BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2026 LONGLIST

The 1873: The First Great Depression and the Making of the Modern World

by Liaquat Ahamed

Cornerstone (UK), Penguin Press (US)

Streetwise: Getting To and Through Goldman Sachs

Lloyd Blankfein

Orion Ignite (UK), Penguin Press (US)

Money to Burn: Leon Black, Apollo and the Remaking of Wall Street

by William D. Cohan

Allen Lane (UK), Portfolio (US)

Off the Scales: The Inside Story of Ozempic and the Race to Cure Obesity

by Aimee Donnellan

Fourth Estate (UK), St Martin's Press (US)

The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State

by Jill Lepore

Allen Lane (UK), Liveright (US)

The UPS Man: James E. Casey and the Creation of Modern Logistics

by Marc Levinson

New York University Press (UK & US)

 The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind and the Quest for Superintelligence

by Sebastian Mallaby

Allen Lane (UK), Penguin Press (US)

Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare

by Katrina Manson

W.W. Norton (UK & US)

Hyperscale: Ambition, Power and the Relentless Rise of Data Empires

by Paris Marx

Profile Books (UK), Riverhead Books (US)

Blood Will Flow: The Murderous Business of Oil and Gas

by Alex Perry

Ithaka Press, (UK)

Frontierlands: Britain's Survival in the Making

by Hazel Sheffield

Torva (UK)

Bonfire of the Murdochs: How the Epic Fight to Control the Last Great Media Dynasty Broke a Family - and the World

by by Gabriel Sherman

Simon & Schuster (UK & US)

We Know You Can Pay a Million: Inside the Dark Economy of Hacking and Ransomware

by Anja Shortland

Profile Books (UK), PublicAffairs (US)

How Africa Works: Success and Failure on the World's Last Developmental Frontier

by Joe Studwell

 Profile Books (UK), Atlantic Monthly Press (US)

Prophecy: Prediction, Power and the Fight for the Future, from Ancient Oracles to AI

by Carissa Véliz

Swift (UK), Doubleday (US)

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