The longlist for The Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year was announced this morning. And just as interesting as the list itself, which includes a novel this year, is the fact that Lloyd Blankfein is recusing himself as a judge. He is doing so because “a number of books on this year’s longlist address various aspects of the financial crisis,” a crisis Blankfein was intimately involved in as CEO of Goldman Sachs. Hi is, in fact, a subject in some of those books—including Too Big to Fail, which we named the 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year* in 2009.

The Financial Times and Goldman Sachs longlist for 2010 is:

• The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations? by Ian Bremmer, Portfolio
• How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities by John Cassidy, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Circle of Greed: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Lawyer Who Brought Corporate America to Its Knees by Patrick Dillon and Carl M. Cannon, Broadway Books
• Fortune’s Fool: Edgar Bronfman, Jr., Warner Music, and an Industry in Crisis by Fred Goodman, Simon & Schuster
• Union Atlantic: A Novel by Adam Haslett, Nan A Talese
• The Art of Choosing by Sheena Iyengar, Twelve
• The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World by Walter Kiechel, Harvard Business Review Press
• The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World by David Kirkpatrick, Simon & Schuster
• The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis, W.W. Norton
• More Money than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite by Sebastian Mallaby, Penguin Press
• All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis by Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera, Portfolio
• What Works: Success in Stressful Times by Hamish McRae, HarperCollins
• Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy by Raghuram Rajan, Princeton University Press
• The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley, HarperCollins
• Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System—and Themselves by Andrew Ross Sorkin, Viking
• MacroWikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World, Don Tapscott & Anthony Williams, Portfolio

*A reminder to authors and publishers out there, we are now accepting submissions for the 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards for 2010.