16 must-read audiobook books like The Future Is Analog: How to Create a More Human World by David Sax

Cover of The Future Is Analog: How to Create a More Human World by David Sax

The Future Is Analog: How to Create a More Human World

By: David Sax

3.45

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling culture writer David Sax lays out the case against a false digital utopia—and for a mor…

If you liked the audiobook plot in The Future Is Analog: How to Create a More Human World by David Sax , here is a list of 16 books like this:

Cover of Why We Make Things and Why It Matters: The Education of a Craftsman by Peter Korn

1. Why We Make Things and Why It Matters: The Education of a Craftsman

By: Peter Korn

3.54

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

In this moving account, we follow Korn's search for meaning as an Ivy-educated child of the middle … read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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2. No Name in the Street

By: James Baldwin

4.00

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

This stunningly personal document and extraordinary history of the turbulent sixties and early seve… read more

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  • nonfiction

3. A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years

By: Diarmaid MacCulloch

3.89

Format: None pages,

The author of The Reformationreturns with the definitive history of Christianity for our time. Once… read more

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4. Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins

By: Garry Kasparov , None

4.00

Format: 258 pages, Audio CD

Garry Kasparov's 1997 chess match against the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue was a watershed moment in… read more

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Cover of The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution by Greg Lukianoff

5. The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution

By: Greg Lukianoff

3.93

Format: 432 pages, ebook

A timely deep dive into cancel culture, an account of its dangers to all Americans, and the much-ne… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"Mistakes abound when groupthink goes unchallenged."

-Greg Lukianoff, The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution

"There is nothing about standing up for an underdog (or simply claiming to be) that means you're right."

-Greg Lukianoff, The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution

Cover of Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control by Stuart Russell

6. Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control

By: Stuart Russell

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A leading artificial intelligence researcher lays out a new approach to AI that will enable us to c… read more

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  • audiobook
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • technology
"To get just an inkling of the fire we're playing with, consider how content-selection algorithms function on social media. They aren't particularly intelligent, but they are in a position to affect t…"

-Stuart Russell, Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control

Cover of Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newport

7. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

By: Cal Newport

3.73

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality. From the New York Times bestsellin… read more

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  • audiobook
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • self help
"What are we really doing here?"

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"Wouldn’t it be nice to have a job like that where you didn’t have to worry about being productive?"

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"The world of cognitive work lacks coherent ideas about how our efforts should be organized and measured."

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"The pandemic didn’t introduce this trend so much as push its worst excesses beyond the threshold of tolerability."

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

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8. The Song of Significance: A New Manifesto for Teams

By: Seth Godin

3.85

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A soulful re-envisioning of what work and leadership can be, from the visionary mind of renowned au… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of Overdue: Reckoning with the Public Library by Amanda  Oliver

9. Overdue: Reckoning with the Public Library

By: Amanda Oliver

3.25

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

Who are libraries for, how have they evolved, and why do they fill so many roles in our society tod… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt

10. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

By: Jonathan Haidt

4.46

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

Cover of Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing) by Salman Khan

11. Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing)

By: Salman Khan

3.74

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the founder of Khan Academy, the first book written for general audiences on the AI revolution… read more

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  • audiobook
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • technology
Cover of Million Dollar Weekend: The Surprisingly Simple Way to Launch a 7-Figure Business in 48 Hours by Noah Kagan

12. Million Dollar Weekend: The Surprisingly Simple Way to Launch a 7-Figure Business in 48 Hours

By: Noah Kagan

4.20

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The founder and CEO of AppSumo.com, Noah Kagan, knows how to launch a seven-figure business in a si… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chayka

13. 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
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of Right Thing, Right Now: Justice in an Unjust World by Ryan Holiday

14. Right Thing, Right Now: Justice in an Unjust World

By: Ryan Holiday

4.21

Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition

In his New York Times bestselling book, Discipline Is Destiny, Ryan Holiday made the Stoic case for… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • self help
  • audiobook
Cover of Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI by Madhumita Murgia

15. Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI

By: Madhumita Murgia

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A riveting story of what it means to be human in a world changed by artificial intelligence, reveal… read more

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  • technology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires by Douglas Rushkoff

16. Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires

By: Douglas Rushkoff

3.86

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The tech elite have a plan to survive the apocalypse: they want to leave us all behind. Five mys… read more

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  • audiobook
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • business
  • technology
"Their extreme wealth and privilege served only to make them obsessed with insulating themselves from the very real and present danger of climate change, rising sea levels, mass migration, global pand…"

-Douglas Rushkoff, Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires

Cover of Wonder Boy: Tony Hsieh, Zappos, and the Myth of Happiness in Silicon Valley by Angel Au-Yeung

17. Wonder Boy: Tony Hsieh, Zappos, and the Myth of Happiness in Silicon Valley

By: Angel Au-Yeung

4.11

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Wonder Boy is a riveting investigation into the turbulent life of Zappos visionary Tony Hsieh, whos… read more

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  • technology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of Modern Friendship: How to Nurture Our Most Valued Connections by Anna Goldfarb

18. Modern Friendship: How to Nurture Our Most Valued Connections

By: Anna Goldfarb

4.01

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the “New York Times friendship correspondent,” a definitive step-by-step guide to understandin… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Future Is Analog: How to Create a More Human World by David Sax

19. The Future Is Analog: How to Create a More Human World

By: David Sax

3.45

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling culture writer David Sax lays out the case against a false digital utopia—and for a mor… read more

Similar categories in David Sax's The Future Is Analog: How to Create a More Human World book and David Sax's The Future Is Analog: How to Create a More Human World

  • audiobook
  • self help
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • business
  • technology
Cover of I, Human: AI, Automation, and the Quest to Reclaim What Makes Us Unique by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic

20. I, Human: AI, Automation, and the Quest to Reclaim What Makes Us Unique

By: Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic

3.51

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Will artificial intelligence improve the way we work and live, or will it alienate us? The choice i… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • technology
Cover of The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family by Jesselyn Cook

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

By: Jesselyn Cook

4.45

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The riveting story of five families shattered by pernicious, pervasive conspiracy theories, and how… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook

9 must-read philosophy books like The Future Is Analog: How to Create a More Human World by David Sax

Transform Your Habits

Why We Make Things and Why It Matters: The Education of a Craftsman

Peter Korn

3.54

Transform Your Habits

The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution

Greg Lukianoff

3.93

Transform Your Habits

Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control

Stuart Russell

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

Cal Newport

3.73

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16 Best audiobook books like Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing) by Salman Khan

Transform Your Habits

Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

Kara Swisher

3.99

Transform Your Habits

How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

David Brooks

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

Charles Duhigg

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

Cal Newport

3.73

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