Top 10
Authentic: The Myth of Bringing Your Full Self to Work
Jodi-Ann Burey. Flatiron, Sept. 30 ($29.99, ISBN 978-1-250-88286-8)
Corporate entreaties for workers to be themselves in the office run up against the realities of entrenched sexism, racism, and other forms of discrimination, according to this critique.
Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore
Char Adams. Tiny Reparations, Nov. 4 ($32, ISBN 978-0-593-47423-5)
The NBC News journalist explores how Black-owned bookstores have served as activist organizing sites for the civil rights movement from abolition through Black Lives Matter.
Capitalism: A Global History
Sven Beckert. Penguin Press, Nov. 25 ($49, ISBN 978-0-7352-2083-6)
Capitalism emerged from trade networks across Asia, Africa, and Europe and became the world’s dominant economic system thanks to Europe’s exploitation of slave labor in the Caribbean, posits historian Beckert.
The Double Tax: How Women of Color Are Overcharged and Underpaid
Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman. Portfolio, Sept. 16 ($29, ISBN 978-0-593-71425-6)
The Harvard University researcher contends that because Black women face both racism and sexism, they receive lower salaries and smaller inheritances than their white or male peers.
Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth, and Power
Victoria Bateman. Seal, Sept. 30 ($34, ISBN 978-1-5416-0606-7)
Economist Bateman studies women’s relationship with money throughout history by profiling such figures as Phryne, a wealthy ancient Athenian, and Priscilla Wakefield, founder of the first English bank for women.
Every Screen on the Planet: The War Over TikTok
Emily Baker-White. Norton, Sept. 30 ($31.99, ISBN 978-1-324-08666-6)
In this report, TikTok’s meteoric ascent is traced against the backdrop of an ongoing political struggle between the U.S. and China over the latter’s alleged use of the platform for surveillance and propaganda.
Extractive Capitalism: How Commodities and Cronyism Drive the Global Economy
Laleh Khalili. Verso, Aug. 26 ($24.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-83674-028-5)
Globalization relies on cheap labor, tax havens, and exploitative resource extraction, according to this cri de coeur.
The History of Money: A Story of Humanity
David McWilliams. Holt, Nov. 11 ($32.99, ISBN 978-1-250-40818-1)
This study explores how the emergence of money in ancient Babylon reordered society across the ensuing millennia.
Streaming Wars: How Getting Everything We Wanted Changed Entertainment Forever
Charlotte Henry. Kogan Page, Oct. 28 ($19.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-3986-2254-8)
Journalist Henry reports on how Netflix, Spotify, and other streaming companies developed a novel business strategy that upended the media landscape.
Uncompete: Rejecting Competition to Unlock Success
Ruchika T. Malhotra. Viking, Nov. 4 ($30, ISBN 978-0-593-83215-8)
Drawing on academic research and interviews with corporate executives, business consultant Malhotra suggests that fostering collaboration over competition leads to happier workplaces.
Longlist
Avery
The Collective Edge: Unlocking the Secret Power of Groups by Colin M. Fisher (Sept. 2, $32, ISBN 978-0-593-71534-5) offers guidance on how to embrace teamwork in the office while minimizing interpersonal conflict and groupthink.
Basic
Violent Saviors: The West’s Conquest of the Rest by William Easterly (Nov. 4, $32, ISBN 978-1-5416-7575-9). Western countries used the promise of economic development to deny American, African, and Asian peoples the right to self-determination, according to this history.
Basic Venture
Personal Branding for Introverts by Goldie Chan (Oct. 28, $30, ISBN 978-1-5417-0546-3) provides suggestions for how reserved people can network, set goals, establish partnerships, and otherwise burnish their professional reputation.
This Isn’t Working: How Working Women Can Overcome Stress, Guilt, and Overload to Find True Success by Meghan French Dunbar (Aug. 5, $30, ISBN 978-1-5417-0486-2) contends that moving away from competitiveness and grind culture will better serve women in the workplace.
