Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award

Blue Ribbon ( ) = winner

The shortlist was announced 20 September 2005,^[4] and the winner announced 24 November 2005.^[5][6][7]

• John Battelle, The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture
• Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
• Thomas Friedman, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
• Constantinos C. Markides, Paul Geroski, Fast Second: How Smart Companies Bypass Radical Innovation to Enter and Dominate New Markets
• Pietra Rivoli, The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power and Politics of World Trade
• James B. Stewart, DisneyWar

The shortlist was announced 18 September 2006,^[8] and the winner announced 27 October 2006.^[9][10]

• Chris Anderson, The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More
• Bo Burlingham, Small Giants: Companies that Choose to Be Great Instead of Big
• Charles Fishman, The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works—and How It's Transforming the American Economy
• James Kynge, China Shakes The World: A Titan's Rise and Troubled Future – and the Challenge for America
• Marc Levinson, The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger

The shortlist was announced 25 September 2007,^[11] and the winner announced 25 October 2007.^[12]

• William D. Cohan, The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co.
• Alan Greenspan, The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World
• Philippe Legrain, Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them
• Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
• Don Tapscott and Anthony D Williams, Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
• Iain Carson and Vijay Vaitheeswaran, ZOOM: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future

The shortlist was announced 18 September 2008 and the winner announced 14 October 2008.^[13][14]

• William J. Bernstein, A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World
• Tim Bouquet & Byron Ousey, Cold Steel: The Multi-billion-dollar Battle for a Global Industry
• Mohamed El-Erian, When Markets Collide: Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change
• Misha Glenny, McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld
• Lawrence Lessig, Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy
• Alice Schroeder, The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life

The longlist was announced 12 August 2009,^[15] the shortlist announced around 18 September 2009,^[16] and the winner announced 29 October 2009.^[17][18]

• Liaquat Ahamed, Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
• Stephen Green, Good Value: Reflections on Money, Morality and an Uncertain World
• Nandan Nilekani, Imagining India: The Idea of a Renewed Nation
• Frank Partnoy, The Match King
• George Akerlof and Robert Shiller, Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism
• David Wessel, In Fed We Trust

The longlist was announced 9 August 2010,^[19] the shortlist was announced 16 September 2010,^[20] and the winner announced 19 October 2010.^[21][22]

• Sheena Iyengar, The Art of Choosing
• David Kirkpatrick, The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World
• Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
• Sebastian Mallaby, More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite
• Raghuram G. Rajan, Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy
• Andrew Ross Sorkin, Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System – and Themselves

The longlist was announced on 9 August 2011,^[23] the shortlist was announced on 14 September^[24] and the winner was announced on 3 November 2011.^[25][26]

• Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
• Barry Eichengreen, Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar and the Future of the International Monetary System
• Edward Glaeser, Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier
• Margaret Heffernan, Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril
• Richard Rumelt, Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters
• Daniel Yergin, The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World

The shortlist was announced on 13 September 2012.^[27] The winner was announced on 2 November 2012.^{[28][29][30][31]}

• Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty
• John M. Coates, The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: Risk-taking, Gut Feelings and the Biology of Boom and Bust
• Steve Coll, Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power
• Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography
• Michael J. Sandel, What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits Of Markets
• William L. Silber, Volcker: The Triumph of Persistence

The longlist was announced in August 2013.^[32] The shortlist was announced on 18 September 2013.^[33] The winner was announced on 18 November 2013.^[34]

• Neil Irwin, The Alchemists: Inside the Secret World of Central Bankers
• Iain Martin, Making it Happen: Fred Goodwin, RBS and the Men Who Blew Up the British Economy
• Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier, Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think
• Anita Raghavan, The Billionaire's Apprentice: The Rise of The Indian-American Elite and The Fall of The Galleon Hedge Fund
• Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
• Brad Stone, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

The longlist was announced 6 August 2014.^[35] The shortlist was announced 24 September 2014.^[36] The winner was announced 11 November 2014.^[37]

• Julia Angwin, Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance
• Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
• Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc. Overcoming the Unseen Forces that Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
• Nick Davies, Hack Attack: How the Truth Caught Up with Rupert Murdoch
• Atif Mian and Amir Sufi, House of Debt: How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It from Happening Again
• Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century

The longlist was announced 12 August.^[38] The shortlist was announced 22 September.^[39] The winner was announced 17 November.^[40] The winner received £30,000, and £10,000 was awarded to each of the remaining shortlisted books.^[39]

• Martin Ford, The Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of Mass Unemployment
• Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff, Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of Blackberry
• Nathaniel Popper, Digital Gold: The Untold Story of Bitcoin
• Anne-Marie Slaughter, Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family
• Richard Thaler, Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioural Economics
• Stephen Witt, How Music Got Free: What Happens When an Entire Generation Commits the Same Crime?

The longlist was announced 7 August.^[41] The shortlist was announced 9 September.^[42] The winner was announced 22 November.^[43]

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

The longlist was announced 13 August.^[44] The shortlist was announced on 19 September.^[45] The winner was announced 7 November.^[46]

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

The longlist was announced 13 August.^[47] The shortlist was announced on 14 September.^[48] The winner was announced 12 November.^[49]

• John Carreyrou, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
• James Crabtree, The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India's New Gilded Age
• Alan Greenspan & Adrian Wooldridge, Capitalism in America: A History
• Annie Lowrey, Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World
• Mariana Mazzucato, The Value of Everything: Who Makes and Who Takes from the Real Economy
• Jeremy Heimans & Henry Timms, New Power: How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World - and How to Make It Work for You

The longlist was announced 10 August.^[50] The shortlist was announced 16 September.^[51][52] The winner was announced 3 December.^[53]

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

The longlist was announced 16 August.^[54] The shortlist was announced 23 September.^[55] The winner was announced 1 December.^[56]

The longlist was announced 15 August.^[57] The shortlist was announced on 24 September.^[58] The winner was announced on 1 December.^[59]

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

The longlist was announced on 14 August.^[60] The shortlist was announced on 22 September.^[61] The winner was announced on 5 December.^[62]

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

The longlist was announced on 14 August.^[63] The shortlist was announced on 21 September.^[64][65] The winner was announced on 5 December.^[66]

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

• McKinsey Award for Best Article of the Year in The Harvard Business Review

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