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Des Moines Public Library business book pick: “The Formula: How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World’s Fastest-Growing Sport,” by Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg

Why you should read it: This 2024 bestseller by two Wall Street Journal reporters tells the riveting story of how Formula 1 racing broke through in America and thus became the world’s fastest-growing sport. The book shows that this spike in popularity was actually decades in the making, and a product of the sport and its leaders’ constant state of transformation and experimentation – lessons other businesses and organizations can replicate on a smaller scale.