Financial Times/McKinsey(2014+)/Goldman Sachs (to 2013) Business Book of the Year
1. 
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
by:
Daron AcemoΔlu
4.09 avg rating β 59,204 ratings 
3. 
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier 3.92 avg rating β 6,284 ratings
5. 
Cold Steel: Lakshmi Mittal and the Multi-Billion-Dollar Battle for a Global Empire
by:
Tim Bouquet
4.16 avg rating β 1,122 ratings 
7. 
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
by:
Liaquat Ahamed
4.03 avg rating β 16,187 ratings 8. 
Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis β and Themselves 4.15 avg rating β 41,834 ratings
10. 
The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More
by:
Chris Anderson
3.82 avg rating β 29,932 ratings 
12. 
Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business
by:
Rana Foroohar
3.97 avg rating β 1,621 ratings 13. 
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty 4.28 avg rating β 23,740 ratings
13. 
Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy 4.11 avg rating β 5,081 ratings
15. 
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
by:
Brad Stone
4.14 avg rating β 76,315 ratings 16. 
House of Debt: How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It from Happening Again
by:
Atif Mian
4.26 avg rating β 1,219 ratings 16. 
The Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of Mass Unemployment
by:
Martin Ford
3.96 avg rating β 9,471 ratings 18. 
19. 
The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co.
by:
William D. Cohan
3.86 avg rating β 1,196 ratings 
22. 
The Billionaire's Apprentice: The Rise of The Indian-American Elite and The Fall of The Galleon Hedge Fund
by:
Anita Raghavan
4.17 avg rating β 2,003 ratings 23. 
Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think 3.69 avg rating β 8,660 ratings
24. 
Making It Happen: Fred Goodwin, RBS and the Men Who Blew Up the British Economy
by:
Iain Martin
3.91 avg rating β 365 ratings 25. 
The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: Risk Taking, Gut Feelings and the Biology of Boom and Bust
by:
John Coates
3.93 avg rating β 2,056 ratings 26. 
The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
by:
Daniel Yergin
4.14 avg rating β 5,096 ratings 
28. 
Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters 4.13 avg rating β 16,710 ratings
30. 
More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite 4.11 avg rating β 9,434 ratings
32. 
Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism 3.77 avg rating β 5,115 ratings
33. 
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
by:
Marc Levinson
3.86 avg rating β 6,742 ratings 34. 
35. 
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
by:
Ed Catmull
4.21 avg rating β 100,160 ratings 
37. 
The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works - and How It's Transforming the American Economy
by:
Charles Fishman
3.84 avg rating β 3,836 ratings 
39. 
Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big
by:
Bo Burlingham
3.85 avg rating β 5,416 ratings 40. 
The Travels of A T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade
by:
Pietra Rivoli
3.69 avg rating β 2,924 ratings 40. 
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
by:
Steven D. Levitt
4.01 avg rating β 885,798 ratings 
43. 
Fast Second: How Smart Companies Bypass Radical Innovation to Enter and Dominate New Markets 3.65 avg rating β 62 ratings
43. 
The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture
by:
John Battelle
3.84 avg rating β 5,203 ratings 45. 
Attaining Personal Freedom: Intimate Journeys of Courage
by:
Tanja Diamond
4.80 avg rating β 5 ratings 46. 
When Markets Collide: Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change
by:
EL-ERIAN
3.52 avg rating β 787 ratings 47. 
China Shakes the World: A Titan's Rise and Troubled Future -- and the Challenge for America
by:
James Kynge
3.78 avg rating β 756 ratings 48. 
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century 3.69 avg rating β 102,339 ratings
50. 
The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire
by:
Neil Irwin
4.05 avg rating β 1,412 ratings 51. 
Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar and the Future of the International Monetary System 3.89 avg rating β 703 ratings
52. 
Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy 4.11 avg rating β 5,081 ratings
53. 
The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That is Connecting the World 3.86 avg rating β 11,873 ratings
54. 
Good Value: Reflections on Money, Morality and an Uncertain World
by:
Stephen Green
3.27 avg rating β 83 ratings 55. 
56. 
In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic
by:
David Wessel
3.74 avg rating β 1,065 ratings 57. 
The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals
by:
Frank Partnoy
3.96 avg rating β 1,161 ratings 58. 
Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy
by:
Lawrence Lessig
3.84 avg rating β 1,527 ratings 59. 
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
by:
Alice Schroeder
4.16 avg rating β 53,185 ratings 60. 
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
by:
Don Tapscott
3.73 avg rating β 10,986 ratings 
63. 
Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance
by:
Julia Angwin
3.67 avg rating β 655 ratings 64. 
The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies 3.91 avg rating β 12,074 ratings
65. 
Hack Attack: The Inside Story of How the Truth Caught Up with Rupert Murdoch
by:
Nick Davies
4.22 avg rating β 933 ratings 66. 
Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry
by:
Jacquie McNish
3.98 avg rating β 5,233 ratings 67. 
69. 
How Music Got Free: What happens when an entire generation commits the same crime? 4.24 avg rating β 6,893 ratings
71. 
The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity
by:
Lynda Gratton
3.82 avg rating β 2,196 ratings