Most recently read first. This list dates from summer 2009. Recommended titles are in bold, modeled after Aaron Swartz's excellent Review of Books.

• Principles: Life and Work, by Ray Dalio

• Hackers and Painters, by Paul Graham (reread).

• Animal Farm, by George Orwell.

• How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at An Answer, by Sarah Bakewell.

• Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams, by Matthew Walker.

• The Vanishing Stair (Truly Devious, #2), by Maureen Johnson.

• I Will Teach You to Be Rich, by Ramit Sethi.

• The Thirteenth Tale, by Diane Setterfield.

• The Bat, by Jo Nesbo.

• The President Is Missing, by Bill Clinton and James Patterson.

• The Case for Israel, by Alan Dershowitz.

• Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith, by Jon Krakauer.

• Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE, by Phil Knight.

• Find Your Why: A Practical Guide to Discovering Purpose for You and Your Team, by Simon Sinek, David Mead, and Peter Docker

• Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn, by Daniel Gordis.

• Ben-Gurion: Father of Modern Israel, by Anita Shapira.

• So Good They Can\'t Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love, by Cal Newport.

• Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World, by Cal Newport.

• Stubborn Attachments, by Tyler Cowen.

• Common Sense, by Thomas Paine.

• Fear: Trump in the White House, by Bob Woodward.

• Rosie Colored Glasses, by Brianna Wolfson.

• Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley, by Antonio García Martínez.

• Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman.

• A Little History of Economics, by Niall Kishtainy.

• Boy: Tales of Childhood, by Roald Dahl.

• The Science of Success: How Market-Based Management Built the World\'s Largest Private Company\ by Charles Koch.

• Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, by John Carreyrou.

• Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, by Walter Isaacson.

• The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United States: A Speculative Novel, by Jeffrey Lewis.

• Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don\'t Have All the Facts, by Annie Duke.

• A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy, by William B. Irvine.

• High Growth Handbook, by Elad Gil.

• Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, by Steven Levy.

• Choose Your Own Disaster, by Dana Schwartz.

• The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream, by Tyler Cowen.

• The Girl with a Clock for a Heart, by Peter Swanson.

• Her Every Fear, by Peter Swanson.

• Zero To One: Notes on Startups, or, How to Build the Future, by Peter Thiel, with Blake Masters.

• The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That is Connecting the World, by David Kirkpatrick.

• Trust Me, I\'m Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator, by Ryan Holiday.

• Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right, by Jane Mayer.

• Chasing Hillary: Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns, and One Intact Glass Ceiling, by Amy Chozick.

• The Kind Worth Killing, by Peter Swanson.

• Sons of Wichita: How the Koch Brothers Became America\'s Most Powerful and Private Dynasty, by Daniel Schulman.

• The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All The Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better, by Tyler Cowen.

• A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership, by James Comey.

• The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters, by Tom Nichols

• Lab Girl, by Hope Jahren.

• Who Stole Feminism? How Women Have Betrayed Women, by Christina Hoff Sommers.

• A Gentleman in Moscow, by Amor Towles.

• Failing Up: How to Take Risks, Aim Higher, and Never Stop Learning, by Leslie Odom, Jr.

• Poor Charlie\'s Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger, by Charles T. Munger, Peter E. Kaufman.

• Investing: The Last Liberal Art, by Robert G. Hagstrom.

• Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor, by Tren Griffin.

• Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue, by Ryan Holiday.

• The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon, by Brad Stone.

• Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, by Steven Pinker.

• The \'How To\' Grants Manual: Successful Grantseeking Techniques for Obtaining Public and Private Grants, by David G. Bauer.

• The Shepherd, by Frederick Forsyth.

• The Simple Path to Wealth: Your road map to financial independence and a rich, free life, by J.L. Collins.

• One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories, by B.J. Novak.

• A Random Walk Down Wall Street, by Burton G. Malkiel.

