2026 Awards – Nutrition and Diet

Goody Business Book Awards Winners and Finalists for 2026 Banner for Health Nutrition and Diet

2026 best book awarded to authors on the subject of Health - Nutrition and Diet.

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Birdie's Cooking Class: A Tasty Take on Eating Healthy

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Author:

Jessica Nicole McAnelly

HOW is this book helping people?

In Birdie's Cooking Class: A Tasty Take on Cooking Fun, our cheerful bluebird friend Birdie is back—this time leading her animal pals on a delicious new adventure in the kitchen! When Birdie invites her friends to join her cooking class, excitement fills the air. From measuring ingredients and washing hands to stirring, tasting, and teamwork, every step becomes a fun-filled learning moment.

Through colorful illustrations, playful rhymes, and easy-to-understand lessons, Birdie shows readers that cooking isn't just about food—it's about safety, creativity, and confidence. With each recipe and rule, children learn how to handle kitchen tools carefully, keep food clean, and explore healthy choices in a joyful, hands-on way.

Designed for young readers, parents, and educators, Birdie's Cooking Class encourages curiosity and togetherness in the heart of the home—the kitchen. With Birdie's signature kindness and leadership, this story stirs up laughter, learning, and a sprinkle of responsibi

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Finalist

The Hardiness Effect: Grow from Stress, Optimise Health, Live Longer

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Author:

Dr Paul Taylor

HOW is this book helping people?

The Hardiness Effect helps people transform their lives by teaching them how to build resilience and face adversity head-on. Paul's book provides practical tools to cultivate a hardy mindset, enabling you to see challenges not as threats, but as opportunities for growth. It moves beyond theory, offering actionable strategies to strengthen your sense of commitment, control, and challenge—the three core components of hardiness. By applying these principles, you can learn to manage stress more effectively, improve your performance under pressure, and find deeper meaning in your personal and professional life. The book equips you with a mental framework to not just survive difficult times, but to emerge from them stronger, more confident, and more capable than before. It’s a guide to unlocking your inner strength and thriving in a world of constant change.

Book available for purchase.

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2026 Awards – Mind, Body, Spirit

Goody Business Book Awards Winners and Finalists for 2026 Banner for Health Mind Body and Spirit

2026 best book awarded to authors on the subject of Health - Mind, Body, Spirit.

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Winner

The Hardiness Effect: Grow from Stress, Optimise Health, Live Longer

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Author:

Dr Paul Taylor

HOW is this book helping people?

The Hardiness Effect helps people transform their lives by teaching them how to build resilience and face adversity head-on. Paul's book provides practical tools to cultivate a hardy mindset, enabling you to see challenges not as threats, but as opportunities for growth. It moves beyond theory, offering actionable strategies to strengthen your sense of commitment, control, and challenge—the three core components of hardiness. By applying these principles, you can learn to manage stress more effectively, improve your performance under pressure, and find deeper meaning in your personal and professional life. The book equips you with a mental framework to not just survive difficult times, but to emerge from them stronger, more confident, and more capable than before. It’s a guide to unlocking your inner strength and thriving in a world of constant change.

Book available for purchase.

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Finalist

Echoes of the Timeless

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Author:

Catia Batalha

HOW is this book helping people?

Echoes of the Timeless offers readers a transformative journey of healing and self-discovery. By blending storytelling with insights from yoga, psychology, shamanism, and indigenous wisdom, it provides practical tools for personal growth. The narrative encourages introspection, helping individuals reconnect with their inner selves and navigate life's challenges with greater clarity and purpose. This book serves as a gentle guide for those seeking balance and deeper understanding in their lives.

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2026 Awards – Medical

Goody Business Book Awards Winners and Finalists for 2026 Banner for Health Medical

2026 best book awarded to authors on the subject of Health - Medical.

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Unblinded: The Start-Up That Launched a Revolution in Saving Sight

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Author:

David Guyer

Co-Author Names

Ian Keldoulis

HOW is this book helping people?

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) used to be the #1 cause of blindness in the developed world, with no effective treatments. The disease became known for robbing its elderly victims of their central vision and the opportunity to age gracefully, leaving them with the fear of going blind. Today, this is no longer the case for most people. This book chronicles the discovery of anti-VEGF (anti-vascular endothelial growth factor) therapies, and the role Dr. Guyer played in this medical breakthrough. This treatment has saved millions from blindness, as anti-VEGF therapies are now the most commonly-used treatment for AMD. This book helps readers see how to overcome great obstacles even in the face of adversity, ways to turn setbacks into success, and the process to develop a solution mindset. Proceeds from the book also go to the Wise Eyes Foundation non-profit organization, with a mission to reduce the unmet need in large population retinal diseases through research and patient support.

Book available for purchase.