BenBella/Holt
Fly! A Woman’s Guide to Financial Freedom and Building a Life You Love by Steph Wagner (Nov. 11, $30, ISBN 978-1-63774-765-0) draws lessons on achieving financial stability through an account of how Wagner rebuilt her finances after her husband of 20 years abandoned her and their children.
Silent No Longer: Advancing the Fight for Disability Rights by Robert Stack (Sept. 30, $30, ISBN 978-1-63774-737-7) criticizes private equity firms for acquiring facilities for people with disabilities and lowering the quality of care to boost profits.
Berrett-Koehler
Catch People Doing Things Right: How Ken Blanchard Changed the Way the World Leads by Martha C. Lawrence
(Oct. 21, $32.95, ISBN 979-8-89057-133-5). This authorized biography chronicles how Blanchard, author of the bestselling business guide One Minute Manager, built a lucrative consulting firm around the insight that
leaders should focus on serving others.
Trust at a Distance: 6 Strategies for Managing in Remote Workspaces by David Horsager and Peggy Kendall (Nov. 18, $24.95, ISBN 979-8-89057-108-3) suggests that successfully leading remote employees requires clear communication, predictable work patterns, and strong social connections.
Bloomsbury Academic
Organize Your Business Like a Boss: An Entrepreneur’s Six-Step System to Gaining More Time, Money, and Freedom by Jane Stoller (Sept. 4, $27.95, ISBN 978-1-5381-9925-1) outlines how entrepreneurs can avoid burnout by improving their time management, streamlining workflow, and upgrading their marketing.
Callisto
The New Money Rules: The Gen Z Guide to Personal Finance by Lillian Zhang (Nov. 11, $17.99 trade paper, ISBN 979-8-88608-148-0). Explaining personal finance fundamentals for young adults, the TikTok influencer recommends “micro-investing” savings and resisting social pressures to spend on unnecessary luxuries.
Crown Currency
Play the Game. Change the Game. Leave the Game: Pathways to Black Empowerment, Prosperity, and Joy by Robert Livingston (Sept. 9, $30, ISBN 979-8-217-08597-2) weighs the pros and cons for Black workers of assimilating to, challenging, or avoiding white companies and institutions.
Rocket Dreams: Musk, Bezos, and the Inside Story of the New, Trillion-Dollar Space Race by Christian Davenport (Sept. 16, $32, ISBN 978-0-593-59411-7) chronicles the competition between SpaceX and Blue Origin to achieve dominance in space travel, including schemes to colonize Mars and create Amazon-like delivery programs on the moon.
Diversion
Radical Doubt: Turning Uncertainty into Surefire Success by Bidhan Parmar (Aug. 26, $30, ISBN 978-1-63576-934-0). Interrogating one’s uncertainty and anxiety can help business leaders make better decisions, deploy resources more effectively, and build stronger professional relationships, according to this guide.
Gallery
All the Cool Girls Get Fired: How to Let Go of Being Let Go and Come Back on Top by Laura Brown and Kristina O’Neill (Oct. 14, $29, ISBN 978-1-6680-6745-1) offers guidance on how women who have been fired from their jobs can network, practice self-care, and find a new gig.
Harmony
Powerfully Likable: A Woman’s Guide to Better Communication by Kate Mason (Sept. 9, $30, ISBN 978-0-593-79720-4) discusses ways in which women can assert themselves in the workplace without triggering sexist opposition to female authority by favoring warmth over deference and relying on logic and evidence when making a point.
Harper Business
iWar: Fortnite, Elon Musk, Spotify, WeChat, and Laying Siege to Apple’s Empire by Tim Higgins (Sept. 16, $32,
ISBN 978-0-06-339794-1) documents how the executives in charge of some of the world’s most recognizable apps have waged an uncoordinated campaign challenging
the dominance of Apple’s app store.
