Ranked: War for Your Attention

This is a subjective Ranked version of Intriguing Connections: War for Your Attention

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1. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini
2. The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads by Tim Wu
3. Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade by Robert Cialdini
4. Education in the Digital Age: How We Get There by Nadav Zeimer

History

1. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History by Michel-Rolph Trouillot
2. Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
3. The Evolution of God by Robert Wright
4. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi
5. A Renegade History of the United States by Thaddeus Russell
6. The God That Failed Edited by Richard Crossman
7. How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy by John J. Mearsheimer, Sebastian Rosato
8. My Two Chinas: The Memoir of a Chinese Counterrevolutionary by Baiqiao Tang
9. Saladin: The Sultan Who Vanquished the Crusaders and Built an Islamic Empire by John Man
10. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
11. The Invention of the Land of Israel: From Holy Land to Homeland by Shlomo Sand
12. Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient by Edward W. Said
13. Paekche's Principle: The Great Secret Of Asia by Bayemy Biyik

Media

1. The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth by Jonathan Rauch
2. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky
3. Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator by Ryan Holiday
4. Tibet on Fire: Self-Immolations Against Chinese Rule by Tsering Woeser
5. The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths by Mariana Mazzucato
6. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara

Mental Bandwidth

1. Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much by Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir
2. The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource by Christopher L. Hayes
3. How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine ... for Now by Stanislas Dehaene
4. Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein
5. Why Buddhism Is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment by Robert Wright
6. Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown
7. Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
8. The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World by Iain McGilchrist

 

Various

1. Why Societies Need Dissent by Cass R. Sunstein
2. Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss
3. Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us by Brian Klaas
4. War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges
5. The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life by Robin Hanson
6. The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it by Will Storr
7. Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness by Steve Magness
8. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff
9. Science Fictions: The Epidemic of Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in Science by Stuart Ritchie
10. Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters by Brian Klaas
11. Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet by Hannah Ritchie
12. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
13. Trans: Gender Identity and the New Battle for Women's Rights by Helen Joyce
14. Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America by John McWhorter
15. Social Justice Fallacies by Thomas Sowell
16. Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization by Neil deGrasse Tyson
17. Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
18. Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World by Bruce Schneier
19. How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
20. Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy by Joseph E. Stiglitz

Fiction:

1. The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams (The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy)
2. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera (The Book of Laughter and Forgetting)
3. The Trial of Donald H. Rumsfeld by William Cooper
4. The Schopenhauer Cure: A Novel by Irvin Yalom
5. Litost (Part Five) by Milan Kundera (The Book of Laughter and Forgetting)
6. The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
7. The Plague by Albert Camus
8. Jonas, or The Artist at Work by Albert Camus (Exile and the Kingdom)
9. Lost Letters (Part Four) by Milan Kundera (The Book of Laughter and Forgetting)
10. The Angels (Part Three) by Milan Kundera (The Book of Laughter and Forgetting)
11. The Good Doctor by Adam Haslett (You Are Not a Stranger Here)
12. Mama (Part Two) by Milan Kundera (The Book of Laughter and Forgetting)
13. The River Why by David James Duncan