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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Manufacturing & Commerce
Winner
2017
Janesville
Amy Goldstein
Winner
2013
The Everything Store
Brad Stone
Shortlist
2023
Cobalt Red
Siddharth Kara
Shortlist
2023
Elon Musk
Walter Isaacson
Shortlist
2023
Material World
Ed Conway
Shortlist
2021
Empire Of Pain
Patrick Radden Keefe
Shortlist
2020
If Then
Jill Lepore
Shortlist
2020
Reimagining Capitalism
Rebecca Henderson
Shortlist
2019
Kochland
Christopher Leonard
Shortlist
2016
Alibaba
Duncan Clark
Shortlist
2015
Losing the Signal
Jacquie McNish, Sean Silcoff
Shortlist
2008
Cold Steel
Byron Ousey, Tim Bouquet
Shortlist
2007
Zoom
Iain Carson, Vijay Vaitheeswaran
Shortlist
2006
The Long Tail
Chris Anderson
Shortlist
2006
The Wal-Mart Effect
Charles Fishman
Longlist
2023
The Case for Good Jobs
Zeynep Ton
Longlist
2022
Flying Blind
Peter Robison
Longlist
2022
Power Failure
William D. Cohan
Longlist
2022
The Long Shot
Kate Bingham and Tim Hames
Longlist
2021
A Shot to Save the World
Gregory Zuckerman
Longlist
2021
UNRAVELED
Maxine Bédat
Longlist
2020
Samsung Rising
Geoffrey Cain
Longlist
2020
Winning Now, Winning Later
David M. Cote
Longlist
2019
Big Business
Tyler Cowen
Longlist
2019
Make, Think, Imagine
John Browne
Longlist
2018
Damaged Goods
Oliver Shah
Longlist
2017
Wild Ride
Adam Lashinsky
Longlist
2016
The Profiteers
Sally Denton
Longlist
2016
The Smartest Places on Earth
Antoine van Agtmael and Fred Bakker
Longlist
2014
Sons of Wichita
Daniel Schulman
Longlist
2012
American Icon
Bryce Hoffman
Longlist
2012
Makers
Chris Anderson
Longlist
2011
Car Guys vs Bean Counters
Bob Lutz
Longlist
2008
Our Daily Meds
Melody Petersen
Longlist
2006
FutureShop
Daniel Nissannoff