Top 10

Against Convenience: Embracing Friction in an Age of Endless Ease

Gabe Bullard. Hanover Square, Sept. 15 ($32, ISBN 978-1-335-00069-9)

Modern conveniences, like grocery delivery, ride-share apps, and streaming services, lead to shallow relationships and a degraded planet, argues Bullard.

The Common Good Economy: How to Make Capitalism Work for Us All

Mariana Mazzucato. Basic Venture, Sept. 8 ($32, ISBN 978-1-5416-0934-1)

Economist Mazzucato offers a new theory of economics that prioritizes reciprocity and collectivism over extraction and individualism.

Disposable Workers: The Transformation of Employment

Paul Osterman. Harvard Univ., Aug. 11 ($29.95, ISBN 978-0-674-30024-8)

This study traces the decline in formal employment as companies favor hiring contractors, freelancers, and others who don’t receive traditional benefits.

Don’t Be Evil: Bad Bosses, Fake Promises, and My Escape from Big Tech

Claire Stapleton. Morrow, Aug. 4 ($30, ISBN 978-0-06-346514-5)

Stapleton, a former marketer at Google who helped organize an employee walkout in 2018, critiques the gap between tech companies’ ideals and reality.

The Everywhere Millionaire: Who Is Really Rich in America and How They Got There

Owen Zidar and Eric Zwick. Holt, Sept. 15 ($32.99, ISBN 978-1-250-37850-7)

Two economists profile Americans who have built fortunes out of the spotlight, including a hot dog stand billionaire and the heirs of an auto dealer.

A Fabulous Debt: The Epic Story of How Bonds Built the Modern World

Robin Wigglesworth. Portfolio, Sept. 22 ($35, ISBN 978-0-593-71918-3)

Journalist Wigglesworth explores how bonds have become the most powerful engine of global finance.

Hyperscale: The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech’s Data Empires

Paris Marx. Riverhead, Oct. 20 ($31, ISBN 979-8-217-04852-6) The data centers used to power AI, cryptocurrency, and cloud storage require massive amounts of resources and hurt vulnerable communities, according to this investigation.

In Person: How Working Together Fuels Creativity, Productivity, and Growth

Natalia Emanuel and Emma Harrington. Crown Currency, Oct. 13 ($30, ISBN 979-8-217-08723-5)

The authors draw on years of research on remote and in-person work to demonstrate that working side by side, if done right, accelerates innovation.

Possessions: How We Think About Our Stuff, and Ourselves, as We Own Less and Use More

Carey K. Morewedge. Harvard Business Review, Jan. 19 ($32, ISBN 979-8-89279-209-7)

By trading purchases for subscriptions and homes for rentals, society is shifting from a culture of ownership to one of “liquid consumption,” contends behavioral scientist Morewedge.

The Real Domestic Product: How Birth Control Built Equality (and Why the Future of the Economy and the Planet Depends on It)

Elizabeth Gregory. MIT, Aug. 4 ($29.95, ISBN 978-0-262-05168-2)

Fertility researcher Gregory posits that abortion bans and pronatalism are part of a conservative effort to push women out of civic life.

Longlist

Atria

Empathy Leadership: The Powerful Skill That Drives Winning Results by Douglas E. Noll (Sept. 8, $20 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-58270-966-6) argues empathy isn’t a soft skill but a strength that gives leaders a competitive edge.

Authors Equity

The Knot: Problems Can Be Solved by Seth Godin (Sept. 22, $22, ISBN 979-8-89331-249-2) offers a framework for navigating challenges at work and in one’s personal life, including how to tell the difference between solvable problems and situations that need
to be accepted.

The Ladders of Wealth: Master the Skill of Making Money by Nathan Barry (Dec. 8, $30, ISBN 979-8-89331-239-3). The CEO of the email marketing platform Kit shares how to grow one’s income to gain financial freedom.

Basic Venture

Level Up: Why Hierarchies Are Broken and How to Fix Them by Nir Halevy (Oct. 20, $30, ISBN 978-1-5417-0573-9) contends that common workplace structures harm employees and limit performance, and offers solutions like mentorship and developmental support.

Manage the Machine: How to Harness Human-AI Collaboration at Work by Paula Goldman (Sept. 15, $32, ISBN 978-1-5416-0820-7). This guide from the chief ethical and humane use officer at Salesforce explains how employees and AI can effectively work together.

