IAPP Summer Reading List 2026
This annual list recommends books on a variety of topics including privacy, social media, artificial intelligence, and cyberthreats.
As we slip into the warmer months, you may be looking to unwind with a good book. The IAPP asked privacy professionals to recommend their favorite privacy-centered books on a variety of topics including social media, artificial intelligence, and cyberthreats. Whether you’re reading to unplug from the digital world or dig deeper into it, these privacy-themed picks will keep you engaged all season long.
The 2025 edition of the list can be found here.
IAPP 2026 summer reading recommendations:
AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference
Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
Sarah Wynn-Williams
Semi-Well-Adjusted Despite Literally Everything
Alyson Stoner
Strangers and Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private Life
Tiffany Jenkins
Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence
Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, Avi Goldfarb
Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
Naomi Klein
The Secret Life of Data: Navigating Hype and Uncertainty in the Age of Algorithmic Surveillance
Aram Sinnreich, Jesse Gilbert
Sourdough
Robin Sloan
AI Intimacy and Psychoanalysis
Naomi Alderman
Automatic Noodle
Annalee Newitz
The Art of Invisibility
Kevin Mitnick
Privacy, Please!
Lorrie Faith Cranor
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