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The Gang That Wouldn't Write Straight: Wolfe, Thompson, Didion, Capote, and the New Journalism Revolution

by Marc Weingarten  · 12 Dec 2006  · 363pp  · 123,076 words

Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty

by Peter Singer  · 3 Mar 2009  · 190pp  · 61,970 words

Trillions: How a Band of Wall Street Renegades Invented the Index Fund and Changed Finance Forever

by Robin Wigglesworth  · 11 Oct 2021  · 432pp  · 106,612 words

Creatures of a Day: And Other Tales of Psychotherapy

by Irvin D. Yalom  · 24 Feb 2015

The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age

by Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha and Chris Yeh  · 15 Jan 2014  · 102pp  · 29,596 words

The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts

by Joshua Hammer  · 18 Apr 2016  · 297pp  · 83,563 words

What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves

by Benjamin K. Bergen  · 12 Sep 2016  · 364pp  · 102,926 words

The Wichita Lineman: Searching in the Sun for the World's Greatest Unfinished Song

by Dylan Jones  · 29 Jul 2019  · 197pp  · 67,764 words

The Future Was Now: Madmen, Mavericks, and the Epic Sci-Fi Summer Of 1982

by Chris Nashawaty  · 251pp  · 86,553 words

More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite

by Sebastian Mallaby  · 9 Jun 2010  · 584pp  · 187,436 words

WEconomy: You Can Find Meaning, Make a Living, and Change the World

by Craig Kielburger, Holly Branson, Marc Kielburger, Sir Richard Branson and Sheryl Sandberg  · 7 Mar 2018  · 335pp  · 96,002 words

Chicago Like a Local

by DK  · 167pp  · 33,334 words

The Last Girlfriend on Earth: And Other Love Stories

by Simon Rich  · 22 Jan 2013  · 158pp  · 35,552 words

The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World

by Pedro Domingos  · 21 Sep 2015  · 396pp  · 117,149 words

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)

by Mindy Kaling  · 1 Nov 2011

Happy-Go-Lucky

by David Sedaris  · 30 May 2022  · 206pp  · 64,212 words

Millionaire Teacher: The Nine Rules of Wealth You Should Have Learned in School

by Andrew Hallam  · 1 Nov 2011  · 274pp  · 60,596 words

A First-Class Catastrophe: The Road to Black Monday, the Worst Day in Wall Street History

by Diana B. Henriques  · 18 Sep 2017  · 526pp  · 144,019 words

Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble

by Dan Lyons  · 4 Apr 2016  · 284pp  · 92,688 words

Bit Literacy: Productivity in the Age of Information and E-mail Overload

by Mark Hurst  · 15 Jun 2007  · 153pp  · 52,175 words

Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs

by Kerry Howley  · 21 Mar 2023

1989 The Berlin Wall: My Part in Its Downfall

by Peter Millar  · 1 Oct 2009  · 220pp  · 88,994 words

Netflixed: The Epic Battle for America's Eyeballs

by Gina Keating  · 10 Oct 2012  · 347pp  · 91,318 words

The Burning Land

by George Alagiah  · 28 Aug 2019  · 299pp  · 87,059 words

Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution

by Fred Vogelstein  · 12 Nov 2013  · 275pp  · 84,418 words

The Heart of Business: Leadership Principles for the Next Era of Capitalism

by Hubert Joly  · 14 Jun 2021  · 265pp  · 75,202 words

Navel Gazing: True Tales of Bodies, Mostly Mine (But Also My Mom's, Which I Know Sounds Weird)

by Michael Ian Black  · 5 Jan 2016  · 171pp  · 57,379 words

The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story

by Michael Lewis  · 29 Sep 1999  · 146pp  · 43,446 words

The Industries of the Future

by Alec Ross  · 2 Feb 2016  · 364pp  · 99,897 words

Data-Ism: The Revolution Transforming Decision Making, Consumer Behavior, and Almost Everything Else

by Steve Lohr  · 10 Mar 2015  · 239pp  · 70,206 words

Everything Is Obvious: *Once You Know the Answer

by Duncan J. Watts  · 28 Mar 2011  · 327pp  · 103,336 words

Very Bad People: The Inside Story of the Fight Against the World’s Network of Corruption

by Patrick Alley  · 17 Mar 2022  · 384pp  · 121,574 words

IRL: Finding Realness, Meaning, and Belonging in Our Digital Lives

by Chris Stedman  · 19 Oct 2020  · 307pp  · 101,998 words

What Would Google Do?

