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The Jack Covert Award for Contribution to the Business Book Industry
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2025 Porchlight Business Book Awards
The 40 best business books of 2025, selected by Porchlight.
The four winners (one from each category) will be announced at an industry event in New York City on January 28th, as well as in our newsletter and on our social media channels.
The Longlist
Longlist
Current Events & Public Affairs
- The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity by Tim Wu, Knopf Publishing Group
- Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream by Megan Greenwell, Dey Street Books
- Capitalism and Its Critics: A History: From the Industrial Revolution to AI by John Cassidy, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI by Karen Hao, Penguin Press
- Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It by Cory Doctorow, MCD
- The Land Trap: A New History of the World’s Oldest Asset by Mike Bird, Portfolio
- Reaping What She Sows: How Women Are Rebuilding Our Broken Food System by Nancy Matsumoto, Melville House
- Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart by Nicholas Carr, W.W. Norton & Company
- Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity by Yoni Appelbaum, Random House
- World Eaters: How Venture Capital Is Cannibalizing the Economy by Catherine Bracy, Dutton
Longlist
Innovation & Creativity
- Could Should Might Don't: How We Think About the Future by Nick Foster, MCD
- The Creative Shift: How to Power Up Your Organization by Making Space for New Ideas by Andrew Robertson, Basic Venture
- Digital Culture Shock: Who Creates Technology and Why This Matters by Katharina Reinecke, Princeton University Press
- The Future of Storytelling: How Immersive Experiences Are Transforming Our World by Charles Melcher, Artisan
- The New Age of Sexism: How AI and Emerging Technologies Are Reinventing Misogyny by Laura Bates, Sourcebooks
- Pioneers: 8 Principles of Business Longevity from Immigrant Entrepreneurs by Neri Karra Sillaman, Wiley
- Raising AI: An Essential Guide to Parenting Our Future by De Kai, The MIT Press
- The Storyteller's Advantage: How Powerful Narratives Make Businesses Thrive by Christina Farr, Basic Venture
- The Sweaty Startup: How to Get Rich Doing Boring Things by Nick Huber, Harper Business
- The Uncanny Muse: Music, Art, and Machines from Automata to AI by David Hajdu, W. W. Norton & Company
Longlist
Leadership & Management
- Blindspotting: How to See What Others Miss by Kirstin Ferguson, Penguin
- Careless People: A Cautionary T ale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams, Flatiron Books
- A CEO for All Seasons: Mastering the Cycles of Leadership by Carolyn Dewar, Scott Keller, Vikram Malhotra, and Kurt Strovink, Scribner
- Reset: How to Change What's Not Working by Dan Heath, Avid Reader Press
- Source Code: My Beginnings by Bill Gates, Knopf Publishing Group
- Strong Ground: The Lessons of Daring Leadership, the Tenacity of Paradox, and the Wisdom of the Human Spirit by Brené Brown, Random House
- The Ten Toughest Leadership Problems: And How to Solve Them by Katie Best, Basic Venture
- There’s Got to Be a Better Way: How to Deliver Results and Get Rid of the Stuff That Gets in the Way of Real Work by Nelson Repenning & Donald Kieffer, Basic Venture
- What Matters Next: A Leader’s Guide to Making Human-Friendly Tech Decisions in a World That’s Moving Too Fast by Kate O’Neill, Wiley
- When We’re in Charge: The Next Generation’s Guide to Leadership by Amanda Litman, Crooked Media Reads
Longlist
Personal Development & Human Behavior
- Anointed: The Extraordinary Effects of Social Status in a Winner-Take-Most World by Toby Stuart, Simon & Schuster
- Charlatans: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Hucksters Bamboozle the Media, the Markets, and the Masses by Moises Naim & Quico Toro, Basic Books
- Digital Exhaustion: Simple Rules for Reclaiming Your Life by Paul Leonardi, Riverhead Books
- Don’t Be Yourself: Why Authenticity Is Overrated (and What to Do Instead) by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Harvard Business Review Press
- How to Be Free: A Proven Guide to Escaping Life's Hidden Prisons by Shaka Senghor, Authors Equity
- The Ideological Brain: The Radical Science of Flexible Thinking by Leor Zmigrod, Henry Holy & Company
- Me, But Better: The Science and Promise of Personality Change by Olga Khazan, Simon Element
- Play the Game. Change the Game. Leave the Game.: Pathways to Black Empowerment, Prosperity, and Joy by Robert Livingston, Crown Currency
- The Price of Nice: Why Comfort Keeps Us Stuck and 4 Actions for Real Change by Amira Barger, Berrett-Koehler
- Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age by Vauhini Vara, Pantheon Books
