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The Best Current Events & Public Affairs Books of 2024
The greatest challenges we face today offer some of our greatest opportunities for growth. We just need the civic imagination and collective will to seize them, to build new things and embrace new approaches. The best Current Events & Public Affairs books of 2024 all addressed that need in some way.
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The 2024 Porchlight Business Book Awards Longlist
The 40 books on this year's list of best business books provide a bastion against the tide of overwhelm that we all feel, grounding us with clear-eyed practical and practiced ways to do the work that will effectively bring positive change to our own personal and professional spaces and places.
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The 2023 Porchlight Business Book Awards | Current Events & Public Affairs
Looking for the year's best Current Events & Public Affairs books? Porchlight's Marketing & Editorial Director Dylan Schleicher has you, and those books, covered.
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The 2023 Porchlight Business Book Awards | Marketing & Communications/Sales & Influence
Porchlight's Marketing & Editorial Director Dylan Schleicher looks at the year's best book in the Marketing & Communications/Sales & Influence category.
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The 2023 Porchlight Business Book Awards | Management & Workplace Culture
Porchlight's Marketing & Editorial Director Dylan Schleicher takes us inside 2023's best Management & Workplace Culture books.
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The 2023 Porchlight Business Book Awards Call for Entries
The Porchlight Business Book Awards are now open for entries! And we are doing things a little differently this year.
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Porchlight Book Company's Bestselling Books of 2022
We love reading books, but our main purpose as a company is to get them in the hands of others.
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The 2022 Porchlight Business Book Awards Shortlist
There isn’t anywhere better to slow down, to dive deeper into things, to learn about and reflect upon the world, than in a book. The best books transcend their time and space, even as they help us define our present moment and put it in context.
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Inside the 2022 Longlist | Narrative & Biography
Like fiction, narratives and biographies can help us empathize with and even inhabit, for a brief moment in the pages of a book, the mindsets and experiences of other people. It allows us to peek into the lives of individuals, see inside organizations, and visit other places without having to leave our reading chair.
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Inside the 2022 Longlist | Current Events & Public Affairs
It seems like each and every category of our awards has elements of Current Events & Public Affairs percolating within them, but that doesn't negate the need for a dedicated category. These are the five best books in that space this year.
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America's Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve
Roger Lowenstein has written a brilliant book on the founding of the Federal Reserve that informs and echoes the issues and arguments of today.
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Outmarket the Competition: Advanced Marketing Tactics to Drive Growth and Profitability
The ultimate marketing strategy to help SMB companies break sales plateaus and beat the competition.
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End of Awards Season Grab Bag Giveaway
We're cleaning house and culling books, and would like to give you some great books we have duplicate copies of.
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We Hold These Truths: How to Spot the Myths That Are Holding America Back
In this clear-eyed guide, America’s political experts cut through the spin and expose the myths holding our democracy back.
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Superagency: What Could Possibly Go Right with Our AI Future
Tech visionary Reid Hoffman shares his unique insider’s perspective on an AI-powered future, making the case for its potential to unlock a world of possibilities.
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This Is the Thing: About Life, Joy, and Owning Your Purpose
When it feels like there is something missing in life, it’s time to dig deep.
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Plundered: How Racist Policies Undermine Black Homeownership in America
A property law scholar uses the stories of two grandfathers—one white, one Black—who arrived in Detroit at the turn of the twentieth century to reveal how racist policies weaken Black families, widen the racial wealth gap, and derive profit from pain.
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How to Be Enough: Self-Acceptance for Self-Critics and Perfectionists
Are you your own toughest critic? Learn to be good to yourself with this clear and compassionate guide.
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The Enduring Enterprise: How Family Businesses Thrive in Turbulent Conditions
Family businesses thrive in some of the world's toughest environments, providing vital lessons for businesses everywhere.
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The Essentialism Planner: A 90-Day Guide to Accomplishing More by Doing Less
Do less and accomplish more in all areas of your life with this 90-day planner based on the million-copy bestseller Essentialism.
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The Non-Obvious Guide to Drawing Your Future: Solve Problems, Explain Ideas, Sell Anything
Patti Dobrowolski unveils the transformative power of visual thinking in shaping personal and professional trajectories.
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Earn It: Unconventional Strategies for Brave Marketers
Don’t buy, steal, hijack, or interrupt—earn your audience’s attention by doing the hard work and creating content they actually want.
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The Way Home: Discovering the Hero's Journey to Wholeness at Midlife
A guidebook for those at midlife struggling to find themselves, deftly applying Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey to the modern reader’s quest for wholeness.
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Extraordinary Doctor: How Emotional Intelligence Drives a Physician's Success
Discover the essential people skills you didn't learn in medical school,
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Don't Believe Everything You Think: Why Your Thinking Is the Beginning & End of Suffering
Learn how to overcome anxiety, self-doubt, and self-sabotage without needing to rely on motivation or willpower—now in a beautiful, expanded edition with even more personalized guidance.
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Unruly: A Guide to Reclaiming Your True Self
A guide for women of all shapes and sizes who are in the bold process of going beyond stereotypes to find the truth of who they are
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Pivot or Die: How Leaders Thrive When Everything Changes
From Gary Shapiro, New York Times bestselling author and head of CES and the Consumer Technology Association, a manifesto for today’s top executives, entrepreneurs, and leaders: pivot or die.