BenBella

Lift, Hold, Shine: How I Built a Billion-Dollar Beauty Empire One Strand at a Time by Carolyn Aronson (Oct. 6, $29.95, ISBN 978-1-63774-952-4). The CEO of It’s a 10 Haircare shares lessons she’s learned selling products that have become must-haves for beauty salons and consumers around the world.

BenBella/Holt

The Accidental Gentrifier: Lessons on Growing Cities, Saving Neighborhoods, and Supporting the Cultures That Call Them Home by Terry Shook (Dec. 15, $32, ISBN 979-8-90268-006-2). Urban planner Shook explores how revitalization projects can lead to displacement and loss, but can also be opportunities to honor the past and serve people of all backgrounds.

Combing Cotton: Transform Your Ancestry into Your Competitive Advantage by Robin Wilson (Oct. 13, $30, ISBN 978-1-63774-982-1). Inspired by her grandfather, a Texas sharecropper, the CEO of Clean Design Home, an ecofriendly lifestyle brand, describes how she navigated failure and became a resilient business owner.

Bloomsbury Business

Proximity: How to Balance Belonging and Difference in Today’s Workplace by B. Sebastian Reiche (Sept. 3, $35, ISBN 978-1-350-59808-9) provides suggestions on how leaders can instill a sense of connection among employees in a dispersed workforce.

The Refugee Advantage: Building Enterprise in the Face of Adversity by Dalton T. Sirmans (Aug. 6, $27, ISBN 978-1-350-59779-2) demonstrates how refugees, though commonly misconceived as burdens on the system, often become enterprising business owners and contributors to their communities.

Business Books

Quiet Brilliance: What Employers Miss About Neurodivergent Talent—and How to Finally See It by Jeffrey-Michael Kane (Oct. 6, $14.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-917991-58-2) is a guide to recognizing and welcoming the unique contributions employees with cognitive differences provide to a workplace.

Columbia Business School

Running Against the Herd: Battling Biases to Make Better Investment Decisions by Eddie Perkin (Aug. 11, $28, ISBN 978-0-231-22414-7). The author, a former chief investment officer at Goldman Sachs Asset Management, demonstrates how groupthink and mental shortcuts impair judgment, and shares how to improve decision-making.

Crown Currency

The Best Decisions You’ll Ever Make: An Economist’s Guide to Saving Time, Making Money, and Living Well by Daniel Altman (Nov. 10, $31, ISBN 979-8-217-08853-9) shows how economics—the science of decisions—can help people maximize their overall well-being.

Simplify: Do 50 Percent More with 50 Percent Less by Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, and Roy Schwartz (Sept. 15, $31, ISBN 979-8-217-08877-5). The cofounders of Axios provide a framework for simplifying one’s life in order to focus on tasks that really matter.

DK

Own Your Success: A Smart Woman’s Guide to Strategy, Salary, and Self-Leadership by Susana Briscoe-Alba (Dec. 15, $28, ISBN 979-8-217-13365-9). Career strategist Briscoe-Alba offers women tools for overcoming institutional barriers to success in the workforce.

Georgetown Univ.

The Psychology of AI Adoption at Work: From Resistance to Results by Gleb Tsipursky (Sept. 1, $29.95, ISBN 978-1-64712-749-7) teaches business professionals how to turn employees skeptical of AI into successful adopters.

Grand Central

Do You. How to Bet on Yourself by Being Yourself by Kyle Brandt (Jan. 5, $30, ISBN 978-0-306-83819-4). Good Morning Football host Brandt recounts his unconventional path to his dream career in media, from Real World: Chicago and soap opera star to sports radio producer and commentator.

Harper Business

Lotus Leadership: A Modern Playbook of Ancient Wisdom by Kamini Ramani (Sept. 22, $32, ISBN 978-0-06-347781-0). Indian women are becoming a force in American business, according to tech executive Ramani, who documents their successes and explains how they got there.

Shop Different: How Retail Revealed Apple’s Genius by Ron Johnson, with Zander Nethercutt (Sept. 22, $32, ISBN 978-0-06-345695-2). Apple Store creator Johnson shares how he developed some of the world’s most profitable shopping experiences.

Harper Edge

Superhuman: Reclaiming Our Power to Choose and Shape the Future by David Halpern and Elisabeth Costa (Jan. 12, $32, ISBN 978-0-06-347848-0). Researchers Halpern and Costa explain how behavioral science can be used to improve decision-making and people’s relationships with technology.