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Winner

Become an Empowered Patient: Get Care You Need When You Need It

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Author:

Deane Waldman

Co-Author Names

Vance Gin

HOW is this book helping people?

Become an Empowered Patient helps people understand why the healthcare system often feels expensive, delayed, confusing, and out of their control. The book gives readers a clearer view of how insurance, government rules, third-party payers, and bureaucracy affect access, cost, and quality of care. More importantly, it encourages patients to stop feeling powerless and start becoming informed advocates for themselves and their families. By explaining healthcare problems in plain language and offering the Empower Patients Initiative as a patient-centered solution, the book helps readers ask better questions, understand where their healthcare dollars go, and demand more timely, affordable, and personal care. It also restores hope by showing that change does not have to start only in Washington—it can begin with everyday Americans learning how to take charge of their own medical decisions and push for a system that serves patients first.

Book available for purchase.

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Winner

Sé un Paciente Empoderado: Recibe la atención médica que necesitas cuando la necesites

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Author:

Deane Waldman

Co-Author Names

Vance Ginn

HOW is this book helping people?

Become an Empowered Patient and its Spanish version, Sé un Paciente Empoderado, help readers better understand a healthcare system that often feels expensive, confusing, delayed, and out of their control. The book explains how insurance, government rules, third-party payers, and bureaucracy can affect access, cost, and quality of care. More importantly, it encourages patients and families to stop feeling powerless and become informed advocates for themselves. By presenting healthcare issues in plain, practical language, the book helps readers ask better questions, understand their options, recognize where their healthcare dollars go, and make stronger decisions when seeking care. With both English and Spanish editions available, its message can reach more communities and families who need guidance. This book helps people gain confidence, protect their health, save money where possible, and push for a healthcare system that puts patients—not bureaucracy—first.

Book available for purchase.

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Finalist

Dear Carer,

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Author:

Sarah Martin

HOW is this book helping people?

When someone you love is struggling with their mental health, life can shift in an instant. Suddenly you’re searching for answers you never imagined needing. Trying to hold your world together and at the same time helping someone find their way through the dark. Sarah sits alongside carers, psychiatrists, psychologists, doctors, nurses, police, paramedics, and clinicians to unravel the topics carers are so often left to navigate alone. She explores emergency care, recovery care and more, and shows in small but powerful ways, how carers can use tools to support and advocate for their loved ones, while still caring for themselves.

Dear Carer, is not just a book. It’s a hand to hold, a breath of reassurance, and a reminder that love, steady, imperfect, or determined, can light even the darkest moments.

Book available for purchase.

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2026 Awards – Start Ups

Goody Business Book Awards Winners and Finalists for 2026 Banner for Entrepreneur Start Ups

2026 best book awarded to authors on the subject of Start Ups.

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The Hustle Mindset: How to build a successful start-up through grit and grind

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Author:

Reece Borg

HOW is this book helping people?

*The Hustle Mindset* by Reece Borg helps aspiring entrepreneurs develop the mindset, discipline, and resilience needed to build a successful start-up in today’s competitive world. Rather than promoting shortcuts or unrealistic success stories, the book offers practical guidance based on real-world business experience. It encourages readers to think beyond survival and focus on long-term growth, impact, and opportunity.

The book teaches entrepreneurs how to identify strong business ideas, manage uncertainty with confidence, and build effective teams that support business growth. It also highlights the importance of focusing energy on the right priorities and protecting personal motivation throughout the entrepreneurial journey. By combining grit, determination, and strategic thinking, *The Hustle Mindset* inspires readers to turn challenges into opportunities and use business not only as a source of income, but also as a tool for creating meaningful impact and lasting success.

Book available for purchase.

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Winner

Go Start Up: Your Best Guide to Unlocking the Values and Culture of Success

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Author:

Karan Kashyap

HOW is this book helping people?

Go Start Up serves as a high-utility operational handbook for aspiring small business magnates, who will juggle multiple execution roles simultaneously. It helps aspiring founders to optimise their daily workflows using designs for structured meetings, optimised team selections, and tactical hiring processes.
Because small businesses face severe time constraints, it prioritises actionable systems over abstract prose. The book provides fast-paced refresh rates, via diagrams, quotes and free body schematic images. It gives leaders concrete strategies to build high-performing teams, manage dilemmas, and protect their company culture without suffering founder burnout. By providing clear, step-by-step launch frameworks and operational checklists, it allows allow smaller enterprises to confidently compete in aggressive modern markets. And ensures that small business owners can transition from chaotic daily fire-fighting to structured, profitable growth, to achieve the much coveted success.

Book available for purchase.

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Winner

Accelerating Startups: Lessons From Mentors

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Author:

Michael J. Lyon

HOW is this book helping people?

