Books read in 2023

 Not much blogging going on here still, but here's my annual list of books read for 2023.

• Angel Au-Yeung and David Jeans, Wonder Boy: Tony Hsieh, Zappos, and the Myth of Happiness in Silicon Valley
• Isaac Butler, The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act (2022)
• Cory Doctorow, Red Team Blues (fiction)
• David Edmonds, Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality
• Zeke Faux, Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
• Kevin Fedarko, The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon (2013)
• Roger Friedland and Harold Zellman, The Fellowship: The Untold Story of Frank Lloyd Wright & The Taliesin Fellowship (2006)
• James Gleick, The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood (2011)
• Penn Jillette, Random (2022) (fiction)
• Mark Holloway, Utopian Communities in America, 1680-1880 (1966, 2nd edition, 1st edition was titled Heavens on Earth)
• Claire Hughes Johnson, Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building (2022)
• R.A. Lafferty, The Best of R.A. Lafferty (2019) (fiction)
• Kevin M. Levin, Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War's Most Persistent Myth (2019)
• Michael Lewis, Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
• Shane Murphy, John Hance: The Life, Lies, and Legend of Grand Canyon's Greatest Storyteller (2020)
• Erik Reece, Utopia Drive: A Road Trip Through America's Most Radical Idea (2016)
• Rudy Rucker and Bruce Sterling, Transreal Cyberpunk (2016) (fiction)
• Chris A. Rutkowski, Canada's UFOs Declassified (2022)
• Christa Sadler, editor, There's This River... Grand Canyon Boatman Stories (2nd ed., 2006)
• Bruce Schneier, A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend them Back
• Will Sommer, Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America
• Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism (2019)
• Leonie Swann, Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Story (2005) (fiction)
• Stephen Vladeck, The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic
• Simon Winchester, Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
• Tom Zoellner, Rim to River: Looking into the Heart of Arizona
• Final Report of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol

Top for 2023 published in 2023: Edmonds, Zoellner, Sommer, Vladeck, Faux; other top reads for the year: Swann, Stewart, Friedland & Zellman, Edmonds, Lafferty, Holloway

A few planned reads for 2024 (already in progress):

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)

Chris Rodda, Liars for Jesus: The Religious Right's Alternate Version of American History, vol. 2 (2016)

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

The Economist posted this chart of number of books read this year from a YouGov/Economist survey:

(Previously: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005.)