Morning Update: Behind the best books of 2025

Good morning. Our annual guide to the books that captured, delighted and informed us is back. More on that below, and a window into the work that goes into it, plus news on Black Friday and solar storms. But first:

• Alberta and Ottawa have agreed to a transformational energy accord, but British Columbia, environmentalists and some Indigenous leaders still have concerns
• Thirty-five years after a man was found guilty of murdering a 10-year-old girl, the Ontario Court of Appeal has ruled it a miscarriage of justice
• Netflix’s The Stringer documentary challenges the history of the famous “Napalm Girl” photograph