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The Party
Our annual business book awards party celebrates not just books but also the people who make books possible.
2024 Porchlight Business Book Awards
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. Of the 40, we've selected eight as the winners of the 2024 Porchlight Business Book Awards.
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The Jack Covert Award for Contribution to the Business Book Industry
Matt Holt is Editor-in-Chief of the BenBella imprint Matt Holt Books. Holt was previously Senior Vice President and Executive Publisher at John Wiley & Sons, where he oversaw a team of 85 staff. Over his 29-year career, Matt has acquired over 1,000 and published 10,000 titles.
The Longlist
Big Ideas & New Perspectives Winner
Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation by Greg Epstein, MIT Press
Current Events & Public Affairs Winner
The Truth About Immigration: Why Successful Societies Welcome Newcomers by Zeke Hernandez, St. Martin's Press
Innovation & Creativity Winner
The Vagina Business: The Innovative Breakthroughs that Could Change Everything in Women's Health by Marina Gerner, Sourcebooks
Leadership & Strategy Winner
Higher Ground: How Business Can Do the Right Thing in a Turbulent World by Alison Taylor, Harvard Business Review Press
Management & Workplace Culture Winner
The Problem with Change: And the Essential Nature of Human Performance by Ashley Goodall, Little, Brown Spark
Marketing & Communications / Sales & Influence Winner
Say It Well: Find Your Voice, Speak Your Mind, Inspire Any Audience by Terry Szuplat, Harper Business
Narrative & Biography Winner
Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank by Justene Hill Edwards, W.W. Norton & Company
Personal Development & Human Behavior Winner
Unlearning Silence: How to Speak Your Mind, Unleash Talent, and Live More Fully by Elaine Lin Hering, Penguin Life
"We believe in a book’s inherent value as a means of spreading information and culture, and we believe in the soul of the individual book—that once launched into the world, it can take on a life of its own and have a profound effect on business, our society, and culture."
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From the Authors of the Best Business Books of 2024
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.
"I believe in books as teachers that inspire, inform and challenge us," said Robin Landa, co-author of Shareworthy.
"Books are the things that not only allow us to share information. It allows us to share humanity," remarked Charles Duhigg, author of Supercommunicators.
"I think that stories are what makes us human," remarked Marina Gerner, author of The Vagina Business. "Everything we create in this world is the outcome of a story."
For these, and so many more reasons that you'll learn in the video, we believe in books.
Here's to living, telling, and sharing stories.
