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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Investment & Markets
Winner
2016
The Man Who Knew
Sebastian Mallaby
Winner
2010
Fault Lines
Raghuram Rajan
Winner
2008
When Markets Collide
Mohamed El-Erian
Shortlist
2022
The Power Law
Sebastian Mallaby
Shortlist
2021
The World for Sale
Javier Blas, Jack Farchy
Shortlist
2020
Deaths of Despair
Angus Deaton, Anne Case
Shortlist
2019
The Man Who Solved the Market
Gregory Zuckerman
Shortlist
2019
The Third Pillar
Raghuram Rajan
Shortlist
2018
The Value of Everything
Mariana Mazzucato
Shortlist
2017
Adaptive Markets
Andrew Lo
Shortlist
2016
Makers and Takers
Rana Foroohar
Shortlist
2013
The Billionaire's Apprentice
Anita Raghavan
Shortlist
2012
The Hour Between Dog and Wolf
John Coates
Shortlist
2012
What Money Can't Buy
Michael Sandel
Shortlist
2011
Exorbitant Privilege
Barry Eichengreen
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
Animal Spirits
George Akerlof, Robert Shiller
Shortlist
2009
Good Value
Stephen Green
Shortlist
2009
In Fed We Trust
David Wessel
Shortlist
2008
Cold Steel
Byron Ousey, Tim Bouquet
Shortlist
2008
The Snowball
Alice Schroeder
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
2021
The Key Man
Simon Clark, Will Louch
Longlist
2021
What We Owe Each Other
Minouche Shafik
Longlist
2020
Money for Nothing
Thomas Levenson
Longlist
2019
Boom
Michael Shnayerson
Longlist
2019
Firefighting
Ben Bernanke, Timothy Geithner, Henry Paulson Jr
Longlist
2018
Crashed
Adam Tooze
Longlist
2017
A Man For All Markets
Edward Thorp
Longlist
2016
The Curse of Cash
Kenneth Rogoff
Longlist
2015
Phishing for Phools
George Akerlof, Robert Shiller
Longlist
2014
Flash Boys
Michael Lewis
Longlist
2014
Fragile by Design
Charles Calomiris, Stephen Haber
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
Wizard of Lies
Diana Henriques
Longlist
2010
All the Devils are Here
Bethany McLean, Joe Nocera
Longlist
2010
How Markets Fail
John Cassidy
Longlist
2010
The End of the Free Market
Ian Bremmer
Longlist
2009
The Myth of the Rational Market
Justin Fox
Longlist
2009
This Time is Different
Carmen Reinhart, Kenneth Rogoff
Longlist
2008
The Trillion Dollar Meltdown
Charles Morris
Longlist
2007
A Demon of Our Own Design
Richard Bookstaber
Longlist
2007
Pop! Why Bubbles Are Great For The Economy
Daniel Gross
Longlist
2006
Hedgehogging
Barton Biggs
Longlist
2006
The Baby Business
Debora Spar
Longlist
2006
Traders, Guns and Money
Satyajit Das
Longlist
2005
Pay Without Performance
Lucian Bebchuk, Jesse Fried
Longlist
2005
The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism
John Bogle