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Kara Swisher

 Kara Swisher is an American technology business journalist and co-founder of Recode. She became a contributing writer to The New York Times Opinion Section in 2018. Previously she wrote for The Wall Street Journal, serving as co-executive editor of All Things Digital. 

11 Recommended books from Kara Swisher

  • A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories

    by Ray Bradbury August 30, 2005 Literature & Fiction

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    4.6 stars

    261 ratings

    With his disarmingly simple style and complex imagination, Ray Bradbury has seized the minds of American readers for decades.Th...

  • Markings

    by Dag Hammarskjold October 10, 2006 Literature & Fiction

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    4.4 stars

    174 ratings

    "Perhaps the greatest testament of personal devotion published in this century." — The New York Times

    A powerful journal...

  • Permanent Record

    by Edward Snowden September 17, 2019 Politics & Social Sciences

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    4.8 stars

    10,066 ratings

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

    **Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass s...

  • She Said

    by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey June 30, 2020 Biographies & Memoirs

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    4.5 stars

    1,220 ratings

    Named one of the Top Ten Works of Journalism of the Decade by New York University

    The instant New York Times bestseller
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  • Slouching Towards Bethlehem

    by Joan Didion October 28, 2008 Literature & Fiction

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    4.5 stars

    1,474 ratings

    The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, Joan Didion's Slouching Towards Bethlehem...

  • Super Pumped

    by Mike Isaac September 3, 2019 Business & Money

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    4.5 stars

    705 ratings

    New York Times and Wall Street Journal Bestseller

    **A New York Times technology correspondent presents the dramati...

  • The Araboolies of Liberty Street

    by Sam Swope April 9, 2001 Children's Books

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    4.8 stars

    85 ratings

    A “very vivid and entertaining tale of fair play and poetic justice,”* The Araboolies of Liberty Street by writer Sam Swope a...

  • The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition

    by William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White July 23, 1999 Reference

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    4.7 stars

    7,284 ratings

    _You know the authors' names. You recognize the title. You've probably used this book yourself. This is The Elements of Style, ...

  • The Trial

    by Franz Kafka May 25, 1999 Literature & Fiction

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    4.6 stars

    743 ratings

    Written in 1914, The Trial is one of the most important novels of the twentieth century: the terrifying tale of Josef K., a r...

  • The White Album

    by Joan Didion November 10, 2009 Literature & Fiction

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    4.6 stars

    995 ratings

    First published in 1979, Joan Didion's The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s.

    Exami...

  • Trick Mirror

    by Jia Tolentino July 14, 2020 Literature & Fiction

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    4.4 stars

    203 ratings

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “From The New Yorker’s beloved cultural critic comes a bold, unflinching collection of essays a...

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