Business Book Awards

We believe that books can help create more humane, diverse, modern, and effective businesses, stronger communities, and a better world. The Porchlight Business Book Awards exist to recognize the best books published every year, and all the people who helped bring them to life.

2025 Porchlight Business Book Awards

Winners be announced on January 29, 2026.

View the longlist.
Recap

The 2024 Business Book Awards & Publishing Industry Appreciation Party

We love celebrating the best business books of the year and the people in the publishing industry who make and share great books.

Browse the best businesss books of 2024

FAQs

It is free!

Each publisher or imprint may enter up to 30 books.

Any book with a U.S. publication date of the current year.

Books must be submitted by the publisher, publicist, agent, or author of the book.

The Porchlight Editorial Team serves as the awards jury.

No, as our jury starts reading books before the deadline. Please send bound manuscripts (loose sheets not accepted) or galleys until the time that you can send a finished copy.

Unfortunately, you cannot. Please have all the required information on hand before you start the form.

Unfortunately, they cannot.

Yes! While we love to have as many longlist authors as possible at our event, we realize that schedules are hard to coordinate. The availability of the author or publisher for the party will have no effect on the outcome of the awards.

How can we help?

Dylan Schleicher, our Editorial Director, is happy to answer your questions.