This is an alphabetical version. For a subjective ranked version see: Ranked: War for Your Attention
There are those who are tying to get your attention, and will use various methods to do so. Some methods can can be beneficial, others are more insidious. Knowing what they are can help you direct your attention to where you want to to go.
Advertising
- The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads by Tim Wu
- Education in the Digital Age: How We Get There by Nadav Zeimer
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini
History
- The Evolution of God by Robert Wright
- Paekche's Principle: The Great Secret Of Asia by Bayemy Biyik
Media
- Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky
- Tibet on Fire: Self-Immolations Against Chinese Rule by Tsering Woeser
- Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator by Ryan Holiday
Internal
- How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine ... for Now by Stanislas Dehaene
- Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much by Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir
Various
- Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
- Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss
