Saturday Night Live
description: American late-night live television sketch comedy show
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Women & Power: A Manifesto
by Mary Beard · 2 Nov 2017 · 50pp · 15,155 words
idea of the divorce between women and power that made Melissa McCarthy’s parodies of the one time White House press secretary Sean Spicer on Saturday Night Live so effective. It was said that these annoyed President Trump more than most satires on his regime, because, according to one of the ‘sources close
The Rent Is Too Damn High: What to Do About It, and Why It Matters More Than You Think
by Matthew Yglesias · 6 Mar 2012 · 58pp · 18,747 words
damn high!”), he was an instant star. Clips of the debate went viral on the Web the next day, McMillan was featured in a memorable Saturday Night Live sketch, and months after the debate, the memory of McMillan was resuscitated in WPIX local news promos as the man himself proclaimed, “The weather is
The Little Book of Hedge Funds
by Anthony Scaramucci · 30 Apr 2012 · 162pp · 50,108 words
friend Cliff—who if he weren’t running AQR might be writing comedy sketches for Jimmy Fallon or, better yet, could replace Seth Meyers on Saturday Night Live’s “Weekend Update”—his humorous definition is chock-full of vital information about hedge funds that completes the discovery process and enables us to fully
Nobody's Fool: Why We Get Taken in and What We Can Do About It
by Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris · 10 Jul 2023 · 338pp · 104,815 words
art forgers to deceptive marketers, traps abound. And all successful deceptions have one thing in common: They take advantage of how our minds work. The Saturday Night Live characters Hans and Franz famously said, “Hear us now and believe us later.” The irony of their catchphrase is that by default, we don’t
Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet Against Democracy
by Robert W. McChesney · 5 Mar 2013 · 476pp · 125,219 words
postwar decades, but advertising remained largely suspect, fodder for comedy due to its insincerity, absurdity, and asininity, as piles of Mad magazines or parodies on Saturday Night Live attest. Meanwhile, considerable scholarship examined the dubious contribution of advertising to the content of American entertainment and journalism. When the Internet emerged, the notion that
We Need New Stories: Challenging the Toxic Myths Behind Our Age of Discontent
by Nesrine Malik · 4 Sep 2019
-do, want-it-all attitudes. They work as medical researchers or in the arts, in teaching or social work,’ she writes. ‘They queue up the Saturday Night Live skits that humiliate Trump, to consume with our coffee on Sunday mornings, but find it unpalatable and unpleasant that our resentment and our fears linger
13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown
by Simon Johnson and James Kwak · 29 Mar 2010 · 430pp · 109,064 words
out that the Fed actually negotiated the results with the major banks, in some cases dramatically improving the banks’ performance at the last minute.39 (Saturday Night Live’s parody of Geithner, to some, seemed not too far from the truth: “Eventually, at the banks’ suggestion, we dropped the asterisk and went with
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at Wells,” The Wall Street Journal, May 9, 2009, available at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124182311010302297.html. 40. Saturday Night Live (NBC television broadcast May 11, 2009), available at http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/geithner-cold-open/1099562/. 41. Tim Geithner, “Written Testimony: Congressional Oversight Panel,” April 21, 2009, available at
Our Dollar, Your Problem: An Insider’s View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance, and the Road Ahead
by Kenneth Rogoff · 27 Feb 2025 · 330pp · 127,791 words
