| 2025 | Winner | The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World’s Most Coveted Microchip | Stephen Witt | Penguin Publishing Group |
| 2025 | Shortlist | Abundance: How We Build a Better Future | Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson | Unknown |
| 2025 | Shortlist | Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future | Dan Wang | Penguin Books |
| 2025 | Shortlist | Chokepoints: How the Global Economy Became a Weapon of War | Edward Fishman | Elliott & Thompson |
| 2025 | Shortlist | House of Huawei: Inside the Secret World of China’s Most Powerful Company | Eva Dou | Unknown |
| 2025 | Shortlist | How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation and the Fate of Nations | Carl Benedikt Frey | Princeton University Press |
| 2024 | Winner | Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race That Will Change the World | Parmy Olson | St. Martin's Press |
| 2024 | Shortlist | Growth: A Reckoning | Daniel Susskind | Penguin Books |
| 2024 | Shortlist | The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century: Why (almost) everything we are told about business is wrong | John Kay | Unknown |
| 2024 | Shortlist | The Longevity Imperative: Building a Better Society for Healthier, Longer Lives | Andrew Scott | Unknown |
| 2024 | Shortlist | Tribal: How the Cultural Instincts That Divide Us Can Help Bring Us Together | Michael Morris | Swift Press |
| 2024 | Shortlist | Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War | Raj Shah, Christopher Kirchhoff | Unknown |
| 2023 | Winner | Right Kind of Wrong: Why learning to fail can teach us to thrive | Amy Edmondson | Simon & Schuster |
| 2023 | Shortlist | Cobalt Red: How the blood of the Congo powers our lives | Siddharth Kara | St. Martin's Press |
| 2023 | Shortlist | Elon Musk | Walter Isaacson | Unknown |
| 2023 | Shortlist | How Big Things Get Done: The surprising factors behind every successful project, from home renovations to space exploration and everything in between | Bent Flyvbjerg, Dan Gardner | Crown Archetype |
| 2023 | Shortlist | Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future | Ed Conway | Ebury Publishing |
| 2023 | Shortlist | The Coming Wave: AI, power, and the 21st century's greatest dilemma | Mustafa Suleyman, Michael Bhaskar | Unknown |
| 2022 | Winner | Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology | Chris Miller | Scribner |
| 2022 | Shortlist | Dead in the Water: Murder and Fraud in the World's Most Secretive Industry | Matthew Campbell, Kit Chellel | Atlantic Books |
| 2022 | Shortlist | Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century | Helen Thompson | Oxford University Press |
| 2022 | Shortlist | Influence Empire: The Story of Tencent and China's Tech Ambition | Lulu Chen | Unknown |
| 2022 | Shortlist | The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Art of Disruption | Sebastian Mallaby | Unknown |
| 2022 | Shortlist | The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era | Gary Gerstle | Oxford University Press |
| 2021 | Winner | This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race | Nicole Perlroth | Bloomsbury |
| 2021 | Shortlist | Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty | Patrick Radden Keefe | Doubleday |
| 2021 | Shortlist | The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World | Adrian Wooldridge | Unknown |
| 2021 | Shortlist | The Conversation: How Talking Honestly About Racism Can Transform Individuals and Organizations | Robert Livingston | Unknown |
| 2021 | Shortlist | The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet | Michael E. Mann | Unknown |
| 2021 | Shortlist | The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth's Resources | Javier Blas, Jack Farchy | Unknown |
| 2019 | Winner | Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men | Caroline Criado-Perez | Chatto & Windus |
| 2019 | Shortlist | Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America | Christopher Leonard | Simon & Schuster |
| 2019 | Shortlist | Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World | David Epstein | Riverhead Books |
| 2019 | Shortlist | The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power | Shoshana Zuboff | PublicAffairs |
| 2019 | Shortlist | The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution | Gregory Zuckerman | Unknown |
| 2019 | Shortlist | The Third Pillar: The Revival of Community in a Polarised World | Raghuram Rajan | HarperCollins |
| 2018 | Winner | Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup | John Carreyrou | Knopf |
| 2018 | Shortlist | Capitalism in America: A History | Alan Greenspan, Adrian Wooldridge | Penguin Books |
| 2018 | Shortlist | Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World | Annie Lowrey | Crown |
