A list of books, fiction and non-fiction, to help folks think about the machinations of big tech...and what to do about them.
created by anathemagic
last updated May, 2026
Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing (History of Computing)
Mar Hicks
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
Ruha Benjamin
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
Shoshana Zuboff
Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
Ashley Shew
The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World
Antony Loewenstein
Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
Yanis Varoufakis
Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond
Tamara Kneese
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
Cory Doctorow
Dear Data
Giorgia Lupi
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Cathy O'Neil
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Caroline Criado PĂŠrez
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
Safiya Umoja Noble
Blood Over Bright Haven
M.L. Wang
Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
Brian Merchant
Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
Karen Hao
The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want
Emily M. Bender
Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines
Joy Buolamwini
The Stepford Wives
Ira Levin
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
Š 2025 Pagebound