, it is easy to see the bubble element, especially in our celebrity-crazed culture. When Elon Musk appeared as a guest star on NBC’s Saturday Night Live comedy show, the price for dogecoin dropped sharply after Musk’s character facetiously described the cryptocurrency as “a hustle,” and one can find endless other
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
by Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner · 14 Sep 2015 · 317pp · 100,414 words
fact, your memory of your judgment is very likely wrong. And in a predictable direction. I can demonstrate by dredging from the archives a 1991 Saturday Night Live skit that captured the received political wisdom in 1991. The scene: a debate among the leading candidates for the Democratic nomination in 1992. Moderator: Good
Mining the Social Web: Finding Needles in the Social Haystack
by Matthew A. Russell · 15 Jan 2011 · 541pp · 109,698 words
context for the previous interpreter session, this chapter was originally drafted on a Saturday night, so it’s not a coincidence that the trend SNL (Saturday Night Live, a popular comedy show that airs in the United States) appears in the list. Now might be a good time to go ahead and bookmark
Hive Mind: How Your Nation’s IQ Matters So Much More Than Your Own
by Garett Jones · 15 Feb 2015 · 247pp · 64,986 words
From Gutenberg to Google: electronic representations of literary texts
by Peter L. Shillingsburg · 15 Jan 2006 · 224pp · 12,941 words
Chokepoint Capitalism
by Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow · 26 Sep 2022 · 396pp · 113,613 words
Free-Range Chickens
by Simon Rich · 1 Jan 2008 · 86pp · 14,764 words
What Happened to Goldman Sachs: An Insider's Story of Organizational Drift and Its Unintended Consequences
by Steven G. Mandis · 9 Sep 2013 · 413pp · 117,782 words
The Vanishing Neighbor: The Transformation of American Community
by Marc J. Dunkelman · 3 Aug 2014 · 327pp · 88,121 words
The Authoritarian Moment: How the Left Weaponized America's Institutions Against Dissent
by Ben Shapiro · 26 Jul 2021 · 309pp · 81,243 words
Free culture: how big media uses technology and the law to lock down culture and control creativity
by Lawrence Lessig · 15 Nov 2004 · 297pp · 103,910 words
A Demon of Our Own Design: Markets, Hedge Funds, and the Perils of Financial Innovation
by Richard Bookstaber · 5 Apr 2007 · 289pp · 113,211 words
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
by Cory Doctorow · 6 Oct 2025 · 313pp · 94,415 words
Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd
by Youngme Moon · 5 Apr 2010 · 221pp · 64,080 words
The Theft of a Decade: How the Baby Boomers Stole the Millennials' Economic Future
by Joseph C. Sternberg · 13 May 2019 · 336pp · 95,773 words
Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy
by David Frum · 25 May 2020 · 319pp · 75,257 words
Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts
by Oliver Burkeman · 8 Oct 2024 · 123pp · 43,370 words
Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress--And How to Bring It Back
by Marc J Dunkelman · 17 Feb 2025 · 454pp · 134,799 words
Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better
by Jennifer Pahlka · 12 Jun 2023 · 288pp · 96,204 words
The Revolution That Wasn't: GameStop, Reddit, and the Fleecing of Small Investors
by Spencer Jakab · 1 Feb 2022 · 420pp · 94,064 words
How to Be Human: An Autistic Man's Guide to Life
by Jory Fleming · 19 Apr 2021 · 150pp · 50,821 words
Dangerous Ideas: A Brief History of Censorship in the West, From the Ancients to Fake News
by Eric Berkowitz · 3 May 2021 · 412pp · 115,048 words
Information Doesn't Want to Be Free: Laws for the Internet Age
by Cory Doctorow, Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman · 18 Nov 2014 · 170pp · 51,205 words
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein · 7 Apr 2008 · 304pp · 22,886 words
Television disrupted: the transition from network to networked TV
