The Modem World: A Prehistory of Social Media
By: Kevin Driscoll
3.80
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
The untold story about how the internet became social, and why this matters for its future “A gre…
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1. Revolution in The Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made
By: Steve Wozniak , Andy Hertzfeld
4.44
Format: None pages, Paperback
There was a time, not too long ago, when the typewriter and notebook ruled, and the computer as an … read more
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2. The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture
By: Brian Dear
3.44
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The remarkable untold story of PLATO, the computer program and platform created in the 1960s, that … read more
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- nonfiction
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3. Orient Express
By: Christopher Hitchens , Graham Greene
3.13
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
As the Orient Express hurtles across Europe on its three-day journey from Ostend to Constantinople,… read more
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4. Daemon (Daemon #1)
By: Daniel Suarez
3.40
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
A high-tech thriller for the wireless age that explores the unthinkable consequences of a computer … read more
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5. Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany
By: Shaun Whiteside , Norman Ohler
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this highly original book, a bestseller in Germany, Norman Ohler investigates the murky, chaotic… read more
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6. A Burglar's Guide to the City
By: Geoff Manaugh
4.00
Format: 384 pages,
Encompassing nearly 2,000 years of heists and tunnel jobs, break-ins and escapes, A Burglar's Guide… read more
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7. Ficciones
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Anthony Bonner , Anthony Kerrigan
3.53
Format: 320 pages,
The seventeen pieces in Ficcionesdemonstrate the whirlwind of Borges's genius and mirror the precis… read more
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8. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
By: Robert A. Caro
3.25
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and the Francis Parkman pr… read more
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9. Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws who Hacked Ma Bell
By: Phil Lapsley
3.49
Format: None pages,
Before smartphones, back even before the Internet and personal computer, a misfit group of technoph… read more
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10. Burn Book: A Tech Love Story
By: Kara Swisher
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech… read more
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11. The Nineties
By: Chuck Klosterman
3.87
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
The Nineties: a wise and funny reckoning with the decade that gave us slacker/grunge irony about th… read more
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- nonfiction
"The nineties were a fertile period for the self-indulgent genius."-Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties
"In the nineties, doing nothing on purpose was a valid option, and a specific brand of cool became more important than almost anything else. The key to that coolness was disinterest in conventional su…"-Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties
12. Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir
By: Werner Herzog
4.25
Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition
Legendary filmmaker and celebrated author Werner Herzog tells in his inimitable voice the story of … read more
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13. The Saint of Bright Doors
By: Vajra Chandrasekera
3.71
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
The Saint of Bright Doors sets the high drama of divine revolutionaries and transcendent cults agai… read more
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14. Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock
By: Jenny Odell
3.61
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In her first book, How to Do Nothing, Jenny Odell wrote about the importance of disconnecting from … read more
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"Most living entities and systems on this planet obviously do not live by the Western human clock (though some, like the crows who memorize a city's daily garbage truck route, do of course adapt to th…"-Jenny Odell, Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock
15. The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket
By: Benjamin Lorr
3.95
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
This book is an investigation into the human lives at the heart of the American grocery store. What… read more
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- nonfiction
16. Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
By: Henry Grabar
4.20
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly infl… read more
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17. MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman
By: Ben Hubbard
4.15
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
MBS is the untold story of how a mysterious young prince emerged from Saudi Arabia’s sprawling roya… read more
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- nonfiction
"Mohammed bin Salman declined to be interviewed for this book"-Ben Hubbard, MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman
18. The Twilight World
By: Werner Herzog
3.87
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
The great filmmaker Werner Herzog, in his first novel, tells the incredible story of Hiroo Onoda, a… read more
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19. Doom Guy: Life in First Person
By: John Romero
4.31
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The inspiring, long-awaited autobiography of video-game designer and DOOM cocreator John Romero Jo… read more
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- technology
20. The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation
By: Cory Doctorow
4.17
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A detailed disassembly manual for people who want to dismantle Big Tech When the tech platforms … read more
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21. An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination
By: Sheera Frenkel
3.97
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Award-winning New York Times reporters Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang unveil the tech story of our… read more
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22. Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie
By: Gary Weiss
3.92
Format: None pages, Audiobook
A biography of the spectacular rise and fall of Eddie Antar, better known as "Crazy Eddie," whose h… read more
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23. Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral
By: Ben Smith
3.69
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The origin story of the Age of Disinformation: the candid inside tale of two online media rivals, J… read more
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24. Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters
By: Serhii Plokhy
4.11
Format: 345 pages, Hardcover
A chilling account of more than half a century of nuclear catastrophes, by the author of the “defin… read more
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25. After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul
By: Tripp Mickle
4.10
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
From the Wall Street Journal's Tripp Mickle, the dramatic, untold story inside Apple after the pass… read more
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26. Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation
By: Paris Marx
4.20
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
How to build a transportation system to provide mobility for all Road to Nowhere exposes the flaws… read more
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27. Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City
By: Jorge Almazán
4.46
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
Tokyo is one of the most vibrant and livable cities on the planet, a megacity that somehow remains … read more
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28. Shareware Heroes: The renegades who redefined gaming at the dawn of the internet
By: Richard Moss
3.86
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Shareware Heroes takes readers on a journey through a critical yet long overlooked chapter in video… read more
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29. The Fabulist: The Lying, Hustling, Grifting, Stealing, and Very American Legend of George Santos
By: Mark Chiusano
3.83
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the dogged Long Island reporter who has been on his trail since 2019, the bizarre, page-turnin… read more
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30. The Modem World: A Prehistory of Social Media
By: Kevin Driscoll
3.80
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
The untold story about how the internet became social, and why this matters for its future “A gre… read more
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