• 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.

  • The Best Popular Science Books of 2024 - Everything is Predictable: How Bayes’ Remarkable Theorem Explains the World by Tom Chivers
  • The Best Popular Science Books of 2024 - Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon
  • The Best Popular Science Books of 2024 - Your Face Belongs to Us: The Secretive Startup Dismantling Your Privacy by Kashmir Hill
  • The Best Popular Science Books of 2024 - The Last of Its Kind: The Search for the Great Auk and the Discovery of Extinction by Gísli Pálsson
  • The Best Popular Science Books of 2024 - Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality by Venki Ramakrishnan
  • The Best Popular Science Books of 2024 - A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith

The Best Popular Science Books of 2024, recommended by John Hutchinson

Every year, the judges of the Royal Society Science Book Prize put together a shortlist of the smartest, sharpest, funniest science books of the previous twelve months. We asked the chair of the 2024 panel—the leading evolutionary biomechanics researcher Professor John Hutchinson—to talk us through their picks of the best new popular science books.

  • The Best Nonfiction of the Past Quarter Century: The Baillie Gifford Prize Winner of Winners - Peacemakers: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan
  • The Best Nonfiction of the Past Quarter Century: The Baillie Gifford Prize Winner of Winners - 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare by James Shapiro
  • The Best Nonfiction of the Past Quarter Century: The Baillie Gifford Prize Winner of Winners - Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick
  • The Best Nonfiction of the Past Quarter Century: The Baillie Gifford Prize Winner of Winners - Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe
  • The Best Nonfiction of the Past Quarter Century: The Baillie Gifford Prize Winner of Winners - Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest by Wade Davis
  • The Best Nonfiction of the Past Quarter Century: The Baillie Gifford Prize Winner of Winners - One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time by Craig Brown

The Best Nonfiction of the Past Quarter Century: The Baillie Gifford Prize Winner of Winners, recommended by Sophie Roell

“All the best stories are true” runs the tagline of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, the UK’s pre-eminent nonfiction book award. This year, to celebrate the prize’s 25th birthday, a panel of judges picked out books for a winner of winners award, making for an excellent collection of nonfiction books from the last quarter of a century, as Five Books editor Sophie Roell explains.

  • The best books on The Lessons of History - On History by Howard Zinn
  • The best books on The Lessons of History - Why History Matters by John Tosh
  • The best books on The Lessons of History - The Ornament of the World by Maria Rosa Menocal
  • The best books on The Lessons of History - Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography by Robert Irwin
  • The best books on The Lessons of History - Anarchy in Action by Colin Ward

The best books on The Lessons of History, recommended by Roman Krznaric

History is too complex to be an easy guide for navigating the present, but that doesn't mean the experience of those who came before can't shed valuable insights into our current dilemmas. In his latest book, History for Tomorrow, social philosopher Roman Krznaric looks at ten crises currently facing the world and how lessons from the past might be able to help.