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Book cover of The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

Muhammad Atique Author Of Algorithmic Saga

From Muhammad's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

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I loved this book because it finally put words to a discomfort I have felt for years but could never fully articulate. As I read, I kept thinking about students, classrooms, and even my own daily habits, and how subtly anxiety has become normalized. What struck me most was how deeply this book resonated with my lived experience, not just my academic interests. I found myself pausing often, reflecting on childhood, attention, and emotional resilience in a screen-saturated world. This book stayed with me because it made me more attentive to how fragile human development can be when technology quietly rewires our social foundations.

By Jonathan Haidt ,

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11 authors picked The Anxious Generation as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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An urgent and insightful investigation into the collapse in youth mental health, from the influential social psychologist and international bestselling author

Jonathan Haidt has spent his career speaking truth and wisdom in some of the most difficult spaces - communities polarized by politics and religion, campuses battling culture wars, and now the mental health emergency hitting teenagers today in many countries around the world.

In The Anxious Generation, Haidt shows how, between 2010 and 2015, childhood and adolescence got rewired. As teens traded in their flip phones for smartphones packed with social media apps, time online soared, including time spent…


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The High House by James Stoddard,

The Victorian mansion, Evenmere, is the mechanism that runs the universe.

The lamps must be lit, or the stars die. The clocks must be wound, or Time ceases. The Balance between Order and Chaos must be preserved, or Existence crumbles.

Appointed the Steward of Evenmere, Carter Anderson must learn the…

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Fred Bowen Author Of Extra Innings

From Fred's 3 favorite reads in 2024.

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Author Sports fan Avid reader Former Washington Post Kids Post Sports Columnist Former lawyer

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Fred Bowen Why Fred loves this book

I am a history buff but I have not read that many books about the Pacific theater in WWII.

Thomas examines the final months of the war through the eyes of three of its most important participants: American Secretary of War, Henry Stimson; Head of U.S. Strategic Bombing in the Pacific, General Carl Spaatz; and Japan's War Minister and member of the Japanese War Council, Shigenori Togo.

Road to Surrender is well-written, deeply researched and just plain exciting. It also addresses one of the most interesting questions of the 20th century: Should America have dropped the atomic bomb on Japan?

By Evan Thomas ,

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1 author picked Road to Surrender as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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'A true page-turner.' All About History,


'Urgent, compulsively readable and powerfully resonant' Sinclair McKay

You know Oppenheimer, the man who created the atomic bomb...

Now meet the men who detonated it, and the extraordinary weight of their decisions...

Road to Surrender by New York Times bestselling author Evan Thomas is a riveting, immersive account of the agonizing decision to use nuclear weapons against Japan - a crucial turning point in World War II and geopolitical history.

At 9:20 a.m. on the morning of May 30, General Groves receives a message to report to the office of the secretary of war…


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