A Porchlight Business Book Awards Longlist Grab Bag Book Giveaway

We received over 750 submissions to our annual book awards this year. And we would like to continue spreading the word about some of our favorites by finding a new home for some of them—maybe your home, or maybe the home of a friend you'd like it sent to as a New Year's gift.  

It's not exactly a grab bag, because each winner of this week's giveaway can take their pick of any one of the 40 books on our 2022 Business Books Awards Longlist. 

If recent years have reminded us how important it is to pause, to reflect on and reconsider our assumptions and direction, this year is about the need to roll up our sleeves and get engaged in the work. Here are the books we believe can help us do that in the year ahead. 

LEADERSHIP & STRATEGY 

• Anti-Racist Leadership: How to Transform Corporate Culture in a Race-Conscious World by James D. White with Krista White, Harvard Business Review Press  
• Dare to Un-Lead: The Art of Relational Leadership in a Fragmented World by Céline Schillinger, Figure 1 
• Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More than They Expect by Will Guidara, Optimism Press 
• The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale by John A. List, Currency 
• When Women Lead: What They Achieve, Why They Succeed, How We Can Learn from Them by Julia Boorstin, Avid Reader Press 

MANAGEMENT & WORKPLACE CULTURE 

• Beloved Economies: Transforming How We Work by Jess Rimington & Joanna Levitt Cea, Page Two 
• How the Future Works: Leading Flexible Teams to Do the Best Work of Their Lives by Brian Elliot, Sheela Subramanian, and Helen Kupp, Wiley 
• Satisfaction Guaranteed: How Zingerman's Built a Corner Deli into a Global Food Community by Micheline Maynard, Scribner 
• Shared Sisterhood: How to Take Collective Action for Racial and Gender Equity at Work by Tina Opie & Beth A. Livingston, Harvard Business Review Press  
• Still Broke: Walmart's Remarkable Transformation and the Limits of Socially Conscious Capitalism by Rick Wartzman, PublicAffairs 

MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS/SALES & INFLUENCE 

• Emotion By Design: Creative Leadership Lessons from a Life at Nike by Greg Hoffman, Twelve 
• How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion by David McRaney, Portfolio 
• How to Tell a Story: The Essential Guide to Memorable Storytelling from The Moth by Meg Bowles, Catherine Burns, Jenifer Hixson, Sarah Austin Jenness, and Kate Tellers, Crown 
• Making Numbers Count: The Art and Science of Communicating Numbers by Chip Heath & Karla Starr, Avid Reader Press 
• The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy by Anand Giridharadas, Alfred A. Knopf 

INNOVATION & CREATIVITY 

• Build the Damn Thing: How to Start a Successful Business If You're Not a Rich White Guy by Kathryn Finney, Portfolio 
• How Big-Tech Barons Smash Innovation—and How to Strike Back by Ariel Ezrachi & Maurice E. Stucke, Harper Business 
• Inspired: Understanding Creativity: A Journey Through Art, Science, and the Soul by Matt Richtel, Mariner Books 
• She Builds: The Anti-Hustle Guide to Grow Your Business and Nourish Your Life by Jadah Sellner, Harper Business 
• Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions by Temple Grandin, Riverhead Books 

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT & HUMAN BEHAVIOR 

• Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole by Susan Cain, Crown 
• Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention—and How to Think Deeply Again by Johann Hari, Crown 
• Living a Committed Life: Finding Freedom and Fulfillment in a Purpose Larger Than Yourself by Lynne Twist, Berrett-Koehler 
• Thinking 101: How to Reason Better to Live Better by Woo-Kyoung Ahn, Flatiron Books 
• Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want by Ruha Benjamin, Princeton University Press 

CURRENT EVENTS & PUBLIC AFFAIRS 

• Delinquent: Inside America's Debt Machine by Elena Botella, University of California Press 
• Direct: The Rise of the Middleman Economy and the Power of Going to the Source by Kathryn Judge, Harper Business 
• Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America by Dahlia Lithwick, Penguin Press 
• Pandemic, Inc.: Chasing the Capitalists and Thieves Who Got Rich While We Got Sick by J. David McSwane, One Signal Publishers 
• Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless, Invisible War by Phil Klay, Penguin Press 

NARRATIVE & BIOGRAPHY 

• Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall by Alexandra Lange, Bloomsbury Publishing 
• Milked: How an American Crisis Brought Together Midwestern Dairy Farmers and Mexican Workers by Ruth Conniff, The New Press 
• A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community by Natalia Molina, University of California Press 
• Saving Main Street: Small Business in the Time of COVID-19 by Gary Rivlin, Harper Business 
• Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop by Danyel Smith, Roc Lit 101 

BIG IDEAS & NEW PERSPECTIVES 

• Broken: How Our Social Systems are Failing Us and How We Can Fix Them by Paul LeBlanc, Matt Holt  
• The College Devaluation Crisis: Market Disruption, Diminishing ROI, and an Alternative Future of Learning by Jason Wingard, Stanford Business Books  
• Take Back the Game: How Money and Mania are Ruining Kids’ Sports—And Why it Matters by Linda Flanagan, Portfolio  
• Secrets of the Sprakkar: Iceland’s Extraordinary Women and How They Are Changing the World by Eliza Reid, Sourcebooks 
• You’ve Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All by Adrian Hon, Basic Books 

We will select the winners of this giveaway next Tuesday, January 3rd. If you win, we will email you directly to see what book you'd choose and where you'd like it sent.