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- 2026 Financial Times and Standard Chartered Business Book of the Year — Longlist14
- 2026 Financial Times and Standard Chartered Business Book of the Year — Shortlist6
- 2026 James Kirby Martin Book Prize — Runner-up1
- 2026 Mary Kelley Prize — Winner1
- 2026 SHEAR Book Prize — Joint Winner1
- 2026 Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award — First Book Winner1
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- Amazon – Best Biographies & Memoirs Books of the Year22
- Amazon – Best Books of the Year17
- Amazon – Best Business & Leadership Books of the Year26
- Amazon – Best History Books of the Year45
- Amazon – Best Nonfiction Books of the Year32
- Amazon – Best Science Books of the Year38
- Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction98
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- PEN / E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award27
- PEN / Galbraith Award for Nonfiction7
- PEN / Jacqueline Bogard Weld Award for Biography3
- Porchlight Business Book Award -Personal Development & Human Behavior2
- Porchlight Business Book Award – Narrative & Biography1
- Porchlight Business Book Awards – Creativity & Innovation2
- Porchlight Business Book Awards – Current Events1
- Porchlight Business Book Awards – Leadership & Strategy2
- Porchlight Business Book Awards – Management & Workplace Culture1
- Porchlight Business Book Awards – Marketing. Communications / Sales. Influence.2
- President Obama’s Recommended Books86
- Pulitzer Prize66
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1873: The Rothschilds, the First Great Depression, and the Making of the Modern World
Prophecy: Prediction, Power, and the Fight for the Future, from Ancient Oracles to AI
The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence
Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare
Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence
The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death
The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think
Ahab’s Rolling Sea: A Natural History of “Moby-Dick”
Erebus: One Ship, Two Epic Voyages, and the Greatest Naval Mystery of All Time
Small Boats and Daring Men: Maritime Raiding, Irregular Warfare, and the Early American Navy
The War Lords and the Gallipoli Disaster: How Globalized Trade Led Britain to Its Worst Defeat of the First World War
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation
The Home Front: Revolutionary Households, Military Occupation, and the Making of American Independence
The American Revolution and the Fate of the World
Into the Forest: A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s
