Sunday, January 01, 2023

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)
    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: 20212020201920182017201620152014201320122011201020092008200720062005.)