• Truly Devious (Truly Devious, #1), by Maureen Johnson.

• No Time to Spare by Ursula K. Le Guin.

• Essays Of Warren Buffett: Lessons For Corporate America, by Warren Buffett.

• The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life, by Alice Schroeder.

• The Financial Diet, by Chelsea Fagan.

• Amusing Ourselves to Death, by Neil Postman.

• I Will Find You: A Reporter Investigates the Life of the Man Who Raped Her, by Joanna Connors.

• A World Without \"Whom\": The Essential Guide to Language in the Buzzfeed Age, by Emmy J. Favilla.

• Artemis, by Andy Weir.

• The River of Consciousness, by Oliver Sacks.

• And We\'re Off, by Dana Schwartz.

• Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me, by Bill Hayes.

• Exit West, by Mohsin Hamid.

• Lapsing Into a Comma: A Curmudgeon\'s Guide to the Many Things That Can Go Wrong in Print --- And How to Avoid Them, by Bill Walsh.

• Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest, by Zeynep Tufekci.

• The Romantic Movement: Sex, Shopping, and the Novel, by Alain de Botton.

• Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe\'s Guide to Better English in Plain English, by Patricia T. O\'Conner.

• The Foundation Center\'s Guide to Proposal Writing, by Jane C. Geever.

• Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline

• Accidence Will Happen: A Recovering Pedant\'s Guide to English Language and Style, by Oliver Kamm.

• Turtles All the Way Down, by John Green.

• Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate, by Zoe Quinn.

• Rich Dad, Poor Dad, by Robert T. Kiyosaki.

• Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates

• What Happened, by Hillary Rodham Clinton.

• The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye (Millennium, #5), by David Lagercrantz.

• Ecotopia, by Ernest Callenbach.

• Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History, by Katy Tur.

• Conscience of a Conservative: A Rejection of Destructive Politics and a Return to Principle, by Jeff Flake.

• Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience and Finding Joy, by Sheryl Sandberg.

• For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway.

• 80,000 Hours: Find a fulfilling career that does good, by Benjamin Todd.

• Me Before You, by Jojo Moyes.

• The Dead Zone, by Stephen King.

• The Voice of America: Lowell Thomas and the Invention of 20th-Century Journalism, by Mitchell Stephens.

• Bitch Doctrine: Essays for Dissenting Adults, by Laurie Penny.

• The Ghost, by Robert Harris.

• Cosmos, by Carl Sagan.

• American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road, by Nick Bilton.

• Conclave, by Robert Harris.

• Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, by J.D. Vance.

• The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person\'s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century, by Steven Pinker

• Everyone\'s a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too: A Book, by Jomny Sun

• How to Be a Woman, by Caitlin Moran.

• Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury.

• The Complete Book of Grant Writing: Learn to Write Grants Like a Professional, by Nancy Smith.

• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey

• Grit, by Angela Duckworth

• Personal History, by Katharine Graham

• Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance in Your Twenties and Thirties by Beth Kobliner

• All Your Worth: The Ultimate Lifetime Money Plan, by Elizabeth Warren, Amelia Warren Tyagi

• The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing, by Norman Mailer

• Reflections in a Bloodshot Lens: America, Islam and the War of Ideas, by Lawrence Pintak

• Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are, by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

• The Only Grant-Writing Book You\'ll Ever Need: Top Grant Writers and Grant Givers Share Their Secrets, by Ellen Karsh, Arlen Sue Fox

• Zen in the Art of Writing, by Ray Bradbury

• Remote: Office Not Required, by Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson

• How to Ruin Everything: Essays, by George Watsky

• I\'jaam: An Iraqi Rhapsody, by Sinan Antoon

• Work at Home Superstar: How to Stay Focused and Rock Your Day, by Jack Wilson

• Being Abbas El Abd, Ahmed Alaidy

• Breaking Knees: Modern Arabic Short Stories from Syria, Zakaria Tamer

• Needful Things, by Stephen King.

