Books read in 2022

 Not much blogging going on here still, but here's my annual list of books read for 2022.

• Heather Adkins, Betsy Beyer, Paul Blankinship, Piotr Lewandowski, Ana Oprea, and Adam Stubblefield, Building Secure and Reliable Systems: Best Practices for Designing, Implementing, and Maintaining Systems (2020)
• Oliver Bullough, Butler to the World: How Britain Helps the World's Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away with Anything
• David Edmonds, The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle (2020)
• Ada Ferrer, Cuba: An American History
• Paul Fisher, House of Wits: An Intimate Portrait of the James Family (2008)
• Robert W. Gehl and Sean T. Lawson, Social Engineering: How Crowdmasters, Phreaks, Hackers, and Trolls Created a New Form of Manipulative Communication (available via Open Access)
• Adam Gorightly, Saucers, Spooks and Kooks: UFO Disinformation in the Age of Aquarius (2021)
• Garrett M. Graff, Watergate: A New History
• Andy Greenberg, Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency
• Jan T. Gregor with Tim Cridland, Circus of the Scars: The True Inside Odyssey of a Modern Circus Sideshow (1998)
• Thomas Harman, Esq., A Caveat or Warning for Common Cursetors, Vulgarly Called Vagabonds (1814 reprint of 1566 pamphlet)
• N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became (2020)
• Thomas Levenson, Money for Nothing: The Scientists, Fraudsters, and Corrupt Politicians Who Reinvented Money, Panicked a Nation, and Made the World Rich (2020)
• Michael Lewis, The Premonition: A Pandemic Story (2021)
• Michael W. Lucas, OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems
• Alan C. Logan, The Greatest Hoax on Earth: Catching Truth, While We Can (2020)
• David McRaney, How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion
• Tim Miller, Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell
• Jefferson Morley, Scorpions' Dance: The President, the Spymaster, and Watergate
• Wes Patience, From Bjäre to Bisbee: An Immigrant's Tale (2006)
• Douglas Rushkoff, Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
• Sara Schaefer, Grand: A Memoir (2020)
• P.W. Singer and August Cole, Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution (2020)
• Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, Don't Trust Your Gut: Using Data to Get What You Really Want In Life
• Stuart Stevens, It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump (2020)
• Will Storr, The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It
• Terry Teachout, The Skeptic: A Life of H.L. Mencken (2002)
• Michal Zalewski, Practical Doomsday: A User's Guide to the End of the World

Top for 2022: Ferrer, Levenson, Graff, Greenberg, Miller, Zalewski, McRaney, Storr, Logan (even though it's a 2020 book), Jemisin (likewise)

A few planned reads for 2023 (mostly already started):

G.A. Cohen, Self-Ownership, Freedom, and Equality (1995)

John Ferris, Behind the Enigma: The Authorised History of GCHQ, Britain's Secret Cyber-Intelligence Agency (2020)

Final Report of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol

Kevin M. Levin, Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War's Most Persistent Myth (2019)

Chris A. Rutkowski, Canada's UFOs: Declassified (2022)

Will Sommer, Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America (pre-ordered, to be released in late Feb 2023)

Steve Vladeck, The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic (pre-ordered, to be released in late May 2023)

Peter H. Wilson, The Holy Roman Empire: A Thousand Years of Europe's History (2017)

(Previously: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005.)