IAPP Summer Reading List 2025
This annual list recommends books on a variety of topics including privacy, social media, artificial intelligence, and cyberthreats.
Published: 1 July 2022
Last updated: 1 July 2025
The New Breed
Kate Darling
The Afterlife of Data
Carl Öhman
The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip
Stephen Witt
The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Privacy, Identity and Love in the Digital Age
Danielle Keats Citron
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
Chris Miller
Artificial: A Love Story
Amy Kurzweil
Kill Decision
Daniel Suarez
Service Model
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World
Parmy Olson
2054
Elliot Ackerman and Admiral James Stavridis
The Candy House
Jennifer Egan
Means of Control
Byron Tau
Empire of AI
Karen Hao
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software, 2nd Edition
Charles Petzold
The Costs of Connection: How Data Is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism
Nick Couldry and Ulises Ali Mejias
The Hacker and the State: Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics by Ben Buchanan
Ben Buchanan
Building Responsible AI Algorithms: A Framework for Transparency, Fairness, Safety, Privacy, and Robustness
Toju Duke
Unmasking AI
Joy Buolamwini
Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace Surveillance
Karen Levy
Ethical Machines: Your Concise Guide to Totally Unbiased, Transparent, and Respectful AI
Reid Blackman
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
Hank Green
The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
Mustafa Suleyman
Data Reimagined: Building Trust One Byte at a Time
Jodi Daniels and Justin Daniels
The Every
Dave Eggers
Your Face Belongs to Us
Kashmir Hill
Little Brother
Cory Doctorow
Trust.: Responsible AI, Innovation, Privacy and Data Leadership
Dominique Shelton Leipzig
Invisible Women: Exposing the gender bias women face every day
Caroline Criado-Perez
Data Conscience: Algorithmic Siege on our Humanity
Brandeis Hill Marshall
The Chaos Machine
Max Fisher
Weapons of Math Destruction
Cathy O’Neil
Permanent Record
Edward Snowden
Democracy's Data: The Hidden Stories in the U.S. Census and How to Read Them
Dan Bouk
The Fight for Privacy
Danielle Keats Citron
The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins
Cyber Privacy: Who Has Your Data and Why You Should Care
April Falcon Doss
The Candy House
Jennifer Egan
Seek and Hide
Amy Gajda
The Power of One
Frances Haugen
The Age of AI: And Our Human Future
Henry A. Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, Daniel Huttenlocher
The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu
1984
George Orwell
Why Privacy Matters
Neil Richards
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Shoshana Zuboff
Ready Player One
Ernest Cline
Data Privacy: A runbook for engineers
Nishant Bhajaria
The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World
Anu Bradford
Atlas of AI
Kate Crawford
Being Watched: Legal Challenges to Government Surveillance
Jeffrey L. Vagle
Born Digital: The Story of a Distracted Generation
Robert Wigley
Cryptography Apocalypse: Preparing for the Day When Quantum Computing Breaks Today's Crypto
Roger A. Grimes
Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age
Steven Levy
Cryptonomicon
Neal Stephenson
Cyber Privacy
April Doss
Dawn of the Code War: America's Battle Against Russia, China, and the Rising Global Cyber Threat
John P. Carlin
Extreme Privacy: What It Takes To Disappear
Michael Bazzel
GuÃa de privacidad para América Latina Digital
IAPP Publications
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
Daniel Immerwahr
Intellectual Privacy: Rethinking Civil Liberties in the Digital Age
Neil Richards
Living in Data: A Citizen's Guide to a Better Information Future
Jer Thorp
1984
George Orwell
None of Your Damn Business: Privacy in the United States from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age
Lawrence Cappello
Permanent Record
Edward Snowden
Privacy’s Blueprint: The Battle to Control the Design of New Technologies
Woodrow Hartzog
Privacy is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data
Carissa Véliz
Privacy in the Age of Big Data: Recognizing Threats, Defending Your Rights, and Protecting Your Family
Theresa Payton
Privacy is Power
Carissa Veliz
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
Shoshana Zuboff
The Art of Invisibility
Kevin D. Mitnick
The Circle
Dave Eggers
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
The Identity Trade: Selling Privacy and Reputation Online
Nora A. Draper
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lack
Rebecca Skloot
The Palace of Dreams: A Novel
Ismail Kadare
The Phoenix Project
Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford
The Voice Catchers: How Marketers Listen In to Exploit Your Feelings, Your Privacy, and Your Wallet
Joseph Turow
They Know Everything About You
How Data-Collecting Corporations and Snooping Government Agencies Are Destroying Democracy
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race
Nicole Perlroth
Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age
Brad Smith and Carol Ann Browne
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Jia Tolentino
Understanding Privacy
Daniel Solove
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inquality and Threatens Democracy
Cathy O'Neil

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IAPP Summer Reading List 2025
This annual list recommends books on a variety of topics including privacy, social media, artificial intelligence, and cyberthreats.