Harvard Univ.

Untamed Unicorns: Why Startup Finance Is Broken and How to Fix It by Renée M. Jones (Aug. 4, $32.95, ISBN 978-0-674-29635-0) connects start-up scandals at companies like FTX and Theranos to eroded safeguards in securities law.

Haymarket

Against Tech Oligarchy: Worker Resistance in the World’s Most Powerful Industry by JS Tan and Clarissa Redwine (Sept. 15, $27.95 ISBN 979-8-88890-858-7) chronicles how tech workers have organized to protest their billionaire bosses’ embrace of Trumpism.

Crypto-Capitalism: The New Financial Dystopia by Hadas Thier (Jan. 26, $28.95, ISBN 979-8-88890-452-7) examines the rise, fall, and rise again of cryptocurrency, and exposes its dangerous consequences.

Island

Reining in the Bulls: How to Stop Corporate Abuse in an Age of Unbridled Greed by Michael Marx (Aug. 4, $29.95, ISBN 978-1-64283-445-1) instructs organizations on planning and executing campaigns to pressure companies to protect the environment and create humane work environments.

IT Revolution

Collective Confidence: The Winning Formula of the World’s Best Teams by Andre Martin (Sept. 8, $28 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-966280-08-8). Groups, not individuals, are the primary unit of performance in business, argues organizational psychologist Martin, who explains how to instill in teams a shared belief in the ability to succeed.

Kogan Page

Belonging at Work: Navigating DEI Challenges and Embedding Inclusion in Your Organization by Asif Sadiq (Aug. 25, $42.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-3986-2684-3) helps leaders understand what fuels resistance to diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in the workplace and offers strategies for engaging skeptics and countering misinformation.

Little, Brown Spark

Outsmart Everyone: Spy Skills to Gain an Unfair Advantage in Work and Life by Andrew Bustamante (Sept. 8, $30, ISBN 978-0-316-57217-0). The author, an ex-CIA officer, offers advice on drawing insights from information, detecting hidden agendas, being observant, and navigating human dynamics.

MIT

Goodthink: The New Science of Collective Intelligence by Damon Centola (Oct. 13, $32.95, ISBN 978-0-262-05468-3) explores how the structure of organizations, not individual intelligence, determines a group’s ability to effectively problem solve.

Norton

Macro: The Economic Models That Shape Our World by Greg Kaplan (Nov. 10, $32.99, ISBN 978-0-393-54167-0) traces the development of macroeconomic theory, uncovering flaws and proposing a framework that connects people’s everyday experiences to economic policy.

Real Wealth: Make Money Work for You by Tyler Gardner (Dec. 1, $31.99, ISBN 978-1-324-12441-2). The financial educator, who posts as @socialcap on TikTok, helps readers define their priorities and navigate volatile markets to build wealth.

Peakpoint

Small Things Make a Big Difference: Simple Habits for Transformational Leadership by Spencer Holt (Oct. 6, $32.99, ISBN 978-1-5107-8876-3) outlines habits for becoming an impactful leader, including creating belonging, practicing curiosity, and managing personal energy.

Portfolio

The Antihero Advantage: Become the Leader You’re Meant to Be by Brett Bartholomew (Dec. 1, $32, ISBN 978-0-593-71282-5) encourages readers to eschew traditional leadership wisdom in favor of trusting one’s instincts, and includes tips for channeling flaws and fears into advantages.

Everybody Wins: What Games Teach Us About Making Products People Love by Bing and Chloe Gordon (Oct. 27, $32, ISBN 979-8-217-17668-7). The cofounder of Electronic Arts and his daughter Chloe, a writer and producer, share how understanding video game design can help businesses improve their products and satisfy customers.

Young Money: A Field Guide to Wealth and Purpose in Your Twenties by Jack Raines (Aug. 4, $32, ISBN 979-8-217-04693-5). The author, a Gen Z professional who walked away from a traditional corporate career path, argues time is one’s most valuable currency and encourages young people to take risks to figure out how they actually want to spend it.

Princeton Univ.

Rethinking Innovation: How Knowledge-Sharing Organizations Are Shaping the Twenty-First Century by Josh Lerner and Jean Tirole (Nov. 10, $39.95, ISBN 978-0-691-16885-2) explores the rise of cross-company collaboration as a way of helping tech companies innovate.

