Books read in 2012

Books read in 2012:

• Scott Atran, In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion
• Andrew Blum, Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet
• Henry A. Crumpton, The Art of Intelligence: Lessons from a Life in the CIA's Clandestine Service
• Robin Dreeke, It's Not All About "Me": The Top Ten Techniques for Building Quick Rapport with Anyone
• David Edmonds and John Eidinow, Rousseau's Dog: Two Great Thinkers at War in the Age of Enlightenment
• Bart D. Ehrman, Did Jesus Exist? The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth
• Misha Glenny, DarkMarket: How Hackers Became the New Mafia
• Grant Foster, Noise: Lies, Damned Lies, and Denial of Global Warming
• Torkel Franzén, Gödel's Theorem: An Incomplete Guide to Its Use and Abuse
• Andy Greenberg, This Machine Kills Secrets: How WikiLeakers, Cypherpunks, and Hacktivists Aim to Free the World's Information
• James Hannam, God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science
• Sam Harris, Lying
• Joseph Heath, Economics Without Illusions: Debunking the Myths of Modern Capitalism
• Edward Humes: Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America's Soul
• Ronald Kessler, The Secrets of the FBI
• Susan Landau, Surveillance or Security? The Risks Posed by New Wiretapping Technologies
• Declan McHugh, Bloody London: A Shocking Guide to London's Gruesome Past and Present
• Robert A. Melikian, Vanishing Phoenix
• Mike McRae, Tribal Science: Brains, Beliefs, and Bad Ideas
• P.T. Mistlberger, The Three Dangerous Magi: Osho, Gurdjieff, Crowley
• Evgeny Morozov, The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom
• Eduardo Obregón Pagán, Historic Photos of Phoenix
• Parmy Olson, We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency
• Bruce Schneier, Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive
• Ali H. Soufan, with Daniel Freedman, The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against Al-Qaeda
• Neal Stephenson, REAMDE
• Cole Stryker, Epic Win for Anonymous: How 4chan's Army Conquered the Web
• Tim Weiner: Enemies: A History of the FBI
• Jon Winokur (compiler & editor), The Big Curmudgeon
• Tim Wu, The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires

I made substantial progress on a few large books:

• Ross Anderson, Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems (2nd ed)
• Mark Dowd, John McDonald, and Justin Schuh, The Art of Software Security Assessment: Identifying and Avoiding Software Vulnerabilities
• Stephen Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
• James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
• Michal Zalewski, The Tangled Web: A Guide to Securing Modern Web Applications

(Previously: 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005.)