The longlist for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award has been revealed, with Cory Doctorow and Tim Minshall among the nominees for the literary prize.
Doctorow made the longlist for Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It; the author coined the term for the decline in quality of online services. Minshall was nominated for How Things Are Made: A Journey Through the Hidden World of Manufacturing, which was recently named a finalist for the Royal Society’s Trivedi Science Book Prize.
For the third time in the prize’s history, a novel made the longlist: Alexander Starritt’s Drayton and Mackenzie. Also nominated were Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future by Dan Wang; Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare by Edward Fishman; How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations by Carl Benedikt Frey; The Land Trap: A New History of the World’s Oldest Asset by Mike Bird; Outclassed: How the Left Lost the Working Class and How to Win Them Back by Joan C. Williams; and Dirtbag Billionaire: How Yvon Chouinard Built Patagonia, Made a Fortune, and Gave It All Away by David Gelles.
Karen Hao was nominated for Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI, as were Helen Lewis for The Genius Myth: A Curious History of a Dangerous Idea; Eva Dou for House of Huawei: Inside the Secret World of China’s Most Powerful Company; Stephen Witt for The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip; Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson for Abundance; Saabira Chaudhuri for Consumed: How Big Brands Got Us Hooked on Plastic; and Gardiner Harris for No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson.
The Business Book of the Year Award was established in 2005. Previous winners include Thomas L. Friedman for The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century; Steve Coll for Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power; and Sarah Frier for No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram.
The shortlist for this year’s prize will be revealed on September 24, with the winner announced on December 3.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
