| Trigger happy: Videogames and the entertainment revolution S Poole Arcade Publishing, 2004 | 840 | 2004 |
| Trigger Happy: the Inner Life of Video Games S Poole London: 4th Estate, 2000 | 526* | 2000 |
| Unspeak: Words are weapons S Poole (No Title), 2007 | 136 | 2007 |
| The truth about smart cities:'In the end, they will destroy democracy' Guardian, S Poole The Guardian., 2014 | 77 | 2014 |
| Your brain on pseudoscience: The rise of popular neurobollocks S Poole New Statesman 6, 2012 | 46 | 2012 |
| Unspeak: How words become weapons, how weapons become a message, and how that message becomes reality S Poole Grove/Atlantic, Inc., 2007 | 40 | 2007 |
| You Aren't What You Eat: fed up with gastroculture S Poole Signal, 2012 | 31 | 2012 |
| Let’s start the foodie backlash S Poole The Guardian 10, 12, 2012 | 22 | 2012 |
| Character forming S Poole Game on: The History and Culture of Videogames, 76-85, 2002 | 21 | 2002 |
| Rethink: the surprising history of new ideas S Poole Simon and Schuster, 2016 | 20 | 2016 |
| Top nine things you need to know about ‘listicles’ S Poole The Guardian 12, 2013 | 19 | 2013 |
| Is our love of nature writing bourgeois escapism? S Poole The Guardian 6, 40-48, 2013 | 19 | 2013 |
| Why are we so obsessed with the pursuit of authenticity S Poole New Statesman 7, 2013 | 18 | 2013 |
| Haruki Murakami:'I'm an outcast of the Japanese literary world.' S Poole The Guardian 13, 2014 | 16 | 2014 |
| Jean Baudrillard: Philosopher and sociologist who blurred the boundaries between reality and simulation S Poole Guardian Unlimited, March 7, 2007 | 14 | 2007 |
| The impossible world of MC Escher S Poole The Guardian 1, 2015 | 11 | 2015 |
| Working for the Man-Against the Employment Paradigm in Video Games S Poole Keynote Presentation, Future and Reality of Games. Retrieved June, 2008 | 9 | 2008 |
| Headache or hard-on? S Poole, FS Saunders New Statesman 130 (4547), 46-46, 2001 | 6 | 2001 |
| Solid Geometry S Poole Trigger Happy. The Inner Life of Videogames, 125-148, 2000 | 4 | 2000 |
| Why Don’t We Make It All Up?’ S Poole Independent on Sunday 30, 1998 | 4 | 1998 |