by Jeff Jarvis  · 15 Feb 2009  · 299pp  · 91,839 words

The Case Against Sugar

by Gary Taubes  · 27 Dec 2016  · 406pp  · 115,719 words

Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

by David Epstein  · 1 Mar 2019  · 406pp  · 109,794 words

Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars: The Story of the First American Woman to Command a Space Mission

by Eileen M. Collins and Jonathan H. Ward  · 13 Sep 2021  · 394pp  · 107,778 words

Long Game: How Long-Term Thinker Shorthb

by Dorie Clark  · 14 Oct 2021  · 201pp  · 60,431 words

The Actual One: How I Tried, and Failed, to Remain Twenty-Something for Ever

by Isy Suttie  · 28 Jan 2016  · 213pp  · 73,492 words

The Man Who Was Saturday

by Patrick Bishop  · 21 Jan 2019  · 351pp  · 108,068 words

We're Going to Need More Wine: Stories That Are Funny, Complicated, and True

by Gabrielle Union  · 16 Oct 2017  · 235pp  · 74,200 words

Don't Burn This Book: Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason

by Dave Rubin  · 27 Apr 2020  · 239pp  · 62,005 words

E=mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation

by David Bodanis  · 25 May 2009  · 349pp  · 27,507 words

Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman  · 24 Oct 2011  · 654pp  · 191,864 words

Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes

by Maria Konnikova  · 3 Jan 2013  · 317pp  · 97,824 words

Gray Lady Down: What the Decline and Fall of the New York Times Means for America

by William McGowan  · 16 Nov 2010  · 316pp  · 91,969 words

Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick

by Maya Dusenbery  · 6 Mar 2018  · 504pp  · 147,722 words

The Ethical Algorithm: The Science of Socially Aware Algorithm Design

by Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth  · 3 Oct 2019

Raising Cubby: A Father and Son's Adventures With Asperger's, Trains, Tractors, and High Explosives

by John Elder Robison  · 12 Mar 2013  · 342pp  · 115,769 words

Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong

by Louisa Lim  · 19 Apr 2022

The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion

by John Hagel Iii and John Seely Brown  · 12 Apr 2010  · 319pp  · 89,477 words

Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose

by Tony Hsieh  · 6 Jun 2010  · 222pp  · 75,778 words

The Thank You Economy

by Gary Vaynerchuk  · 1 Jan 2010  · 197pp  · 59,946 words

Life of the Party: Stories of a Perpetual Man-Child

by Bert Kreischer  · 26 May 2014

Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics

by Richard H. Thaler  · 10 May 2015  · 500pp  · 145,005 words

Model Thinker: What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You

by Scott E. Page  · 27 Nov 2018  · 543pp  · 153,550 words

Collaborative Society

by Dariusz Jemielniak and Aleksandra Przegalinska  · 18 Feb 2020  · 187pp  · 50,083 words

The Accidental Investment Banker: Inside the Decade That Transformed Wall Street

by Jonathan A. Knee  · 31 Jul 2006  · 362pp  · 108,359 words

Permanent Record

by Edward Snowden  · 16 Sep 2019  · 324pp  · 106,699 words

Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots

by John Markoff  · 24 Aug 2015  · 413pp  · 119,587 words

Future Perfect: The Case for Progress in a Networked Age

by Steven Johnson  · 14 Jul 2012  · 184pp  · 53,625 words

What's Yours Is Mine: Against the Sharing Economy

by Tom Slee  · 18 Nov 2015  · 265pp  · 69,310 words

Bibi: The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin Netanyahu

by Anshel Pfeffer  · 30 Apr 2018  · 530pp  · 154,505 words

Cybersecurity: What Everyone Needs to Know

by P. W. Singer and Allan Friedman  · 3 Jan 2014  · 587pp  · 117,894 words

Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists

by Julia Ebner  · 20 Feb 2020  · 309pp  · 79,414 words

Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About the Future of Transportation

