• The Best Biographies of 20th Century Leaders - Woodrow Wilson: A Biography by John Milton Cooper
  • The Best Biographies of 20th Century Leaders - Lenin: A Biography by Robert Service
  • The Best Biographies of 20th Century Leaders - Mao: The Man Who Made China by Philip Short
  • The Best Biographies of 20th Century Leaders - The Hitler of History by John Lukacs
  • The Best Biographies of 20th Century Leaders - Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948 by Ramachandra Guha
  • The Best Biographies of 20th Century Leaders - A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion by Tom Segev

The Best Biographies of 20th Century Leaders, recommended by Michael Mandelbaum

The first half of the 20th century was an era when individuals could have a huge impact on the course of history—whether for good or bad, argues political scientist Michael Mandelbaum. He recommends the best biographies to read about the eight world leaders who feature in his latest book, The Titans of the Twentieth Century, from Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) to Mao Zedong (1893-1976).

  • The Best Business Books of 2024: the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award - The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century: Why (Almost) Everything We Are Told About Business Is Wrongfnew ec by John Kay
  • The Best Business Books of 2024: the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award - Tribal: How the Cultural Instincts That Divide Us Can Help Bring Us Together by Michael Morris
  • The Best Business Books of 2024: the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award - Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World by Parmy Olson
  • The Best Business Books of 2024: the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award - The Longevity Imperative: Building a Better Society for Healthier, Longer Lives by Andrew Scott
  • The Best Business Books of 2024: the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award - Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War by Christopher Kirchhoff & Raj Shah
  • The Best Business Books of 2024: the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award - Growth: A History and a Reckoning by Daniel Susskind

The Best Business Books of 2024: the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award, recommended by Andrew Hill

From how to channel the tribal instincts innate to Homo sapiens to the role of Silicon Valley in the future of warfare, the Financial Times book award—now in its 20th year—has a broad definition of what makes a good business book. FT journalist Andrew Hill, the prize’s organizer, talks us through the six excellent books that made the 2024 shortlist.

  • The 2024 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding - Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization by Ed Conway
  • The 2024 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding - Smoke and Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories by Amitav Ghosh
  • The 2024 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding - The Secret Lives of Numbers: A Global History of Mathematics & its Unsung Trailblazers by Kate Kitagawa & Timothy Revell
  • The 2024 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding - Divided: Racism, Medicine and Why We Need to Decolonise Healthcare by Annabel Sowemimo
  • The 2024 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding - Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues by Ross Perlin
  • The 2024 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding - The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492 by Marcy Norton

The 2024 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding, recommended by Charles Tripp

The British Academy Book Prize is awarded annually for a nonfiction book that combines rigorous research with engaging writing—and promotes global cultural understanding. Charles Tripp, chair of this year’s judging panel, explains what that means and introduces the six books that made the 2024 shortlist.