5 Top technology books like Tech Panic: Why We Shouldn't Fear Facebook and the Future by Robby Soave

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Tech Panic: Why We Shouldn't Fear Facebook and the Future

By: Robby Soave

3.84

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning journalist and author of the “methodical, earnest, and insightful” ( The Guardia…

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1. Ready Player Two (Ready Player One, #2)

By: Ernest Cline

3.43

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

An unexpected quest. Two worlds at stake. Are you ready? Days after winning Oasis founder James … read more

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"I don't know exactly what happened next, or how it all went down."

-Ernest Cline, Ready Player Two (Ready Player One, #2)

"I sincerely apologize for copying your wife without her knowledge or permission."

-Ernest Cline, Ready Player Two (Ready Player One, #2)

"To quote Sarah Connor: ‘You’re all dead already.’ You, your friends, your customers—all of you. You poisoned your own planet, destroyed its climate, defiled its ecosystem, and killed off all of its b…"

-Ernest Cline, Ready Player Two (Ready Player One, #2)

"But all I had to show for my efforts was an impressive familiarity with obscure Sailor Moon trivia and an inexplicable desire to cosplay as Tuxedo Mask (which I may or may not have acted upon in the …"

-Ernest Cline, Ready Player Two (Ready Player One, #2)

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2. We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)

By: Dennis E. Taylor

4.28

Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition

Alternate Cover Edition can be found here. Bob Johansson has just sold his software company and… read more

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"Above my pay grade!"

-Dennis E. Taylor, We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)

"Thank God for family. And than GOD for a couple of miles of distance."

-Dennis E. Taylor, We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)

"Um. Ways in which a sentence beginning with the word "missiles" could be a good thing... Nope. I got nuthin'."

-Dennis E. Taylor, We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)

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3. Stumbling on Happiness

By: None

4.02

Format: None pages,

* Why are lovers quicker to forgive their partners for infidelity than for leaving dirty dishes in … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
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4. Airframe

By: Michael Crichton

3.74

Format: 431 pages, Paperback

The twin jet plane en route to Denver from Hong Kong is merely a green radar blip half an hour off … read more

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"Sometimes I look around my living room, and the most real thing in the room is the television. It’s bright and vivid, and the rest of my life looks drab. So I turn the damn thing off. That does it ev…"

-Michael Crichton, Airframe

"I understand,' Marder said. 'But a claim filed in a court has limited publicity. Newsline is going to present these crazy claims to forty million viewers. And at the same time, they'll automatically …"

-Michael Crichton, Airframe

"There's only one more thing I can tell you, Katherine. You work in a complex business. If you try to explain that complexity to Martin, you'll be frustrated. You’ll feel he isn't interested. He'll pr…"

-Michael Crichton, Airframe

"What she was looking for was a way to shape the story so that it unfolded now, in a pattern that the viewer could follow. The best frames engaged the viewer by presenting the story as conflict betwee…"

-Michael Crichton, Airframe

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5. Best Served Cold

By: Joe Abercrombie

3.93

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Springtime in Styria. And that means war. Springtime in Styria. And that means revenge. There have … read more

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6. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

By: Steven Pinker

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

In The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and p… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • science

7. I Am Legend and Other Stories

By: Richard Matheson

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth...but he is not alone. Every other man, woman, and c… read more

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8. The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies

By: Bryan Caplan

2.82

Format: 3 pages, Hardcover

The greatest obstacle to sound economic policy is not entrenched special interests or rampant lobby… read more

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9. Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)

By: Jeff VanderMeer

4.34

Format: 196 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2015 Nebula Award. Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades… read more

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10. One Second After (After, #1)

By: William R. Forstchen

3.42

Format: None pages, Hardcover

New York Timesbest-selling author William R. Forstchen now brings us a story which can be all too t… read more

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11. Chasing History: A Kid in the Newsroom

By: Carl Bernstein

4.18

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In this triumphant memoir, Carl Bernstein, the Pulitzer Prize-winning coauthor of All the President… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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12. How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion

By: David McRaney

4.14

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In this lively journey through human psychology, bestselling author and creator of the You Are Not … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • science
"I couldn’t shake the idea that I, too, was probably one conversation away from changing my own mind about something, maybe a lot of things. But I also recalled how many conversations I’d had that onl…"

-David McRaney, How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion

"Before scientists began researching the Leadership LAB’s technique, few studies supported the possibility that campaigns could change voters’ views on polarized, partisan, politically controversial i…"

-David McRaney, How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion

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13. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

By: Chris Miller

4.44

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more

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  • technology
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • science
"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"

-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

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14. The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects

By: Andrew Chen

4.19

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

A venture capitalist draws on expertise developed at the premier venture capital firm, Andreessen H… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • technology
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15. Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione

By: Jonathan Haidt

4.21

Format: 420 pages, Paperback

Una suggestiva indagine dei meccanismi profondi che regolano la nostra esistenza, le decisioni che … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • science
"Reasoning can take you wherever you want to go."

-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione

"Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second."

-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione

"Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason."

-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione

"Science is a smorgasbord, and google will guide you to the study that's right for you."

-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione

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16. Even Though I Knew the End

By: C.L. Polk

3.85

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

A magical detective dives into the affairs of Chicago's divine monsters to secure a future with the… read more

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"A warm firework blossomed in my chest, the brilliant sparks flying along my nerves. I barely stopped myself from reaching across the table for her hand."

-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End

"I never told her how she had saved me. I never told her how she became the dearest friend I’d ever had. I told her I loved her, but never enough. My Edith of the sparrows. My heart. My world."

