Books read in 2013

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):

• 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

Top ten for 2013:  Ebert, Kahneman, Wright, Anderson, Pinker, Seaman, Walker, Sacks, Deibert, Dennett.  Runners Up: Blum, Kim, Miscavige Hill.

(Previously: 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005.)