by Shelly Palmer · 14 Apr 2006 · 406pp · 88,820 words
The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels
by Alex Epstein · 13 Nov 2014 · 257pp · 67,152 words
Fool Me Twice: Fighting the Assault on Science in America
by Shawn Lawrence Otto · 10 Oct 2011 · 692pp · 127,032 words
Geek Wisdom
by Stephen H. Segal · 2 Aug 2011
A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload
by Cal Newport · 2 Mar 2021 · 350pp · 90,898 words
The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory
by Andrew J. Bacevich · 7 Jan 2020 · 254pp · 68,133 words
Nothing but Net: 10 Timeless Stock-Picking Lessons From One of Wall Street’s Top Tech Analysts
by Mark Mahaney · 9 Nov 2021 · 311pp · 90,172 words
The Digital Divide: Arguments for and Against Facebook, Google, Texting, and the Age of Social Netwo Rking
by Mark Bauerlein · 7 Sep 2011 · 407pp · 103,501 words
We Don't Need Roads: The Making of the Back to the Future Trilogy
by Caseen Gaines · 22 Jun 2015 · 277pp · 89,004 words
Becoming Kim Jong Un: A Former CIA Officer's Insights Into North Korea's Enigmatic Young Dictator
by Jung H. Pak · 14 Apr 2020 · 395pp · 103,437 words
Elliot Allagash: A Novel
by Simon Rich · 24 May 2010 · 215pp · 52,743 words
The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values
by Brian Christian · 5 Oct 2020 · 625pp · 167,349 words
What in God's Name: A Novel
by Simon Rich · 7 Aug 2012 · 192pp · 45,091 words
The Interstellar Age: Inside the Forty-Year Voyager Mission
by Jim Bell · 24 Feb 2015 · 310pp · 89,653 words
Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics
by Glenn Greenwald · 14 Apr 2008 · 286pp · 79,601 words
I Live in the Future & Here's How It Works: Why Your World, Work, and Brain Are Being Creatively Disrupted
by Nick Bilton · 13 Sep 2010 · 236pp · 77,098 words
The Dollar Meltdown: Surviving the Coming Currency Crisis With Gold, Oil, and Other Unconventional Investments
by Charles Goyette · 29 Oct 2009 · 287pp · 81,970 words
Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy
by Lawrence Lessig · 2 Jan 2009
The Gospel of Food: Everything You Think You Know About Food Is Wrong
by Barry Glassner · 15 Feb 2007 · 300pp · 65,976 words
The End of Theory: Financial Crises, the Failure of Economics, and the Sweep of Human Interaction
by Richard Bookstaber · 1 May 2017 · 293pp · 88,490 words
Age of Context: Mobile, Sensors, Data and the Future of Privacy
by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel · 4 Sep 2013 · 202pp · 59,883 words
The Lost Decade: 2010–2020, and What Lies Ahead for Britain
by Polly Toynbee and David Walker · 3 Mar 2020 · 279pp · 90,888 words
The Survival of the City: Human Flourishing in an Age of Isolation
by Edward Glaeser and David Cutler · 14 Sep 2021 · 735pp · 165,375 words
The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America
by Mehrsa Baradaran · 7 May 2024 · 470pp · 158,007 words
In FED We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic
by David Wessel · 3 Aug 2009 · 350pp · 109,220 words
Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World
by Meredith Broussard · 19 Apr 2018 · 245pp · 83,272 words
Netflixed: The Epic Battle for America's Eyeballs
by Gina Keating · 10 Oct 2012 · 347pp · 91,318 words
Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King: Bill Gates and His Quest to Shape Our World
by Anupreeta Das · 12 Aug 2024 · 315pp · 115,894 words
How to Survive a Pandemic
by Michael Greger, M.D., FACLM · 1,072pp · 237,186 words
Free Ride
by Robert Levine · 25 Oct 2011 · 465pp · 109,653 words
Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History
by Kurt Andersen · 14 Sep 2020 · 486pp · 150,849 words
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
by Neil Postman and Jeff Riggenbach Ph. · 1 Apr 2013 · 204pp · 61,491 words
That Used to Be Us
by Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum · 1 Sep 2011 · 441pp · 136,954 words
