Five hundred years ago, the worst someone could do to you was gossip behind your back in the village square. Now? One click and your embarrassing karaoke video is global, immortal, and possibly being used in an AI training dataset. Welcome to The Circle—a tech utopia so shiny, so flawless, so connected, that privacy isn’t just dead… it’s extinct, cremated, and its ashes uploaded to the cloud.

Mae Holland thinks she’s hit the jackpot: a dream job at the most influential internet company in the world. The Circle’s campus is a playground for the mind—organic smoothie bars, art installations, yoga at lunch, and algorithms that really care about you (or so they say). But behind the smiling logos and mission statements of “sharing is caring” and “secrets are lies” lurks something darker. Every interaction, every movement, every relationship becomes part of a relentless push toward absolute transparency.

Eggers doesn’t just tell a story; he holds up a mirror to our own scrolling, liking, hash tagging selves. It’s sharp, unsettling, and just close enough to reality to make you nervously check your privacy settings (then realise… too late).

Read this and you’ll never look at “Terms & Conditions” the same way again. Or worse—you’ll start reading them.

Product Details:

Author: Dave Eggers

Format: Paperback

Pages: 504

Dimensions: 5.2 x 1.1 x 8 inches

ISBN: 978-0804172296