In no particular order, here are the best books I read this past year.
- A Thousand Brains
- Asperger’s on the Inside
- The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll’s Best-Kept Secret
- Breath from Salt: A Deadly Genetic Disease, a New Era in Science, and the Patients and Families Who Changed Medicine Forever
- No Country for Old Men
- The Secret Lives of the Elements
- The Mathematics Lover’s Companion: Masterpieces for Everyone
- Cracking Codes with Python: An Introduction to Building and Breaking Ciphers
- A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Story of the Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a President
- Beyond the Basic Stuff With Python: Best Practices for Writing Clean Code
- When Breath Becomes Air
- Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-Up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House
- Life (Keith Richards Biography)
- Effective Python: 90 Specific Ways to Write Better Python