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:
(Previously: 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005.)
- 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.)
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3 comments:
Top 3?
I'm not sure I can narrow it to three. Schneier, Weiner, Wu, Morozov, and Edmonds/Eidinow are probably the top five. Soufan, Olson, Greenberg, Hannam, and Heath probably round out the top ten. Atran would be higher if he had a better editor.
I've got Monkey Girl on my Kindle but haven't gotten around to it yet ... I might have to move it up in the queue though. Want to read Enemies but haven't even started my copy of Legacy of Ashes.
I will second Edmonds/Eidinow. I'm partial to Rousseau's Dog for obvious reasons, but Wittgenstein's Poker is also excellent (and probably a better book, overall)
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