Reading List
I like to keep track of the books that I read, and list ones that I find especially thought-provoking and relevant here. Though I used Goodreads for many years, I’ve recently switched over to Bookworm Reads.
2023
- The Equality Machine by Orly Lobel
- Chip War by Chris Miller
- The Alignment Problem by Brian Christian
- Human Compatible by Stuart Russell
- The Information by James Gleick
- The Coming Wave by Mustafa Suleyman and Michael Bhaskar
- God Human Animal Machine by Meghan O’Gieblyn
2022
- Breaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing by Christopher Bail
- Lurking: How A Person Became A User by Joanne McNeil
- Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China’s Countryside by Xiaowei Wang
- The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age by Danielle Keats Citron
2021
- If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future by Jill Lepore
- Ghost Work by Mary L. Gray and Siddharth Suri
- Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation by Andrew Marantz
- Rewire: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection by Ethan Zuckerman
- Culture Warlords: My Journey into the Dark Web of White Supremacy by Talia Lavin
- Shadow Network: Media, Money and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right by Anne Nelson
- Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free: Laws for the Internet Age by Cory Doctorow
- This is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race by Nicole Perlroth
- This is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality by Peter Pomerantsev
2020
- Tools and Weapons: The Promise and Peril of the Digital Age by Brad Smith
- The Reality Game: How the Next Wave of Technology Will Break the Truth by Samuel Woolley
- Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code by Ruha Benjamin
- The Perfect Weapon: How the Cyber Arms Race Set the World Afire by David E. Sanger
- Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media by Sarah T. Roberts
- The Cult of the Constitution by Mary Anne Franks
- Information Wars: How We Lost the Global Battle Against Disinformation and What We Can Do about It by Richard Stengel
- The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You by Eli Pariser
- Making Sense of the Alt-Right by George Hawley
2019
- Speech Police: The Global Struggle to Govern the Internet by David Kaye
- Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin’s Most Dangerous Hackers by Andy Greenberg
- Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World by Joseph Menn
- LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media by P.W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking
- Merchants of Truth: The Business of Facts and The Future of News by Jill Abramson
- Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech by Sara Wachter-Boettcher
- The Internet of Garbage by Sarah Jeong
2018
- The Know-It-Alls: The Rise of Silicon Valley as a Political Powerhouse and Social Wrecking Ball by Noam Cohen
- Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World - and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling
- Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
- Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valley by Emily Chang
- Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Umoja Noble
- God Save Texas: A Journey Into the Soul of the Lone Star State by Lawrence Wright