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IAPP Privacy Summer Reading List 2024

Embrace the summer with a privacy-themed summer read list.

Published: July 2024

While you may already have an extensive list of must-read books for the summer, consider adding a few privacy-themed titles to your to-be-read pile. Whether you read to escape or to tune in to privacy problems, this summer reading list has you covered. The IAPP asked privacy professionals to recommend their favorite privacy-centered books focusing on a variety of topics including social media, data governance and artificial intelligence. Unwind during your summer vacation and get a jump on your reading with these refreshing book suggestions.

Previous editions of the IAPP Privacy Summer Reading List can be accessed here.

Previous lists

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    Privacy Summer Reading List 2023

    • 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
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    Privacy Summer Reading List 2022

    • 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
      Robert Scheer
    • 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
Tags: Personal Privacy, Privacy in Pop Culture, Privacy Research
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