The 2024 Big Ideas & New Perspectives Book of the Year is Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation by Greg Epstein, published by MIT Press.
The 2024 Creativity and Innovation Book of the Year is The Vagina Business: The Innovative Breakthroughs That Could Change Everything in Women's Health by Marina Gerner, published by Sourcebooks.
The 2024 Leadership and Strategy Book of the Year is Higher Ground: How Business Can Do the Right Thing in a Turbulent World by Alison Taylor, published by Harvard Business Review Press.
The 2024 Current Events & Public Affairs Book of the Year is The Truth about Immigration: Why Successful Societies Welcome Newcomers by Zeke Hernandez, published by St. Martin's Press.
The 2024 Porchlight Management & Workplace Culture Book of the Year is The Problem with Change: And the Essential Nature of Human Performance by Ashley Goodall, published by Little, Brown Spark.
The Marketing & Communications/Sales & Influence Book of the Year is Say It Well: Find Your Voice, Speak Your Mind, Inspire Any Audience by Terry Szuplat, published by Harper Business.
The 2024 Personal Development & Human Behavior Book of the Year is Unlearning Silence: How to Speak Your Mind, Unleash Talent, and Live More Fully by Elaine Lin Hering, published by Penguin Life.
The 2024 Narrative & Biography Book of the Year is Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank by Justene Hill Edwards, published by W. W. Norton & Company.
For the second year in a row, Porchlight asked the authors whose books we selected as the best business books of 2024 the question, "Why do you believe in books?" Their responses were thoughtful, sentimental, reflective, and forward-looking.
Matt Holt is the recipient of the 2024 Jack Covert Award.
Each of the top five leadership and strategy books for 2024 spoke to and respected a different type of leader, and each will help you discover what kind of leader you want and need to be.
Modern organizations are plagued with performative work and confusing policy, much of it the result of poor management and a lack of clear communication. At a time when so much attention is being given to how AI will affect our work, we found four books that focus on what humans can do to build better workplaces.
Attention is the world’s most valuable resource, and learning how to earn it—how to seize and hold someone’s attention in your writing, while speaking in public, or in the brief moment an ad is in front of them, and how to offer it back when talking in person with others—is critical for every conversation and every company. These five books can help.
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.
Humans are social beings designed for connection.
These five books reveal overlooked parts of our history and the forces shaping our lives, encouraging us to confront adversity to make the world a better place.
These books help us better understand and appreciate ourselves and one another, forcing us to take a step back and reflect on how we all need each other, not just to exist, but to succeed and flourish.
With compelling voices, these books excite readers to investigate problems, acuminate ideas, and lead with an open-mind and the desire to change the world for the better.
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.
Porchlight is a place with a rich history and a vibrant future where books have the power to inform, inspire, and unite.
Look back at our publishing industry appreciation party through photos and a recap video.
These are the books selected for the 2023 Big Ideas & New Perspectives category, curated by Porchlight's Managing Editor Jasmine Gonzalez.
These are the books selected for the 2023 Narrative & Biography category, curated by Porchlight's Managing Editor Jasmine Gonzalez.
Looking for the year's best Current Events & Public Affairs books? Porchlight's Marketing & Editorial Director Dylan Schleicher has you, and those books, covered.
None of these books are directly about happiness, but follow their advice and you'll feel a lot happier about where you are and where you're headed.
Our Creative Director Gabriella Cisneros describes how the best innovation and creativity books of 2023 connect to each other and help us readers connect to each other, too.
Porchlight's Marketing & Editorial Director Dylan Schleicher looks at the year's best book in the Marketing & Communications/Sales & Influence category.
Rick Wolff is the recipient of the 2023 Jack Covert Award.
Porchlight's Marketing & Editorial Director Dylan Schleicher takes us inside 2023's best Management & Workplace Culture books.
Porchlight's Managing Director Sally Haldorson dives into 2023's best books in the Leadership & Strategy category.
These 40 books spoke to us—and we believe speak to each other—in a way that furthers the conversations we need to have in the organizations we work in, the communities we live in, and the societies that shape us. With them as a guide, we can make decisions that better shape each, in turn.
The Porchlight Business Book Awards are now open for entries! And we are doing things a little differently this year.
We love reading books, but our main purpose as a company is to get them in the hands of others.
In one insightful instance after another, Johann Hari demonstrates the ways in which our attention is deliberately hijacked, and how to get it back.
Barbara Cave Henricks is the recipient of the 2022 Jack Covert Award.
The 2022 Narrative & Biography Book of the Year is Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop by Danyel Smith, published by Roc Lit 101.
The 2022 Management & Workplace Culture book of the year is Beloved Economies: Transforming How We Work by Jess Rimington and Joanna Levitt Cea, published by Page Two.
The 2022 Big Ideas & New Perspectives book of the year is The College Devaluation Crisis: Market Disruption, Diminishing ROI, and an Alternative Future of Learning by Jason Wingard, from Stanford Business Books.
The 2022 Current Events & Public Affairs book of the year is Pandemic Inc.: Chasing the Capitalists and Thieves Who Got Rich While We Got Sick by J. David McSwane, from One Signal Publishers.
The 2022 Personal Development & Human Behavior book of the year is Stolen Focus by Johann Hari, published by Crown.
The 2022 Innovation & Creativity book of the year is Inspired by Matt Richtel, published by Mariner Books.
The 2022 Marketing & Communications/Sales & Influence book of the year is How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion by David McRaney, published by Portfolio.
The 2022 Leadership & Strategy book of the year is Dare to Un-Lead: The Art of Relational Leadership in a Fragmented World by Céline Schillinger, published by Figure 1.
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.
When we take a look beyond our own front doors to learn from the world around us, we might find that the ideas that feel like mere pipe dreams now can—and in some places, already have—become our reality.
Our Managing Director Sally Haldorson calls upon a short story of Raymond Carver's to help us understand why it seems so impossible, and why it's so important, to talk about leadership.
We are creatures that need guidance, love, compassion, and (we believe in) books that bring us back to considering and working on ourselves, which is what this category is all about.
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.
These five books will prompt you to ask questions about yourself and the world around you, and it is in this inner-searching and outward observation that we will find, innovate, and create a better world for us all.
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.