by Paris Marx  · 4 Jul 2022  · 295pp  · 81,861 words

New Laws of Robotics: Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AI

by Frank Pasquale  · 14 May 2020  · 1,172pp  · 114,305 words

Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero

by Tyler Cowen  · 8 Apr 2019  · 297pp  · 84,009 words

Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language

by Adam Aleksic  · 15 Jul 2025  · 278pp  · 71,701 words

My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance

by Emanuel Derman  · 1 Jan 2004  · 313pp  · 101,403 words

Chasing the Devil: On Foot Through Africa's Killing Fields

by Tim Butcher  · 1 Apr 2011  · 347pp  · 115,173 words

Green Tyranny: Exposing the Totalitarian Roots of the Climate Industrial Complex

by Rupert Darwall  · 2 Oct 2017  · 451pp  · 115,720 words

Dilbert 2.0: The Boom Years

by Scott Adams  · 18 Jul 2012

The Asylum: The Renegades Who Hijacked the World's Oil Market

by Leah McGrath Goodman  · 15 Feb 2011  · 553pp  · 168,111 words

The Education of a Value Investor: My Transformative Quest for Wealth, Wisdom, and Enlightenment

by Guy Spier  · 8 Sep 2014  · 240pp  · 73,209 words

Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries

by Safi Bahcall  · 19 Mar 2019  · 393pp  · 115,217 words

Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

by Amanda Montell  · 27 May 2019  · 212pp  · 68,649 words

Digging Up Mother: A Love Story

by Doug Stanhope  · 9 May 2016  · 323pp  · 111,561 words

The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation

by Cathy O'Neil  · 15 Mar 2022  · 318pp  · 73,713 words

The Ones We've Been Waiting For: How a New Generation of Leaders Will Transform America

by Charlotte Alter  · 18 Feb 2020  · 504pp  · 129,087 words

Commodore: A Company on the Edge

by Brian Bagnall  · 13 Sep 2005  · 781pp  · 226,928 words

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

by James Gleick  · 1 Mar 2011  · 855pp  · 178,507 words

Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future

by Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson  · 26 Jun 2017  · 472pp  · 117,093 words

The Inner Lives of Markets: How People Shape Them—And They Shape Us

by Tim Sullivan  · 6 Jun 2016  · 252pp  · 73,131 words

The New Nomads: How the Migration Revolution Is Making the World a Better Place

by Felix Marquardt  · 7 Jul 2021  · 250pp  · 75,151 words

Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks

by Scott J. Shapiro  · 523pp  · 154,042 words

Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers

by Michael Schrenk  · 19 Aug 2009  · 371pp  · 78,103 words

Peers, Pirates, and Persuasion: Rhetoric in the Peer-To-Peer Debates

by John Logie  · 29 Dec 2006  · 173pp  · 14,313 words

The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom

by Evgeny Morozov  · 16 Nov 2010  · 538pp  · 141,822 words

The Facebook era: tapping online social networks to build better products, reach new audiences, and sell more stuff

by Clara Shih  · 30 Apr 2009  · 255pp  · 76,495 words

Nine Crises: Fifty Years of Covering the British Economy From Devaluation to Brexit