-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End

"Ten years. It wasn't enough time, but I would live every blessed second of it. "We're going to San Fransisco." She smiled up at me. "We'll get a house in North Beach." "Right away," I said. "I've got…"

-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End

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17. Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World

By: Peter S. Goodman

3.92

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

A San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller The history of the last half century in America, Europe, an… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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18. The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life

By: Kevin Simler

3.98

Format: 408 pages, ebook

Human beings are primates, and primates are political animals. Our brains, therefore, are designed … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
"In Debt, the anthropologist David Graeber tells the story of Tei Reinga, a Maori villager and “notorious glutton"

-Kevin Simler, The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life

"Take school, for instance. We say that the function of school is to teach valuable skills and knowledge. Yet students don't remember most of what they're taught, and most of what they do remember isn…"

-Kevin Simler, The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life

"Social status among humans actually comes in two flavors: dominance and prestige.12 Dominance is the kind of status we get from being able to intimidate others (think Joseph Stalin), and on the low-s…"

-Kevin Simler, The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life

"The point is, our minds aren't as private as we like to imagine. Other people have partial visibility into what we're thinking. Faced with the translucency of our own minds, then, self-deception is o…"

-Kevin Simler, The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life

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19. Half a King (Shattered Sea, #1)

By: Joe Abercrombie

3.97

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780007550227 For all editions see here Betrayed by his family… read more

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"There is always a way"

-Joe Abercrombie, Half a King (Shattered Sea, #1)

"Невежеството е храна за страха."

-Joe Abercrombie, Half a King (Shattered Sea, #1)

"So the fox killed his brother, the wolf. (Mother Scaer)"

-Joe Abercrombie, Half a King (Shattered Sea, #1)

"When you're in hell, only a devil can point the way out."

-Joe Abercrombie, Half a King (Shattered Sea, #1)

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20. Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam

By: Vivek Ramaswamy

4.02

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In this New York Times bestseller, a young and successful entrepreneur makes the case that politics… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • society
"Diversity"

-Vivek Ramaswamy, Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam

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21. Dreadful

By: Caitlin Rozakis

3.72

Format: 347 pages, Paperback

A sharp-witted, high fantasy farce featuring killer moat squid, toxic masculinity, evil wizards and… read more

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"Gug." Ah, monosyllables, his old friend. They would always be there, even when all other concepts of fundamental liguistics deserted him."

-Caitlin Rozakis, Dreadful

"It occured to him that a spell to make one's enemies into idiots via the power of breasts might be immensely helpful. Then again, it might not be a spell. It might have only been the breasts."

-Caitlin Rozakis, Dreadful

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22. Fossil Future: Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas--Not Less

By: Alex Epstein

4.18

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels draws on the latest data a… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • science
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23. Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World

By: Carl T. Bergstrom

4.11

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Bullshit isn't what it used to be. Now, two science professors give us the tools to dismantle misin… read more

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  • technology
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • science
"Перефразовуючи Алена Ґінзберґа, програміст і бізнесмен Джеф Гаммербахер 2011 року гірко зауважив, що «найсвітліші голови мого покоління думають, як змусити людей клацати на оголошення в інтернеті, — …"

-Carl T. Bergstrom, Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World

"People worry that AI has surpassed humans, but we doubt AI will claim this award anytime soon. One might think that the TED brand of bullshit is just a cocktail of sound-bite science, management-spea…"

-Carl T. Bergstrom, Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World

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24. Overreach

By: Owen Matthews

4.37

Format: 441 pages, Kindle Edition

An astonishing investigation into the start of the Russo-Ukrainian war – from the corridors of the … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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25. Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything

By: Kelly Weill

3.79

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Since 2015, there has been a spectacular boom in a centuries-old delusion: that the earth is flat. … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • science
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26. The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease

By: Daisy Hernández

3.99

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

Growing up in a New Jersey factory town in the 1980s, Daisy Hernández believed that her aunt had be… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • science
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27. LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media

By: P.W. Singer

4.27

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Social media has been weaponized, as state hackers and rogue terrorists have seized upon Twitter an… read more

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  • technology
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of The Art of Insubordination: How to Dissent and Defy Effectively by Todd Kashdan

28. The Art of Insubordination: How to Dissent and Defy Effectively

By: Todd Kashdan

4.03

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A research-based toolbox for anyone who wants to create a world with more justice, creativity, and … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • society
Cover of Open: The Story of Human Progress by Johan Norberg

29. Open: The Story of Human Progress

By: Johan Norberg

4.12

Format: 440 pages, Hardcover

Humanity's embrace of openness is the key to our success. The freedom to explore and exchange - whe… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • science
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30. Tech Panic: Why We Shouldn't Fear Facebook and the Future

By: Robby Soave

3.84

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning journalist and author of the “methodical, earnest, and insightful” ( The Guardia… read more

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  • science
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • technology
Cover of Right-Wing Collectivism: The Other Threat to Liberty by Jeffrey Tucker

31. Right-Wing Collectivism: The Other Threat to Liberty

By: Jeffrey Tucker

3.97

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

The rise of the so-called alt-right is the most unexpected ideological development of our time. Mos… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction

16 Best politics books like Tech Panic: Why We Shouldn't Fear Facebook and the Future by Robby Soave

Transform Your Habits

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

Steven Pinker

3.00

Transform Your Habits

Chasing History: A Kid in the Newsroom

Carl Bernstein

4.18

Transform Your Habits

How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion

David McRaney

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

Chris Miller

4.44

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Transform Your Habits

Jewish Space Lasers: The Rothschilds and 200 Years of Conspiracy Theories

Mike Rothschild

3.84

Transform Your Habits

The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy

Philip S. Gorski

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy

Talia Lavin

3.87

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Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

Naomi Klein

4.22

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