The Vergecast
The Verge
The Vergecast is the flagship podcast from The Verge about small gadgets, Big Tech, and everything in between. Every Friday, hosts Nilay Patel and David Pierce hang out and make sense of the week’s most important technology news. And every Tuesday, David leads a selection of The Verge’s expert staffers in an exploration of how gadgets and software affect our lives – and which ones you should bring into yours.
Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on The Vergecast podcast:
#1 Mentioned in 5 episodes
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
Shoshana Zuboff
#2 Mentioned in 3 episodes
Ready Player One
Trivia-on-Books Staff
#3 Mentioned in 3 episodes
You are not a gadget
A Manifesto
Jaron Lanier
#4 Mentioned in 3 episodes
1984
George Orwell
#5 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Super Pumped
Mike Isaac
#6 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Peripheral
William Gibson
#7 Mentioned in 2 episodes
After Steve
How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul
Tripp Mickle
#8 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Notebook
Nicholas Sparks
#9 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Moonwalking with Einstein
The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
Joshua Foer
#10 Mentioned in 2 episodes
No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram
Sarah Frier
#11 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Sandworm
Andy Greenberg
#12 Mentioned in 2 episodes
It's Not TV
Leverette/Ott
#13 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Perfect King
Ian Mortimer
#14 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Ride of a Lifetime
Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
Robert Iger
#15 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Noom Kitchen
Adeena Sussman
#16 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Power Play
Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Bet of the Century
Tim Higgins
#17 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Minority Report
Philip K. Dick
#18 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Dividing America
How Russia Hacked Social Media and Democracy
Michael Bennet
#19 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Utopia
Sir Thomas More
#20 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Great Reversal
Kerry Brown
