Books read in 2014

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 Miéville, 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):

• 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

Top ten for 2014:  Sacks, Miéville, Isaacson, Hitchens (both), Wyllie, Zetter, Collins, Pielke Jr., Pigliucci and Boudry.

(Previously: 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005.)