18 must-read nonfiction books like More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech by Meredith Broussard

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More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech

By: Meredith Broussard

4.14

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

When technology reinforces inequality, it’s not just a glitch—it’s a signal that we need to redesig…

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1. Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

By: Cathy O'Neil

3.97

Format: 250 pages, Hardcover

A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on mathematical modeling--a pervasive new force in socie… read more

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  • technology
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • science
Cover of Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters by Brian Klaas

2. Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters

By: Brian Klaas

4.13

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

Want to know what chaos theory can teach us about human events? In the perspective-altering traditi… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • science
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3. Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement

By: Ashley Shew

4.30

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A manifesto exploding what we think we know about disability, and arguing that disabled people are … read more

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  • technology
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • science
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4. Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea's Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women's Rights Worldwide

By: Hawon Jung

4.35

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An eye-opening firsthand account of the ongoing and trailblazing feminist movement in South Korea—o… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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5. The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma

By: Mustafa Suleyman

3.86

Format: 332 pages, Hardcover

A warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global … read more

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  • science
  • politics
  • artificial intelligence
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • business
  • technology
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6. The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI

By: Fei-Fei Li

4.39

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The moving memoir of a scientist coming of age as an immigrant in America who finds her calling at … read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • artificial intelligence
  • technology
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7. Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World--And How You Can, Too

By: Ijeoma Oluo

4.46

Format: 256 pages, ebook

From the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of So You Want to Talk About Race and Mediocre, an ey… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • race
  • nonfiction
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8. Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture

By: Kyle Chayka

3.68

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

A history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture it… read more

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  • technology
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • science
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9. Alexandra Petri's US History: Important American Documents (I Made Up)

By: Alexandra Petri

3.67

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

A witty, absurdist satire of the last 500 years, Alexandra Petri’s US History is the fake textbook … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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10. Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law

By: Haben Girma

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Audiobook

Born with deaf-blindness, Girma grew up with enough vision to know when someone was in front of her… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Communities designed with just one kind of person in mind isolate those of us defying our narrow definition of personhood."

-Haben Girma, Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law

"Sighted or blind, Deaf or hearing, each of us holds just the tiniest fraction of the world's wisdom. Admitting we don't know everything will aid us on this Trek for Knowledge."

-Haben Girma, Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law

"It's a sighted, hearing classroom, in a sighted, hearing school, in a sighted, hearing society. They designed this environment for people who can see and hear. In this environment, I'm disabled. They…"

-Haben Girma, Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law

"Here at LCB, I'm surrounded by people who understand that blindness is just limited eyesight. With the right tools and training, blind people can compete as equals with sighted peers. Places like LCB…"

-Haben Girma, Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law

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11. More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech

By: Meredith Broussard

4.14

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

When technology reinforces inequality, it’s not just a glitch—it’s a signal that we need to redesig… read more

Similar categories in Meredith Broussard's More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech book and Meredith Broussard's More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech

  • science
  • race
  • feminism
  • politics
  • artificial intelligence
  • nonfiction
  • education
  • sociology
  • business
  • technology
Cover of Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code by Ruha Benjamin

12. Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code

By: Ruha Benjamin

4.27

Format: 172 pages, ebook

From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understa… read more

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  • science
  • race
  • politics
  • artificial intelligence
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • technology
"Racism is, let us not forget, a means to reconcile contradictions. Only a society that extolled “liberty for all"

-Ruha Benjamin, Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code

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13. Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines

By: Joy Buolamwini

4.18

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

“The conscience of the AI revolution” (Fortune) explains how we’ve arrived at an era of AI harms an… read more

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  • science
  • politics
  • artificial intelligence
  • nonfiction
  • education
  • technology
Cover of Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Umoja Noble

14. Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

By: Safiya Umoja Noble

3.89

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Run a Google search for "black girls" - what will you find? "Big Booty" and other sexually explicit… read more

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  • science
  • race
  • feminism
  • politics
  • artificial intelligence
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • technology
"This monopoly of information is a threat to democracy..."

-Safiya Umoja Noble, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

"If Google isn’t responsible for its algorithm, then who is?"

-Safiya Umoja Noble, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

"Google creates advertising algorithms, not information algorithms."

-Safiya Umoja Noble, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

"Where men shape technology, they shape it to the exclusion of women, especially Black women."

-Safiya Umoja Noble, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

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15. The Z Word

By: Lindsay King-Miller

3.48

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

“Sexy, scathing, delightful, and intimately devastating.”—Gretchen Felker-Martin, author of Manhunt… read more

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16. I Felt the End Before It Came: Memoirs of a Queer Ex-Jehovah's Witness

By: Daniel Allen Cox

3.57

Format: 230 pages, Hardcover

*LONGLISTED FOR THE GRAND PRIX DU LIVRE DE MONTREAL* “I spent eighteen years in a group that taugh… read more

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  • nonfiction
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17. Data Feminism

By: Catherine D’Ignazio

4.35

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

A new way of thinking about data science and data ethics that is informed by the ideas of intersect… read more

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  • science
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • technology
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18. The Faculty Lounge

By: Jennifer Mathieu

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

By the acclaimed author of Moxie, a funny, bighearted adult debut that is at once an ode to educato… read more

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  • education
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19. Where Black Stars Rise

By: Nadia Shammas

3.55

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Nadia Shammas and Marie Enger's Where Black Stars Rise is an eldritch horror graphic novel that exp… read more

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20. All the Worst Humans: How I Made News for Dictators, Tycoons, and Politicians

By: Phil Elwood

4.01

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A bridge-burning, riotous memoir by a top PR operative in Washington who exposes the secrets of the… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • business
Cover of Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves by Nicola Twilley

21. Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves

By: Nicola Twilley

4.26

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An engaging and far-reaching exploration of refrigeration, tracing its evolution from scientific my… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • technology

14 Top politics books like More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech by Meredith Broussard

Transform Your Habits

Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

Cathy O'Neil

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters

Brian Klaas

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement

Ashley Shew

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea's Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women's Rights Worldwide

Hawon Jung

4.35

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21 Top audiobook books like Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chayka

Transform Your Habits

Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

Kara Swisher

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters

Brian Klaas

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

Charles Duhigg

4.05

Transform Your Habits

All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess

Becca Rothfeld

3.76

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