15 must-read history books like Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller

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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…

"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"

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

"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"

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

If you liked the history plot in Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller , here is a list of 15 books like this:

Cover of Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger by Charles T. Munger, None

1. Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

By: Charles T. Munger , None

4.42

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

EXPANDED THIRD EDITION includes Charlie's 2007 USC Law School Commencement address. Edited by Peter… read more

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  • economics
  • nonfiction
  • business
"What are the secret of success? -one word answer :"rational"

-Charles T. Munger, Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

"The best armour of old age is a well spent life preceding it."

-Charles T. Munger, Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

"The best armour of old age is a well spent life perfecting it."

-Charles T. Munger, Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

"How to find a good spouse? -the best single way is to deserve a good spouse."

-Charles T. Munger, Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

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2. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

By: Siddharth Kara

4.37

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more

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  • audiobook
  • science
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • technology
"Now you understand how people like us work?"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

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3. Elon Musk

By: Walter Isaacson

4.40

Format: 688 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate… read more

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  • audiobook
  • science
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • technology
"[Musk] concluded that Trump as president was no different than he was as a candidate. The buffoonery was not just an act. "Trump might be one of the world’s best bullshitters ever," he says. "Like my…"

-Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk

Cover of Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes by Morgan Housel

4. Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

By: Morgan Housel

4.19

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

“Want to understand the changing world? Start with what stays the same. That’s the amazing conclusi… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook
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5. Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

By: Edmund Conway

4.52

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed… read more

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  • science
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • technology
"You can get anything you want from anywhere in the world at a bargain price, but don't [whatever you do] expect to understand how it was made or how it got to you."

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

"Brothers and sisters,’ said the man. ‘I want to tell you this. The greatest thing on earth is to have the love of God in your heart, and the next greatest thing is to have electricity in your house.’…"

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

"To say that concrete is everywhere is hardly an exaggeration. Despite the fact that we only began mass producing this mixture of sand, aggregates and cement just over a century ago, there are now mor…"

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

"A few years ago some geologists sifted through the data [and] estimated that the amount of sand, soil and rock we humans mine and quarry and dredge each year is some 24 times greater than the amount …"

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

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6. When McKinsey Comes to Town

By: Walt Bogdanich

3.80

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

**A NEW YORK TIMES AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022**An explosive exposé of the world's most pre… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook
"One former McKinsey consultant wrote anonymously, ¨To those convinced that a secretive cabal controls the world, the usual suspect are Illuminati, Lizard People, or ´globalists.' They are wrong, natu…"

-Walt Bogdanich, When McKinsey Comes to Town

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7. 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

Similar categories in Chris Miller's Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology book and Chris Miller's Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

  • audiobook
  • science
  • history
  • politics
  • artificial intelligence
  • nonfiction
  • china
  • economics
  • business
  • technology
"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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8. Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity

By: Peter Attia

4.37

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A groundbreaking manifesto on living better and longer that challeng… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization: The Collapse of Globalization and Its Aftermath by Peter Zeihan

9. The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization: The Collapse of Globalization and Its Aftermath

By: Peter Zeihan

4.18

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

2019 was the last great year for the world economy. For generations, everything has been getting… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • science
Cover of The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources by Javier Blas

10. The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources

By: Javier Blas

4.34

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Meet the traders who supply the world with oil, metal and food - no matter how corrupt, war-torn or… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook
"Little noticed and little scrutinised, the commodity traders have become essential cogs in the modern economy. Without them, petrol stations would run out of fuel, factories would grind to a halt and…"

-Javier Blas, The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources

"Most of us take for granted the ease with which we can fill up our cars, buy a new smartphone or order a cup of Colombian coffee. But underpinning almost all of our consumption is a frenetic internat…"

-Javier Blas, The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources

Cover of The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future by Sebastian Mallaby

11. The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future

By: Sebastian Mallaby

4.43

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Shortlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year  Named a Best Book of 2022 by The Ec… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • technology
"The first notable spinout was Kathy Xu, another woman who managed to flourish in China's venture industry. Rather than studying in the United States, Xu had experienced U.S. instruction at Nanjing Un…"

-Sebastian Mallaby, The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future

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12. Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall

By: Zeke Faux

4.26

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In 2021 cryptocurrency went mainstream. Giant investment funds were buying it; celebrities like Tom… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • technology
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13. Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

By: Michael Lewis

3.80

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 best-selling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the story of FTX’s spectacular col… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • technology
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14. 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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  • audiobook
  • science
  • politics
  • artificial intelligence
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • technology
Cover of The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend by Rob Copeland

15. The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend

By: Rob Copeland

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The unauthorized, unvarnished story of famed Wall Street hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio. Ray Dalio… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between by Bent Flyvbjerg

16. How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between

By: Bent Flyvbjerg

4.32

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The secrets to successfully planning and delivering projects on any scale—from home renovation to s… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI by Fei-Fei Li

17. 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
  • technology
  • artificial intelligence
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency by Andy Greenberg

18. Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency

By: Andy Greenberg

4.50

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

Over the last decade, a single innovation has massively fueled digital black markets: cryptocurrenc… read more

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  • audiobook
  • science
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • technology
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19. Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy

By: Matthew Campbell

4.24

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“A triumph of investigative journalism.” —Tom Wright, New York Times bestselling coauthor of Billio… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of Influence Empire: The Story of Tencent and China's Tech Ambition by Lulu Yilun Chen

20. Influence Empire: The Story of Tencent and China's Tech Ambition

By: Lulu Yilun Chen

3.96

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

*REVISED AND UPDATED**SHORTLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK 2022**A TIMES BUSINESS BOOK… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • china
  • economics
  • business
  • technology

17 best-selling audiobook books like Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller

Transform Your Habits

Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

Siddharth Kara

4.37

Transform Your Habits

Elon Musk

Walter Isaacson

4.40

Transform Your Habits

Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

Morgan Housel

4.19

Transform Your Habits

When McKinsey Comes to Town

Walt Bogdanich

3.80

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Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

Morgan Housel

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall

Zeke Faux

4.26

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Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

Michael Lewis

3.80

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The Trading Game: A Confession

Gary Stevenson

4.26

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