Award Winner Roundups
The Most Shareable
Non-Fiction Books
Of The Past Decade
Every year since 2014, the Non-Obvious Book Awards have honored one book as the Most Shareable Book of the Year: the book you finish and immediately have to tell everyone about. Collected here: every winner, in one definitive reading list.
*This list does not include books published in 2026, which are currently under review as part of our 2026 awards program.
Careless People
by Sarah Wynn-Williams
Sarah Wynn-Williams's explosive insider memoir of life among Facebook's leadership: the book everyone in tech spent the year talking about.
Supercommunicators
by Charles Duhigg
Charles Duhigg decodes the secret language of connection, and shows how anyone can learn the skills that make conversations actually work.
Your Brain on Art
by Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross
Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross share the new science of neuroaesthetics: how making and experiencing art measurably transforms our brains, bodies and lives.
Quit
by Annie Duke
Poker champion Annie Duke dismantles our worship of grit and teaches the most undervalued skill in business and life: knowing when to walk away.
Move
by Parag Khanna
Parag Khanna maps the forces, climate, economics, demographics, that will make the next decades the most mobile in human history, and where we'll all go.
Humankind
by Rutger Bregman
Rutger Bregman's hopeful history argues that most people, most of the time, are fundamentally decent, and that believing it changes everything.
Late Bloomers
by Rich Karlgaard
Rich Karlgaard pushes back on our obsession with early achievement and celebrates the quiet power of blooming on your own schedule.
Rebel Talent
by Francesca Gino
Harvard's Francesca Gino makes the research-backed case that the most valuable people at work are the ones who break the rules: constructively.
Hit Refresh
by Satya Nadella
Satya Nadella's inside account of transforming Microsoft by putting empathy at the center of one of the world's most powerful companies.
Small Data
by Martin Lindstrom
Brand detective Martin Lindstrom shows how tiny human clues, like a worn sneaker or a fridge magnet, reveal desires that big data completely misses.
How The World Sees You
by Sally Hogshead
Sally Hogshead flips personal branding on its head: forget how you see the world. discover how the world sees you, and lead with what makes you fascinating.
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