I have volunteered as a mentor to hundreds of startups, in the US and globally, through various technology accelerator programs, especially the last nine years at the Creative Destruction Lab, and found that the same issues repeated and applied to startups across technologies and industries. This book is designed as an entrepreneurial guidebook to make the startup process more efficient and give founders a head start. From telling your story, the pitch, to being a good listener, to addressing a problem and squeezing assumption out of your thinking, to drafting a strategic plan, to raising capital and considering international opportunities. This book helps founders make more revenue, quicker, and avoid unnecessary errors. A dozen other mentors also contributed to the book, with a foreword by CDL founder, Professor Ajay Agrawal. Thank you for your consideration.

Book available for purchase.

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Finalist

100 Things Successful Startups Do: Little Lessons in Entrepreneurial Success

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Author:

Nigel Cumberland

HOW is this book helping people?

100 Things Successful Startups Do equips aspiring and early-stage entrepreneurs with the mindset, habits, and practical skills needed to build a thriving business. Through 100 actionable lessons, readers learn how to navigate challenges, seize opportunities, attract support, lead growing teams, and stay resilient through uncertainty. Combining expert advice with exercises and real-world strategies, the book helps transform big ideas into sustainable ventures. Rather than focusing on talent alone, it shows how success is built through smart decisions, consistent habits, and entrepreneurial thinking. Readers come away with greater confidence, clearer direction, and a practical roadmap for turning ambition into lasting business success.

Book available for purchase.

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Finalist

The Set-Up: Build What Matters Fix What's Broken. Finally Make Your Law Firm Work.

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Author:

Simone Fulmer Gaus

HOW is this book helping people?

You built your law firm to serve clients and make a difference, not to be buried in stalled cases, late nights, and last-minute emergencies while the numbers stubbornly refuse to add up. The challenge is that most firms still run on an outdated, top-down model that puts all the weight on the owner, fuels burnout, and slows everything down. Thriving and innovative firm owner Simone Fulmer Gaus shares the simple, proven framework she developed to reinvent her practice—replacing the owner-heavy hierarchy with a modern, self-managing approach built on purpose, shared values, and genuine respect for the people who make a law firm run.

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2026 Awards – Small Business

Goody Business Book Awards Winners and Finalists for 2026 Banner for Entrepreneur Small Business

2026 best book awarded to authors on the subject of Small Business.

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Go Start Up: Your Best Guide to Unlocking the Values and Culture of Success

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Author:

Karan Kashyap

HOW is this book helping people?

This book shifts the core entrepreneurial mindset away from merely chasing venture capital and refocuses it on building lasting organisational integrity. Rather than treating workplace culture as a superficial corporate buzzword, Go Start Up treats it as a primary business currency required to scale into a resilient company. The book inspires founders to look inward and lead with ethical, value-driven principles.
It empowers innovators to define their own cultural blueprints, ensuring their teams remain deeply aligned as they scale. It helps entrepreneurs to internalise unique frameworks, such as the PPT Networking Method, the A4-STEPs in decisions, and an everyday routine design to sustain founder discipline.
Ultimately, Go Start Up provides an intellectual toolkit to build highly resilient organisations. It challenges founders to focus on long-term legacy over short-term vanity metrics, fostering a healthier, values-driven global start-up ecosystem.

Book available for purchase.

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Finalist

Execution is the New Intelligence: How Entrepreneurs Think, Adapt, and Thrive in the AI Era

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Author:

V. Michael Santoro

HOW is this book helping people?

Execution Is the New Intelligence helps entrepreneurs navigate rapid technological change with greater confidence, adaptability, and resilience. Rather than encouraging people to compete with AI or become dependent on it, the book shows them how to use technology while strengthening the distinctly human capabilities that create lasting value. Through the Irreplaceability Framework™ and Irreplaceability Index™, readers learn to strengthen judgment, earned authority, relational intelligence, adaptive execution, and self-awareness. These capabilities help entrepreneurs make better decisions, respond constructively to change, build stronger relationships, and turn knowledge into action.

The broader impact is helping people see technological disruption as an opportunity for human development rather than a threat to their relevance. By strengthening the entrepreneur as well as the business, the book provides a practical path toward meaningful work, sustainable success, and lifelong growth.

Book available for purchase.

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Finalist

The Starting 11: The Leadership Lineup

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Author:

Michael Wiggins

HOW is this book helping people?

The Starting 11 was developed to positively impact others, creating opportunities to teach leadership concepts to students, teachers, coaches, community members and business executives. It has inspired great conversation with invested people seeking ways to be better in how they do their work with others everyday. Each chapter brings out the best in leadership, providing leaders a transformative approach to the work being done everyday. The impact of solid leadership cannot be underestimated and with the strategies provided in The Starting 11, career success for anyone can move forward with confidence. Further, anyone building a business can establish a solid foundation with concepts that will set employees up for success. This is not only a terrific option for personal growth, but The Starting 11 also provides a great option for your team’s collective book club.

Book available for purchase.

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