Today, the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award long list was released. The award honors the book that offers the most moving and enjoyable insight into modern business issues. The short list will be announced on September 16, with the winner revealed on October 27. This year's longlist features several books focused on the financial crisis.
The books selected follow. Read any of these?
Ian Bremmer, 'The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations?' (Portfolio/Penguin)
John Cassidy, 'How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities' (Allen Lane/Penguin Press UK, Farrar, Straus and Giroux US)
Patrick Dillon and Carl M. Cannon, 'Circle of Greed: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Lawyer Who Brought Corporate America to Its Knees' (Random House/Crown Publishing Group, Broadway Books)
Fred Goodman, 'Fortune's Fool: Edgar Bronfman, Jr., Warner Music, and an Industry in Crisis' (Simon & Schuster)
Adam Haslett, 'Union Atlantic: A Novel' (Tuskar Rock/Atlantic Books, Doubleday/Nan A Talese)
Sheena Iyengar, 'The Art of Choosing' (Little, Brown, Twelve/Hachette Group)
Walter Kiechel, 'The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World' (Harvard Business Review Press)
David Kirkpatrick, 'The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World' (Simon & Schuster)
Michael Lewis,'The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine' (Allen Lane/Penguin Press UK, WW Norton & Co US)
Sebastian Mallaby, 'More Money than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite' (Bloomsbury, Penguin Press)
Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera, 'All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis' (Portfolio/Penguin)
Hamish McRae, 'What Works: Success in Stressful Times' (Harper Press/HarperCollins)
Raghuram Rajan, 'Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy' (Princeton University Press)
Matt Ridley, 'The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves' (Harper/Fourth Estate, HarperCollins Publishers)
Andrew Ross Sorkin, 'Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System - and Themselves' (Allen Lane/Penguin Press UK, Viking/Penguin US)
Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams, 'MacroWikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World' (Atlantic Books, Portfolio/Penguin)