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2025 Book Lovers Challenge for January: Read a book about A.I.

Our 2025 Book Lovers Challenge encourages you to explore new authors and genres in 2025. Our January challenge is to read about Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) The list below includes both fiction and non-fiction books for your reading exploration!

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  • AI for Life

    100+ Ways to Use Artificial Intelligence to Make Your Life Easier, More Productive ... and More Fun!

    Quillian, Celia
    Beginning with a primer on the basics-including an overview of the popular and free AI tools- this book covers expert-tested tips and tricks to get the most out of your AI use, such as layering prompts to dive deeper into an initial response or…
    Book, 2025Stoughton, MA : Adams Media, 2025.
  • The Storm of Progress

    Climate Change, AI, and the Roots of Our Dangerous Ethical Myopia

    Rowland, Wade
    In a time of existential threats from climate change, computer-based superintelligences, AI-accelerated nuclear and biological warfare and more, we can no longer avoid some profound questions about what's going on. We need to ask: what kind of…
    Book, 2024Montreal : Linda Leith Publishing, [2024]
  • Co-intelligence

    Living and Working With AI

    Mollick, Ethan, 1975-
    This book urges us not to turn away from AI, and instead to invite AI tools to the table. The author demonstrates how AI can amplify our own capacities, acting in roles from brainstorming partner to cowriter to tutor to coach, and assesses its…
    Book, 2024New York : Portfolio/Penguin, [2024]
  • The Algorithm

    How AI Decides Who Gets Hired, Monitored, Promoted, and Fired and Why We Need to Fight Back Now

    Schellmann, Hilke
    AI is now being used to decide who has access to an education, who gets hired, who gets fired, and who receives a promotion. Drawing on exclusive information from whistleblowers, internal documents, and real-world tests, Schellmann discovers that…
    Book, 2024New York : Hachette Books, 2024.
  • This daring speculative novel tackles the most pressing issues of our time--from artificial intelligence and the genetic modification of humans to gender roles, discrimination, free speech, and class divisions. Gorgeously written, bold, and…
    Book, 2025Toronto, ON : Spiderline, 2025.
  • Robots and the People Who Love Them

    Holding on to Our Humanity in An Age of Social Robots

    Herold, Eve
    This book is about socially interactive robots and how they will transform friendship, work, home life, love, warfare, education, and nearly every nook and cranny of modern life. Drawing upon recent research in the development of social robots,…
    Book, 2024New York : St. Martin's Press, 2024.
  • Deep Utopia

    Life and Meaning in a Solved World

    Bostrom, Nick, 1973-
    Suppose that we develop superintelligence safely, govern it well, and make good use of the cornucopian wealth and near magical technological powers that this technology can unlock. If this transition to the machine intelligence era goes well, human…
    Book, 2024Washington, DC : Ideapress Publishing, [2024]
  • The Handover

    How We Gave Control of Our Lives to Corporations, States and AIs

    Runciman, David
    An eminent political thinker uses our history with states and corporations-"artificial agents" to which we have granted immense power-to predict how AI will remake society. Much has been written about the arrival of artificial intelligence, but…
    Book, 2023New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2023.
  • Artificial Intelligence

    Modern Magic or Dangerous Future?

    Wilks, Yorick, 1939-
    AI expert Yorick Wilks takes a journey through the history of artificial intelligence up to the present day, examining its origins, controversies and achievements, as well as looking into just how it works. He also considers the future, assessing…
    Book, 2023Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, [2023]
  • A Brief History of Intelligence

    Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains

    Bennett, Max S. (Max Solomon),
    This title synthesizes the most relevant scientific knowledge and cutting-edge research to create an easy-to-understand and riveting evolutionary story. With sweeping scope and stunning insights, A Brief History of Brains proves that understanding…
    Book, 2023New York : Mariner Books, 2023.
  • How to Talk to Robots

    a Girls` Guide to a Future Dominated by AI

    Goldstaub, Tabitha,
    How To Talk To Robots is your "girls guide" to Artificial Intelligence. Entrepreneur Tabitha Goldstaub breaks down the tech-bro barriers offering a straightforward introduction and makes clear the enormous benefits of understanding AI. However, the…
    Book, 2020London : 4th Estate, 2020.
  • Lee knows she's the best. A professor favorite and fellowship winner, there's no doubt she'll land one of the coveted jobs at a Big Five corporation. So when, upon graduating, Lee is instead assigned to an unknown company in the dead city of New…
    Book, 2024New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024.
  • Dream Machine

    a Portrait of Artificial Intelligence

    Appupen
    This graphic novel tells the story of Hugo, a Parisian entrepreneur, who has launched his startup on Large Language Model technology at the heart of the revolution embodied by ChatGPT. On the verge of securing the deal of the century with the…
    Book, 2024Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, [2024]
  • Kat is a cop who trusts her intuition, honed through years of on-the-beat police work. Picked to lead a pilot program that has her paired with AIDE (Artificially Intelligent Detective Entity) Lock, a hologram that is activated by a device on Kat's…
    Book, 2023New York : Random House, 2023.
  • Henry is a brilliant engineer who, after untold hours spent in his home laboratory, has achieved the discovery of his career -- he has created artificially intelligent consciousness. He calls the half-formed robot William. No one knows about…
    Book, 2024New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, [2024]
  • Digital Dharma

    How AI Can Elevate Spiritual Intelligence and Personal Well-being

    Chopra, Deepak
    This title tackles the little-discussed spiritual benefits of AI and its vast potential to solve the greatest mystery confronting us: consciousness itself. By navigating the intricate balance between innovation and spirituality, Chopra explains that…
    Book, 2024New York : Harmony, [2024]