12 Top business books like The Messenger: Moderna, the Vaccine, and the Business Gamble That Changed the World by Peter Loftus

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The Messenger: Moderna, the Vaccine, and the Business Gamble That Changed the World

By: Peter Loftus

4.09

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

At the start of 2020, Moderna was a waning biotech unicorn, still years away from delivering its fi…

If you liked the business plot in The Messenger: Moderna, the Vaccine, and the Business Gamble That Changed the World by Peter Loftus , here is a list of 12 books like this:

1. The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron

By: Bethany McLean , Peter Elkind

4.01

Format: 560 pages, Paperback

There were dozens of books about Watergate, but only All the President's Mengave readers the full s… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
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2. Elon Musk

By: Walter Isaacson

4.40

Format: 688 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
  • science
"[Musk] concluded that Trump as president was no different than he was as a candidate. The buffoonery was not just an act. "Trump might be one of the world’s best bullshitters ever," he says. "Like my…"

-Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk

Cover of Our Enemies Will Vanish by Yaroslav Trofimov

3. Our Enemies Will Vanish

By: Yaroslav Trofimov

4.42

Format: None pages, Paperback

A revelatory eyewitness account of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and heroism of the Ukrainian people… read more

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  • nonfiction
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4. Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive

By: Philipp Dettmer

4.59

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A gorgeously illustrated deep dive into the immune system that will forever change how you think ab… read more

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  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
  • health
"Life hates nothing as much as wasting resources."

-Philipp Dettmer, Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive

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5. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

By: Chris Miller

4.44

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
  • science
"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"

-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

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6. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

By: Siddhartha Mukherjee

4.28

Format: 473 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauq… read more

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  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
  • health
Cover of The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend by Rob Copeland

7. The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend

By: Rob Copeland

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The unauthorized, unvarnished story of famed Wall Street hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio. Ray Dalio… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
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8. The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean

By: Susan Casey

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author Susan Casey, an awe-inspiring portrait of the mysterious world beneath the … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of For Blood and Money: Billionaires, Biotech, and the Quest for a Blockbuster Drug by Nathan Vardi

9. For Blood and Money: Billionaires, Biotech, and the Quest for a Blockbuster Drug

By: Nathan Vardi

4.30

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A gripping business narrative and scientific thriller about what it takes to bring a wonder drug to… read more

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  • health
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • science
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10. No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram

By: Sarah Frier

4.11

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning reporter Sarah Frier reveals an inside, never-before-told, behind-the-scenes look at … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
  • science
"Mosseri’s answer to the important question was perfect by Facebook standards: “Technology isn’t good or bad—it just is,"

-Sarah Frier, No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram

Cover of Keir Starmer: The Biography by Tom Baldwin

11. Keir Starmer: The Biography

By: Tom Baldwin

4.06

Format: 428 pages, Kindle Edition

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'This will be the most important political book of the year’ MATTHEW… read more

Similar categories in Tom Baldwin's Keir Starmer: The Biography book and Peter Loftus's The Messenger: Moderna, the Vaccine, and the Business Gamble That Changed the World

  • nonfiction
Cover of Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality by Venki Ramakrishnan

12. Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality

By: Venki Ramakrishnan

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

"Utterly fascinating." —Bill Bryson A groundbreaking exploration of the science of why and how we a… read more

Similar categories in Venki Ramakrishnan's Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality book and Peter Loftus's The Messenger: Moderna, the Vaccine, and the Business Gamble That Changed the World

  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
  • health
Cover of Breaking Through: My Life in Science by Katalin Karikó

13. Breaking Through: My Life in Science

By: Katalin Karikó

4.67

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A story of perseverance and the power of convictions from the groundbreaking immigrant scientist wh… read more

Similar categories in Katalin Karikó's Breaking Through: My Life in Science book and Peter Loftus's The Messenger: Moderna, the Vaccine, and the Business Gamble That Changed the World

  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of The Vaccine: Inside the Race to Conquer the COVID-19 Pandemic by Joe Miller

14. The Vaccine: Inside the Race to Conquer the COVID-19 Pandemic

By: Joe Miller

4.26

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The dramatic story of the married scientists who founded BioNTech and developed the first vaccine a… read more

Similar categories in Joe Miller's The Vaccine: Inside the Race to Conquer the COVID-19 Pandemic book and Peter Loftus's The Messenger: Moderna, the Vaccine, and the Business Gamble That Changed the World

  • health
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • science
"Dünya Sağlık Örgütü'nün koronavirüs salgınını pandemi ilan etmesine altı hafa, Donald Trump'ın Beyaz Saray'ının ''Son Hız Operasyonu'' aşı geliştirme programını başlatmasına dört ay vardı. Henüz Çin …"