The Golden Passport: Harvard Business School, the Limits of Capitalism, and the Moral Failure of the MBA Elite
by Duff McDonald · 24 Apr 2017 · 827pp · 239,762 words
The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home
by Dan Ariely · 31 May 2010 · 324pp · 93,175 words
The End of Work: Why Your Passion Can Become Your Job
by John Tamny · 6 May 2018 · 165pp · 47,193 words
Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies
by Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh · 14 Apr 2018 · 286pp · 87,401 words
Greed and Glory on Wall Street: The Fall of the House of Lehman
by Ken Auletta · 28 Sep 2015 · 349pp · 104,796 words
An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination
by Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang · 12 Jul 2021 · 372pp · 100,947 words
Lurking: How a Person Became a User
by Joanne McNeil · 25 Feb 2020 · 239pp · 80,319 words
New Power: How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World--And How to Make It Work for You
by Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms · 2 Apr 2018 · 416pp · 100,130 words
Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud
by Ben McKenzie and Jacob Silverman · 17 Jul 2023 · 329pp · 99,504 words
The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
by Tim Wu · 14 May 2016 · 515pp · 143,055 words
Busy
by Tony Crabbe · 7 Jul 2015 · 254pp · 81,009 words
What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures
by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson · 17 Sep 2024 · 588pp · 160,825 words
Invention: A Life
by James Dyson · 6 Sep 2021 · 312pp · 108,194 words
The Creative Curve: How to Develop the Right Idea, at the Right Time
by Allen Gannett · 11 Jun 2018 · 247pp · 69,593 words
The Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness
by Steven Levy · 23 Oct 2006 · 297pp · 89,820 words
The Last Girlfriend on Earth: And Other Love Stories
by Simon Rich · 22 Jan 2013 · 158pp · 35,552 words
In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
by Steven Levy · 12 Apr 2011 · 666pp · 181,495 words
When You Find Out the World Is Against You: And Other Funny Memories About Awful Moments
by Kelly Oxford · 17 Apr 2017 · 260pp · 76,340 words
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
by David Eagleman · 29 May 2011 · 383pp · 92,837 words
The Diet Myth: Why America's Obsessions With Weight Is Hazardous to Your Health
by Paul Campos · 4 May 2005
Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground
by Kevin Poulsen · 22 Feb 2011 · 264pp · 79,589 words
Last Man Standing: The Ascent of Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan Chase
by Duff McDonald · 5 Oct 2009 · 419pp · 130,627 words
Buyology
by Martin Lindstrom · 14 Jul 2008 · 83pp · 7,274 words
This Is Your Country on Drugs: The Secret History of Getting High in America
by Ryan Grim · 7 Jul 2009 · 334pp · 93,162 words
The Compound Effect
by Darren Hardy · 1 Jan 2010 · 159pp · 46,518 words
Googled: The End of the World as We Know It
by Ken Auletta · 1 Jan 2009 · 532pp · 139,706 words
Scarcity: The True Cost of Not Having Enough
by Sendhil Mullainathan · 3 Sep 2014 · 305pp · 89,103 words
Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole
by Benjamin R. Barber · 1 Jan 2007 · 498pp · 145,708 words
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
by James Clear · 15 Oct 2018 · 301pp · 78,638 words
Some Remarks
by Neal Stephenson · 6 Aug 2012 · 335pp · 107,779 words
No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need
by Naomi Klein · 12 Jun 2017 · 357pp · 94,852 words
Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age
by Steven Levy · 15 Jan 2002 · 468pp · 137,055 words
I Remember Nothing
by Nora Ephron · 9 Nov 2010
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
by Steven Pinker · 1 Jan 1994 · 661pp · 187,613 words
Wait: The Art and Science of Delay
by Frank Partnoy · 15 Jan 2012 · 342pp · 94,762 words
Choose Yourself!
