FT Business Book of the Year
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All the books longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award
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Banking & Finance
Winner
2016
The Man Who Knew
Sebastian Mallaby
Winner
2010
Fault Lines
Raghuram Rajan
Winner
2009
Lords of Finance
Liaquat Ahamed
Winner
2007
The Last Tycoons
William Cohan
Shortlist
2020
Reimagining Capitalism
Rebecca Henderson
Shortlist
2019
The Man Who Solved the Market
Gregory Zuckerman
Shortlist
2018
The Value of Everything
Mariana Mazzucato
Shortlist
2017
The Spider Network
David Enrich
Shortlist
2016
Makers and Takers
Rana Foroohar
Shortlist
2015
Digital Gold
Nathaniel Popper
Shortlist
2013
Making It Happen
Iain Martin
Shortlist
2013
The Alchemists
Neil Irwin
Shortlist
2012
The Hour Between Dog and Wolf
John Coates
Shortlist
2012
Volcker
William Silber
Shortlist
2010
More Money Than God
Sebastian Mallaby
Shortlist
2010
The Big Short
Michael Lewis
Shortlist
2010
Too Big to Fail
Andrew Ross Sorkin
Shortlist
2009
Good Value
Stephen Green
Shortlist
2009
In Fed We Trust
David Wessel
Shortlist
2007
The Age of Turbulence
Alan Greenspan
Shortlist
2007
The Black Swan
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Longlist
2023
Billionaires' Row
Katherine Clarke
Longlist
2023
Easy Money
Ben McKenzie, Jacob Silverman
Longlist
2023
Tokens
Rachel O'Dwyer
Longlist
2022
The Price of Time
Edward Chancellor
Longlist
2021
The Key Man
Simon Clark, Will Louch
Longlist
2020
Flash Crash
Liam Vaughan
Longlist
2019
Firefighting
Ben Bernanke, Timothy Geithner, Henry Paulson Jr
Longlist
2018
Billion Dollar Whale
Tom Wright, Bradley Hope
Longlist
2018
Crashed
Adam Tooze
Longlist
2018
The Bank That Lived a Little
Philip Augar
Longlist
2017
A Man For All Markets
Edward Thorp
Longlist
2017
Black Edge
Sheelah Kolhatkar
Longlist
2017
The Wisdom of Finance
Mihir Desai
Longlist
2016
The Curse of Cash
Kenneth Rogoff
Longlist
2015
Black Horse Ride
Ivan Fallon
Longlist
2014
Flash Boys
Michael Lewis
Longlist
2014
Fragile by Design
Charles Calomiris, Stephen Haber
Longlist
2014
Shredded
Ian Fraser
Longlist
2013
After the Music Stopped
Alan Blinder
Longlist
2012
Octopus
Guy Lawson
Longlist
2012
Paper Promises
Philip Coggan
Longlist
2011
Extreme Money
Satyajit Das
Longlist
2011
Fatal Risk
Roddy Boyd
Longlist
2010
All the Devils are Here
Bethany McLean, Joe Nocera
Longlist
2010
Union Atlantic
Adam Haslett
Longlist
2009
House of Cards
William Cohan
Longlist
2008
The Trillion Dollar Meltdown
Charles Morris
Longlist
2007
A Demon of Our Own Design
Richard Bookstaber
Longlist
2006
Hedgehogging
Barton Biggs
Longlist
2006
Traders, Guns and Money
Satyajit Das
Longlist
2005
The Greed Merchants
Philip Augar