SABEW names shortlist for book award

The Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing announced Thursday the shortlist for its inaugural Best in Business Book competition, which recognizes and celebrates outstanding business books published between July 30, 2019 and July 30, 2020.

A prestigious panel of judges, led by Pattie Sellers, selected the top five books and seven honorable mentions from 41 entries. Submissions came from publishers such as Random House, Doubleday, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster and PublicAffairs.

The twelve books the judges selected for the shortlist are:

The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes by Zachary D. Carter
Underwater: How Our American Dream of Homeownership Become a Nightmare by Ryan Dezember
The Future is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries and Our Lives by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler
Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction by David Enrich
No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram by Sarah Frier
Lights Out: Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric by Thomas Gryta and Ted Mann
Billion Dollar Brand Club: How Dollar Shave Club, Warby Parker, and Other Disruptors Are Remaking What We Buy by Lawrence Ingrassia
Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America by Christopher Leonard
Facebook: The Inside Story by Steven Levy
The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care—and How to Fix It by Marty Makary, MD
Pharma: Greed, Lies, and the Poisoning of America by Gerald Posner
The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution by Gregory Zuckerman

“The judges were very impressed with the quality of all the entries for our inaugural Best in Business Book competition, a testament to the great work our long-form colleagues have done in the past year,” said Caleb Silver, SABEW vice president, contest chair and editor-in-chief at Investopedia. “This shortlist represents the best of the best evaluated by the quality of the reporting, storytelling and scope of the books we reviewed. Congratulations to all the authors and publishers.”

The judges will review the top five books and in mid-November award a $1,000 cash prize to the winner and $500 each for two finalists. The authors will be recognized at SABEW’s virtual conference taking place Nov. 17-20.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.