Harvard Business Review
Bag Man: The Story Behind the Improbable Rise of Coach by Lew Frankfort (Oct. 14, $32, ISBN 979-8-89279-072-7) traces the fashion company’s growth alongside the author’s trajectory from founder Miles Cahn’s assistant to CEO.
Don’t Be Yourself: Why Authenticity Is Overrated (and What to Do Instead) by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic (Oct. 14, $30, ISBN 978-1-64782-983-4). Contrary to exhortations to stay true to oneself, succeeding in the workplace requires adapting to situations and staying attuned to how others perceive one, according to this manual.
HarperCollins Leadership
The Future Begins with Z: Nine Strategies to Lead Generation Z as They Disrupt the Workplace by Tim Elmore (Nov. 4, $29.99, ISBN 978-1-4002-5604-4) provides suggestions on how managers can recruit, motivate, tend to the mental health needs of, and
provide constructive feedback to their youngest employees.
Kogan Page
Innovation Management: Principles and Strategies for Value Creation by Nikhil Soi et al. (Jan. 27, $52 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-3986-2310-1), investigates how to come up with ideas for improving one’s business through case studies of Amazon, Google, Netflix, and other corporate giants.
Making Business Child’s Play: How to Build a Winning Brand by Joanna Jensen (Sept. 30, $19.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-
3986-2458-0). The founder of baby care products manufacturer Childs Farm recounts how she started the company to create
treatments for her daughter’s eczema and built it into a successful business.
Little, Brown
Disrupt Everything: Every Leader, Team Member, and Family Needs to Disrupt. Grow. Change. Triumph by James Patterson and Patrick Leddin (Sept. 29, $32.50, ISBN 978-0-316-59394-6). The bestselling mystery author teams up with business consultant Leddin to encourage business leaders to embrace change.
Little, Brown Spark
Click Here: The Art and Science of Digital Marketing and Advertising by Alex Schultz (Oct. 7, $32, ISBN 978-0-316-59759-3). This guide from the chief marketing officer of Meta dispenses tips for spreading the word about one’s business online.
Mariner
On Natural Capital: The Value of the World Around Us by Partha Dasgupta (Jan. 20, $29.99, ISBN 978-0-06-345438-5) considers how to reconfigure economic models to account for the value of nature and the threat posed by the climate crisis.
MIT
Inflation by Martha Olney (Sept. 23, $19.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-262-55315-5) probes the causes of cost increases throughout history and evaluates how to prevent such price shocks.
Morrow
Money Proud: The Queer Guide to Generate Wealth, Slay Debt, and Build Good Habits to Secure Your Future by Nick Wolny (Dec. 30, $24, ISBN 978-0-06-343660-2). Arguing that queer people face unique financial hurdles, the Out columnist serves up advice on investing, making sense of taxes, and cutting spending without downgrading one’s lifestyle.
John Murray Business
The Slingshot Formula: How Angry Birds Launched Their Way from Indie Game to Global Icon by Pascal Clarysse (Sept. 23, $24.99, ISBN 978-1-3998-1991-6) describes how a foundering Finnish video game studio leveraged the surprise success of its Angry Birds app to develop into a mobile gaming powerhouse.
Penguin Press
The Elements of Power: A Story of War, Technology, and the Dirtiest Supply Chain on Earth by Nicolas Niarchos (Jan. 20, $32, ISBN 978-0-593-49201-7). Silicon Valley and clean energy infrastructure rely on cobalt, lithium, and other metals mined from the Congo under atrocious conditions, according to this exposé.
Portfolio
The Land Trap: A New History of the World’s Oldest Asset by Mike Bird (Nov. 4, $32, ISBN 978-0-593-71971-8) argues that land has served as the bedrock of the global economy, from European colonization of the Americas through the present.
Princeton Univ.
Fixed: Why Personal Finance Is Broken and How to Make It Work for Everyone by John Y. Campbell and Tarun Ramadorai (Oct. 21, $29.95, ISBN 978-0-691-26329-8) proposes legislative fixes for insidious financial maneuvers that banks and other lenders use to exploit consumers seeking to secure loans, buy insurance, or open savings accounts.
