Books to Shift Your Perspective
Technology & Data Science Â
LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media
P. W. Singer, Emerson T. Brooking
Nonfiction, Technology, Politics
Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica And The Plot To Break America
Christopher Wylie
Nonfiction, Technology, Politics
Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked ProtestÂ
Zeynep Tufekci
Nonfiction, Technology, Politics
Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War
Paul Scharre
Nonfiction, Technology, Politics
More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech
Meredith Broussard
Nonfiction, Technology, AI
Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World
Meredith Broussard
Nonfiction, Technology, AI
The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation
Cathy O’Neil
Nonfiction, Technology, Politics
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Cathy O’Neil
Nonfiction, Technology, Politics
The Perfect Weapon: How the Cyber Arms Race Set the World Afire
David E. Sanger
Nonfiction, Technology, Cybersecurity
Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin’s Most Dangerous Hackers
Andy Greenberg
Nonfiction, Technology, Politics
Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
Stuart Russell
Nonfiction, Technology, Politics
Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World
Bruce Schneier
Nonfiction, Technology, Politics
Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
Claire L. Evans
Nonfiction, Technology, History
Democratizing Our Data: A Manifesto
Julia Lane
Nonfiction, Technology, Politics
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
Safiya Umoja Noble
Nonfiction, Technology, Race
The Ethical Algorithm: The Science of Socially Aware Algorithm Design
Michael Kearns, Aaron Roth
Nonfiction, Technology, AI
You’ll See This Message When It Is Too Late: The Legal and Economic Aftermath of Cybersecurity Breaches
Josephine Wolff
Nonfiction, Technology, Cybersecurity
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
Virginia Eubanks
Nonfiction, Technology, Politics
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II
Liza Mundy
Nonfiction, Technology, History
Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech
Sara Wachter-Boettcher
Nonfiction, Technology, Politics
Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design
Kat Holmes
Nonfiction, Technology, Design
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Caroline Criado Perez
Nonfiction, Technology, Data Science
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
Ruha Benjamin
Nonfiction, Technology, Race
Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One’s Looking)
Christian Rudder
Nonfiction, Technology, Psychology
Business & Finance Â
An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination
Sheera Frenkel, Cecilia Kang
Nonfiction, Business, Technology
The History of the Future: Oculus, Facebook, and the Revolution That Swept Virtual Reality
Blake J. Harris
Nonfiction, Business, Technology
No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram
Sarah Frier
Nonfiction, Business, Technology
Whistleblower: My Journey to Silicon Valley and Fight for Justice at Uber
Susan Fowler
Nonfiction, Business, Technology
The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
Bethany McLean, Peter Elkind
Nonfiction, Business, Finance
The Lego Story: How a Little Toy Sparked the World’s Imagination
Jens Anderson
Nonfiction, Business, History
Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose
Tony Hsieh
Nonfiction, Business, Autobiography
Happy at Any Cost: The Revolutionary Vision and Fatal Quest of Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh
Kirsten Grind, Katherine Sayre
Nonfiction, Business, Biography
Flying Blind: The 737 Max Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing
Peter Robison
Nonfiction, Business, History
Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America
Christopher Leonard
Nonfiction, Business, Politics
Becoming Trader Joe: How I Did Business My Way and Still Beat the Big Guys
Joe Coulombe
Nonfiction, Business, Autobiography
My Life in Full: Work, Family,
and Our Future
Indra Nooyi
Nonfiction, Business, Autobiography
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Patrick Radden Keefe
Nonfiction, History, Biography
iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It
Steve Wozniak
Nonfiction, Business, Autobiography
No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
Reed Hastings, Erin Meyer
Nonfiction, Business, Autobiography
That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea
Marc Randolph
Nonfiction, Business, Autobiography
This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
Carmen M. Reinhart, Kenneth S. Rogoff
Nonfiction, Business, Finance
The Shareholder Value Myth: How Putting Shareholders First Harms Investors, Corporations, and the Public
Lynn Stout
Nonfiction, Business, Finance
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
Chris Voss
Nonfiction, Business, Psychology
Secrets of Six-Figure Women: Surprising Strategies to Up Your Earnings and Change Your Life
Barbara Stanny
Nonfiction, Business, Finance
Economics  Â
Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems
Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo
Nonfiction, Business, Economics
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo
Nonfiction, Business, Economics
Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity
Lester R. Brown
Nonfiction, Science. Economics
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
Nonfiction, Business, Economics
Psychology / Self-Improvement
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein
Nonfiction, Science, Psychology
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
Charles Duhigg
Nonfiction, Business, Psychology
Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business
