Not much blogging going on here lately, but here's my annual list of books read for 2014:
- James Altucher, The Choose Yourself Stories
- Nate Anderson, The Internet Police: How Crime Went Online, and the Cops Followed
- David V. Barrett, A Brief History of Secret Societies: An Unbiased History of Our Desire for Secret Knowledge
- Peter Burke, A Social History of Knowledge, vol. 2, From the Encyclopedie to Wikipedia
- Danielle Keats Citron, Hate Crimes in Cyberspace
- Harry Collins, Are We All Scientific Experts Now?
- Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22
- Christopher Hitchens, Mortality
- Bruce E. Hunsberger and Bob Altemeyer, Atheists: A Groundbreaking Study of America's Nonbelievers
- Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs
- Brian Krebs, Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime--From Global Epidemic to Your Front Door
- Kembrew McLeod, Pranksters: Making Mischief in the Modern World
- China MiƩville, The City and the City
- Roger Pielke, Jr., The Climate Fix: What Scientists and Politicians Won't Tell You About Global Warming
- Michael Sacasas, The Tourist and the Pilgrim: Essays on Life and Technology in the Digital Age
- Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood
- James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
- Karen Stollznow, God Bless America: Strange and Unusual Religious Beliefs and Practices in the United States
- Daniel Suarez, Daemon
- Daniel Suarez, Freedom
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile
- Sabrina Verney, XTUL: An Experience of The Process
- Timothy Wyllie, Love Sex Fear Death: The Inside Story of the Process Church of the Final Judgment
- Kim Zetter, Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
I made progress on a few other books (first five this year, next four from last year, last two still not finished from two years ago):
(Previously: 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005.)
- Gabriella Coleman, Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous
- Peter Gutmann, Engineering Security
- Andrew Jaquith, Security Metrics: Replacing Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt
- Massimo Pigliucci and Maarten Boudry, Philosophy of Pseudoscience: Reconsidering the Demarcation Problem
- Steven Pinker, The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
- 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
- Mark Dowd, John McDonald, and Justin Schuh, The Art of Software Security Assessment: Identifying and Avoiding Software Vulnerabilities
- Michal Zalewski, The Tangled Web: A Guide to Securing Modern Web Applications
(Previously: 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005.)