Business Book Awards 2024

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40 books

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Big Ideas & New Perspectives

Winner

Tech Agnostic

How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation

Greg Epstein, 2024

Longlist

The Art of the Interesting

What We Miss in Our Pursuit of the Good Life and How to Cultivate It

Lorraine Besser, 2024

Rebels with a Cause

Reimagining Boys, Ourselves, and Our Culture

Niobe Way, 2024

Relationality

How Moving from Transactional to Transformational Relationships Can Reshape Our Lonely World

David Jay, 2024

Slow Burn

The Hidden Costs of a Warming World

R. Jisung Park, 2024

Current Events & Public Affairs

Winner

The Truth About Immigration

Why Successful Societies Welcome Newcomers

Zeke Hernandez, 2024

Longlist

Build

Investing in America's Infrastructure

Sadek Wahba, 2024

Holding It Together

How Women Became America's Safety Net

Jessica Calarco, 2024

How the World Ran Out of Everything

Inside the Global Supply Chain

Peter S. Goodman, 2024

What If We Get It Right?

Visions of Climate Futures

Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, 2024

Innovation & Creativity

Winner

The Vagina Business

The Innovative Breakthroughs that Could Change Everything in Women's Health

Marina Gerner, 2024

Longlist

Born to Create

How Creativity Sparks Connection, Innovation, and Belonging in our New World of Work

Anne Jacoby, 2024

From Pessimism to Promise

Lessons from the Global South on Designing Inclusive Tech

Payal Arora, 2024

Look Again

The Power of Noticing What Was Always There

Tali Sharot, Cass R. Sunstein, 2025

Pattern Breakers

Why Some Start-Ups Change the Future

Mike Maples Jr, Peter Ziebelman, 2024

Leadership & Strategy

Winner

Higher Ground

How Business Can Do the Right Thing in a Turbulent World

Alison Taylor, 2024

Longlist

Burnt Out to Lit Up

How to Reignite the Joy of Leading People

Daisy Auger-Dominguez, 2024

The Mac & Cheese Millionaire

Building a Better Business by Thinking Outside the Box

Erin Wade, 2024

Modern Achievement

A New Approach to Timeless Lessons for Aspiring Leaders

Asheesh Advani, Marshall Goldsmith, 2024

This Is Strategy

Make Better Plans

Seth Godin, 2024

Management & Workplace Culture

Winner

The Problem With Change

The Essential Nature of Human Performance

Ashley Goodall, 2024

Longlist

The Canary Code

A Guide to Neurodiversity, Dignity, and Intersectional Belonging at Work

Ludmila N. Praslova, 2024

The Friction Project

How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder

Robert I. Sutton, Huggy Rao, 2024

Never Not Working

Why the Always-On Culture Is Bad for Business--and How to Fix It

Malissa Clark, 2024

Slow Productivity

The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

Cal Newport, 2024

Marketing & Communications/Sales & Influence

Winner

Say It Well

Find Your Voice, Speak Your Mind, Inspire Any Audience

Terry Szuplat, 2024

Longlist

Earn It

Unconventional Strategies for Brave Marketers

Steve Pratt, 2024

Everybody Needs an Editor

The Essential Guide to Clear and Effective Writing

Melissa Harris, Jenn Bane, 2024

Shareworthy

Advertising That Creates Powerful Connections Through Storytelling

Robin Landa, Greg Braun, 2024

Supercommunicators

How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

Charles Duhigg, 2024

Narrative & Biography

Winner

Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank

Justene Hill Edwards, 2024

Longlist

The Everything War

Amazon's Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power

Dana Mattioli, 2024

The Fall of Roe

The Rise of a New America

Elizabeth Dias, Lisa Lerer, 2024

I Hate It Here, Please Vote for Me

Essays on Rural Political Decay

Matthew Ferrence, 2024

Life and Death of the American Worker

The Immigrants Taking on America's Largest Meatpacking Company

Alice Driver, 2024

Personal Development & Human Behavior

Winner

Unlearning Silence

How to Speak Your Mind, Unleash Talent, and Live More Fully

Elaine Lin Hering, 2024

Longlist

Hope for Cynics

The Surprising Science of Human Goodness

Jamil Zaki, 2024

MicroSkills

Small Actions, Big Impact

Adaira Landry, Resa E. Lewiss, 2024

Tribal

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

Michael Morris, 2024

When We Are Seen

How to Come Into Your Power--and Empower Others Along the Way

Denise Young, 2024