I already mentioned The Coming Wave, a book about AI. Here are the others – honestly, none really catches my eye. But for the sake of completeness:
- An Unfinished Love Story, by Doris Kearns Goodwin – ” the chapters about her love story are just as engaging and enlightening as the chapters about the Kennedy assassination and the Vietnam War”.
- The Anxious Generation, by Jonathan Haidt – “how the shift from play-based childhoods to phone-based childhoods is transforming how kids develop and process emotions”
- Engineering in Plain Sight, by Grady Hillhouse – “takes all of the mysterious structures we see every day, from cable boxes to transformers to cell phone towers, and explains what they are and how they work”
- Federer, by Doris Henkel – “a wonderful retrospective of his life and career”