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Ruined by Design by Mike Monteiro
When the Clock Broke by John Ganz
Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring by Brad Gooch
Every Man for Himself and God Against All by Werner Herzog
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One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad
Ruined by Design by Mike Monteiro
Charlie Hustle by Keith O’Brien
The Unclaimed by Pamela Prickett and Stefan Timmermans
Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring by Brad Gooch
Every Man for Himself and God Against All by Werner Herzog
Who’s Afraid of Gender? by Judith Butler
Grief is for People by Sloane Crosley
The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley by Marietje Schaake
Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist by Liz Pelly
v13: Chronicle of a trial by Emmanuel Carrère, translated by John Lambert
Question 7 by Richard Flanagan
H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
No One Gets to Fall Apart by Sarah LaBrie
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Uncanny by Junji Ito
The Use of Photography by Annie Ernaux and Marc Marie
Just Kids by Patti Smith
Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter by Kate Conger and Ryan Mac
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
Health and Safety: A Breakdown by Emily Witt
The Message by Ta-Nahisi Coates
Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling by Jason de León
Falling Back in Love with Being Human by Kai Cheng Thom
The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath by Leslie Jamison
Consent: A Memoir by Jill Ciment
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama by Nathan Thrall
Shame by Annie Ernaux
The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
The Art Thief by Michael Finkel
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee
Challenger by Adam Higginbotham
When the Clock Broke by John Ganz
Surviving Autocracy by Masha Gessen
Carson McCullers: A Life by Mary Dearborn
Hearts on Fire: Six Years that Changed Canadian Music 2000-2005 by Michael Barclay
Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen
Happening by Annie Ernaux
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Conscientious Objections by Neil Postman
Chronicles Volume 1 by Bob Dylan
Music is History by Questlove
Faith Hope and Carnage by Nick Cave and Sean O’Hagan
Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis
Scenes from My Life: A Memoir by Michael K. Williams
Meet Me in the Bathroom by Lizzy Goodman
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
Rise and Kill First by Ronen Bergman
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich
Psych by Paul Bloom
Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country by Patricia Evangelista
Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez
Exposure by Robert Bilott
Artificial: A Love Story by Amy Kurzweil
A Heart that Works by Rob Delaney
The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend by Rob Copeland
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires by Tim Wu
Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America by Heather Cox Richardson
Who Killed Ty Conn? By Linden MacIntyre and Theresa Burke
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets by David Simon
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Moneyland: The Inside Story of the Crooks and Kleptocrats who Rule the World by Oliver Bullough
Your Face Belongs to Us by Kashmir Hill
Blood in the Machine by Brian Merchant
Limbo by Alfred Lubrano
How Not to Kill Yourself by Clancy Martin
Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims by Jennifer Vanderbes
Number Go Up by Zeke Faux
The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America by Margaret O’Mara
The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century’s Greatest Dilemma by Mustafa Suleyman
Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us by Rachel Aviv
The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara
Owner of a Lonely Heart by Beth Nguyen
These are the Plunderers: How Private Equity Runs—and Wrecks—America by Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner
Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon by William D. Cohan
The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang
The Hate Next Door: Undercover within the New Face of White Supremacy by Matson Browning
The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway
The Ward: The Life and Loss of Toronto’s First Immigrant Neighbourhood by John Lorinc (ed.)
In a Flight of Starlings by Giorgio Parisi
Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud by Ben McKenzie and Jacob Silverman
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverley Gage
Building: A Carpenter’s Notes on Life & the Art of Good Work by Mark Ellison
I Feel Love: MDMA and the Quest for Connection in a Fractured World by Rachel Nuwer
Levels of Life by Julian Barnes
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan
Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm by Dan Charnas
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts by Gabor Maté
Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the Twenty-First Century by Josh Rogin
Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller
The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to our Brains by Nicholas Carr
The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town by Brian Alexander
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert Caro
My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route by Sally Hayden
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore by Dan Ozzi
Power Play: Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Bet of the Century by Tim Higgins
Servants of the Damned by David Enrich
The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story by Ann Rule
Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing by Peter Robison
When McKinsey Comes to Town by Walt Bogdanich
Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires by Douglas Rushkoff
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology by Neil Postman
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh
The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson
The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
The Innovators by Walter Isaacson
Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York by Elon Green
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence by Kate Crawford
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends by Nicole Perlroth
Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
Race After Technology by Ruha Benjamin
Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham
Missing from the Village by Justin Ling
Ludicrous: The Unvarnished Story of Tesla Motors by Edward Neidermeyer
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