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Books like The Last Days of Night
The best books like The Last Days of Night are The Innovator's Dilemma, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, and The Devil in the White City. The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore is about invention, patent law, ambition. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- The Innovator's Dilemma
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Clayton M. Christensen · Business
Christensen's argument, published in 1997, is deceptively simple: the very practices that make companies excellent at serving their current customers — listening carefully, investing in proven technologies, targeting the most profitable segments — are precisely what causes them to miss disruptive innovations.
Both dig into innovation.
Read the summary → - Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
John Carreyrou · Business
Bad Blood is Wall Street Journal reporter John Carreyrou's account of Theranos, the blood-testing startup founded by Elizabeth Holmes that claimed its proprietary technology could run hundreds of diagnostic tests from a single finger-prick of blood.
A kindred history read.
Read the summary → - The Devil in the White City
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Erik Larson · History
The Devil in the White City tells two stories that unfolded simultaneously in Chicago in 1893.
A kindred history read.
Read the summary → - American Prometheus
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Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin · Biography
Kai Bird and Martin J.
A kindred history read.
Read the summary → - Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
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Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
Ashlee Vance · Biography
Ashlee Vance's biography of Elon Musk is the most comprehensive account of Musk's life and companies up to 2015, written with Musk's cooperation after an initial refusal and a long negotiation.
Shares ambition and innovation with The Last Days of Night.
Read the summary → - Americana
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Bhu Srinivasan · History
Americana is Bhu Srinivasan's attempt to tell the history of American capitalism through its defining industries and the entrepreneurs who built them.
Both dig into innovation.
Read the summary → - Empires of Light
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Jill Jonnes · History
Empires of Light is Jill Jonnes's history of the War of Currents — the late-nineteenth-century battle between Thomas Edison's direct-current electrical system and George Westinghouse's alternating-current system, with Nikola Tesla as the third figure whose genius made AC practical.
Both dig into innovation.
Read the summary → - How the Internet Happened
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Brian McCullough · History
How the Internet Happened covers the commercial history of the internet from the release of Mosaic in 1993 to the launch of the iPhone in 2007 — the window in which the web went from academic experiment to the defining infrastructure of modern life.
Both dig into innovation.
Read the summary → - How We Got to Now
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Steven Johnson · History
How We Got to Now traces six innovations — glass, cold, sound, clean, time, and light — and follows each one through unexpected chains of consequence into the present.
Both dig into innovation.
Read the summary → - Thunderstruck
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Erik Larson · History
Thunderstruck interweaves two narratives set in Edwardian England and the North Atlantic: the story of Guglielmo Marconi's obsessive drive to make wireless telegraphy work across the Atlantic Ocean, and the story of Hawley Harvey Crippen, a mild-mannered American doctor who murdered his wife in London in 1910 and fled with his mistress — only to be captured at sea because of a wireless telegraph message, the first criminal caught with the technology's help.
Both dig into innovation.
Read the summary → - Where Wizards Stay Up Late
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Katie Hafner & Matthew Lyon · History
Where Wizards Stay Up Late is the history of ARPANET, the government-funded network that became the technical foundation of the internet.
Both dig into innovation.
Read the summary → - 10% Happier
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Dan Harris · Memoir
10% Happier is Dan Harris's account of discovering meditation after a panic attack live on Good Morning America in 2004 forced him to confront an anxiety problem he'd been managing with cocaine and a punishing work schedule.
Both dig into ambition.
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Books like The Last Days of Night: quick answers
What are the best books like The Last Days of Night?
The best books like The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore are The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou, The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson, American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Last Days of Night, such as invention, patent law, ambition.
What should I read after The Last Days of Night?
A natural next read after The Last Days of Night is The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen. Both dig into innovation. Other strong choices are Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou, The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson, American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin.
What books are similar to The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore?
The Last Days of Night centers on invention, patent law, ambition. Books with a similar feel include The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou, The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson, American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance, Americana by Bhu Srinivasan — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
