FT announces shortlist for Business Book of the Year

The Financial Times and Schroders announced Thursday the shortlist for the 2023 Business Book of the Year Award.

Now in its nineteenth year, the award recognizes a book which provides the “most compelling and enjoyable insight into modern business issues.”

This year’s shortlisted books, selected by the nine distinguished judges (see below) are:

• “Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future” by Ed Conway, WH Allen (UK), Alfred A. Knopf (US)
• “Right Kind of Wrong: Why Learning to Fail Can Teach Us to Thrive” by Amy Edmondson, Cornerstone Press (UK), Atria (US)
• “How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors Behind Every Successful Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration” by Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner, Macmillan (UK), Currency (US)
• “Elon Musk” by Walter Isaacson, Simon & Schuster (UK & US)
• “Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives” by Siddharth Kara, St Martin’s Press (UK & US)
• “The Coming Wave: AI, Power and the Twenty-First Century’s Greatest Dilemma” by Mustafa Suleyman with Michael Bhaskar, The Bodley Head (UK), Crown (US)

 FT editor Roula Khalaf said: “This year’s shortlist covers some of the biggest issues of our time – from the advance of artificial intelligence to the relentless pressure on natural resources – in books that are exceptionally well researched and reported. Selecting finalists from a strong longlist was hard, but the judges have picked six exciting, engaging, and important titles that together provide a highly readable guide to the future of business.”