Why read The Every?

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From the award-winning, bestselling author of The Circle comes an exciting new follow-up. When the world’s largest search engine/social media company, the Circle, merges with the planet’s dominant ecommerce site, it creates the richest and most dangerous—and, oddly enough, most beloved—monopoly ever known: the Every.

Delaney Wells is an unlikely…

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2 authors picked The Every as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

JL Civi

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I loved how this sequel to tech startup workplace culture parody The Circle is a lot like starting any new job in real life.

Your coworkers may know legends of a corporate past you aren’t yet privy to. In time, these stories will emerge as a prequel from your point of view, whereas your own presence on the payroll is a sequel for those who have more tenure.

How’d this person get promoted? What was the company like in the scrappy startup days before the merger? You don’t know about the second annual holiday party scandal? Have I got a…

From JL's list on standalone sequels you can read out of order.

Pamela Haag

Author

I would read anything Eggers wrote—even a grocery list. The Every delivers a satirical takedown of big tech nestled in an entertaining novel that demonstrates how we almost imperceptibly come to accept technology as ineluctable, progressive, and an almost naturalized enhancement to our feeble humanity.

“The Longest Day” is one of the most mordantly hilarious chapters I’ve read in years, and produced analog, not emoji, LOLs. It’s hard to be scathingly critical without sliding into cynical hopelessness, and Eggers achieves this remarkable balance.

He writes as a humanist, in the best senses of the term, in the penumbra of a…

From Pamela's 3 favorite reads in 2023.