| 2018 | Shortlist | New Power: How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World - and How to Make It Work for You | Jeremy Heimans, Henry Timms | Unknown |
| 2018 | Shortlist | The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India's New Gilded Age | James Crabtree | Tim Duggan Books |
| 2018 | Shortlist | The Value of Everything: Who Makes and Who Takes from the Real Economy | Mariana Mazzucato | Unknown |
| 2017 | Winner | Janesville: An American Story | Amy Goldstein | Simon & Schuster |
| 2017 | Shortlist | Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought | Andrew W. Lo | Princeton University Press |
| 2017 | Shortlist | Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change | Ellen Pao | Spiegel & Grau |
| 2017 | Shortlist | The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century | Walter Scheidel | Princeton University Press |
| 2017 | Shortlist | The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone | Brian Merchant | Little, Brown |
| 2017 | Shortlist | The Spider Network: The Wild Story of a Maths Genius, a Gang of Backstabbing Bankers, and One of the Greatest Scams in Financial History | David Enrich | Unknown |
| 2016 | Winner | The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan | Sebastian Mallaby | Bloomsbury |
| 2016 | Shortlist | Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built | Duncan Clark | Ecco |
| 2016 | Shortlist | Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business | Rana Foroohar | Unknown |
| 2016 | Shortlist | The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity | Lynda Gratton, Andrew Scott | Unknown |
| 2016 | Shortlist | The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War | Robert J. Gordon | Princeton University Press |
| 2016 | Shortlist | What Works: Gender Equality by Design | Iris Bohnet | Unknown |
| 2015 | Winner | The Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of Mass Unemployment | Martin Ford | Unknown |
| 2015 | Shortlist | Digital Gold: The Untold Story of Bitcoin | Nathaniel Popper | HarperCollins |
| 2015 | Shortlist | How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy | Stephen Witt | Viking |
| 2015 | Shortlist | Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of Blackberry | Jacquie McNish, Sean Silcoff | Unknown |
| 2015 | Shortlist | Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioural Economics | Richard Thaler | Unknown |
| 2015 | Shortlist | Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family | Anne-Marie Slaughter | Random House Canada |
| 2014 | Winner | Capital in the Twenty-First Century | Thomas Piketty | Harvard University Press |
| 2014 | Shortlist | Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces that Stand in the Way of True Inspiration | Ed Catmull | Random House |
| 2014 | Shortlist | Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance | Julia Angwin | Henry Holt and Company |
| 2014 | Shortlist | Hack Attack: How the Truth Caught Up with Rupert Murdoch | Nick Davies | Vintage Books |
| 2014 | Shortlist | House of Debt: How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It from Happening Again | Atif Mian, Amir Sufi | University of Chicago Press |
| 2014 | Shortlist | The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies | Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee | W. W. Norton |
| 2013 | Winner | The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon | Brad Stone | Little, Brown |
| 2013 | Shortlist | Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think | Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Kenneth Cukier | Unknown |
| 2013 | Shortlist | Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead | Sheryl Sandberg | Unknown |
| 2013 | Shortlist | Making it Happen: Fred Goodwin, RBS and the Men Who Blew Up the British Economy | Iain Martin | Unknown |
| 2013 | Shortlist | The Alchemists: Inside the Secret World of Central Bankers | Neil Irwin | Unknown |
| 2013 | Shortlist | The Billionaire's Apprentice: The Rise of The Indian-American Elite and The Fall of The Galleon Hedge Fund | Anita Raghavan | Grand Central Publishing |
| 2012 | Winner | Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power | Steve Coll | Allen Lane |
| 2012 | Shortlist | Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography | Walter Isaacson | Unknown |
| 2012 | Shortlist | The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: Risk-taking, Gut Feelings and the Biology of Boom and Bust | John M. Coates | Random House Canada |
| 2012 | Shortlist | Volcker: The Triumph of Persistence | William L. Silber | Bloomsbury |
| 2012 | Shortlist | What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits Of Markets | Michael J. Sandel | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| 2012 | Shortlist | Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty | Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson | Profile Books |
