The 2023
Book Awards

Disabled scholar Ashley Shew dismantles the assumption that technology’s job is to “fix” disabled people. A bracing, funny corrective to how we talk about bodies and tech.

Forensic accounting professor Kelly Richmond Pope has spent a career studying fraud. Here she maps the perpetrators, whistleblowers and victims behind the biggest scams in America.

Michelle King decodes the unwritten rules that actually determine who gets ahead at work, the informal systems no employee handbook will ever tell you about.

Antiquarian bookseller Oliver Darkshire’s charming, very funny memoir of life in one of London’s oldest rare bookshops. A love letter to the strangest corners of the book trade.

Henry Grabar makes parking, yes parking, one of the most fascinating lenses on American life, showing how the quest to store cars shaped our cities, housing and climate.

Paulo Savaget studied how scrappy organizations solve impossible problems without permission or resources, then distilled their four repeatable workarounds for the rest of us.

BBC journalist Richard Fisher argues our civilization’s defining flaw is short-termism, and shows how to stretch our thinking across decades and generations.

Chuck Thompson’s witty investigation of how status flipped: why the old markers of prestige lost their power and what quietly replaced them.

Algorithmic Justice League founder Joy Buolamwini recounts discovering bias baked into facial recognition, and her fight to make AI accountable.

Longtime Wall Street Journal obituary writer James R. Hagerty on what writing hundreds of life stories teaches about living one, and how to tell your own before someone else does.