McKinsey & Company · 2024

McKinsey Annual Book Recommendations 2024

McKinsey Annual Book Recommendations 2024 is a 2024 best-books selection from McKinsey & Company, featuring 94 titles. Below is the full list with our Consensus Score for each book.

SHORTLIST archives the fact of each title's inclusion on McKinsey & Company's 2024 business selection; our commentary is our own and we link to the original list.

Source: McKinsey & Company — original list ↗

An Amerikan Family
Santi Elijah Holley
Chasing Hope
Nicholas D. Kristof
The Code Breaker
Walter Isaacson
Fever Pitch
Nick Hornby
Grief Is for People
Sloane Crosley
Nephew: A Memoir in 4-Part Harmony
M. K. Asante
Playing from the Rough
Jimmie James
The Rigor of Angels
William Egginton
Trace
Jenny Holzer
Walk Through Fire
Sheila Johnson
Design Social Change
Lesley-Ann Noel
The Formula
Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg
Inner Drive
Arsen Tomsky
The Journey of Leadership
Dana Maor, Hans-Werner Kaas, Kurt Strovink, Ramesh Srinivasan
How Legendary Leaders Speak
Peter D. Andrei
Possible: How We Survive (and Thrive) in an Age of Conflict
William Ury
Trillion Dollar Coach
Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, Alan Eagle
What I Learned About Investing from Darwin
Pulak Prasad
What Went Wrong with Capitalism
Ruchir Sharma
2054
Elliot Ackerman and James Stavridis
The Assassin
Tom Fletcher
Birnam Wood
Eleanor Catton
The Books of Jacob
Olga Tokarczuk
Bournville
Jonathan Coe
Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver
Fathers and Sons
Ivan Turgenev
God's Debris
Scott Adams
I Have Some Questions for You
Rebecca Makkai
The Island of Missing Trees
Elif Shafak
James
Percival Everett
Letters to Alice
Fay Weldon
The Maniac
Benjamin Labatut
The Meursault Investigation
Kamel Daoud
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin
The Wizard of the Kremlin
Giuliano da Empoli
The Anxious Generation
Jonathan Haidt
Good Energy
Casey Means
My Father's Brain
Sandeep Jauhar
Lifespan
David A. Sinclair
Outlive
Peter Attia
Unwell Women
Elinor Cleghorn
Why We Remember
Charan Ranganath
Culture: The Story of Us
Martin Puchner
Eyeliner: A Cultural History
Zahra Hankir
The Five
Hallie Rubenhold
The Game
Jon Pessah
One Fine Day
Matthew Parker
Painting for Profit
Richard E. Spear and Philip Sohm
The Prize
Daniel Yergin
The Radium Girls
Kate Moore
Religion and the Decline of Magic
Keith Thomas
An Unfinished Love Story
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Anatomy of a Breakthrough
Adam Alter
The Art of Explanation
Ros Atkins
The Art of Gathering
Priya Parker
Der Kreativitats-Code
Josef Brunner and Christian Sellmann
Don't Believe Everything You Think
Joseph Nguyen
Homecoming
John Bradshaw
How Big Things Get Done
Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Carol S. Dweck
Playing Big
Tara Mohr
Says Who?
Anne Curzan
Slow Productivity
Cal Newport
Somehow: Thoughts on Love
Anne Lamott
To My Sisters
Renee Kapuku and Courtney Daniella Boateng
What I Know for Sure
Oprah Winfrey
Age of Revolutions
Fareed Zakaria
Eat the Buddha
Barbara Demick
How Infrastructure Works
Deb Chachra
Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy
Henry Kissinger
Ours Was the Shining Future
David Leonhardt
The Politics Industry
Katherine M. Gehl and Michael E. Porter
Prisoner: My 544 Days in an Iranian Prison
Jason Rezaian
Whatever It Is, I'm Against It
Brian Rosenberg
Blue Machine
Helen Czerski
Children of a Modest Star
Jonathan S. Blake and Nils Gilman
The Uninhabitable Earth
David Wallace-Wells
AI Needs You
Verity Harding
Chip War
Chris Miller
Co-Intelligence
Ethan Mollick
The Coming Wave
Mustafa Suleyman
God, Human, Animal, Machine
Meghan O'Gieblyn
Hit Refresh
Satya Nadella
Ideas That Created the Future
Harry R. Lewis
Inventor of the Future
Alec Nevala-Lee
The Singularity Is Nearer
Ray Kurzweil
The Case for Good Jobs
Zeynep Ton
Culture Is the Way
Matt Mayberry
Loonshots
Safi Bahcall
The Surprising Science of Meetings
Steven G. Rogelberg
Tribal Leadership
Dave Logan, John King, Halee Fischer-Wright
What You Do Is Who You Are
Ben Horowitz
Work Here Now
Melissa Swift