• The Committee, by Sonallah Ibrahim

• Revolutionary Dissent: How the Founding Generation Created the Freedom of Speech, by Stephen D. Solomon

• The Story of Zahra, by Hanan Al-Shaykh, Peter Ford (Translator)

• Arabesques, by Anton Shammas

• Times of My Life and My Life with the Times, by Max Frankel

• The Renegade Writer: A Totally Unconventional Guide to Freelance Writing Success, by Linda Formichelli and Diana Burrell

• Neverwhere, by Neil Gaiman.

• Returning to Haifa, by Ghassan Khanafani.

• The Conference of the Birds, by Farid al-Din Attar, Dick Davis (Translator), Afkham Darbandi (Translator)

• Endings, by Abdul Rahman Munif

• Fascism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions #77), by Kevin Passmore.

• Gold Dust, by Ibrahim al-Koni.

• Finders Keepers (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #2), by Stephen King

• Season of Migration to the North, by Tayeb Salih

• Norse Mythology, by Neil Gaiman

• The Golden Chariot, by Salwa Bakr

• Miramar, by Naguib Mahfouz

• Law 101: Everything You Need to Know about the American Legal System by Jay M. Feinman

• Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult

• Thank You for Smoking, by Christopher Buckley.

• The Rise of the Image the Fall of the Word, by Mitchell Stephens.

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, by Michael Chabon.

• They Know Everything About You: How Data-Collecting Corporations and Snooping Government Agencies Are Destroying Democracy, by Robert Scheer

• Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China, by Evan Osnos.

• The Panama Papers: Breaking the Story of How the Rich and Powerful Hide Their Money, by Bastian Obermayer and Frederik Obermaier.

• The Artful Edit: On the Practice of Editing Yourself, by Susan Bell.

• The Internet of Things, by Samuel Greengard.

• So You\'ve Been Publicly Shamed, by Jon Ronson.

• Chuck Amuck: The Life and Time of an Animated Cartoonist, by Chuck Jones.

• My Name Is Asher Lev, by Chaim Potok.

• Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World\'s Superpowers, by Simon Winchester.

• The Broker, by John Grisham.

• Bag of Bones, by Stephen King.

• How Would a Patriot Act? Defending American Values from a President Run Amok, by Glenn Greenwald.

• Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, by Anne Lamott.

• The Secret History, by Donna Tartt.

• Scrappy Little Nobody, by Anna Kendrick.

• Trigger Mortis, by Anthony Horowitz

• Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them, by Francine Prose

• The Productive Writer: Tips & Tools to Help You Write More, Stress Less & Create Success, by Sage Cohen.

• Indefensible: One Lawyer\'s Journey into the Inferno of American Justice, by David Feige.

• The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz, by Aaron Swartz (Author), Lawrence Lessig (Introduction).

• \"There Are Things I Want You to Know\" about Stieg Larsson and Me, by Eva Gabrielsson.

• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Philosophy: Everything Is Fire (Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture #25), by Eric Bronson (Series Editor).

• Habit Stacking: 97 Small Life Changes That Take Five Minutes or Less, by S.J. Scott.

• My Word is My Bond by Roger Moore, Gareth Owen.

• Schindler\'s List, by Thomas Keneally.

• The Firm, by John Grisham.

• Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind, by Jocelyn K. Glei.

• Salty Baby: A Memoir, by Orla Tinsley.

• Where Am I Now?: True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame, by Mara Wilson.

• Fighting for the Press, by James C. Goodale.

• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, by J.K. Rowling.

• On Writing, by Stephen King. (Reread.)

• The Green Mile, by Stephen King.

• 11/22/63, by Stephen King.

• The Next Decade: Empire and Republic in a Changing World, by George Friedman.

• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, by J.K. Rowling.

• The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman.

• The Man Who Was Thursday, by G. K. Chesterton.

