Books read in 2018
Not much blogging going on here still, but here's my annual list of books read for 2018.
- Charles Arthur, Cyber Wars: Hacks that Shocked the Business World
- Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington, The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South
- Mary Beard, SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
- Yochai Benkler, Robert Faris, and Hal Roberts, Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics
- Ronen Bergman, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
- Rebecca Burns and David Dayen, Fat Cat: The Steve Mnuchin Story
- John Carreyrou, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
- Graydon Carter, George Kalogerakis, and Kurt Andersen, Spy: The Funny Years
- Stephen Ellis, This Present Darkness: A History of Nigerian Organized Crime
- Jason Fagone, The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies
- Paul French, City of Devils: The Two Men Who Ruled the Underworld of Old Shanghai
- Diego Gambetta, Codes of the Underworld: How Criminals Communicate
- Robert M. Gates, Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War
- Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
- David Golumbia, The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism
- Richards J. Heuer Jr. and Randolph H. Pherson, Structured Analytic Techniques for Intelligence Analysis
- Michael Isikoff and David Corn, Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump
- Sarah Jeong, The Internet of Garbage
- Steven Johnson, Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most
- Louise M. Kaiser and Randolph H. Pherson, Analytic Writing Guide
- Chuck Klosterman, But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
- Susan Landau, Listening In: Cybersecurity in an Insecure Age
- Peter T. Leeson, WTF?! An Economic Tour of the Weird
- Jeffrey Lewis, The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United States
- Michael Lewis, The Fifth Risk
- Liliana Mason, Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity
- Nick Mason, Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd (new updated 2017 edition)
- Tim Maurer, Cyber Mercenaries: The State, Hackers, and Power
- Jefferson Morley, The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton
- Roger Naylor, The Amazing Kolb Brothers of Grand Canyon
- Helen Nissenbaum, Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life
- Ellen Pao, Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change
- Dana Richards, editor, Dear Martin/Dear Marcello: Gardner and Truzzi on Skepticism
- Louis Rossetto, Change Is Good: A Story of the Heroic Era of the Internet (1st edition, #1453, Kickstarter)
- David E. Sanger, The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age
- Eli Saslow, Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist
- Harold Schechter, The Pirate (Amazon Prime Reading "Bloodlands Collection")
- Harold Schechter, Little Slaughterhouse on the Prairie (Amazon Prime Reading "Bloodlands Collection")
- Harold Schechter, The Brick Slayer (Amazon Prime Reading "Bloodlands Collection")
- Harold Schechter, Panic (Amazon Prime Reading "Bloodlands Collection")
- Harold Schechter, Rampage (Amazon Prime Reading "Bloodlands Collection")
- Harold Schechter, The Pied Piper (Amazon Prime Reading "Bloodlands Collection")
- Natasha Dow Schüll, Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas
- Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson, The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life
- P.W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking, LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media
- Ali Soufan, Anatomy of Terror: From the Death of Bin Laden to the Rise of the Islamic State
- Robert Timberg, The Nightingale's Song (bio of John McCain, James Webb, Oliver North, Robert McFarlane, and John Poindexter)
- Mick West, Escaping the Rabbit Hole: How to Debunk Conspiracy Theories Using Facts, Logic, and Respect
- Rick Wilson, Everything Trump Touches Dies: A Republican Strategist Gets Real About the Worst President Ever
- Michael Wolff, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
- Bob Woodward, Fear: Trump in the White House
- Tim Wu, The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age
I made some progress on a few other books:
(Previously: 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005.)
- Herbert Asbury, The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld (will probably finish today)
- Andrew Jaquith, Security Metrics: Replacing Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt
- Douglas Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander, Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking
(Previously: 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005.)