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The Circle

Dave Eggers · 491 pages

*The Circle* follows Mae Holland as she begins to work at the titular tech behemoth. Eventually, Mae's role in the company and her influence both grow enormously. This book deals with the meaning of privacy in an increasingly public digital age. ---------- When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world’s most powerful internet company, she feels she’s been given the opportunit

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Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate

Zoe Quinn · 256 pages

You’ve heard the stories about the dark side of the internet — hackers, #gamergate, anonymous mobs attacking an unlucky victim, and revenge porn — but they remain just that: stories. Surely these things would never happen to you. Zoe Quinn used to feel the same way. She is a video game developer whose ex-boyfriend published a crazed blog post cobbled together from private information, half-trut

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So You've Been Publicly Shamed

Jon Ronson · 313 pages

"From the internationally bestselling author of The Psychopath Test, a captivating and brilliant exploration of one of our world's most overlooked forces. For the past three years, Jon Ronson has been immersing himself in the world of modern-day public shaming-meeting famous shamees, shamers, and bystanders who have been impacted. This is the perfect time for a modern-day Scarlet Letter-a radicall

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You

Caroline Kepnes · 424 pages

"Love hurts... When aspiring writer Guinevere Beck strides into the East Village bookstore where Joe works, he's instantly smitten. Beck is everything Joe has ever wanted: She's gorgeous, tough, razor-smart, and as sexy as his wildest dreams. Beck doesn't know it yet, but she's perfect for him, and soon she can't resist her feelings for a guy who seems custom made for her. But there's more to Joe

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Splinter the Silence

Val McDermid · 416 pages

"Is it violence if it's virtual? The outspoken women targeted by the increasingly cruel Internet trolls and bullies would probably say so. For some of them, the torrents of bile and vicious threats prove too much. They begin to silence themselves in a series of high-profile suicides. Or do they? Tony Hill isn't convinced. But he's the only one. Former cop Carol Jordan is too busy messing up her li

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The Cows

Dawn O'Porter

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The Takedown

Corrie Wang · 384 pages

In this near-future mystery, Kyla Cheng, the smartest, hottest, most popular student at her Brooklyn high school, gets taken down a peg by a faked sex tape that goes viral.

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Viral

Helen Fitzgerald · 272 pages

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Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked

Adam Alter · 354 pages

"An urgent and expert investigation into behavioral addiction, the dark flipside of today's unavoidable digital technologies, and how we can turn the tide to regain control. Behavioral addiction may prove to be one of the most important fields of social, medical, and psychological research in our lifetime. The idea that behaviors can be being addictive is new, but the threat is near universal. Exp

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Yellowface

R F Kuang · 331 pages

White lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences… Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn’t write the book she claims she wrote, and she is most certainly not Asian American—in this chilling and hilariously cutting novel from R.F. Kuang, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel. Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars. But At

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Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI

Madhumita Murgia · 320 pages

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Buzz

Anders de la Motte · 452 pages

It's been four months since HP Pettersson was dragged into a ruthless Alternate Reality Game that nearly cost him his life. Although he now has everything he ever wished for--freedom, money, and no responsibilities--he isn't satisfied. He's plagued by insomnia and paranoia, and misses the adrenaline rush of the Game. He misses the attention. At times, he even hopes the Game Master will find him. A

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Woman Down

Colleen Hoover · 384 pages

Her words used to set the page on fire. But a viral backlash over her latest film adaptation forced Petra Rose to take a hiatus, resulting in missed deadlines and an overdue mortgage. Branded a fraud and fame-hungry opportunist, she learned the hard way what happens when the internet turns on you. And she’s been uninspired to write ever since. Now, with her next suspense novel outlined and savi

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Destroying Avalon

Kate McCaffrey · 264 pages

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We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec Anonymous

Parmy Olson

*We Are Anonymous* is the first full account of how a loosely assembled group of hackers scattered across the globe formed a new kind of insurgency, seized headlines, and tortured the feds -- and the ultimate betrayal that would eventually bring them down. Parmy Olson goes behind the headlines and into the world of Anonymous and LulzSec with unprecedented access, drawing upon hundreds of conversat

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You're Never Weird on the Internet

Felicia Day · 272 pages

The Internet isn't all cat videos. There's also Felicia Day -- violinist, filmmaker, Internet entrepreneur, compulsive gamer, hoagie specialist, and former lonely homeschooled girl who overcame her isolated childhood to become the ruler of a new world... or at least semi-influential in the world of Internet Geeks and Goodreads book clubs. After growing up in the south where she was "homeschooled f

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Attachments

Rainbow Rowell · 336 pages

"Hi, I'm the guy who reads your e-mail, and also, I love you . . . " Beth Fremont and Jennifer Scribner-Snyder know that somebody is monitoring their work e-mail. (Everybody in the newsroom knows. It's company policy.) But they can't quite bring themselves to take it seriously. They go on sending each other endless and endlessly hilarious e-mails, discussing every aspect of their personal lives

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Caught

Harlan Coben · 388 pages

From the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense comes a fast-paced, emotion-packed novel about guilt, grief, and our capacity to forgive17-year-old Haley McWaid is a good girl, the pride of her suburban New Jersey family, captain of the lacrosse team, headed off to college next year with all the hopes and dreams her doting parents can pin on her. Which is why, when her mother wakes one m

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Deeper

Robin York · 393 pages

"When college sophomore Caroline Piasecki decides to break up with her boyfriend, she knows it will be painful. But she never imaged he would post intimate photos of her on a "revenge porn" website, along with her real name and phone number. Somehow, Caroline has managed to go from a smart, ambitious, buttoned-up student to the subject of campus gossip overnight. The last thing she expected was th

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I See You've Called in Dead

John Kenney · 294 pages

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Flawless

Sara Shepard · 330 pages

**Spencer stole her sister's boyfriend. *Aria is brokenhearted over her English teacher*.** ***Emily likes her new friend Maya...as much more than a friend.*** Hanna's obsession with looking flawless is making her sick. And their most horrible secret yet is so scandalous that the truth would ruin them forever. And why shouldn't I tell? They deserve to lose it all. With every crumpled note, wicked

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Hooked

Asako Yuzuki · 400 pages

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