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Are you a bit too into the internet? One of these books might hook you and allow you to put down the phone.
Updated October 2, 2022
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The Circle
Eggers, Dave
Paper Book
A New York Times BestsellerWhen Mae Holland is hired to work for the world's most powerful internet company, she can't believe her luck. The Circle, run out of a hip, sprawling California campus, links users' online data with their universal operating system, creating a new age of civility and...
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The startup wife : a novel
Anam, Tahmima
Paper Book
Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR In this "wise and wickedly funny novel about love, creativity, and the limitations of the tech-verse" (Vogue) newlyweds Asha and Cyrus find themselves running one of the most popular social media platforms in the world.
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Margot Mertz takes it down
McCrossen, Carrie
Paper Book
Veronica Mars meets Moxie in this hilarious and biting YA contemporary novel following Margot Mertz, a girl who runs an internet cleanup business and embarks on a quest to take down a revenge-porn site targeting the girls in her school. For the right price, high...
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Ghoster
Arnopp, Jason
Paper Book
'Twisty, creepy and absolutely absorbing' Sarah Pinborough 'A helter-skelter collision of social media and the supernatural. Hugely enjoyable' Chris Brookmyre 'A fiendishly smart exploration of...
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No one is talking about this
Lockwood, Patricia
Paper Book
'A masterpiece' Guardian'I really admire and love this book' Sally Rooney 'An intellectual and emotional rollercoaster' Daily Mail 'I can't remember the last time I laughed so much reading a book' David Sedaris'It moved me to tears' Elizabeth...
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Pattern recognition
Gibson, William
Paper Book
Cayce Pollard is an expensive, spookily intuitive market-research consultant. In London on a job, she is offered a secret assignment: to investigate some intriguing snippets of video that have been appearing on the Internet. An entire subculture of people is obsessed with these bits of footage, and...
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Feed
Anderson, M. T.
Paper Book
A Time Magazine 100 Best YA Books of All Time Selection The tour de force that set the gold standard for dystopian YA fiction -- in a compelling paperback edition. For Titus and his friends, it started out like any ordinary trip to the moon -- a chance to...
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Little brother
Doctorow, Cory.
Paper Book
The first in Cory Doctorow's New York Times bestselling YA series about a youthful rebellion against the torture-and-surveillance state. "A wonderful, important book ... I'd recommend Little Brother over pretty much any book I've read this year." -Neil Gaiman<...
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Fangirl
Rowell, Rainbow.
Paper Book
#1 New York Times bestselling author! In Rainbow Rowell's Fangirl, Cath is a Simon Snow fan. Okay, the whole world is a Simon Snow fan, but for Cath, being a fan is her life-and she's really good at it. She and her twin sister, Wren, ensconced themselves in the...
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Attachments
Rowell, Rainbow.
Paper Book
It's 1999 and for the staff of one newspaper office, the internet is still a novelty. By day, two young women, Beth and Jennifer, spend their hours emailing each other, discussing in hilarious detail every aspect of their lives, from love troubles to family dramas. And by night, Lincoln, a shy,...
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Ready player one
Cline, Ernest
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Now a major motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg. "Enchanting . . . Willy Wonka meets The Matrix."--USA Today * "As one adventure leads expertly to the next, time simply evaporates."--...
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Neuromancer
Gibson, William
Paper Book
A deluxe hardcover edition of the pioneering cyberpunk novel that predicted our obsession with the Internet--part of Penguin Galaxy, a collectible series of six sci-fi/fantasy classics, featuring a series introduction by Neil Gaiman Winner of the AIGA + Design Observer 50...
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Microserfs
Coupland, Douglas
Paper Book
The bestselling author of Life After God offers his most compelling work to date--a novel both hilarious and eerily portentous, which visits the high-tech heart of computer giant Microsoft, where a cadre of overworked twentysomethings struggles for success in the elusive and truly alternate world of...
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Friend request
Marshall, Laura
Paper Book
***THE TOP TEN EBOOK BESTSELLER***'Twisty and gripping' Erin Kelly'I read it in one go' Marian Keyes'I loved it' Rachel Abbott Maria wants to be friends. But Maria is dead . . . isn't she...
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Sympathy
Sudjic, Olivia
Paper Book
Virtual selves become tangled and real-life family secrets collide in a captivating tale of online obsession.
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Normal people : a novel
Rooney, Sally
Paper Book
NOW AN EMMY-NOMINATED HULU ORIGINAL SERIES * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE * "A stunning novel about the transformative power of relationships" (People) from the author of Conversations with Friends, "a master of the literary page-turner" (J....
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