11 must-read science books like The United States of Anonymous: How the First Amendment Shaped Online Speech by Jeff Kosseff

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The United States of Anonymous: How the First Amendment Shaped Online Speech

By: Jeff Kosseff

4.19

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

In The United States of Anonymous , Jeff Kosseff explores how the right to anonymity has shaped Ame…

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Cover of Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O'Neil

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
  • science
Cover of Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? by Michael J. Sandel

2. Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

By: Michael J. Sandel

4.31

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

"For Michael Sandel, justice is not a spectator sport," The Nation's reviewer of Justice remarked. … read more

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  • law
  • nonfiction
"(...) greed that preys on human misery (...)"

-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

"A philosophy untouched by the shadows on the wall can only yield a sterile utopia."

-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

"Outrage is the special kind of anger you feel when you believe that people are getting things they don't deserve. Outrage of this kind is anger at injustice."

-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

"Here then is the link between freedom as autonomy and Kant's idea of morality. To act freely is not to choose the best means to a given end; it is to choose the end itself, for its own sake - a choic…"

-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

3. The Romanovs: 1613-1918

By: Simon Sebag Montefiore

3.17

Format: None pages,

The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surfac… read more

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Cover of Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism by Rachel Maddow

4. Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

By: Rachel Maddow

4.45

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"One big appeal of fascism, if nothing else, was its unapologetic embrace of cruelty. Cruelty towards others, coupled with hypersensitivity towards any slight to oneself."

-Rachel Maddow, Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

Cover of Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne by Katherine Rundell

5. Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

By: Katherine Rundell

4.18

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From standout scholar Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite presents a sparkling and very modern biogra… read more

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  • nonfiction
"To adore and to devour and to be devoured is its own kind of focus: a gasp of a different kind of oxygen."

-Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

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6. 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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  • politics
  • 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

Cover of Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin  Kobes Du Mez

7. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

By: Kristin Kobes Du Mez

4.30

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

A scholar of American Christianity presents a seventy-five-year history of evangelicalism that iden… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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8. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

By: Naomi Klein

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

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9. The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic

By: Stephen Vladeck

4.21

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An acclaimed legal scholar’s “essential” (Linda Greenhouse) exp… read more

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  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
"But in order after order, the Supreme Court gave the Trump administration most of what it wanted without endorsing principles that the justices would be bound to apply to future presidents, so that t…"

-Stephen Vladeck, The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic

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10. Orwell's Roses

By: Rebecca Solnit

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

"In the year 1936 a writer planted roses." So begins Rebecca Solnit's new book, a reflection on Geo… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"He asked that roses be planted on his grave. When I checked, a few years ago, a scrappy red rose was blooming there."

-Rebecca Solnit, Orwell's Roses

"The contemporary world is full of things that look beautiful and are produced through hideous means. People died so that this mine may profit, that these shoes maybe produced as cheaply as possible, …"

-Rebecca Solnit, Orwell's Roses

"As withheld information, a lie is a sort of shield for the liar; as falsity it is a sword. It matters whether or not people believe the lies, but unbelievable lies wielded by those with power do thei…"

-Rebecca Solnit, Orwell's Roses

Cover of Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It by Kashmir Hill

11. Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It

By: Kashmir Hill

4.14

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The story of a small AI company that gave facial recognition to law enforceme… read more

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  • technology
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of 21st Century Monetary Policy: The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to COVID-19 by Ben S. Bernanke

12. 21st Century Monetary Policy: The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to COVID-19

By: Ben S. Bernanke

4.21

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

The winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Economics and former chair of the Federal Reserve explains th… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back by Rebecca Giblin

13. Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back

By: Rebecca Giblin

4.26

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

A call to action for the creative class and labor movement to rally against the power of Big Tech a… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • technology
Cover of Doom Guy: Life in First Person by John Romero

14. 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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  • nonfiction
  • technology
Cover of Subprime Attention Crisis (FSG Originals x Logic) by Tim Hwang

15. Subprime Attention Crisis (FSG Originals x Logic)

By: Tim Hwang

3.62

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

From FSGO x Logic : a revealing examination of digital advertising and the internet's precarious fo… read more

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  • internet
  • nonfiction
  • technology
  • science
Cover of Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI by Ethan Mollick

16. Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI

By: Ethan Mollick

4.13

Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition

**A New York Times Bestseller**'Co-Intelligence is the very best book I know about the ins, outs, a… read more

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  • technology
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club by Helen Simonson