by James Altucher · 14 Sep 2013 · 230pp · 76,655 words
Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence
by Amy B. Zegart · 6 Nov 2021
The Rebel and the Kingdom: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Overthrow the North Korean Regime
by Bradley Hope · 1 Nov 2022 · 257pp · 77,612 words
Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions
by Temple Grandin, Ph.d. · 11 Oct 2022
The Geek Way: The Radical Mindset That Drives Extraordinary Results
by Andrew McAfee · 14 Nov 2023 · 381pp · 113,173 words
The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World
by Max Fisher · 5 Sep 2022 · 439pp · 131,081 words
The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource
by Chris Hayes · 28 Jan 2025 · 359pp · 100,761 words
Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell
by Phil Lapsley · 5 Feb 2013 · 744pp · 142,748 words
Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral
by Ben Smith · 2 May 2023
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-But Some Don't
by Nate Silver · 31 Aug 2012 · 829pp · 186,976 words
War for Eternity: Inside Bannon's Far-Right Circle of Global Power Brokers
by Benjamin R. Teitelbaum · 14 May 2020 · 307pp · 88,745 words
Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
by Malcolm Gladwell · 1 Oct 2024 · 283pp · 85,644 words
Coders at Work
by Peter Seibel · 22 Jun 2009 · 1,201pp · 233,519 words
Simple Rules: How to Thrive in a Complex World
by Donald Sull and Kathleen M. Eisenhardt · 20 Apr 2015 · 294pp · 82,438 words
Don't Burn This Book: Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason
by Dave Rubin · 27 Apr 2020 · 239pp · 62,005 words
How to Be a Liberal: The Story of Liberalism and the Fight for Its Life
by Ian Dunt · 15 Oct 2020
Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another
by Matt Taibbi · 7 Oct 2019 · 357pp · 99,456 words
Lift: Fitness Culture, From Naked Greeks and Acrobats to Jazzercise and Ninja Warriors
by Daniel Kunitz · 4 Jul 2016 · 321pp · 92,258 words
You're a Horrible Person, but I Like You: The Believer Book of Advice
by The Believer · 15 Mar 2010
Care to Make Love in That Gross Little Space Between Cars?: A Believer Book of Advice
by The Believer, Judd Apatow and Patton Oswalt · 6 Mar 2012
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
by Steven Pinker · 13 Feb 2018 · 1,034pp · 241,773 words
Chasing My Cure: A Doctor's Race to Turn Hope Into Action; A Memoir
by David Fajgenbaum · 9 Sep 2019
The Clockwork Universe: Saac Newto, Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern WorldI
by Edward Dolnick · 8 Feb 2011 · 439pp · 104,154 words
Stephen Fry in America
by Stephen Fry · 1 Jan 2008 · 362pp · 95,782 words
Grand: A Memoir
by Sara Schaefer · 10 Aug 2020 · 190pp · 58,981 words
Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry
by Helaine Olen · 27 Dec 2012 · 375pp · 105,067 words
The Irrational Bundle
by Dan Ariely · 3 Apr 2013 · 898pp · 266,274 words
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
by Michael Lewis · 6 Dec 2016 · 336pp · 113,519 words
Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World
by Clive Thompson · 26 Mar 2019 · 499pp · 144,278 words
The Sushi Economy: Globalization and the Making of a Modern Delicacy
by Sasha Issenberg · 1 Jan 2007 · 534pp · 15,752 words
Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
by Adam Grant · 2 Feb 2016 · 410pp · 101,260 words
The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom?
by David Brin · 1 Jan 1998 · 205pp · 18,208 words
Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley
by Emily Chang · 6 Feb 2018 · 334pp · 104,382 words
Picnic Comma Lightning: In Search of a New Reality
by Laurence Scott · 11 Jul 2018 · 244pp · 81,334 words
Rationality: From AI to Zombies
by Eliezer Yudkowsky · 11 Mar 2015 · 1,737pp · 491,616 words
Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East
by Robin Wright · 28 Feb 2008 · 648pp · 165,654 words
Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide
by Henry Jenkins · 31 Jul 2006
Siege: Trump Under Fire