by William Keegan  · 24 Jan 2019  · 309pp  · 85,584 words

How to Fail: Everything I’ve Ever Learned From Things Going Wrong

by Elizabeth Day  · 3 Apr 2019  · 284pp  · 95,029 words

I You We Them

by Dan Gretton

Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future

by Joi Ito and Jeff Howe  · 6 Dec 2016  · 254pp  · 76,064 words

Lurking: How a Person Became a User

by Joanne McNeil  · 25 Feb 2020  · 239pp  · 80,319 words

Reamde

by Neal Stephenson  · 19 Sep 2011  · 1,318pp  · 403,894 words

Buy Now, Pay Later: The Extraordinary Story of Afterpay

by Jonathan Shapiro and James Eyers  · 2 Aug 2021  · 444pp  · 124,631 words

Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism

by Jeffrey Toobin  · 1 May 2023  · 357pp  · 130,117 words

Ready Player One

by Ernest Cline  · 15 Feb 2011  · 458pp  · 137,960 words

Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style

by Benjamin Dreyer  · 15 Jan 2019  · 297pp  · 69,467 words

Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

by Cal Newport  · 5 Feb 2019  · 279pp  · 71,542 words

The Fissured Workplace

by David Weil  · 17 Feb 2014  · 518pp  · 147,036 words

The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography

by Stephen Fry  · 27 Sep 2010  · 487pp  · 132,252 words

Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society

by Eric Posner and E. Weyl  · 14 May 2018  · 463pp  · 105,197 words

Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War

by James Risen  · 15 Feb 2014  · 339pp  · 99,674 words

Please Report Your Bug Here: A Novel

by Josh Riedel  · 17 Jan 2023  · 287pp  · 85,518 words

Rockonomics: A Backstage Tour of What the Music Industry Can Teach Us About Economics and Life

by Alan B. Krueger  · 3 Jun 2019

Money in the Metaverse: Digital Assets, Online Identities, Spatial Computing and Why Virtual Worlds Mean Real Business

by David G. W. Birch and Victoria Richardson  · 28 Apr 2024  · 249pp  · 74,201 words

Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution

by Howard Rheingold  · 24 Dec 2011

The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age

by Astra Taylor  · 4 Mar 2014  · 283pp  · 85,824 words

Other Pandemic: How QAnon Contaminated the World

by James Ball  · 19 Jul 2023  · 317pp  · 87,048 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

Terms of Service: Social Media and the Price of Constant Connection

by Jacob Silverman  · 17 Mar 2015  · 527pp  · 147,690 words

Curation Nation

by Rosenbaum, Steven  · 27 Jan 2011  · 286pp  · 82,065 words

The Trouble With Billionaires

by Linda McQuaig  · 1 May 2013  · 261pp  · 81,802 words

The Dark Net

by Jamie Bartlett  · 20 Aug 2014  · 267pp  · 82,580 words

Aerotropolis

by John D. Kasarda and Greg Lindsay  · 2 Jan 2009  · 603pp  · 182,781 words

European Founders at Work

by Pedro Gairifo Santos  · 7 Nov 2011  · 353pp  · 104,146 words

Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies

by Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh  · 14 Apr 2018  · 286pp  · 87,401 words

The Internet Is Not the Answer

by Andrew Keen  · 5 Jan 2015  · 361pp  · 81,068 words

An Optimist's Tour of the Future

by Mark Stevenson  · 4 Dec 2010  · 379pp  · 108,129 words

The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America

by Margaret O'Mara  · 8 Jul 2019

Open Standards and the Digital Age: History, Ideology, and Networks (Cambridge Studies in the Emergence of Global Enterprise)

by Andrew L. Russell  · 27 Apr 2014  · 675pp  · 141,667 words

Emotional Ignorance: Lost and Found in the Science of Emotion

by Dean Burnett  · 10 Jan 2023  · 536pp  · 126,051 words

How Money Became Dangerous

by Christopher Varelas  · 15 Oct 2019  · 477pp  · 144,329 words

Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age

by Vauhini Vara  · 8 Apr 2025  · 301pp  · 105,209 words

The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family

by Jesselyn Cook  · 22 Jul 2024  · 321pp  · 95,778 words

JPod

by Douglas Coupland  · 30 Apr 2007  · 487pp  · 95,085 words

Private Island: Why Britain Now Belongs to Someone Else

by James Meek  · 18 Aug 2014  · 232pp  · 77,956 words

Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History

by Kurt Andersen  · 14 Sep 2020  · 486pp  · 150,849 words

Computer: A History of the Information Machine

by Martin Campbell-Kelly and Nathan Ensmenger  · 29 Jul 2013  · 528pp  · 146,459 words

You'll Grow Out of It

by Jessi Klein  · 11 Jul 2016  · 219pp  · 73,623 words

Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy

by Jonathan Taplin  · 17 Apr 2017  · 222pp  · 70,132 words

Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City

by Brad Feld  · 8 Oct 2012  · 169pp  · 56,250 words

What's Mine Is Yours: How Collaborative Consumption Is Changing the Way We Live

by Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers  · 2 Jan 2010  · 411pp  · 80,925 words

