The FT/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year shortlist was announced, comprising:
Lords of Finance, by Liaquat Ahamed
Good Value, by Stephen Green
Imagining India, by Nandan Nilekani
The Match King, by Frank Partnoy
Animal Spirits, by George Akerlof and Robert Shiller
In Fed We Trust, by David Wessel
The winner will be named October 29.
And the Center for Fiction (formerly the Mercantile Center) announced the shortlist for their first novel prize (formerly the John Sargent Sr. prize):
American Rust, by Philipp Meyer
The Cradle, by Patrick Somerville
Tinkers, by Paul Harding
The Vagrants, by Yiyun Lin
Woodsburner, by John Pipkin
Also, nature-reference publisher Waterford Press will move distribution to IPG (from Globe Pequot) as of December 1.