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Non-Obvious Thinking: How to See What Others Miss
Shift Your Perspective. Be More Non-Obvious.
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Priceless Facts about Money
Debut author Mellody Hobson, barrier-breaking pioneer in the world of finance, demystifies money for kids with a look at some wild and weird facts about what makes the world go round.
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Lead, Follow, or Fail: The Human Struggle for Productivity, and how Nations, Organizations, and People will Prosper in our Changing World
A thought-provoking exploration of our world's economic past, present, and future.
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End of Summer Grab Bag Giveaway
We're cleaning house and culling books, and would like to give you some of our favorite doubles.
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Unlimited Heart: How to Transform Your Pain Into Purpose
On a cold and cozy December night in 2018, Jim Kaveney thinks he is dying. He is a husband, a father, a business owner, an athlete, and innovator. He is also an Afib patient facing massive cardiac trauma.
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Your Grass Is Greener: Use What You Have. Get What You Want. at Work and in Life.
You don't need a new job to get your dream job. You already have it.
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The Five Talents That Really Matter: How Great Leaders Drive Extraordinary Performance
A former Gallup Global Leadership Research and Development leader demystifies the aura and complexity surrounding high performing leaders through original research and interviews with high-performing global leaders.
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Community of Leaders: What It Takes to Drive Strategy, Culture, and Change
Build community to accelerate success.
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Rethinking College: A Guide to Thriving Without a Degree
You may have heard that a college degree is the only path to success. But many college graduates end up mired in debt and underemployed, working jobs that don't even require a degree. The good news? There are many promising career options for those who don't want to or can't attend college.
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Wanted: Toddler's Personal Assistant: How Nannying for the 1% Taught Me about the Myths of Equality, Motherhood, and Upward Mobility in America
Saddled with crushing student debt, Steph Kiser jumps head-first into the lucrative but unglamorous and exhausting world of nannying for New York City's richest families, immersing herself in a world in stark contrast to her own impoverished childhood, in this emotional and insightful new memoir.
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Loud: Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve
The empowering, inspiring, patriarchy-smashing first book by the TikTok and Spotify star Drew Afualo.
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A Tale of Two Titties: A Writer's Guide to Conquering the Most Sexist Tropes in Literary History
From the brilliantly funny (and rightfully furious) creator of the viral Men Write Women Twitter account.
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The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us
An intimate and expansive look at Judy Blume’s life, work, and cultural impact, focusing on her most iconic—and controversial—young adult novels.
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The Danish Secret to Happy Kids: How the Viking Way of Raising Children Makes Them Happier, Healthier, and More Independent
What do Vikings know about raising children? Turns out, quite a bit.
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The Air They Breathe: A Pediatrician on the Frontlines of Climate Change
A pediatrician reveals the profound impact of climate change on children's health and emphasizes our moral responsibility to safeguard our most vulnerable.
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Hip-Hop Is History
2023 marked the 50th anniversary of hip-hop. Questlove helped tell that story at the 2023 Grammys, but that event is just the Introduction to the fuller, more personal history told in his new book on the topic.
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The Ancient Art of Thinking for Yourself: The Power of Rhetoric in Polarized Times
Robin Reames has written a powerful guide to parsing political rhetoric that looks at how experiments in self-governance have been ended in the past and offers tools for thinking that can help us preserve our own.
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Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
Yanis Varoufakis has pronounced capitalism dead. Even if you don’t believe it is worth saving, you’ll probably agree that what has replaced it is even more oppressive. But there may be a means for emancipation in the tools of our current exploitation.
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The World Behind the World: Consciousness, Free Will, and the Limits of Science
Furthering our understanding of existential issues like human consciousness and free will is increasingly relevant to decisions we make about the existential problems we face. Erik Hoel's new book is a gift that helps us do just that.
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Laughter in the Dark: Egypt to the Tune of Change
Yasmine El Rashidi gives us an update on the situation in Egypt through the lens of the country's hip hop scene.
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Pricing the Priceless: The Financial Transformation to Value the Planet, Solve the Climate Crisis, and Protect Our Most Precious Assets
Paula DiPerna writes beautifully about the moral bankruptcy of how value is assigned in our society, and of the sensible, sustainable ways we can flip the script to repair our economics and environment.
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All the Gold Stars: Reimagining Ambition and the Ways We Strive
Rainesford Stauffer reminds us that it is not enough to be ambitious, and just how harmful personal ambition can be. The question is: what are we ambitious about?
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The Song of Significance: A New Manifesto for Teams
"Let's get real or let's not play." Seth Godin's new manifesto for teams is about working well, leading well, and playing well with others.
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The Phoenix Economy: Work, Life, and Money in the New Not Normal
"The idea behind this book," writes Felix Salmon, "is that the unexpected isn’t over." A pronouncement like that offers both great hope and caution, and acts as an important reminder.
We are approaching our book awards season here at Porchlight Book Company. We will have more news on (and changes to) that process in August. But, before we get there, I'd like to take this last day in July to offer our readers some of the books we still have on our awards shelves from last year's submissons.
