Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award

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The Financial Times and Schroders Book of the Year Award recognises books that provide the most compelling and enjoyable insights into modern business issues. The winner receives a £30,000 prize, while runners-up are awarded £10,000 each.

From its inception in 2005 to 2013, the prize was known as the "Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award", from 2014 to 2021 it was the "Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award"

The shortlist was announced on 21 September 2023. The winner will be announced on 5 December 2023.

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2023 shortlist

• Material World: A substantial story of our past and future Ed Conway
• Right Kind of Wrong: Why learning to fail can teach us to thrive Amy Edmondson
• How Big Things Get Done: The surprising factors behind every successful project, from home renovations to space exploration and everything in between Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner
• Elon Musk Walter Isaacson
• Cobalt Red: How the blood of the Congo powers our lives Siddharth Kara
• The Coming Wave: AI, power, and the 21st century’s greatest dilemma Mustafa Suleyman and Michael Bhaskar

2022

• Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology Chris Miller Winner
• Dead in the Water: Murder and Fraud in the World's Most Secretive Industry Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel
• Influence Empire: The Story of Tencent and China's Tech Ambition Lulu Chen
• The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era Gary Gerstle
• The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Art of Disruption Sebastian Mallaby
• Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century Helen Thompson

2021

• This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race  Nicole Perlroth Winner
• The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth's Resources Javier Blas and Jack Farchy
• Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty Patrick Radden Keefe
• The Conversation: How Talking Honestly About Racism Can Transform Individuals and Organizations Robert Livingston
• The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet Michael E. Mann
• The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World Adrian Wooldridge

2020

• No Filter Sarah Frier Winner
• Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism Anne Case and Angus Deaton
• If Then: How one data company invented the future Jill Lepore
• No Rules Rules Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer
• Reimagining Capitalism Rebecca Henderson
• A World Without Work Daniel Susskind

2019

• Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men Caroline Criado Perez Winner
• Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World David Epstein
• Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America Christopher Leonard
• The Third Pillar: The Revival of Community in a Polarised World Raghuram Rajan
• The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power Shoshana Zuboff
• The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution Gregory Zuckerman

2018

• Bad Blood, Secrets and Lies in A Silicon Valley Startup John Carreyrou Winner
• Capitalism in America Alan Greenspan and Adrian Wooldridge
• Give People Money Annie Lowrey
• The Billionaire Raj James Crabtree
• The Value of Everything Mariana Mazzucato
• New Power Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms

2017

• Janesville: An American Story Amy Goldstein Winner
• The Spider Network: The Wild Story of a Maths Genius, a Gang of Backstabbing Bankers, and One of the Greatest Scams in Financial History David Enrich
• Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought Andrew W. Lo
• The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone Brian Merchant
• Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change Ellen Pao
• The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century Walter Scheidel

2016

• The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan Sebastian Mallaby Winner
• What Works: Gender Equality by Design Iris Bohnet
• Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built Duncan Clark
• Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business Rana Foroohar
• The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War Robert J. Gordon
• The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott,

2015

• The rise of the robots: technology and the threat of mass unemployment Martin Ford Winner
• Losing the signal: the untold story behind the extraordinary rise and spectacular fall of Blackberry Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff
• Digital gold: the untold story of Bitcoin Nathaniel Popper
• Unfinished business: women men work family Anne-Marie Slaughter
• Misbehaving: the making of behavioural economics Richard Thaler
• How music got free: the end of an industry, the turn of the century, and the patient zero of piracy Stephen Witt

2014

• Capital in the twenty-first century Thomas Piketty Winner
• Dragnet Nation: a quest for privacy, security, and freedom in a world of relentless surveillance Julia Angwin
• The Second Machine Age: work, progress, and prosperity in a time of brilliant technologies Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee
• Creativity, Inc.: overcoming the unseen forces that stand in the way of true inspiration Edwin Catmull
• Hack attack: how the truth caught up with Rupert Murdoch Nick Davies
• House of debt: how they (and you) caused the Great Recession, and how we can prevent it from happening again Atif Mian and Amir Sufi

