IAPP Summer Reading List 2025
This annual list recommends books on a variety of topics including privacy, social media, artificial intelligence, and cyberthreats.
Editor's note
The IAPP has published an updated edition of the Summer Reading List.
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 2024 edition of the list can be found here.
IAPP 2025 summer reading recommendations:
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
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