What to Read After Code
Readers who loved Code by Lawrence Lessig keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Code is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Code
The future of the Internet and how to stop it
The Cathedral & the Bazaar
The wealth of networks
The Master Switch
Who controls the Internet?
Convergence culture
Delete
From Counterculture to Cyberculture
Information Doesn't Want to Be Free
Being digital
Consent of the networked
The Social Life of Information
This Machine Kills Secrets
Remix
The Future of Ideas
Free culture
No sense of place
Content
Understanding Privacy
Nothing to hide the false tradeoff between privacy and security
Communication Power
The Creation of the Media
Life on the screen
Dragnet Nation