17. The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club

By: Helen Simonson

3.96

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A timeless comedy of manners—refreshing as a summer breeze and bracing as the British seaside—about… read more

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Cover of The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age by Danielle Keats Citron

18. The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age

By: Danielle Keats Citron

4.01

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Privacy is disappearing. From our sex lives to our workout routines, the details of our lives once … read more

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  • technology
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences by Joan Biskupic

19. Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences

By: Joan Biskupic

4.00

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Editor's Choice "Biskupic, an accomplished and well-sourced journalist, knows the co… read more

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  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
Cover of This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race by Nicole Perlroth

20. This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race

By: Nicole Perlroth

4.34

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

From The New York Times cybersecurity reporter Nicole Perlroth, the untold story of the cyberweapon… read more

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  • technology
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • science
"Finding a zero day is a little like entering God mode in a video game. Once hackers have figured out the commands or written the code to exploit it, they can scamper through the world's computer netw…"

-Nicole Perlroth, This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race

Cover of Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994–2007) by Dan Ozzi

21. Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994–2007)

By: Dan Ozzi

4.40

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR "Ozzi's reporting is strong, balanced and well tol… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the Death of Competition by Jonathan Tepper

22. The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the Death of Competition

By: Jonathan Tepper

4.13

Format: 320 pages, ebook

The Myth of Capitalism tells the story of how America has gone from an open, competitive marketplac… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • technology
Cover of How to Take Over the World: Practical Schemes and Scientific Solutions for the Aspiring Supervillain by Ryan North

23. How to Take Over the World: Practical Schemes and Scientific Solutions for the Aspiring Supervillain

By: Ryan North

4.01

Format: 388 pages, Hardcover

A tongue-in-cheek introduction to the science of comic-book supervillainy, revealing the true poten… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of The Wizard and the Prophet by Charles C. Mann

24. The Wizard and the Prophet

By: Charles C. Mann

4.23

Format: 640 pages, Audio CD

From the best-selling, award-winning author of 1491 and 1493--an incisive portrait of the two littl… read more

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  • technology
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Sedition Hunters: How January 6th Broke the Justice System by Ryan J. Reilly

25. Sedition Hunters: How January 6th Broke the Justice System

By: Ryan J. Reilly

3.95

Format: 378 pages, Kindle Edition

The January 6th attack is an unprecedented crime in American history. Sprawling and openly politica… read more

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  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
Cover of Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines by Joy Buolamwini

26. 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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  • technology
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court's Fifty-Year Battle for a More Unjust America by Adam Cohen

27. Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court's Fifty-Year Battle for a More Unjust America

By: Adam Cohen

4.32

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Adam Cohen, a revelatory examination of the conservative dir… read more

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  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
Cover of 51 Imperfect Solutions: States and the Making of American Constitutional Law by Jeffrey S. Sutton

28. 51 Imperfect Solutions: States and the Making of American Constitutional Law

By: Jeffrey S. Sutton

4.09

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

When we think of constitutional law, we invariably think of the United States Supreme Court and the… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • law
Cover of Privacy is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data by Carissa Véliz

29. Privacy is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data

By: Carissa Véliz

4.03

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

As the data economy grows in power, Carissa Véliz exposes how our privacy is eroded by big tech and… read more

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  • internet
  • science
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • technology
Cover of The United States of Anonymous: How the First Amendment Shaped Online Speech by Jeff Kosseff

30. The United States of Anonymous: How the First Amendment Shaped Online Speech

By: Jeff Kosseff

4.19

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

In The United States of Anonymous , Jeff Kosseff explores how the right to anonymity has shaped Ame… read more

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  • internet
  • technology
  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment by Jason Schreier

31. Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment

By: Jason Schreier

4.30

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author and the gaming industry's preeminent investigative journalist Jas… read more

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  • technology

19 Top politics books like The United States of Anonymous: How the First Amendment Shaped Online Speech by Jeff Kosseff

Transform Your Habits

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

Cathy O'Neil

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

Rachel Maddow

4.45

Transform Your Habits

The Nineties

Chuck Klosterman

3.87

Transform Your Habits

Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

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16 Top nonfiction books like 21st Century Monetary Policy: The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to COVID-19 by Ben S. Bernanke

Transform Your Habits

Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World

Liaquat Ahamed

4.19

Transform Your Habits

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

Chris Miller

4.44

Transform Your Habits

The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy

Stephanie Kelton

4.04

Transform Your Habits

Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity

Daron Acemoğlu

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