A quick scrape of New Scientist’s best science books of the year. I’ll add links as I get time, but here is the list of books:
- Catching Fire: How cooking made us human
- The Natural History of Unicorns
- Darwin’s Sacred Cause
- Confabulation: Views from neuroscience, psychiatry, psychology and philosophy
- Reading in the Brain: The science and evolution of a human invention
- Storms of My Grandchildren: The truth about the coming climate catastrophe and our last chance to save humanity
- The Strangest Man: The hidden life of Paul Dirac, quantum genius
- The Wisdom of Whores
- Uranium
- Cracking the Einstein Code
- Not A Chimp: The hunt to find the genes that make us human
- An Infinity of Things: How Sir Henry Wellcome collected the world
- Plastic Fantastic: How the biggest fraud in physics shook the scientific world
- Outliers: The story of success
- Sum: Forty tales from the afterlives
- Naming Nature: The clash between instinct and science
- Magnificent Desolation
- Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens: Frank Oppenheimer and the world he made up
- What on Earth Evolved?: 100 species that changed the world
- Logicomix: An epic search for truth
- An Orchard Invisible: A natural history of seeds
- The Humans Who Went Extinct: Why Neanderthals died out and we survived
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