Reinventing the Bazaar: A Natural History of Markets

by John McMillan  · 1 Jan 2002  · 350pp  · 103,988 words

Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon

by Kim Zetter  · 11 Nov 2014  · 492pp  · 153,565 words

Kitten Clone: Inside Alcatel-Lucent

by Douglas Coupland  · 29 Sep 2014  · 124pp  · 36,360 words

Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History

by Kurt Andersen  · 4 Sep 2017  · 522pp  · 162,310 words

Eat People: And Other Unapologetic Rules for Game-Changing Entrepreneurs

by Andy Kessler  · 1 Feb 2011  · 272pp  · 64,626 words

Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World

by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler  · 3 Feb 2015  · 368pp  · 96,825 words

Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy--And How to Make Them Work for You

by Sangeet Paul Choudary, Marshall W. van Alstyne and Geoffrey G. Parker  · 27 Mar 2016  · 421pp  · 110,406 words

Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

by Ashlee Vance  · 18 May 2015  · 370pp  · 129,096 words

This Will Make You Smarter: 150 New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking

by John Brockman  · 14 Feb 2012  · 416pp  · 106,582 words

Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks

by Keith Houston  · 23 Sep 2013

Fantasyland

by Kurt Andersen  · 5 Sep 2017

Restarting the Future: How to Fix the Intangible Economy

by Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake  · 4 Apr 2022  · 338pp  · 85,566 words

Failed State: The Sunday Times Bestselling Investigation Into Why Britain Is Struggling

by Sam Freedman  · 10 Jul 2024  · 368pp  · 101,133 words

The Future of the Internet: And How to Stop It

by Jonathan Zittrain  · 27 May 2009  · 629pp  · 142,393 words

Amazon: How the World’s Most Relentless Retailer Will Continue to Revolutionize Commerce

by Natalie Berg and Miya Knights  · 28 Jan 2019  · 404pp  · 95,163 words

The System: Who Owns the Internet, and How It Owns Us

by James Ball  · 19 Aug 2020  · 268pp  · 76,702 words

Most Likely to Succeed: Preparing Our Kids for the Innovation Era

by Tony Wagner and Ted Dintersmith  · 17 Aug 2015  · 353pp  · 91,520 words

Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?

by Thomas Frank  · 15 Mar 2016  · 316pp  · 87,486 words

The Invisible Web: Uncovering Information Sources Search Engines Can't See

by Gary Price, Chris Sherman and Danny Sullivan  · 2 Jan 2003  · 481pp  · 121,669 words

Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable and What We Can Do About It

by Marc Goodman  · 24 Feb 2015  · 677pp  · 206,548 words

When to Rob a Bank: ...And 131 More Warped Suggestions and Well-Intended Rants

by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner  · 4 May 2015  · 306pp  · 85,836 words

The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom

by Yochai Benkler  · 14 May 2006  · 678pp  · 216,204 words

First Time Ever: A Memoir

by Peggy Seeger  · 2 Oct 2017

Democracy for Sale: Dark Money and Dirty Politics

by Peter Geoghegan  · 2 Jan 2020  · 388pp  · 111,099 words

Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better

by Clive Thompson  · 11 Sep 2013  · 397pp  · 110,130 words

Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers

by Andy Greenberg  · 5 Nov 2019  · 363pp  · 105,039 words

Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World

by Joseph Menn  · 3 Jun 2019  · 302pp  · 85,877 words

The Rough Guide to New York City

by Rough Guides  · 21 May 2018

The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World

by Adrian Wooldridge  · 2 Jun 2021  · 693pp  · 169,849 words

Bleeding Edge: A Novel

by Thomas Pynchon  · 16 Sep 2013  · 532pp  · 141,574 words

Poking a Dead Frog: Conversations With Today's Top Comedy Writers

by Mike Sacks  · 23 Jun 2014

The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload

by Daniel J. Levitin  · 18 Aug 2014  · 685pp  · 203,949 words

Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World

by Timothy Garton Ash  · 23 May 2016  · 743pp  · 201,651 words

Everything for Everyone: The Radical Tradition That Is Shaping the Next Economy

by Nathan Schneider  · 10 Sep 2018  · 326pp  · 91,559 words

Ctrl Alt Delete: Reboot Your Business. Reboot Your Life. Your Future Depends on It.