• The Moon\'s a Balloon, by David Niven.

• Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, by Jon Meachum.

• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, by J.K. Rowling.

• And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, by Randy Shilts.

• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, by J.K. Rowling.

• The Heartbreak of Aaron Burr, by H.W. Brands.

• Coraline, by Neil Gaiman.

• Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution, by Mona Eltahawy.

• Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More, by Janet Mock.

• The Assassination Complex: Inside the Government\'s Secret Drone Warfare Program, by Jeremy Scahill and The Staff of The Intercept.

• Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Church, by The Boston Globe.

• The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm.

• The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, by C.S. Lewis.

• The Magician\'s Nephew, by C.S. Lewis

• The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction by Neil Gaiman

• Night Draws Near: Iraq\'s People in the Shadow of America\'s War, by Anthony Shadid.

• Slouching Toward Bethlehem, by Joan Didion.

• Drown, by Junot Díaz.

• Mission Failure: America and the World in the Post-Cold War Era, by Michael Mandelbaum.

• Breakfast at Tiffany\'s and Three Stories, by Truman Capote

• Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism, by Robert A. Pape.

• The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco.

• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Díaz.

• Flashpoints: The Emerging Crisis in Europe, by George Freidman.

• Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

• This Town, by Mark Leibowich.

• Sex With Shakespeare, by Jillian Keenan.

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, by J.K. Rowling.

• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, by J.K. Rowling.

• Hamilton: The Revolution, by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter.

• From Beirut to Jerusalem, by Thomas L. Friedman

• Israel/Palestine, by Alan Dowty.

• Dark Places, by Gillian Flynn.

• Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman.

• Sharp Objects, by Gillian Flynn

• Thrilling Cities, by Ian Fleming.

• The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror, by Bernard Lewis.

• Alexander Hamilton, by Ron Chernow.

• Orientalism, by Edward W. Said.

• Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town, by Jon Krakauer.

• I Saw Ramallah, by Mourid Barghouti.

• Dumb Witness, by Agatha Christie.

• Politics & Society in the Contemporary Middle East, by Michele Penner Angrist (Editor)

• Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World, by Edward W. Said

• Cards on the Table, by Agatha Christie.

• The Struggle for Iran, by Christopher De Bellaigue.

• The Modern Middle East: A History, by James Gelvin.

• And Then There Were None, by Agatha Christie.

• Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One\'s Looking), by Christian Rudder

• A History of Modern Iran, by Ervand Abrahamian.

• In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote.

• We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families, by Philip Gourevitch

• The Girl in the Spider\'s Web, by David Lagercrantz, Stieg Larsson (Creator)

• On the Move: A Life, by Oliver Sacks.

• Islam without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty, by Mustafa Akyol.

• Here Is New York, by E.B. White.

• Pakistan: In the Shadow of Jihad and Afghanistan, by Mary Anne Weaver.

• Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield, by Jeremy Scahill.

• Beyond News: The Future of Journalism, by Mitchell Stephens.

• The Internet of Garbage, by Sarah Jeong.

• Palace Walk, by Naguib Mahfouz.

• Persepolis 2, by Marjane Satrapi.

• Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, by Marjane Satrapi.

• Making the Most of College: Students Speak Their Minds, by Richard J. Light.

• Uncommon Carriers, by John McPhee.

• Deadline Artists: America\'s Greatest Newspaper Columns, by John P. Avlon, Errol Louis, and Jesse Angelo.

• The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It, by Kelly McGonigal.

• Know Your Beholder, by Adam Rapp.

• Animal Liberation, by Peter Singer.

• Patti LuPone: A Memoir, by Patti LuPone.

• Arab Spring Dreams: The Next Generation Speaks Out for Freedom and Justice from North Africa to Iran, by Nasser Weddady and Sohrab Ahmari.

• Newsfail: Climate Change, Feminism, Gun Control, and Other Fun Stuff We Talk About Because Nobody Else Will, by Jamie Kilstein and Allison Kilkenny.

