Best Books About Screen Time and Digital Addiction

Parenting Around Technology

iGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy – and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood–and What That Means for the Rest of Us

by Jean M. Twenge

by Nicholas Kardaras

The Art of Screen Time: Digital Parenting Without Fear

by Anya Kamenetz

Screen Schooled: Two Veteran Teachers Expose How Technology Overuse Is Making Our Kids Dumber

by Joe Clement & Matt Miles

Screens and Teens: Connecting with Our Kids in a Wireless World

by Kathy Koch PhD

Deviced!: Balancing Life and Technology in a Digital World

by Doreen Dodgen-Magee

The Tech-Wise Family: Everyday Steps for Putting Technology in Its Proper Place

Disconnected: How To Reconnect Our Digitally Distracted Kids

by Thomas J Kersting

Reset Your Child’s Brain: A Four-Week Plan to End Meltdowns, Raise Grades, and Boost Social Skills by Reversing the Effects of Electronic Screen-Time

by Victoria L. Dunckley MD

Screen Time: How Electronic Media-From Baby Videos to Educational Software-Affects Your Young Child

by Lisa Guernsey

iRules: What Every Tech-Healthy Family Needs to Know about Selfies, Sexting, Gaming, and Growing up

by Janell Burley Hofmann

Raising Humans in a Digital World: Helping Kids Build a Healthy Relationship with Technology

by Diana Graber

The Big Disconnect: Protecting Childhood and Family Relationships in the Digital Age

by Catherine Steiner-Adair EdD. and Teresa H. Barker

Parenting in a Tech World: A handbook for raising kids in the digital age

by Matt McKee and Titania Jordan

Spoiled Right: Delaying Screens and Giving Children What They Really Need

by Meghan Owenz

Persuasive Technology & Digital Addiction

Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked

Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now

by Jaron Lanier

The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads

Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas

by Natasha Dow Schüll

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

by Shoshana Zuboff

The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

by Nicholas Carr

Evil by Design: Interaction Design to Lead Us into Temptation

by Chris Nodder

The Craving Mind: From Cigarettes to Smartphones to Love – Why We Get Hooked and How We Can Break Bad Habits

by Judson Brewer

Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

by Robert B. Cialdini

Persuasive Technology: Using Computers to Change What We Think and Do

The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future

Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

by Safiya Umoja Noble

Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

by Cathy O’Neil

Modern Psychometrics

by John Rust, Michal Kosinski, David Stillwell

Digital Wellbeing & Science of Habits

Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything

Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life

Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life

by Catherine Price

Deep Work (Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World)

Parenting & Child Development

The Teenage Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults

by Frances E Jensen

American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers

by Nancy Jo Sales

The Self-Driven Child: The Science and Sense of Giving Your Kids More Control Over Their Lives

by William Stixrud PhD and Ned Johnson

Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood

by Lisa Damour Ph.D.

Parenting with Love and Logic: Teaching Children Responsibility

by Foster Cline and Jim Fay

The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed

by Jessica Lahey

How To Raise An Adult

by Julie Lythcott-Haims