Five books to get a grip on internet addiction

Olivia Sudjic’s debut novel is Sympathy. At the Guardian, she tagged five of the best books to explain how we behave in the digital world, including:

Jon Ronson’s So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed (2015) manages to be addictive reading – as compulsive as any online newsfeed – while distancing itself from the hysteria social media can induce. It demonstrates a nuanced and well-balanced analysis of our online behaviour.

Read about the other entries on the list.

So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed is among Helen FitzGerald's ten top books about the dangers of the web.

--Marshal Zeringue