2013

• The everything store: Jeff Bezos and the age of Amazon Brad Stone Winner
• The alchemists: inside the secret world of central bankers Neil Irwin
• Big data: a revolution that will transform how we live, work, and think Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier
• The billionaire’s apprentice: the rise of the Indian-American elite and the fall of the Galleon Hedge Fund Anita Raghavan
• Lean in: women, work, and the will to lead Sheryl Sandberg
• Making it happen: Fred Goodwin, RBS and the men who blew up the British economy Iain Martin

2012

• Private empire: ExxonMobil and American power Steve Coll Winner
• The hour between dog and wolf: risk-taking, gut feelings and the biology of boom and bust John Coates
• Steve Jobs: the exclusive biography Walter Isaacson
• Volcker: the triumph of persistence William L. Silber
• What money can’t buy: the moral limits of markets Michael J. Sandel
• Why nations fail: the origins of power, prosperity and poverty Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson

2011

• Poor economics: a radical rethinking of the way to fight global poverty Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo Winner
• Exorbitant privilege: the rise and fall of the dollar Barry Eichengreen
• Triumph of the city: how our greatest invention makes us richer, smarter, greener, healthier and happier Edward L. Glaeser
• Willful blindness: why we ignore the obvious at our peril Margaret Heffernan
• Good strategy, bad strategy: the difference and why it matters Richard Rumelt
• The quest: energy, security, and the remaking of the modern world Daniel Yergin

2010

• Fault lines: how hidden fractures still threaten the world economy Raghuram Rajan Winner
• The art of choosing Sheena Iyengar
• The Facebook effect: the inside story of the company that is connecting the world David Kirkpatrick
• The big short: inside the doomsday machine Michael Lewis
• More money than God: hedge funds and the making of a new elite Sebastian Mallaby
• Too big to fail: the inside story of how Wall Street and Washington fought to save the financial system – and themselves Andrew Ross Sorkin

2009

• Lords of finance: the bankers who broke the world Liaquat Ahamed Winner
• Good value: reflections on money, morality and an uncertain world Stephen Green
• The match king Frank Partnoy
• In Fed we trust David Wessel
• Imagining India: the idea of a renewed nation Nandan Nilekani
• Animal spirits: how human psychology drives hte economy, and why it matters for global capitalism George Akerlof and Robert Shiller

2008

• When markets collide: investment strategies for the age of global economic change Mohamed El-Erian Winner
• A splendid exchange: how trade has shaped the world from prehistory to the present William J. Bernstein
• Cold steel: the multi-billion-dollar battle for a global industry Tim Bouquet and Byron Ousey
• McMafia: crime without frontiers Misha Glenny
• Remix: making art and commerce thrive in the hybrid economy Lawrence Lessig
• The snowball: Warren Buffett and the business of life Alice Schroeder

2007

• The last tycoons: the secret history of Lazard Frères & Co William D. Cohan Winner
• The age of turbulence: adventures in a new world Alan Greenspan
• The Black Swan: the impact of the highly improbable Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Immigrants: your country needs them Philippe Legrain
• Wikinomics: how mass collaboration changes everything Don Tapscott and Anthony D Williams
• Zoom: the global race to fuel the car of the future Iain Carson and Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran

2006

• China shakes the world: the rise of a hungry nation James Kynge Winner
• The long tail: how endless choice is creating unlimited demand Chris Anderson
• Small giants: companies that choose to be great instead of big Bo Burlingham
• The Wal-Mart effect: how the world's most powerful company really works - and how it's transforming the American economy Charles Fishman
• The box: how the shipping container made the world smaller and the world economy bigger Marc Levinson

2005

• The world is flat: a brief history of the twenty-first century Thomas Friedman Winner
• The search: how Google and its rivals rewrote the rules of business and transformed our culture John Battelle
• Freakonomics: a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything Steve Levitt and Stephen Dubner
• The travels of a T-Shirt in the global economy: an economist examines the markets, power and politics of world trade Pietra Rivoli
• DisneyWar James Stewart
• Fast second: how smart companies bypass radical innovation to enter and dominate new markets Constantinos C. Markides and Paul Geroski