The State and Your Hard-Earned Money: A Global Perspective on Morality and Public Finance by Paolo Mauro (Oct. 20, $32, ISBN 978-0-691-25836-2) argues that taxation and government spending policies are not merely matters of economic efficiency but moral choices.

Prometheus

Surplus: The History of Too Much and the End of Economic Primacy by Marc Chandler (Nov. 3, $32.95, ISBN 978-1-4930-9665-7) traces how excesses of capital, from agricultural societies to today, have caused inequality and political instability.

Random House

What Could Possibly Go Right? The Essential Journey to Scale an Enduring Culture by Danny Meyer (Sept. 29, $32, ISBN 978-0-593-73177-2). Meyer, founder and executive chairman of the Union Square Hospitality Group, whose restaurants include Gramercy Tavern and Shake Shack, discusses how he’s built a motivated and energized culture at a large organization.

Simon & Schuster

The Blueprint: Inside the Business of Roc-A-Fella Records by Sowmya Krishnamurthy (Dec. 1, $29, ISBN 978-1-6680-6602-7) outlines the business strategies of the hip-hop label founded by Jay-Z, Damon Dash, and Kareem Burke.

Simon Acumen

The Insider Advantage: Moving Up, Finding Success, and Building a Career That Lasts by Matthew Bidwell (Oct. 13, $29, ISBN 978-1-6680-7917-1). Wharton professor Bidwell makes the case for growing one’s career at a single organization, arguing it helps people rise through the ranks faster and find fulfillment.

Social Capital at Work: Building the Hidden Asset That Drives Trust, Engagement, and Performance by John Burrows and Seth Rachlin (Nov. 10, $28, ISBN 978-1-6680-9913-1) illustrates the importance of developing genuine connections in the workplace.

Skyhorse

Lift: The Three Hidden Forces That Launch Remarkable Lives by Jeff Cunningham (Oct. 6, $32.99, ISBN 978-1-5107-8673-8) explains why certain neighborhoods, teams, and cultures propel people to success while others hold them back.

St. Martin’s

Sheer Will: Learning to Lead When There Is No Path by Carlos Gutierrez (Oct. 6, $29, ISBN 978-1-250-38116-3). The author details how he rose from a working-class background and, without ever graduating from college, became the youngest CEO of Kellogg’s and served as U.S. secretary of commerce in the Bush administration.

Turner

Money Hungry Mama: The Ultimate Guide for Moms Looking for the Perfect Side Hustle by Brittany Plumeri (Sept. 8, $19.99 trade paper ISBN 979-8-88798-191-8) offers ways mothers can make passive income while still caring for their kids.

Verso

Algorithmic Capital: Resistance in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Jonathan Martineau and Jonathan Durand Folco, trans. by David Broder (Sept. 22, $34.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-80429-900-5), explores the ways in which AI and algorithms are reshaping social life, politics, and culture, and charts a path for resistance.

The Rulers: Corporate Power in the Age of AI and the Cloud by Cecilia Rikap (Aug. 4, $29.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-80429-734-6) argues Big Tech companies like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are “cloud hegemons” who exercise intellectual monopolies.

Wiley

Made for Some: Using Impactful Neuroinclusion to Rebalance Work for Everyone by Joseph Riddle (Sept. 23, $28, ISBN 978-1-394-39219-3) aims to help organizations become inclusive spaces for workers who don’t think, learn, or socialize in traditional ways.

My Coworker Is a Robot: Navigating the Technology That Could Replace You (or Earn Your Next Promotion) by Jon Swartz (Oct. 27, $30 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-394-34342-3) unpacks the acceleration of AI integration in workplaces and the impact on workers, consumers, and lawmakers.

No One Works Here: How AI-Driven Enterprises Are Dramatically Redefining Business, Leadership, and Competition by Paul Cheek (Aug. 24, $30, ISBN 978-1-394-43541-8) explains how integrating AI into the core of a company can lead to adaptable, efficient enterprises that outcompete legacy businesses.

Yale Univ.

Worth the Risk: The Seven Myths That Keep Us from Taking the Chances We Need to Take by Allison Schrager (Sept. 22, $28, ISBN 978-0-300-26611-5). Economist Schrager tracks how tolerance and understanding of risk have changed over time and people have become less willing to take risks even though there has never been a better time to do so.

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