This year marks the Financial Times’s (FT) 10th year of awarding the business book of the year. This year FT is partnering with McKinsey on the award. Here are the 16 contenders:
Capital in the Twenty-First Century, by Thomas Piketty
China’s Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa, by Howard W. French
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces that Stand in the Way of True Inspiration, by Ed Catmull
Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance, by Julia Angwin
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt (US title), by Michael Lewis
Fragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit, by Charles W. Calomiris and Stephen H. Haber
GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History, by Diane Coyle
Hack Attack: How the Truth Caught Up With Rupert Murdoch, by Nick Davies
House of Debt: How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It From Happening Again, by Atif Mian and Amir Sufi
Shredded: Inside RBS, the Bank That Broke Britain, by Ian Fraser
Sons of Wichita: How the Koch Brothers Became America’s Most Powerful and Private Dynasty, by Daniel Schulman
The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World, by Russell Gold
The Glass Closet: Why Coming Out is Good Business, by John Browne
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers, by Ben Horowitz
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution, by Walter Isaacson
The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies, by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee