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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: July 2025
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.
Previous editions of the IAPP Summer Reading List can be accessed here.
IAPP Summer Reading List 2025
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2024 IAPP Summer Reading List
- 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
- Building Responsible AI Algorithms: A Framework for Transparency, Fairness, Safety, Privacy, and Robustness
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2023 IAPP Summer Reading List
- 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
- Democracy's Data: The Hidden Stories in the U.S. Census and How to Read Them
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2022 IAPP Summer Reading List
- 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 - Guía 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
- Atlas of AI