by Michael Wolff · 3 Jun 2019 · 359pp · 113,847 words
Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst: A True Story of Inside Information and Corruption in the Stock Market
by Daniel Reingold and Jennifer Reingold · 1 Jan 2006 · 506pp · 146,607 words
Frenemies: The Epic Disruption of the Ad Business
by Ken Auletta · 4 Jun 2018 · 379pp · 109,223 words
Laziness Does Not Exist
by Devon Price · 5 Jan 2021 · 362pp · 87,462 words
I'm Just a Person
by Tig Notaro · 13 Jun 2016 · 152pp · 53,304 words
Overhaul: An Insider's Account of the Obama Administration's Emergency Rescue of the Auto Industry
by Steven Rattner · 19 Sep 2010 · 394pp · 124,743 words
Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
by Zeke Faux · 11 Sep 2023 · 385pp · 106,848 words
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
by Ronan Farrow · 14 Oct 2019 · 390pp · 115,303 words
Pandora's Box: How Guts, Guile, and Greed Upended TV
by Peter Biskind · 6 Nov 2023 · 543pp · 143,084 words
Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It
by Kashmir Hill · 19 Sep 2023 · 487pp · 124,008 words
You Are Now Less Dumb: How to Conquer Mob Mentality, How to Buy Happiness, and All the Other Ways to Outsmart Yourself
by David McRaney · 29 Jul 2013 · 280pp · 90,531 words
Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation
by Hannah Gadsby · 15 Mar 2022 · 373pp · 132,377 words
Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age
by Vauhini Vara · 8 Apr 2025 · 301pp · 105,209 words
Rockonomics: A Backstage Tour of What the Music Industry Can Teach Us About Economics and Life
by Alan B. Krueger · 3 Jun 2019
Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company
by Patrick McGee · 13 May 2025 · 377pp · 138,306 words
Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
by Ken Jennings · 19 Sep 2011 · 367pp · 99,765 words
Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets That Launched a Second Space Age
by Eric Berger · 23 Sep 2024 · 375pp · 113,230 words
Howard Rheingold
by The Virtual Community Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier-Perseus Books (1993) · 26 Apr 2012
Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the Surveillance State
by Barton Gellman · 20 May 2020 · 562pp · 153,825 words
On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything
by Nate Silver · 12 Aug 2024 · 848pp · 227,015 words
Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents—and What They Mean for America's Future
by Jean M. Twenge · 25 Apr 2023 · 541pp · 173,676 words
The Future Was Now: Madmen, Mavericks, and the Epic Sci-Fi Summer Of 1982
by Chris Nashawaty · 251pp · 86,553 words
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
by Jia Tolentino · 5 Aug 2019 · 305pp · 101,743 words
The Controlled Demolition of the American Empire
by Jeff Berwick and Charlie Robinson · 14 Apr 2020 · 491pp · 141,690 words
Pocket New York City Travel Guide
by Lonely Planet · 27 Sep 2012
Forward: Notes on the Future of Our Democracy
by Andrew Yang · 15 Nov 2021
Kick Me: Adventures in Adolescence
by Paul Feig · 23 Sep 2002
No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
by Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer · 7 Sep 2020 · 317pp · 89,825 words
Unacceptable: Privilege, Deceit & the Making of the College Admissions Scandal
by Melissa Korn and Jennifer Levitz · 20 Jul 2020 · 520pp · 134,627 words
Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose
by Tony Hsieh · 6 Jun 2010 · 222pp · 75,778 words
The Panic Virus: The True Story Behind the Vaccine-Autism Controversy
by Seth Mnookin · 3 Jan 2012 · 566pp · 153,259 words
Crushing It!: How Great Entrepreneurs Build Their Business and Influence—and How You Can, Too
by Gary Vaynerchuk · 30 Jan 2018
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
by Michael Wolff · 5 Jan 2018 · 394pp · 112,770 words
New Market Wizards: Conversations With America's Top Traders
by Jack D. Schwager · 28 Jan 1994 · 512pp · 162,977 words
Ayn Rand Cult
by Jeff Walker · 30 Dec 1998 · 525pp · 146,126 words
