Snow Crash
1992 · 440 pages
Stephenson coined the word Metaverse in these pages, and Facebook renamed itself after the idea. His sword-carrying hacker delivers pizza for the Mafia and fights a virus that infects minds through language.
★ 4.8
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Business Adventures
1969 · 464 pages
Twelve New Yorker reports on how companies behave: Ford burning millions on the Edsel, a grocer trying to corner his own stock. Bill Gates calls it the best business book he has read.
★ 4.3