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Guinness World Records Books

After 70 years, open the next chapter of record breaking!

Filled with thousands of awesome facts and feats for the whole family, this year’s edition celebrates Guinness World Records’ 70th anniversary. Learn how record breaking has changed over the years and what incredible looks like in 2025.

Celebrate the ICONS that shaped our world from Taylor Swift to the Tallest Man Ever.

Discover the next generation of record breakers… and how you can become one, with a dedicated KIDS ZONE.

Chart the history and ultimate limits of record breaking with poster-style FLASHBACKS – including speedy rubix cube solves, eye-watering football transfers and more.

Travel through 70 years of the famous book with an opening chapter filled with retro features.

Look out for DEAR GWR – an affectionate tribute to some of the funniest record applications that didn’t quite make the cut.

Take a deep breath and dive into the fully updated and revised Guinness World Records 2024! This year’s edition compiles the very best of the thousands of new records approved over the past year, confirming once again that the public have an insatiable appetite for superlatives! And with lockdowns and quarantines a distant memory for much of the world, the claims have been flooding in…

As you’ll see from the cover by award-winning artist Rod Hunt, the theme of year’s book is the Blue Planet, so join us on a deep-sea odyssey to the bottom of the oceans. Encounter the most bizarre, beautiful and deadly sea creatures, swim through the largest coral reefs and kelp forests, explore the seabed for shipwrecks and lost treasure, and meet the ocean’s most fearless pioneers.

You’ll also find plenty of new and classic records to explore once you’re back on dry land, with topics as diverse as rollercoasters, robots, movie props and manga. And as ever, you’ll discover the latest record-breaking successes in music, TV, gaming and sports.

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