| 2011 | Winner | Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty | Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo | PublicAffairs |
| 2011 | Shortlist | Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar and the Future of the International Monetary System | Barry Eichengreen | Oxford University Press |
| 2011 | Shortlist | Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters | Richard Rumelt | Profile Books |
| 2011 | Shortlist | The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World | Daniel Yergin | Penguin Press |
| 2011 | Shortlist | Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier | Edward Glaeser | Penguin Press |
| 2011 | Shortlist | Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril | Margaret Heffernan | Simon & Schuster |
| 2010 | Winner | Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy | Raghuram G. Rajan | Princeton University Press |
| 2010 | Shortlist | More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite | Sebastian Mallaby | Penguin Press |
| 2010 | Shortlist | The Art of Choosing | Sheena Iyengar | Twelve |
| 2010 | Shortlist | The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine | Michael Lewis | Penguin Books |
| 2010 | Shortlist | The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World | David Kirkpatrick | Simon & Schuster |
| 2010 | Shortlist | Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System—and Themselves | Andrew Ross Sorkin | Viking |
| 2009 | Winner | Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World | Liaquat Ahamed | Penguin Press |
| 2009 | Shortlist | Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism | George Akerlof, Robert Shiller | Princeton University Press |
| 2009 | Shortlist | Good Value: Reflections on Money, Morality and an Uncertain World | Stephen Green | Unknown |
| 2009 | Shortlist | Imagining India: The Idea of a Renewed Nation | Nandan Nilekani | Penguin Press |
| 2009 | Shortlist | In Fed We Trust | David Wessel | Unknown |
| 2009 | Shortlist | The Match King | Frank Partnoy | Profile Books |
| 2008 | Winner | When Markets Collide: Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change | Mohamed El-Erian | McGraw-Hill Professional |
| 2008 | Shortlist | A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World | William J. Bernstein | Grove Atlantic |
| 2008 | Shortlist | Cold Steel: The Multi-billion-dollar Battle for a Global Industry | Tim Bouquet, Byron Ousey | Key Porter Books |
| 2008 | Shortlist | McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld | Misha Glenny | Knopf |
| 2008 | Shortlist | Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy | Lawrence Lessig | Unknown |
| 2008 | Shortlist | The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life | Alice Schroeder | Bantam Books |
| 2007 | Winner | The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères and Co. | William D. Cohan | Anchor |
| 2007 | Shortlist | Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them | Philippe Legrain | Little, Brown |
| 2007 | Shortlist | The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World | Alan Greenspan | Penguin Books |
| 2007 | Shortlist | The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Random House |
| 2007 | Shortlist | Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything | Don Tapscott, Anthony D. Williams | Portfolio |
| 2007 | Shortlist | ZOOM: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future | Iain Carson, Vijay Vaitheeswaran | Twelve |
| 2006 | Winner | China Shakes The World: A Titan's Rise and Troubled Future – and the Challenge for America | James Kynge | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| 2006 | Shortlist | Small Giants: Companies that Choose to Be Great Instead of Big | Bo Burlingham | Penguin Books |
| 2006 | Shortlist | The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger | Marc Levinson | Princeton University Press |
| 2006 | Shortlist | The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More | Chris Anderson | Unknown |
| 2006 | Shortlist | The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works—and How It's Transforming the American Economy | Charles Fishman | Unknown |
| 2005 | Winner | The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century | Thomas Friedman | Picador |
| 2005 | Shortlist | DisneyWar | James B. Stewart | Simon & Schuster |
| 2005 | Shortlist | Fast Second: How Smart Companies Bypass Radical Innovation to Enter and Dominate New Markets | Constantinos C. Markides, Paul Geroski | Jossey-Bass |
| 2005 | Shortlist | Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything | Steven Levitt, Stephen Dubner | HarperCollins |
| 2005 | Shortlist | The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture | John Battelle | Unknown |
| 2005 | Shortlist | The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power and Politics of World Trade | Pietra Rivoli | Wiley |