Published: 1 July 2022
Last updated: 1 July 2025
The New Breed
Kate Darling
The Afterlife of Data
Carl Öhman
The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip
Stephen Witt
The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Privacy, Identity and Love in the Digital Age
Danielle Keats Citron
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
Chris Miller
Artificial: A Love Story
Amy Kurzweil
Kill Decision
Daniel Suarez
Service Model
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World
Parmy Olson
2054
Elliot Ackerman and Admiral James Stavridis
The Candy House
Jennifer Egan
Means of Control
Byron Tau
Empire of AI
Karen Hao
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software, 2nd Edition
Charles Petzold
The Costs of Connection: How Data Is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism
Nick Couldry and Ulises Ali Mejias
The Hacker and the State: Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics by Ben Buchanan
Ben Buchanan
Building Responsible AI Algorithms: A Framework for Transparency, Fairness, Safety, Privacy, and Robustness
Toju Duke
Unmasking AI
Joy Buolamwini
Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace Surveillance
Karen Levy
Ethical Machines: Your Concise Guide to Totally Unbiased, Transparent, and Respectful AI
Reid Blackman
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
Hank Green
The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
Mustafa Suleyman
Data Reimagined: Building Trust One Byte at a Time
Jodi Daniels and Justin Daniels
The Every
Dave Eggers
Your Face Belongs to Us
Kashmir Hill
Little Brother
Cory Doctorow
Trust.: Responsible AI, Innovation, Privacy and Data Leadership
Dominique Shelton Leipzig
Invisible Women: Exposing the gender bias women face every day
Caroline Criado-Perez
Data Conscience: Algorithmic Siege on our Humanity
Brandeis Hill Marshall
The Chaos Machine
Max Fisher
Weapons of Math Destruction
Cathy O’Neil
Permanent Record
Edward Snowden
Democracy's Data: The Hidden Stories in the U.S. Census and How to Read Them
Dan Bouk
The Fight for Privacy
Danielle Keats Citron
The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins
Cyber Privacy: Who Has Your Data and Why You Should Care
April Falcon Doss
The Candy House
Jennifer Egan
Seek and Hide
Amy Gajda
The Power of One
Frances Haugen
The Age of AI: And Our Human Future
Henry A. Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, Daniel Huttenlocher
The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu
1984
George Orwell
Why Privacy Matters
Neil Richards
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Shoshana Zuboff
Ready Player One
Ernest Cline
Data Privacy: A runbook for engineers
Nishant Bhajaria
The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World
Anu Bradford
Atlas of AI
Kate Crawford
Being Watched: Legal Challenges to Government Surveillance
Jeffrey L. Vagle
Born Digital: The Story of a Distracted Generation
Robert Wigley
Cryptography Apocalypse: Preparing for the Day When Quantum Computing Breaks Today's Crypto
Roger A. Grimes
Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age
Steven Levy
Cryptonomicon
Neal Stephenson
Cyber Privacy
April Doss
Dawn of the Code War: America's Battle Against Russia, China, and the Rising Global Cyber Threat
John P. Carlin
Extreme Privacy: What It Takes To Disappear
Michael Bazzel
GuÃa de privacidad para América Latina Digital
IAPP Publications
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
Daniel Immerwahr
Intellectual Privacy: Rethinking Civil Liberties in the Digital Age
Neil Richards
Living in Data: A Citizen's Guide to a Better Information Future
Jer Thorp
1984
George Orwell
None of Your Damn Business: Privacy in the United States from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age
Lawrence Cappello
Permanent Record
Edward Snowden
Privacy’s Blueprint: The Battle to Control the Design of New Technologies
Woodrow Hartzog
Privacy is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data
Carissa Véliz
Privacy in the Age of Big Data: Recognizing Threats, Defending Your Rights, and Protecting Your Family
Theresa Payton
Privacy is Power
Carissa Veliz
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
Shoshana Zuboff
The Art of Invisibility
Kevin D. Mitnick
The Circle
Dave Eggers
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
The Identity Trade: Selling Privacy and Reputation Online
Nora A. Draper
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lack
Rebecca Skloot
The Palace of Dreams: A Novel
Ismail Kadare
The Phoenix Project
Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford
The Voice Catchers: How Marketers Listen In to Exploit Your Feelings, Your Privacy, and Your Wallet
Joseph Turow
They Know Everything About You
How Data-Collecting Corporations and Snooping Government Agencies Are Destroying Democracy
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race
Nicole Perlroth
Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age
Brad Smith and Carol Ann Browne
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Jia Tolentino
Understanding Privacy
Daniel Solove
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inquality and Threatens Democracy
Cathy O'Neil

This content is eligible for Continuing Professional Education credits. Please self-submit according to CPE policy guidelines.
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