A shortlist has been released for the 2021 Financial Times/McKinsey & Co. Business Book of the Year, which recognizes a work which provides the "most compelling and enjoyable insight into modern business issues." The winner, who will be named December 1, receives £30,000 (about $40,905) and authors of each of the remaining shortlisted books get £10,000 (about $13,635). This year's shortlisted titles are:
The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth's Resources by Javier Blas & Jack Farchy (Oxford University Press)
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe (Doubleday )
The Conversation: How Talking Honestly About Racism Can Transform Individuals and Organizations by Robert Livingston (Currency/Crown)
The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet by Michael E. Mann (PublicAffairs)
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race by Nicole Perlroth, (Bloomsbury)
The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World by Adrian Wooldridge, (Skyhorse)
