Series

The Circle (Eggers)

Dave Eggers · 2 novels · 2013–2021

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Mae Holland lands a coveted job at the Circle, a Silicon Valley tech company whose relentless, cheerful push toward total transparency -- 'secrets are lies, sharing is caring, privacy is theft' -- gradually reveals itself as something closer to soft totalitarianism. Dave Eggers's The Circle follows Mae's rise inside the company as she buys further and further into its ideology, at increasing cost to her own privacy and the people around her. The 2021 follow-up, The Every, picks up with Mae now running the merged tech giant and a new employee questioning it from the inside.

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Reading order

The order the books came out.

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The Circle (Eggers) at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.

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By decade

  • 2010s1
  • 2020s1

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Mood

Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.

this series · the catalog · one dot = one book2 of 2 works carry a tone

Edges of the map

  • The Circledarkest · brightest · calmest · most intense

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