This year I really leaned into reading. I chose books that were challenging, moving, interesting, and that had good stories to tell. I wanted to read books that could change me and how I understood the world.
The list below are the books I finished reading in 2022. I’ve still got a few I’m currently reading–if I finish them before New Years I’ll update the list. I included links in case you would like to grab a copy for yourself.
Note that for most of these books, not only did I read them, but I also summarized, analyzed, and discussed them in podcasts and newsletters. I’ve got an annotated list of which episodes go with which books over on Patreon, but you can also just scroll through the list of podcasts and newsletters to find ones you are interested in.
I decided to keep a list because I wanted to keep track of my reading, sure, but also because now I have a goal for the next year–now I have a benchmark for the number of rewarding books to read in 2023!
With all that said, here are the books I finished reading in 2022:
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Achatz, Grant, and Nick Kokonas. 2012. Life, on the Line: A Chef’s Story of Chasing Greatness, Facing Death, and Redefining the Way We Eat. Avery.
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Bamforth, Charles W, and Charles Bamforth. 2009. The Brewmaster’s Art. Recorded Books.
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Bernstein, Peter L. 1996. Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk. Vol. 383. John Wiley & Sons New York.
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Blackman, Reid. 2022. Ethical Machines : Your Concise Guide to Totally Unbiased, Transparent, and Respectful AI. First ebook edition. Boston, Massachusetts: Harvard Business Review Press
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Calagione, Sam. 2011. Brewing up a Business: Adventures in Beer from the Founder of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery. John Wiley & Sons.
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Callon, Michel. 2021. Markets in the Making: Rethinking Competition, Goods, and Innovation. edited by M. Poon. Brooklyn, New York: Zone Books.
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Christian, Brian. 2020. The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values. WW Norton & Company.
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Coeckelbergh, Mark. 2022. Self-Improvement: Technologies of the Soul in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Columbia University Press.
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Dreyfus, Hubert L., and Sean (Sean D.) Kelly. 2011. All Things Shining : Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age. 1st Free Press hardcover ed. New York: Free Press.
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Dyson, George. 2012. Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe. Pantheon.
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Emerson, Robert M., Rachel I. Fretz, and Linda L. Shaw. 2011. Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes., Second Edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
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Epstein, David. 2021. Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World. Penguin.
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Floridi, Luciano. 2014. The Fourth Revolution: How the Infosphere Is Reshaping Human Reality. OUP Oxford.
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Fry, Hannah. 2018. Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms. WW Norton & Company.
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Fujii, Lee Ann. 2017. Interviewing in Social Science Research: A Relational Approach. 1st edition. New York: Routledge.
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Grohl, Dave. 2021. The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music. Simon and Schuster.
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Hall, Patrick, Navdeep Gill, and Benjamin Cox. 2020. Responsible Machine Learning. O’Reilly Media, Incorporated.
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Hare, Stephanie. 2022. Technology Is Not Neutral: A Short Guide to Technology Ethics. London Publishing Partnership.
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Joque, Justin. 2022. Revolutionary Mathematics: Artificial Intelligence, Statistics and the Logic of Capitalism. Verso Books.
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Laudan, L. 2013. The Nature of Technological Knowledge. Are Models of Scientific Change Relevant? Vol. 4. Springer Science & Business Media.
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Le Carré, John. 2011. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. Penguin UK.
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Martin, John Levi. 2017. Thinking Through Methods: A Social Science Primer. University of Chicago Press.
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McGuinness, Tara Dawson, and Hana Schank. 2021. Power to the Public: The Promise of Public Interest Technology. Princeton University Press.
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Morozov, Evgeny. 2013. To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism. Public Affairs.
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O’Mara, Margaret. 2019. The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America. Penguin.
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Pigliucci, Massimo, Skye Cleary, and Daniel Kaufman. 2020. How to Live a Good Life: A Guide to Choosing Your Personal Philosophy. Vintage.
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Rushkoff, Douglas. 2019. Team Human. W. W. Norton & Company.
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Smith, Michael D, and Rahul Telang. 2016. Streaming, Sharing, Stealing: Big Data and the Future of Entertainment. Mit Press.
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Vallor, Shannon. 2016. Technology and the Virtues: A Philosophical Guide to a Future Worth Wanting. Oxford University Press.
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Veliz, Carissa. 2021. Privacy Is Power Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data. New York: Melville House.
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