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This year, the most influential books cover topics from inequality to digital privacy.
Luckily, an esteemed panel of judges for the annual Financial Times' and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award (previously Goldman Sachs was a partner) have released a short list of the six most influential books of the year.
The topics range from inequality to digital privacy, and the judges hope they will inspire creative thinking and help readers deepen their understanding of today's world, says Lionel Barber, editor of the Financial Times.
Panel members include Steve Coll, dean of the School of Journalism at Columbia University and a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine; Steve Denning, chairman of General Atlantic, LLC; and Rik Kirkland, director of publishing for McKinsey & Company.
Here are the books that made the list:
"Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance"
By Julia Angwin
Times Books/Henry Holt
"The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies"
By Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee
W. W. Norton Ltd
Amazon
By Ed Catmull
Bantam Press/Transworld Publishers (UK), Random House (US)
"Hack Attack: How the Truth Caught Up With Rupert Murdoch"
By Nick Davies
Chatto & Windus (UK), Faber & Faber (US)
"House of Debt: How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It from Happening Again"
By Atif Mian and Amir Sufi
University of Chicago Press
"Capital in the Twenty-First Century"
By Thomas Piketty
Belknap Press/Harvard University Press
The winning book will be announced on November 11. Previous winners have included Brad Stone's "The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon" (2013); Steve Coll's "Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power" (2012); and Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo's "Poor Economics" (2011).