PublicAffairs
The World’s Worst Bet: How the Globalization Gamble Went Wrong (and What Would Make It Right) by David J. Lynch (Sept. 9, $32, ISBN 978-1-5417-0406-0) profiles legislators, factory workers, and others affected by the rise of world trade, arguing that globalization should be protected even as it must be reformed.
Random House
Anchored, Aligned, Accountable: A Framework for Transcending Bullsh*t and Transforming Our Lives and Work by Aiko Bethea (Jan. 13, $29, ISBN 978-0-593-73216-8) suggests that adhering to one’s values and holding oneself accountable can help readers handle tough conversations.
Simon & Schuster
Born to Be Wired: Lessons from a Lifetime Transforming Television, Wiring America for the Internet, and Growing Formula One, Discovery, Sirius XM, and the Atlanta Braves by John Malone (Sept. 2, $31, ISBN 978-1-6680-5153-5). The media magnate reflects on spearheading the rise of cable television and other career milestones.
Dirtbag Billionaire: How Yvon Chouinard Built Patagonia, Made a Fortune, and Gave It All Away by David Gelles (Sept. 9, $30, ISBN 978-1-6680-3226-8) describes how the rock climber and Patagonia founder established a successful outdoor clothing company while funneling its profits into nature conservation.
Sounds True
The Heart of Entrepreneurship: Crafting Your Authentic Recipe for Success by Melissa Bernstein (Nov. 11, $19.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-64963-389-7). The cofounder of Melissa & Doug toys discusses how readers can start their own companies by embracing curiosity, researching areas of interest, and staying open to adjusting business plans.
Stanford Business
Freemium: How Zoom, Hubspot, Atlassian, and Other Top Companies Use Product-Led Growth... for Low-Cost Customer Acquisition and Expansion by Dave Boyce (Aug. 26, $32, ISBN 978-1-5036-4039-9) describes how Slack, Dropbox, and other software companies found success by attracting customers with free products before introducing lucrative paid options with enhanced functionality.
Univ. of Chicago
Doing Meritocracy Right: How Business Leaders Can Turn an American Aspiration into Reality (and Why They Should) by Thomas A. Cole (Nov. 24, $20 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-226-84457-2). To create opportunities for upward mobility, businesses should hire based on character rather than experience, according to this treatise.
The Invention of Infinite Growth: How Economists Came to Believe a Dangerous Delusion by Christopher F. Jones (Oct. 14, $32.50, ISBN 978-0-226-72204-7) traces how fiscal growth became the primary focus of economic thinking at the expense of such considerations as inequality and environmental conservation.
Verso
The Global Casino: How Wall Street Gambles with People and the Planet by Ann Pettifor (Jan. 27, $29.95, ISBN 978-1-80429-722-3) explores how the financial sector inflates prices for a range of commodities while propping up oil companies’ dominance of the energy industry.
Viking
Gimme a Crisis: In the Room with Global Banker Rick Waugh by Howard Green (Oct. 7, $28.50, ISBN 978-1-0378-0144-0) profiles the Scotiabank CEO, delving into his business philosophy and detailing how he navigated the Great Recession, bailed out the Dominican Republic, and brought the NBA to Toronto.
Good Ideas and Power Moves: Ten Lessons for Success from Taylor Swift by Sinead O’Sullivan (Sept. 9, $32, ISBN 978-0-593-83493-0) draws tips from the pop star’s career on how to build a consumer base, capitalize on market volatility, and challenge the status quo.
Wiley
Reimagining Nonprofits and Philanthropy: Unlocking the Full Potential of a Vital and Complex Sector by Vu Le (Oct. 14, $28, ISBN 978-1-394-31312-9) provides guidance on how leaders of nonprofit organizations can navigate contentious board disputes, more effectively work with the private sector, and create more equitable internal power structures.