Charles Duhigg
Nonfiction, Business, Psychology
How To Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie
Nonfiction, Business, Psychology
The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success & Performance at Work
Shawn Achor
Nonfiction, Psychology, Business
The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It
Kelly McGonigal
Nonfiction, Psychology, Self Help
The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
Norman Doidge
Nonfiction, Science, Psychology
How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
Michael Pollan
Nonfiction, Science, Psychology
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
Amanda Montell
Nonfiction, Feminism, Linguistics
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Amanda Montell
Nonfiction, Psychology, Linguistics
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking
Susan Cain
Nonfiction, Sciece, Psychology
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
Matthew Walker
Nonfiction, Science, Psychology
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
Joshua Foer
Nonfiction, Psychology, Science
Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction
Maia Szalavitz
Nonfiction, Mental Health, Psychology
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist’s Notebook
Bruce D. Perry, Maia Szalavitz
Nonfiction, Mental Health, Psychology
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
Jon Ronson
Nonfiction, Mental Health, Psychology
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
Esme Weijun Wang
Nonfiction, Mental Health, Psychology
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
Susannah Cahalan
Nonfiction, Mental Health, Psychology
Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought
Lily Bailey
Nonfiction, Mental Health, Psychology
Gender Science, History, & Politics
Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
Deirdre Cooper Owens
Nonfiction, Race, Feminism
Hood Feminism: Notes From the Women That a Movement Forgot
Mikki Kendall
Nonfiction, Race, Feminism
Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
Rebecca Hall
Nonfiction, Race, Feminism
Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
bell hooks
Nonfiction, Race, Feminism
The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service
Laura Kaplan
Nonfiction, Feminism, Politics
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Judith Butler
Nonfiction, Feminism, Philosophy
Beyond Trans: Does Gender Matter?
Heath Fogg Davis
Nonfiction, Transgender, Politics
Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
bell hooks
Nonfiction, Politics, Feminism
When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt
Kara Cooney
Nonfiction, Feminism, History
The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality
Angela Saini
Nonfiction, History, Politics
Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong – and the New Research That’s Rewriting the Story
Angela Saini
Nonfiction, Feminism, Science
Ambitious Like a Mother: Why Prioritizing Your Career Is Good for Your Kids
Lara Bazelon
Nonfiction, Feminism, Business
The Girls: An All-American Town, a Predatory Doctor, and the Untold Story of the Gymnasts Who Brought Him Down
Abigail Pesta
Nonfiction, Feminism, Crime
Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars
Nathalia Holt
Nonfiction, Feminism, History
Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What We Can Do About It
Kate Harding
Nonfiction, Feminism, Politics
Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution
Sara Marcus
Nonfiction, Feminism, Music
Race Science / History
Superior: The Return of Race Science
Angela Saini
Nonfiction, Science, Race
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Nonfiction, History, Race
Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America
Patrick Phillips
Nonfiction, History, Race
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Isabel Wilkerson
Nonfiction, Politics, Race
Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination
Alondra Nelson
Nonfiction, Medicine, Race
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Michelle Alexander
Nonfiction, History, Race
The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation
Daina Ramey Berry
Nonfiction, History, Race
Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life
Karen E. Fields, Barbara J. Fields
Nonfiction, History, Race
Politics
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
Tim Marshall
Nonfiction, History, Politics, Geography
Worth Dying For: The Power and Politics of Flags
Tim Marshall
Nonfiction, History, Politics, Vexillology
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in The American City
Matthew Desmond
Nonfiction, Social Justice, Politics
Memoirs
There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra
Chinua Achebe
Nonfiction, Memoir, Nigeria, Biafra
The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
Clemantine Wamariya
Nonfiction, Memoir, Rwanda
They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan
Benson Deng, Alephonsion Deng, Benjamin Ajak
Nonfiction, Memoir, Sudan
This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman
Ilhan Omar
Nonfiction, Memoir, United States, Somalia
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
Malala Yousafzai
Nonfiction, Memoir, Pakistan
We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
Samra Habib
Nonfiction, Memoir, Canada, Pakistan
I Am a Bacha Posh: My Life as a Woman Living as a Man in Afghanistan
Ukmina Manoori
Nonfiction, Memoir, Afghanistan
My Grandmother: A Memoir
Fethiye Cetin
Nonfiction, Memoir, Turkey, Armenia
The Complete Persepolis
Marjane Satrapi
Nonfiction, Memoir, Iran
The Complete Maus
Art Spiegelman
Nonfiction, Memoir, Holocaust, Germany
My Name Is Why
Lemn Sissay
Nonfiction, Memoir, Race, UK, Ethiopia
Both/And: A Life in Many Worlds
Huma Abedin
Nonfiction, Memoir, Politics, United States