Business Book of the Year shortlist named

The Financial Times and McKinsey & Co. published Tuesday the shortlist for the 2015 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award.

The list includes a book by New York Times business reporter Nathaniel Popper and Toronto Globe and Mail business reporters Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff.

Now in its 11th year, the award recognizes the title that provides the most compelling and enjoyable insight into modern business issues.

For this year’s shortlist, the judges have chosen the six most influential business books of 2015:

• “The Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of Mass Unemployment” by Martin Ford (Oneworld Publications; Basic Books)
• “Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of Blackberry” by McNish and Silcoff (Flatiron/Macmillan)
• “Digital Gold: The Untold Story of Bitcoin” by Nathaniel Popper (Allen Lane/Penguin Press; Harper/ HarperCollins)
• “Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family” by Anne-Marie Slaughter (Oneworld Publications; Random House)
• “Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioural Economics” by Richard Thaler (Allen Lane/Penguin Press; W. W. Norton)
• “How Music Got Free: What Happens When an Entire Generation Commits the Same Crime?” by Stephen Witt (The Bodley Head/Penguin Random House; Viking)

“This year’s shortlist tackles, with compelling narrative and in-depth analysis, the important themes that business must confront today,” said FT editor in chief Lionel Barber.

The winner will be announced Nov. 17 at a dinner in New York.