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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Technology & Innovation
Winner
2022
Chip War
Chris Miller
Winner
2021
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends
Nicole Perlroth
Winner
2020
No Filter
Sarah Frier
Winner
2019
Invisible Women
Caroline Criado Perez
Winner
2018
Bad Blood
John Carreyrou
Winner
2015
The Rise of the Robots
Martin Ford
Winner
2013
The Everything Store
Brad Stone
Shortlist
2023
Elon Musk
Walter Isaacson
Shortlist
2023
How Big Things Get Done
Bent Flyvbjerg, Dan Gardner
Shortlist
2023
The Coming Wave
Mustafa Suleyman, Michael Bhaskar
Shortlist
2022
Influence Empire
Lulu Chen
Shortlist
2020
A World Without Work
Daniel Susskind
Shortlist
2020
If Then
Jill Lepore
Shortlist
2020
No Rules Rules
Reed Hastings, Erin Meyer
Shortlist
2019
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Shoshana Zuboff
Shortlist
2018
New Power
Jeremy Heimans, Henry Timms
Shortlist
2017
Reset
Ellen Pao
Shortlist
2017
The One Device
Brian Merchant
Shortlist
2016
Alibaba
Duncan Clark
Shortlist
2016
The 100-Year Life
Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott
Shortlist
2015
Digital Gold
Nathaniel Popper
Shortlist
2015
How Music Got Free
Stephen Witt
Shortlist
2015
Losing the Signal
Jacquie McNish, Sean Silcoff
Shortlist
2014
Dragnet Nation
Julia Angwin
Shortlist
2014
The Second Machine Age
Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee
Shortlist
2013
Big Data
Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Kenneth Cukier
Shortlist
2012
Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson
Shortlist
2010
The Facebook Effect
David Kirkpatrick
Shortlist
2008
Remix
Lawrence Lessig
Shortlist
2007
Wikinomics
Don Tapscott, Anthony Williams
Shortlist
2006
The Long Tail
Chris Anderson
Shortlist
2005
Fast Second
Constantinos Markides, Paul Geroski
Shortlist
2005
The Search
John Battelle
Longlist
2023
Blood in the Machine
Brian Merchant
Longlist
2023
Power and Progress
Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson
Longlist
2023
Tokens
Rachel O'Dwyer
Longlist
2023
Your Face Belongs To Us
Kashmir Hill
Longlist
2022
The Long Shot
Kate Bingham and Tim Hames
Longlist
2021
A Shot to Save the World
Gregory Zuckerman
Longlist
2021
Innovation In Real Places
Dan Breznitz
Longlist
2021
The Cult of We
Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrell review
Longlist
2020
Samsung Rising
Geoffrey Cain
Longlist
2020
Uncharted
Margaret Heffernan
Longlist
2019
Human Compatible
Stuart Russell
Longlist
2019
Loonshoots
Safi Bahcall
Longlist
2019
Make, Think, Imagine
John Browne
Longlist
2019
The Big Nine
Amy Webb
Longlist
2018
Brotopia
Emily Chang
Longlist
2017
Move Fast and Break Things
Jonathan Taplin
Longlist
2017
Thank You for Being Late
Thomas Friedman
Longlist
2017
The Driver in the Driverless Car
Vivek Wadhwa, Alex Salkever
Longlist
2017
Wild Ride
Adam Lashinsky
Longlist
2016
Chaos Monkeys
Antonio Garcia Martinez
Longlist
2016
The Fix
Jonathan Tepperman
Longlist
2016
The Smartest Places on Earth
Antoine van Agtmael and Fred Bakker
Longlist
2015
Elon Musk
Ashlee Vance
Longlist
2015
The Powerhouse
Steve LeVine
Longlist
2014
The Innovators
Walter Isaacson
Longlist
2012
Abundance
Peter Diamandis, Steven Kotler
Longlist
2012
Makers
Chris Anderson
Longlist
2012
Standing on the Sun
Christopher Meyer, Julie Kirby
Longlist
2010
MacroWikinomics
Don Tapscott, Anthony Williams
Longlist
2010
The Rational Optimist
Matt Ridley
Longlist
2009
Free
Chris Anderson
Longlist
2008
Here Comes Everybody
Clay Shirky
Longlist
2007
The Cult of the Amateur
Andrew Keen
Longlist
2006
FutureShop
Daniel Nissannoff