a sub-3-secondRubik's Cube solve?

Look out for our Dear GWR… features throughout the book. We've delved intoour archives to find some never-before-seen record applications that didn'tquite make the cut. It's our affectionate tribute to human inventiveness –and the evergreen fascination with securing a hallowed GWR certificate!

This year's exciting new cover design by 3D digital artist Chris Labrooyresonates with the latest addition to the Guinness World Records missionstatement: to find the fun! Informed by his interest in twisting “familiareveryday things into new typographic and sculptural forms”, Chris's livelyartwork offers up an appetite-whetting taster for the chapters in GWR2025. You'll spot references to the sporting world, engineering, exploration,gaming, and flora and fauna, among others, on this year's cover.

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