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
- Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade by Robert Cialdini
History
- The Evolution of God by Robert Wright
- Paekche's Principle: The Great Secret Of Asia by Bayemy Biyik
- Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
- Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History by Michel-Rolph Trouillot
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
Mental Bandwidth
- 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
- Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much by Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir
Various
- The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff
- Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us by Brian Klaas
- Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World by Bruce Schneier
- Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
- Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy by Joseph E. Stiglitz
- How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
- Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss
- Why Societies Need Dissent by Cass R. Sunstein
- Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America by John McWhorter
Fiction:
- Jonas, or The Artist at Work by Albert Camus (Exile and the Kingdom)
- The River Why by David James Duncan
- The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
