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These are just some of the books we have our eyes on in January.

These are the books that 800-CEO-READ moved the most of, and moved often, in 2016.

Big ideas and new perspectives someday become, once enacted, status quo. It will take a while, but the first step is often powerful voices writing powerful books.

The most influential and transformative lessons are those we discover on our own, in real world, real life stories and examples rather than in lists of steps or habits.

The reality underlying each of our choices for the best Current Events & Public Affairs book of the year is that good business practices can be a balm to society, while bad business practices act as a barrier to progress.

These eight books, the top in their category, make up the shortlist for the 2016 800-CEO-READ Business Book Award.

These are some of the titles we'll have our eyes on in December.

The five finalists in the Personal Development & Human Behavior category help us make sense of ourselves and the world around us, to dig deeper and get to work.

The five finalists in the Innovation & Creativity category span styles and subject matter, but all do one thing well: make learning interesting.

Sebastian Mallaby's biography of Alan Greenspan is a master of the form, and is well-deserving of the award.

These Management and Workplace Culture books range from advice on radical change to strategic solutions and provide practical examples and innovative approaches for managing your people, how your people manage and represent your product, and how you and your people manage to be happy at and in their work.

The following five Leadership & Strategy books will help guide you, your company, and your people through growth, through evolution, through reinvention. Each of these books will act as a lantern to make the forest a little less dark, and the way forward a little more clear.