• The Art of Opinion Writing: Insider Secrets from Top Op-Ed Columnists, by Suzette Martinez Standring.

• The Arabic Alphabet: How to Read & Write It, by Nicholas Awde and Putros Samano.

• No god but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam, by Reza Aslan.

• China Airborne, by James Fallows.

• Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World, by Bruce Schneier.

• Monstrous Regiment, by Terry Pratchett.

• The Night of the Gun: A reporter investigates the darkest story of his life. His own, by David Carr.

• The Reluctant Fundamentalist, by Mohsin Hamid.

• Empire of the Mind: A History of Iran, by Michael Axworthy.

• The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You a Happy Birthday: Unexpected Encounters in the Changing Middle East, by Neil MacFarquhar.

• Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America and American in Iran, by Azadeh Moaveni.

• Season of Migration to the North, by Tayeb Salih.

• Murder on the Orient Express, by Agatha Christie.

• Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran, by Ray Mottahedeh.

• Being There, by Jerzy Kosinski.

• Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple\'s Greatest Products, by Leander Kahney.

• Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation, by Stephen Johnson.

• Public Editor #1: The Collected Columns (with Reflections, Reconsiderations and Even a Few Retractions) of the First Ombudsman of The New York Times, by Daniel Okrent.

• Walks With Men, by Ann Beattie.

• Words\' Worth: Write Well and Prosper, by Terri Brooks and Mary Quigley.

• Out of the Ashes: The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein, by Andrew Cockburn and Patrick Cockburn.

• The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, by Agatha Christie.

• Making News at The New York Times, by Nikki Usher.

• A Portrait of Egypt: A Journey Through the World of Militant Islam, by Mary Anne Weaver.

• Super Sad True Love Story, by Gary Shteyngart.

• Protecting the Gift: Keeping Children and Teenagers Safe (and Parents Sane), by Gavin de Becker.

• Page One: Inside The New York Times and the Future of Journalism. Edited by David Folkenflik.

• The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk, by Randy Shilts.

• Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity, by Julia Serano.

• Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War, by James Risen.

• Virtually Normal, by Andrew Sullivan.

• Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell. (First book of 2015.)

• Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn.

• Information Doesn\'t Want to Be Free: Laws for the Internet Age, by Cory Doctorow.

• Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future, by Cory Doctorow.

• Women Don\'t Ask, by Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever.

• The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak.

• The People\'s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, by Astra Taylor

• It\'s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens, by Danah Boyd.

• On Writing Well, by William Zinsser.

• We the Media, by Dan Gillmor.

• American Gods, by Neil Gaiman.

• Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous, by Gabriella Coleman.

• The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help, by Amanda Palmer.

• Carrie, by Stephen King.

• The Gift of Fear, by Gavin de Becker.

• The Journalist and the Murderer, by Janet Malcolm.

• The Hacker Playbook: A Practical Guide to Penetration Testing, by Peter Kim.

• Edge of Eternity, by Ken Follett.

• OS X 10.10 Yosemite: The Ars Technica Review, by John Siracusa.

• The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect, by Bill Kovach, Tom Rosenstiel.

• Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea, by Charles Seife.

• When Google Met Wikileaks, by Julian Assange.

• Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Woman\'s Prison, by Piper Kerman.

• How to Win at College: Surprising Secrets for Success from the Country\'s Top Students, by Cal Newport.

• Israel/Palestine: How to End the War of 1948 (Open Media Series), by Tanya Reinhart.

• Readings for Diversity and Social Justice, by Maurianne Adams, Warren Blumenfeld, Carmelita Castaneda, Heather W. Hackman, Madeline L. Peters, Ximena Zuniga.

• Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution, by Laurie Penny.

• Without Their Permission: How the 21st Century Will Be Made, Not Managed, by Alexis Ohanian.

