Three former winners of the FT’s Business Book of the Year Award have made it on to the 15-strong longlist for the 2026 prize.
William Cohan, Liaquat Ahamed and Sebastian Mallaby all have heavyweight titles in the running for the £30,000 award, backed for the first time this year by Standard Chartered.
The prize, also supported by FT owner Nikkei, aims to single out the book with the “most compelling and enjoyable” insights into modern business issues. The award has gone to a book about technology in five of the past six editions. Stephen Witt’s The Thinking Machine, about the rise of chipmaker Nvidia, triumphed in 2025.
The longlist for 2026, the 22nd edition of the prestigious award, is again rich with explorations of the transformative impact of technology, and its 15 titles fit into three broad groups: business and power, business and innovation, and business and society.
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