-Joe Miller, The Vaccine: Inside the Race to Conquer the COVID-19 Pandemic

Cover of Founder vs Investor: The Honest Truth About Venture Capital from Startup to IPO by Elizabeth Joy Zalman

15. Founder vs Investor: The Honest Truth About Venture Capital from Startup to IPO

By: Elizabeth Joy Zalman

4.43

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

How many world-changing startups will fail because the founders and investors never figure out how … read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Joy Zalman's Founder vs Investor: The Honest Truth About Venture Capital from Startup to IPO book and Peter Loftus's The Messenger: Moderna, the Vaccine, and the Business Gamble That Changed the World

  • business
Cover of Moonshot: Inside Pfizer's Nine-Month Race to Make the Impossible Possible by Albert Bourla

16. Moonshot: Inside Pfizer's Nine-Month Race to Make the Impossible Possible

By: Albert Bourla

3.83

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Wall Street Journal Bestseller 2022 Genesis Prize Laureate Axiom Award Bronze Medalist for Business… read more

Similar categories in Albert Bourla's Moonshot: Inside Pfizer's Nine-Month Race to Make the Impossible Possible book and Peter Loftus's The Messenger: Moderna, the Vaccine, and the Business Gamble That Changed the World

  • health
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • science
Cover of On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything by Nate Silver

17. On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything

By: Nate Silver

3.84

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Signal and the Noise, the definitive guide to our… read more

Similar categories in Nate Silver's On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything book and Peter Loftus's The Messenger: Moderna, the Vaccine, and the Business Gamble That Changed the World

  • nonfiction
  • business
  • science
Cover of The Messenger: Moderna, the Vaccine, and the Business Gamble That Changed the World by Peter  Loftus

18. The Messenger: Moderna, the Vaccine, and the Business Gamble That Changed the World

By: Peter Loftus

4.09

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

At the start of 2020, Moderna was a waning biotech unicorn, still years away from delivering its fi… read more

Similar categories in Peter Loftus's The Messenger: Moderna, the Vaccine, and the Business Gamble That Changed the World book and Peter Loftus's The Messenger: Moderna, the Vaccine, and the Business Gamble That Changed the World

  • health
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • science
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19. War

By: Bob Woodward

4.43

Format: 441 pages, Kindle Edition

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodward tells the revelatory, behind-the-scenes story of three … read more

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  • nonfiction
"President Trump had secretly sent Putin a bunch of Abbott Point of Care Covid test machines for his personal use as the virus spread rapidly through Russia."

-Bob Woodward, War

"Overall, Hamas killed more than 1,200 Israelis and dragged more than 240 hostages and back across the border into underground tunnels in Gaza. It was the deadliest attack in Jewish history since the …"

-Bob Woodward, War

"The second high-profile Trump critis was retired General Stanley McChrystal, who had commanded U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan a decade earlier. McChrystal had recently appeared on CNN and called…"

-Bob Woodward, War

"In the 2020 election, Trump received 74 million votes, more than any presidential candidate in history with the exception of Joe Biden, who won 81 million votes. Biden secured the Electoral College w…"

-Bob Woodward, War

Cover of Inside the Orphan Drug Revolution: The Promise of Patient-Centered Biotechnology by James Geraghty

20. Inside the Orphan Drug Revolution: The Promise of Patient-Centered Biotechnology

By: James Geraghty

4.31

Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition

Advances in medicine have made possible better treatments for widespread, familiar human illnesses … read more

Similar categories in James Geraghty's Inside the Orphan Drug Revolution: The Promise of Patient-Centered Biotechnology book and Peter Loftus's The Messenger: Moderna, the Vaccine, and the Business Gamble That Changed the World

  • business
Cover of Silicon Heartland: Transforming the Midwest from Rust Belt to Tech Belt by Rebecca A Fannin

21. Silicon Heartland: Transforming the Midwest from Rust Belt to Tech Belt

By: Rebecca A Fannin

3.55

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Chronicling her return to America's heartland, CNBC contributor Rebecca A. Fannin provides an optim… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca A Fannin's Silicon Heartland: Transforming the Midwest from Rust Belt to Tech Belt book and Peter Loftus's The Messenger: Moderna, the Vaccine, and the Business Gamble That Changed the World

  • nonfiction

19 must-read nonfiction books like The Messenger: Moderna, the Vaccine, and the Business Gamble That Changed the World by Peter Loftus

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Bethany McLean , Peter Elkind

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Elon Musk

Walter Isaacson

4.40

Transform Your Habits

Our Enemies Will Vanish

Yaroslav Trofimov

4.42

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Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive

Philipp Dettmer

4.59

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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

Michael Lewis

4.30

Transform Your Habits

When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management

Roger Lowenstein

4.20

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Diana B. Henriques

3.77

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Michael Lewis

3.50

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