Books read in 2015
Not much blogging going on here lately, but here's my annual list of books read for 2015:
- George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller, Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation & Deception
- Jeffrey S Bardin, The Illusion of Due Diligence: Notes from the CISO Underground
- Bill Browder, Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice
- Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton
- Gabriella Coleman, Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous
- Karen Dawisha, Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia?
- Laura DeNardis, The Global War for Internet Governance
- Daniel C. Dennett and Linda LaScola, Caught in the Pulpit: Leaving Belief Behind
- Mary Douglas and Aaron Wildavsky, Risk and Culture: An Essay on the Selection of Technological and Environmental Dangers
- William J. Drake and Monroe Price, editors, Internet Governance: The NETmundial Roadmap
- Jon Friedman and Mark Bouchard, Definitive Guide to Cyber Threat Intelligence
- Marc Goodman, Future Crimes: Everything is Connected, Everyone is Vulnerable, and What We Can Do About It
- Marc Hallet, A Critical Appraisal of George Adamski: The Man Who Spoke to the Space Brothers
- Shane Harris, @War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex
- Peter T. Leeson, The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates
- Reed Massengill, Becoming American Express: 150 Years of Reinvention and Customer Service
- James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales, Live From New York: The Complete, Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live, as Told By Its Stars, Writers, and Guests (two new chapters)
- David T. Moore, Critical Thinking and Intelligence Analysis
- Richard E. Nisbett, Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking
- Tony Ortega, The Unbreakable Miss Lovely: How the Church of Scientology Tried to Destroy Paulette Cooper
- Whitney Phillips, This is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship Between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture
- Joseph M. Reagle, Jr., Reading the Comments: Likers, Haters, and Manipulators at the Bottom of the Web
- Jon Ronson, Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries
- Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed
- Bruce Schneier, Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World
- P.W. Singer and Allan Friedman, Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know
- David Skarbek, The Social Order of the Underworld: How Prison Gangs Govern the American Penal System
- Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan, The Red Web: The Struggle Between Russia's Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries
- Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner, Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
- Richard H. Thaler, Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
I made progress on a few other books (first two last year, next four from 2014, next three from 2013, last two still not finished from 2012--I have trouble with very long nonfiction e-books):
(Previously: 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005.)
- Roger Z. George and James B. Bruce, editors, Analyzing Intelligence: Origins, Obstacles, and Innovations
- John Searle, Making the Social World
- 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
- 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: 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005.)
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