The Shortlist & Winners
Every year we select the very best books of the year to be included in our Non-Obvious Book Awards Longlist or Shortlist. 2021 was our most competitive year yet with nearly 500 titles submitted and considered for the awards program. Learn more about our judging criteria here >>
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The Biggest Book Trends of 2021
As part of our judging process, we curate the biggest trends from all non-fiction books that we evaluated throughout the year. Here are the six biggest trends we identified from books published during 2021.
See our 2021 Shortlist Selections ...
by Parag Khanna
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by Noreena Hertz
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by Annalee Newitz
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by Benjamin Labatut
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by Adam Grant
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by Suneel Gupta with Carlye Adler
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by Eyal Press
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by Keven Roose
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by John McWhorter
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by Simon McCarthy-Jones
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by Leidy Klotz
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by Nicole Hannah-Jones
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by Marco D'Eramo
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by Elizabeth Kolbert
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by Shankar Vedantam & Bill Mesler
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*Note - All reviews above will be written by Non-Obvious Company founder Rohit Bhargava.
See the 2021 Longlist Selections ...
2021 was our most competitive year yet - and we considered more hundreds of titles to narrow down our Longlist and Shortlist. The titles selected for this list were the very best non-fiction titles published all year.
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Here are our finalist selections for the 2021 Non-Obvious Book Awards Longlist: (listed alphabetically by book title):
About the Non-Obvious Book Awards
These awards are organized and judged by the team at the Non-Obvious Company. Our mission is to help leaders, organizations and curious minds learn the habits that allow them to see what others miss and face the unknown. We do this through our published books, popular keynotes, custom workshops, and annual book awards program.
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