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Business Book Nominees; September Picks

September 14, 2012
By Michael Cader

The shortlist has been announced for the FT/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year:

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty, Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson (Crown Business, Profile)
The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: Risk-taking, Gut Feelings and the Biology of Boom and Bust
, John Coates (The Penguin Press, Fourth Estate)
Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power
, Steve Coll (The Penguin Press, Allen Lane)
Steve Jobs
, Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster; Little Brown UK)
What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits Of Markets
, Michael J. Sandel (FSG, Allen Lane)
Volcker: The Triumph of Persistence
, William L. Silber (Bloomsbury Press)

Separately, Amazon’s September top 10 editors’ picks includes three titles that were excerpted pre-publication in our free ebook Buzz Books 2012 (asterisked below). Three of the August debut titles we featured–M.L. Stedman’s The Light Between Oceans; Peter Heller’s The Dog Stars; and Amanda Coplin’s The Orchardist–have all been making bestseller lists, and a few other titles made the September Indie Next list. Our free trade and consumer editions still feature another 25 or so big fall titles not available yet that you can preview right now.

*This Is How You Lose Her, Junot Diaz
*Every Day, David Levithan
*Sutton, J. R. Moehringer
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don’t, by Nate Silver
Mortality, Christopher Hitchens
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution…, Tom Reiss
How Music Works, David Byrne
500 Days: Secrets and Lies in the…, Kurt Eichenwald
My Heart Is an Idiot: Essays, Davy Rothbart
NW: A Novel, Zadie Smith

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