The following is a curated list of books that I have read.
Tech Policy & Law
- Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World (Bruce Schneier)
There is value in dissent. And, perversely, there can be value in lawbreaking... If the old laws could have been perfectly enforced through surveillance, society would never have reached the point where the majority of citizens thought those things were okay. There has to be a period where they are still illegal yet increasingly tolerated, so that people can look around and say, "You know, that wasn’t so bad."
- No Place to Hide (Glen Greenwald)
- Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It (Richard Clarke)
- Who Controls The Internet?: Illusions of a Borderless World (Goldsmith and Wu)
- Information Doesn't Want to Be Free: Laws for the Internet Age (Cory Doctorow)
- How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism (Cory Doctorow)
Short read. Easy introduction to the topic.
- The People Vs Tech: How the Internet is killing Democracy (and how we save it) (Jamie Bartlett)
- Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace, Version 2.0 (Lawrence Lessig)
- Automating Inequality (Virginia Eubanks)
- Data Protection in the Practical Context (Hannah Yeefen Lim)
- Deceptive Patterns: Exposing the tricks tech companies use to control you (Harry Brignull)
- Beyond the Code: Protection of Non-Textual Features of Software (Noam Shemtov)
- Helpful Hackers: How the Dutch do responsible disclosure (Chris van't Hof)
Engaging storytelling of the history of ethical hacking.
- Disclosure of Security Vulnerabilities: Legal and Ethical Issues (Alana Maurushat)
- Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever (Joseph Cox)
- The Age of Surveillance Capitalism (Shoshana Zuboff)
Tough read without a social science background. Poetic language.
SciFi
- Cryptonomicon (Neal Stephenson)
- Project Hail Mary (Andy Weir)
- The Martian (Andy Weir)
Life/Health
- When Breath Becomes Air (Paul Kalanithi)
- The Design of Everyday Things (Donald A Norman)
- The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human (Siddhartha Mukherjee)
- Outlive (Peter Attia)
Investigative Journalism/Politics
- Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (John Carreyrou)
- American Prison (Shane Bauer)
- The Singapore Story (Lee Kuan Yew)
- This is what Inequality looks like (Teo You Yenn)
The way to tell a block of rental flats is to look at the space between front doors.
- A Promised Land (Barack Obama)
- Tall order (Peh Shing Huei)
- Chip War (Chris Miller)
- The Malay Dilemma (Mahathir bin Mohamad)
- The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World (Jonathan Freedland)
- Freezing Order: Vladimir Putin, Russian Money Laundering and Murder (Bill Browder)
- 100 Years' History of Chinese in Singapore (Song Ong Siang)
Account of who's who. Gets monotonous after a while.
- Debt: The First 5,000 Years (David Graeber)
- Poverty, by America (Matthew Desmond)
- Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Acemoglu and Robinson)
- Can Singapore Fall? (Lim Siong Guan)
Tech
- Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World (Bruce Schneier)
- The Cuckoo's Egg (Cliff Stoll)
- Ghost in the Wires (Kevin Mitnick)
- Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX (Eric Berger)
Law
- LA1040 Contract Law (University of London)
Study guide style. Concise and summarized for beginners.
- LA2001 Tort Law (University of London)
Study guide style. Concise and summarized for beginners.
- Contract Law (Ewan McKendrick)
Tough read. Goes into intricacies.
- The Best I Could (Subhas Anandan)
- Information Technology Law (Rowland and MacDonald)
- EU Internet Law (Andrej Savin)
- Law and Technology in Singapore (Chesterman, Goh and Phang)
- Information and Communications Technology Law in Singapore (Chik and Lim)
- The Prosecutor (Glenn Knight)
Glazes over the juicest section, his arrest and fall from grace.