Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award

Financial Times, in partnership with Schroders

An annual prize awarded to the book judged to provide 'the most compelling and enjoyable insight into modern business issues', covering business, finance, economics, and management topics.

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2025

  1. Won
  2. Abundance: How We Build a Better Future

    Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson

    Shortlisted
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  5. House of Huawei: Inside the Secret World of China’s Most Powerful Company

    Eva Dou

    Shortlisted
  6. How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations

    Carl Benedikt Frey

    Shortlisted

2024

  1. Won
  2. Growth: A Reckoning

    Daniel Susskind

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

    John Kay

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

    Andrew Scott

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

    Michael Morris

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

    Raj Shah and Christopher Kirchhoff

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2023

  1. Won
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  3. Elon Musk

    Walter Isaacson

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  4. 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

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  5. Material World: A substantial story of our past and future

    Ed Conway

    Shortlisted
  6. The Coming Wave: AI, power, and the 21st century's greatest dilemma

    Mustafa Suleyman and Michael Bhaskar

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2022

  1. Won
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  4. Influence Empire: The Story of Tencent and China's Tech Ambition

    Lulu Chen

    Shortlisted
  5. The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Art of Disruption

    Sebastian Mallaby

    Shortlisted
  6. The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era

    Gary Gerstle

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2021

  1. Won
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  3. The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World

    Adrian Wooldridge

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  4. The Conversation: How Talking Honestly About Racism Can Transform Individuals and Organizations

    Robert Livingston

    Shortlisted
  5. The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet

    Michael E. Mann

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  6. The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth's Resources

    Javier Blas and Jack Farchy

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2020

  1. Won
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  4. If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future

    Jill Lepore

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  5. No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention

    Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer

    Shortlisted
  6. Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire

    Rebecca M. Henderson

    Shortlisted

2019

  1. Won
  2. Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America

    Christopher Leonard

    Shortlisted
  3. Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

    David Epstein

    Shortlisted
  4. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

    Shoshana Zuboff

    Shortlisted
  5. The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution

    Gregory Zuckerman

    Shortlisted
  6. The Third Pillar: The Revival of Community in a Polarised World

    Raghuram Rajan

    Shortlisted

2018

  1. Won
  2. Capitalism in America: A History

    Alan Greenspan & Adrian Wooldridge

    Shortlisted
  3. Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World

    Annie Lowrey

    Shortlisted
  4. New Power: How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World - and How to Make It Work for You

    Jeremy Heimans & Henry Timms

    Shortlisted
  5. The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India's New Gilded Age

    James Crabtree

    Shortlisted
  6. The Value of Everything: Who Makes and Who Takes from the Real Economy

    Mariana Mazzucato

    Shortlisted

2017

  1. Won
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  3. Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change

    Ellen Pao

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  5. The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone

    Brian Merchant

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  6. 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

    Shortlisted

2016

  1. Won
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  3. Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business

    Rana Foroohar

    Shortlisted
  4. The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity

    Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott

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  6. What Works: Gender Equality by Design

    Iris Bohnet

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2015

  1. Won
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  3. How Music Got Free: What Happens When an Entire Generation Commits the Same Crime?

    Stephen Witt

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  4. Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of Blackberry

    Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff

    Shortlisted
  5. Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioural Economics

    Richard Thaler

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  6. Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family

    Anne-Marie Slaughter

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2014

  1. Won
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  4. Hack Attack: How the Truth Caught Up with Rupert Murdoch

    Nick Davies

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  5. 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

    Shortlisted
  6. The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies

    Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee

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2013

  1. Won
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  3. Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

    Sheryl Sandberg

    Shortlisted
  4. Making it Happen: Fred Goodwin, RBS and the Men Who Blew Up the British Economy

    Iain Martin

    Shortlisted
  5. The Alchemists: Inside the Secret World of Central Bankers

    Neil Irwin

    Shortlisted
  6. The Billionaire's Apprentice: The Rise of The Indian-American Elite and The Fall of The Galleon Hedge Fund

    Anita Raghavan

    Shortlisted

2012

  1. Won
  2. Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography

    Walter Isaacson

    Shortlisted
  3. The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: Risk-taking, Gut Feelings and the Biology of Boom and Bust

    John M. Coates

    Shortlisted
  4. Volcker: The Triumph of Persistence

    William L. Silber

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  5. What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits Of Markets

    Michael J. Sandel

    Shortlisted
  6. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty

    Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson

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2011

  1. Won
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  3. Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters

    Richard Rumelt

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  4. The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World

    Daniel Yergin

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  5. Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier

    Edward Glaeser

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  6. Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril

    Margaret Heffernan

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2010

  1. Won
  2. More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite

    Sebastian Mallaby

    Shortlisted
  3. The Art of Choosing

    Sheena Iyengar

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  5. The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World

    David Kirkpatrick

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2009

  1. Won
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  3. Good Value: Reflections on Money, Morality and an Uncertain World

    Stephen Green

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  4. Imagining India: The Idea of a Renewed Nation

    Nandan Nilekani

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  5. In Fed We Trust

    David Wessel

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  6. The Match King

    Frank Partnoy

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2008

  1. Won
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  4. McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld

    Misha Glenny

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  5. Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy

    Lawrence Lessig

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  6. The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life

    Alice Schroeder

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2007

  1. Won
  2. Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them

    Philippe Legrain

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  3. The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World

    Alan Greenspan

    Shortlisted
  4. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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  5. Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything

    Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams

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  6. ZOOM: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future

    Iain Carson and Vijay Vaitheeswaran

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2006

  1. Won
  2. Small Giants: Companies that Choose to Be Great Instead of Big

    Bo Burlingham

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  3. The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger

    Marc Levinson

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  4. The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More

    Chris Anderson

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  5. The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works—and How It's Transforming the American Economy

    Charles Fishman

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2005

  1. Won
  2. DisneyWar

    James B. Stewart

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  4. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

    Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner

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  5. The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture

    John Battelle

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  6. The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power and Politics of World Trade

    Pietra Rivoli

    Shortlisted