• Zero To One: Notes on Startups, or, How to Build the Future, by Peter Thiel, with Blake Masters.

• The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography, by Simon Singh.

• WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange\'s War on Secrecy, by David Leigh and Luke Harding.

• Hard Choices, by Hillary Rodham Clinton.

• Wikileaks and the Age of Transparency, by Micah L. Sifry.

• Get Sh*t Done!: From spare room to boardroom in 1,000 days, by Niall Harbison.

• One L, by Scott Turow.

• @ Is For Activism: Dissent, Resistance And Rebellion In A Digital Culture, by Joss Hands.

• With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful, by Glenn Greenwald.

• Mr. Penumbra\'s 24-hour Bookstore, by Robin Sloan.

• Free Flight: Inventing the Future of Travel, by James Fallows

• Cypherpunks, by Julian Assange, with Jacob Applebaum, Andy Müller-Maguhn, and Jérémie Zimmermann.

• This Machine Kills Secrets: Julian Assange, the Cypherpunks, and Their Fight to Empower Whistleblowers, by Andy Greenberg.

• The Argument: Inside the Battle to Remake Democratic Politics, by Matt Bai.

• No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State, by Glenn Greenwald.

• The Smart Girl\'s Guide to Privacy, by Violet Blue.

• Rosaura a las Diez, by Marco Denevi. (Read for a Spanish class at NYU.)

• Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer. (Objectively the worst book I\'ve read this year.)

• Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion, by Hal Abelson, Ken Ledeen, Harry Lewis

• Civilization and its Discontents, by Sigmund Freud.

• Consider the Lobster, by David Foster Wallace.

• To Play The King, by Michael Dobbs.

• The Time Traveler, by H.G. Wells.

• On the Genealogy of Morality, by Friedrich Nietzsche.

• Night, by Elie Wiesel.

• Dragnet Nation, by Julia Angwin.

• House of Cards, by Michael Dobbs.

• Amusing Ourselves to Death, by Neil Postman.

• Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley.

• V For Vendetta, by Alan Moore.

• Citizenville: How to Take the Town Square Digital and Reinvent Government, by Gavin Newsom.

• Faust, by Goethe.

• The Snowden Files, by Luke Harding.

• Rework, by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson.

• An Astronaut\'s Guide to Life on Earth, by Chris Hadfield.

• Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley.

• This Star Won\'t Go Out, by Esther, Lori, and Wayne Earl.

• Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides.

• The Art of Fielding, by Chad Harbach.

• Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World, by Bruce Schneier.

• The Things They Carried, by Tim O\'Brien.

• Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World\'s Most Dangerous Website, by Daniel Domscheit-Berg.

• To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee. (First book of 2014!)

• Violence, Nudity, Adult Content, by Vince Passaro.

• Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, by Tony Kushner.

• One Flew Over the Cuckoo\'s Nest, by Ken Kesey.

• From the Soil: The Foundations of Chinese Society, by Fei Xiatong

• Montauk, by Max Frisch

• Cosmopolis, by Don DeLillo.

• Doctor Sleep, by Stephen King.

• China in War and Revolution, 1895-1949 (Asia\'s Transformations), by Peter Zarrow.

• The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger.

• American Psycho, by Bret Easton Ellis.

• Harry, A History: The True Story of a Boy Wizard, His Fans, and Life Inside the Harry Potter Phenomenon, by Melissa Anelli.

• An American Dream, by Norman Mailer.

• Brief Encounters with the Enemy, by Saïd Sayrafiezadeh.

• Junkie, by William Burroughs.

• A Woman Soldier\'s Own Story: Xie Bingying.

• God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, by Christopher Hitchens.

• The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck.

• Intellectual Memoirs, by Mary McCarthy.

• OS X 10.9 Mavericks: The Ars Technica Review, by John Siracusa.

• The Company She Keeps, by Mary McCarthy.

