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10 Books To Get Your Chronically Online Bestie
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items A perfectly crafted list for your chronically online bestie whose screen time is 10+ hours a day
Replace doom scrolling with doom reading! Todd May, renowned philosopher and advisor to NBC’s The Good Place, navigates anthropocentric discourses, realistically and pessimistically, in an assessment of the most pressing contemporary dilemma: Would t...
Should We Go Extinct?: A Philosophical Dilemma by Todd May
With Want, acclaimed actress Gillian Anderson (The X-Files, The Crown) takes a page out of her Sex Education Character, outspoken sex therapist Gene Milburn’s, book. It is a collection of anonymous letters from women all over the world, detailing the...<3
Want: Sexual Fantasies by Gillian Anderson
Everyone and their dads (actually the world might be a better place if the latter of those was true) has heard of this book. In typical Bell Hooks fashion, it was astoundingly ahead of its time and has thus gained quite a lot of traction on the Inter...
All About Love: New Visions by Bell Hooks
Prone to overthinking? Probably due to too much doomscrolling, but no judgment; I’ve had my fair share of Reddit-induced panic attacks, as I’m sure every chronically online girly has. Emma Ginsberg of Everygirl media group said this book pulled her o...
The Age of Magical Overthinking by Amanda Montell
This one is for the chronically online besties who deal with anxiety well since this book is sure to make your brain spiral as Cory Doctorow dives into how we lost control of our digital spaces. As John Walters put it, it’s a “horror story of America...
The Internet Con: Seize the Means of Computation
Chronically online individuals are known for escaping reality via their phone screen, so of course they’re the first to appreciate a thoughtful and bold fictional world to escape into. In Doppelganger, Canadian writer Naomi Klein offers an insightful...
Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
This is a classic; I don’t need to sell you on it. You and I both know your bestie that spends 3 days putting together the perfect Instagram dump probably needs to learn to not give so much of a fuck. But you didn’t hear that from me.
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
I love a collection of essays, and Jia Tolentino went above and beyond with Trick Mirror. The book comprises nine essays on an array of topics, including Internet culture, marriage, scams, and contemporary feminism. It hits every topic that you’ll us...
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
All our online besties loveeeee to stick it to the man, and Jenny Odell is right there with us! In How To Do Nothing, Odell delivers an action plan to resist capitalist narratives of productivity and techno-determinism, showing how we can become more...
How to Do Nothing: Resisting Attention
Everyone who grew up in the golden age of the Internet, aka the Tumblr days, recognizes the name John Green (he had every tween in a chokehold). And yes, we’re talking about the same John Green who wrote The Fault In Our Stars. However, instead of a ...
The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green