The Futurist: The Life and Films of James Cameron
by Rebecca Winters Keegan · 3 Nov 2009 · 250pp · 87,503 words
Comedy Writing Secrets
by Mel Helitzer and Mark Shatz · 14 Sep 2005
All Your Base Are Belong to Us: How Fifty Years of Video Games Conquered Pop Culture
by Harold Goldberg · 5 Apr 2011 · 329pp · 106,831 words
You'll Grow Out of It
by Jessi Klein · 11 Jul 2016 · 219pp · 73,623 words
Everything Is Perfect When You're a Liar
by Kelly Oxford · 20 Aug 2012 · 328pp · 91,474 words
I See You Made an Effort: Compliments, Indignities, and Survival Stories From the Edge of 50
by Annabelle Gurwitch · 6 Mar 2014 · 200pp · 64,050 words
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
by Steven Pinker · 1 Jan 2002 · 901pp · 234,905 words
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
by Steven Pinker · 24 Sep 2012 · 1,351pp · 385,579 words
Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success
by Shane Snow · 8 Sep 2014 · 278pp · 70,416 words
The Tao of Fully Feeling: Harvesting Forgiveness Out of Blame
by Pete Walker · 1 Jan 1995 · 407pp · 112,767 words
Hijacking the Runway: How Celebrities Are Stealing the Spotlight From Fashion Designers
by Teri Agins · 8 Oct 2014 · 357pp · 88,412 words
Red November: Inside the Secret U.S.-Soviet Submarine War
by W. Craig Reed · 3 May 2010 · 523pp · 143,639 words
Frommer's New York City Day by Day
by Hilary Davidson · 6 Jan 2006
Frommer's Irreverent Guide to Las Vegas
by Mary Herczog and Jordan S. Simon · 26 Mar 2004 · 266pp · 78,689 words
On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System
by Henry M. Paulson · 15 Sep 2010 · 468pp · 145,998 words
How the Mind Works
by Steven Pinker · 1 Jan 1997 · 913pp · 265,787 words
Hunting in the Shadows: The Pursuit of Al Qa'ida Since 9/11: The Pursuit of Al Qa'ida Since 9/11
by Seth G. Jones · 29 Apr 2012 · 649pp · 172,080 words
Sleepwalk With Me: And Other Painfully True Stories
by Mike Birbiglia · 11 Oct 2010 · 162pp · 51,978 words
The Airbnb Story: How Three Ordinary Guys Disrupted an Industry, Made Billions...and Created Plenty of Controversy
by Leigh Gallagher · 14 Feb 2017 · 290pp · 87,549 words
The Power of Glamour: Longing and the Art of Visual Persuasion
by Virginia Postrel · 5 Nov 2013 · 347pp · 86,274 words
The Partly Cloudy Patriot
by Sarah Vowell · 26 Aug 2002 · 142pp · 47,993 words
Sleepyhead: Narcolepsy, Neuroscience and the Search for a Good Night
by Henry Nicholls · 1 Mar 2018 · 367pp · 102,188 words
Life of the Party: Stories of a Perpetual Man-Child
by Bert Kreischer · 26 May 2014
Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power
by Steve Coll · 30 Apr 2012 · 944pp · 243,883 words
One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories
by B. J. Novak · 4 Feb 2014
Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear
by Dr. Frank Luntz · 2 Jan 2007
Pure Invention: How Japan's Pop Culture Conquered the World
by Matt Alt · 14 Apr 2020
Breaking Twitter: Elon Musk and the Most Controversial Corporate Takeover in History
by Ben Mezrich · 6 Nov 2023 · 279pp · 85,453 words
Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters: From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima
by James Mahaffey · 15 Feb 2015
Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking
by Mehdi Hasan · 27 Feb 2023 · 307pp · 93,073 words
The War Came to Us: Life and Death in Ukraine
by Christopher Miller · 17 Jul 2023 · 469pp · 149,526 words
Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube's Chaotic Rise to World Domination
by Mark Bergen · 5 Sep 2022 · 642pp · 141,888 words
Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth
by Elizabeth Williamson · 8 Mar 2022 · 574pp · 148,233 words
Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting
by Syd Field · 17 Dec 2007 · 355pp · 108,420 words
Rocket Dreams: Musk, Bezos and the Trillion-Dollar Space Race
by Christian Davenport · 6 Sep 2025 · 441pp · 127,950 words
The Warhol Economy
by Elizabeth Currid-Halkett · 15 Jan 2020 · 320pp · 90,115 words
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