The 2023 Non-Obvious Book Award Winners

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2023 Most Important Book of the Year:

How Big Things Get Done

by Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner


2023 Most Useful Book of the Year:

Outrage Machine

by Tobias Rose-Stockwell


2023 Most Original Book of the Year:

Pockets

by Hannah Carlson


2023 Most Entertaining Book of the Year:

The Theory of Everything Else

by Dan Schreiber


2023 Most Useful Shareable of the Year:

Your Brain on Art

by Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross


2023 Shortlist Selection:

Against Technoableism

by Ashley Shew


2023 Shortlist Selection:

Fool Me Once

by Kelly Richmond Pope


2023 Shortlist Selection:

How Work Works

by Michelle P. King, Ph.D.


2023 Shortlist Selection:

Once Upon a Tome

by Oliver Darkshire


2023 Shortlist Selection:

Paved Paradise

by Henry Grabar


2023 Shortlist Selection:

The Four Workarounds

by Paulo Savaget


2023 Shortlist Selection:

The Long View

by Richard Fisher


2023 Shortlist Selection:

The Status Revolution

by Chuck Thompson


2023 Shortlist Selection:

Unmasking AI

by Joy Buolamwini


2023 Shortlist Selection:

Yours Truly

by James R. Hagerty


See the 2023 Longlist Selections ...

2023 was our most competitive year yet - and we considered over 1000 titles to narrow down our Longlist and Shortlist. The titles selected for this list were the very best non-fiction titles published all year. The Longlist is announced and included below.

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Here are our finalist selections for the 2023 Non-Obvious Book Awards Longlist (listed alphabetically by book title):

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