Financial Times has released its 2014 longlist for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award, which goes to “the book that is judged to have provided the most compelling and enjoyable insight into modern business issues.”
Titles include:
The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World, by Russell Gold
Capital in the Twenty-First Century, by Thomas Piketty
Creativity, Inc: Overcoming the Unseen Forces that Stand in the Way of True Inspiration, by Ed Catmull
Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance, by Julia Angwin
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt, by Michael Lewis
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers, by Ben Horowitz
House of Debt: How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It From Happening Again, by Atif Mian and Amir Sufi
The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies, by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee
Sons of Wichita: How the Koch Brothers Became America’s Most Powerful and Private Dynasty, by Daniel Schulman