by Mitch Joel  · 20 May 2013  · 260pp  · 76,223 words

The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man

by Luke Harding  · 7 Feb 2014  · 266pp  · 80,018 words

To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism

by Evgeny Morozov  · 15 Nov 2013  · 606pp  · 157,120 words

The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

by Walter Isaacson  · 6 Oct 2014  · 720pp  · 197,129 words

Culture & Empire: Digital Revolution

by Pieter Hintjens  · 11 Mar 2013  · 349pp  · 114,038 words

Content Provider: Selected Short Prose Pieces, 2011–2016

by Stewart Lee  · 1 Aug 2016  · 282pp  · 89,266 words

Tomorrow's Lawyers: An Introduction to Your Future

by Richard Susskind  · 10 Jan 2013  · 160pp  · 45,516 words

I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution

by Craig Marks and Rob Tannenbaum  · 19 Sep 2011  · 821pp  · 227,742 words

Lonely Planet Turkey

by Lonely Planet  · 1,236pp  · 320,184 words

The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture

by Brian Dear  · 14 Jun 2017  · 708pp  · 223,211 words

Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture

by Kyle Chayka  · 15 Jan 2024  · 321pp  · 105,480 words

The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich

by Timothy Ferriss  · 1 Jan 2007  · 426pp  · 105,423 words

Digital Bank: Strategies for Launching or Becoming a Digital Bank

by Chris Skinner  · 27 Aug 2013  · 329pp  · 95,309 words

Only Americans Burn in Hell

by Jarett Kobek  · 10 Apr 2019  · 338pp  · 74,302 words

Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?: The Net's Impact on Our Minds and Future

by John Brockman  · 18 Jan 2011  · 379pp  · 109,612 words

This Is Not Fame: A "From What I Re-Memoir"

by Doug Stanhope  · 5 Dec 2017  · 323pp  · 100,923 words

The Blockchain Alternative: Rethinking Macroeconomic Policy and Economic Theory

by Kariappa Bheemaiah  · 26 Feb 2017  · 492pp  · 118,882 words

Industry 4.0: The Industrial Internet of Things

by Alasdair Gilchrist  · 27 Jun 2016

Liars and Outliers: How Security Holds Society Together

by Bruce Schneier  · 14 Feb 2012  · 503pp  · 131,064 words

Red-Blooded Risk: The Secret History of Wall Street

by Aaron Brown and Eric Kim  · 10 Oct 2011  · 483pp  · 141,836 words

Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom

by Rebecca MacKinnon  · 31 Jan 2012  · 390pp  · 96,624 words

Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars From 4Chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right

by Angela Nagle  · 6 Jun 2017  · 122pp  · 38,022 words

Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World

by Bruce Schneier  · 2 Mar 2015  · 598pp  · 134,339 words

The Platinum Age of Television: From I Love Lucy to the Walking Dead, How TV Became Terrific

by David Bianculli  · 15 Nov 2016  · 676pp  · 203,386 words

Messing With the Enemy: Surviving in a Social Media World of Hackers, Terrorists, Russians, and Fake News

by Clint Watts  · 28 May 2018  · 324pp  · 96,491 words

Likewar: The Weaponization of Social Media

by Peter Warren Singer and Emerson T. Brooking  · 15 Mar 2018

The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We've Lost in a World of Constant Connection

by Michael Harris  · 6 Aug 2014  · 259pp  · 73,193 words

Never Bet Against Occam: Mast Cell Activation Disease and the Modern Epidemics of Chronic Illness and Medical Complexity

by Lawrence B. Afrin M. D., Kendra Neilsen Myles and Kristi Posival  · 15 Jan 2016

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

Bit Rot

by Douglas Coupland  · 4 Oct 2016

And Here's the Kicker: Conversations with 21 Top Humor Writers on Their Craft

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