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
- The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi
- The Invention of the Land of Israel: From Holy Land to Homeland by Shlomo Sand
- My Two Chinas: The Memoir of a Chinese Counterrevolutionary by Baiqiao Tang
- Paekche's Principle: The Great Secret Of Asia by Bayemy Biyik
- Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
- A Renegade History of the United States by Thaddeus Russell
- 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
- Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History by Michel-Rolph Trouillot
Media
- Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara
- The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth by Jonathan Rauch
- The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths by Mariana Mazzucato
- 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
- [Upcoming] Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
- Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown
- How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine ... for Now by Stanislas Dehaene
- The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World by Iain McGilchrist
- 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
- Why Buddhism Is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment by Robert Wright
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
- [Upcoming] Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness by Steve Magness
- The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life by Robin Hanson
- Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
- Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters by Brian Klaas
- 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
- Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet by Hannah Ritchie
- Science Fictions: The Epidemic of Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in Science by Stuart Ritchie
- Social Justice Fallacies by Thomas Sowell
- Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization by Neil deGrasse Tyson
- The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it by Will Storr
- Trans: Gender Identity and the New Battle for Women's Rights by Helen Joyce
- War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges
- Why Societies Need Dissent by Cass R. Sunstein
- Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America by John McWhorter
Fiction:
- The Good Doctor by Adam Haslett (You Are Not a Stranger Here)
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams (The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy)
- Jonas, or The Artist at Work by Albert Camus (Exile and the Kingdom)
- The River Why by David James Duncan
- [Upcoming] The Schopenhauer Cure: A Novel by Irvin Yalom
- The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
