BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2024 LONGLIST

The Longlist

We are delighted to showcase the 16 longlist books for the 2024 Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award. This year's book titles shed new light on some of the most pressing business issues of the moment.

Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success

by Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig

Bodley Head (UK), Penguin Press (US)

Billionaire, Nerd, Saviour, King: The Hidden Truth About Bill Gates and His Power to Shape Our World

by Anupreeta Das

Simon & Schuster (UK), Avid Reader Press (US)

The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions - and How The World Lost its Mind

by Dan Davies

Profile Books (UK)

The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century: Why (almost) everything we are told about business is wrong

by John Kay

Profile Books (UK), Yale University Press (US)

The Everything War: Amazon’s Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power

by Dana Mattioli

Torva (UK), Little, Brown (US)

Tribal: How the Cultural Instincts That Divide Us Can Help Bring Us Together

by Michael Morris

Thesis (UK and US)

Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT and the Race That Will Change the World

by Parmy Olson

Macmillan Business (UK), St. Martin’s Press (US)

The Algorithm: How AI Can Hijack Your Career and Steal Your Future

by Hilke Schellmann

Hurst Publishers (UK), Hachette Books (US)

The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives

by Ernest Scheyder

Ithaka (UK), Atria/One Signal Publishers (US)

The Longevity Imperative:  Building a Better Society for Healthier, Longer Lives

by Andrew J. Scott

Basic Books (UK and US)

The Divine Economy: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power, and People

by Paul Seabright

Princeton University Press (UK and US)

Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War

by Raj M. Shah and Christopher Kirchhoff

Scribner (UK and US)

The Trading Game: A Confession

by Gary Stevenson

Allen Lane (UK), Crown Currency (US)

Growth: A Reckoning

by Daniel Susskind

Allen Lane (UK), Belknap Press (US)

The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder

by Robert I. Sutton and Huggy Rao

Penguin Business (UK), St. Martin’s Press (US)

Higher Ground: How Business Can Do the Right Thing in a Turbulent World

by Alison Taylor

Harvard Business Review Press (UK and US)

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