This is a subjective Ranked version of Intriguing Connections: War for Your Attention
Advertising
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini
- The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads by Tim Wu
- Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade by Robert Cialdini
- Education in the Digital Age: How We Get There by Nadav Zeimer
History
- Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History by Michel-Rolph Trouillot
- Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
- The Evolution of God by Robert Wright
- The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi
- A Renegade History of the United States by Thaddeus Russell
- [Upcoming] How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy by John J. Mearsheimer, and Sebastian Rosato
- My Two Chinas: The Memoir of a Chinese Counterrevolutionary by Baiqiao Tang
- Saladin: The Sultan Who Vanquished the Crusaders and Built an Islamic Empire by John Man
- The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
- The Invention of the Land of Israel: From Holy Land to Homeland by Shlomo Sand
- [Upcoming] Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient by Edward W. Said
- Paekche's Principle: The Great Secret Of Asia by Bayemy Biyik
Media
- The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth by Jonathan Rauch
- Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky
- Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator by Ryan Holiday
- Tibet on Fire: Self-Immolations Against Chinese Rule by Tsering Woeser
- The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths by Mariana Mazzucato
- Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara
Mental Bandwidth
- Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much by Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir
- How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine ... for Now by Stanislas Dehaene
- Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein
- Why Buddhism Is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment by Robert Wright
- Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown
- Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
- The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World by Iain McGilchrist
Various
- Why Societies Need Dissent by Cass R. Sunstein
- Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss
- Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us by Brian Klaas
- War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges
- The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life by Robin Hanson
- The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it by Will Storr
- Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness by Steve Magness
- The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff
- Science Fictions: The Epidemic of Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in Science by Stuart Ritchie
- Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters by Brian Klaas
- Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet by Hannah Ritchie
- Trans: Gender Identity and the New Battle for Women's Rights by Helen Joyce
- Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America by John McWhorter
- Social Justice Fallacies by Thomas Sowell
- Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization by Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
- Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World by Bruce Schneier
- How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
- Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy by Joseph E. Stiglitz
Fiction:
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams (The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy)
- The Schopenhauer Cure: A Novel by Irvin Yalom
- The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
- Jonas, or The Artist at Work by Albert Camus (Exile and the Kingdom)
- The Good Doctor by Adam Haslett (You Are Not a Stranger Here)
- The River Why by David James Duncan
