Not much blogging going on here lately, but here's my annual list of books read for 2013:
- Ross Anderson, Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems (2nd ed)
- Deborah Blum, Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death
- Peter Burke, A Social History of Knowledge: From Gutenberg to Diderot
- J.C. Carleson, Work Like a Spy: Business Tips from a Former CIA Officer
- Ronald J. Deibert, Black Code: Inside the Battle for Cyberspace
- Daniel Dennett, Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking
- Cory Doctorow, Homeland
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes (re-read, thanks to free Kindle edition)
- Roger Ebert, Life Itself: A Memoir
- John Forester, Novelist & Storyteller: The Life of C.S. Forester, vol. 1 & vol. 2
- Martin Gardner, Undiluted Hocus-Pocus: The Autobiography of Martin Gardner
- Adam Gorightly, The Prankster and the Conspiracy: The Story of Kerry Thornley and How He Met Oswald and Inspired the Counterculture
- Jason Healey, editor, A Fierce Domain: Conflict in Cyberspace, 1986 to 2012
- Jenna Miscavige Hill: Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape
- Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
- Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford, The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
- Dani Kollin and Eytan Kollin, The Unincorporated Man
- Jon Krakauer, Three Cups of Deceit: How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way
- Phil Lapsley, Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell
- Daniel Loxton and Donald R. Prothero, Abominable Science! Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids
- David W. Maurer, The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Men
- Philip Metcalfe, Whispering Wires: The Tragic Tale of an American Bootlegger
- Torin Monahan, editor, Surveillance and Security: Technological Politics and Power in Everyday Life
- Dale K. Myers, With Malice: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Murder of Officer J.D. Tippit
- Adam Penenberg, Virtually True
- Lewis Pinault, Consulting Demons: Inside the Unscrupulous World of Corporate Consulting
- Stephen Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
- Ann Rowe Seaman, America's Most Hated Woman: The Life and Gruesome Death of Madalyn Murray O'Hair
- Karl Sabbagh, Shooting Star: The Brief and Brilliant Life of Frank Ramsey
- Oliver Sacks, Hallucinations
- Jim Schnabel, Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies
- Tom Standage, Writing on the Wall: Social Media, The First 2,000 Years
- Will Storr, Heretics: Adventures with the Enemies of Science
- John Sweeney, The Church of Fear: Inside the Weird World of Scientology
- Jesse Walker, The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory
- Lawrence Wright, Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, & the Prison of Belief
I made progress on a few other books (first three still not finished from last year):
(Previously: 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005.)
- Mark Dowd, John McDonald, and Justin Schuh, The Art of Software Security Assessment: Identifying and Avoiding Software Vulnerabilities
- 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
- Richard Bejtlich, The Practice of Network Security Monitoring
- Mary Douglas and Aaron Wildavsky, Risk and Culture: An Essay on the Selection of Technological and Environmental Dangers
- James Grimmelmann, Internet Law: Cases & Problems (v2; v3 is out now)
- Douglas Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander, Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking
(Previously: 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005.)