• How to Become a Straight-A Student: The Unconventional Strategies Real College Students Use to Score High While Studying Less, by Cal Newport.

• \"Shanghai, Springtime 1930,\" a novella included in \"I Myself Am a Woman\" by Ding Ling.

• Miss Lonelyhearts, by Nathanael West.

• Washington Square, by Henry James.

• Closer to the Knives, by David Wojnarowicz.

• Slaughterhouse Five, by Kurt Vonnegut.

• The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

• Guardian Angel, by Robert Muchamore.

• Tuesdays With Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life\'s Greatest Lesson, by Mitch Albom.

• The Ocean at the End of the Lane, by Neil Gaiman.

• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou.

• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, by J.K. Rowling.

• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, by J.K. Rowling.

• Inferno, by Dan Brown.

• American Savage: Insights, Slights, and Fights on Faith, Sex, Love, and Politics, by Dan Savage.

• Alice\'s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass, by Lewis Carroll.

• The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet\'s Nest, by Stieg Larsson.

• The Girl Who Played With Fire, by Stieg Larsson.

• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, by J.K. Rowling.

• Food Rules, by Michael Pollan.

• Here\'s the Deal, by David Leonhardt.

• The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson.

• Little Brother, by Cory Doctorow.

• One Shot Kill, by Robert Muchamore.

• How To Win Friends and Influence People, by Dale Carnegie.

• The Kid, by Dan Savage.

• Will Grayson, Will Grayson, by John Green and David Levithan.

• Les Misérables, by Victor Hugo.

• The Roald Dahl Treasury, by Roald Dahl.

• Animal Farm, by George Orwell.

• The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family, by Dan Savage

• Winter of The World, by Ken Follett.

• Dan Savage: The First Gay Celebrity, by Mark Oppenheimer.

• The Emperor of All Maladies, by Siddhartha Mukherjee.

• A Moveable Feast, by Ernest Hemingway.

• On Writing, by Stephen King.

• Fall of Giants, by Ken Follett.

• The Man Who Never Was: World War II\'s Boldest Counter-Intelligence Operation, by Ewen Montagu.

• Breaking Dawn, by Stephanie Meyer.

• Nocturne: A Play, by Adam Rapp.

• Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake, by Frank W. Abagnale and Stan Redding.

• Mockingjay, by Suzanne Collins.

• The Lonesome West, by Martin McDonagh.

• Punkzilla, by Adam Rapp.

• Pet Sematary, by Stephen King.

• Catching Fire, by Suzanne Collins.

• The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins.

• Under the Dome, by Stephen King.

• Bridge to Teribithia, by Katherine Patterson.

• Empire of the Sun, by J.G. Ballard.

• Eclipse, by Stephanie Meyer.

• New Moon by Stephanie Meyer.

• Twilight by Stephanie Meyer.

• The Faults In Our Stars by John Green.

• Looking For Alaska by John Green.

• Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson.

• Kill The Messenger by Tami Hoag.

• People\'s Republic by Robert Muchamore.

• Prior Bad Acts by Tami Hoag.

• The Princess Bride by William Goldman.

• Secret Army by Robert Muchamore.

• Outliers: The Story Of Success by Malcolm Gladwell.

• Lord Loss, by Darren Shan.

• Eastern Standard Tribe, by Cory Doctorow.

• The Year of Endless Sorrows, by Adam Rapp.

• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon.

• Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory, by Ben Macintyre.

• Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare.

• Without You: A Story of Love, Loss, and the Musical RENT, by Anthony Rapp.

• The Shining, by Stephen King.

• Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age, by Paul Graham.

• The Immortal Game, by Mark Coggins.

• Zugzwang, by Ronan Bennett.

• I Am The Messenger, by Markus Zuzak.

• The Lost Symbol, by Dan Brown.

• All The President\'s Men, by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.

• The Last Little Blue Envelope by Maureen Johnson.

• My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell.