What to read next?

[topum]

Hey guys, what's the coolest non-fiction book you read in the last say three years?

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[wosny.livejournal.com]

Ten years is a long time!
the last five I have read;
We are Our Brains-A Neurobiography of the Brain by D. Swaab
What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell
The Boy in the River: A shocking true story of ritual Murder by Richard Hoskins
A Different Class of Murder (Lord Lucan story) Laura Thompson
The Emperor of All Maladies- A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Rabid - A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus.

plus a special mention for Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel, which I am sure you will have already read.

[wearwoolf.livejournal.com]

Seconding Jared Diamond!

[topum.livejournal.com]

I have read that one. It was great indeed.

[topum.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you! I have read GG&S indeed.

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

If you liked the Diamond book you might enjoy the much older book by Hans Zinsser, "Rats, Lice, and History", which is an interesting historical perspective of history, if you will.

[wosny.livejournal.com]

This has been an excellent question, I have already downloaded the book on Mitochondria, and the Rat, Lice and History sounds right up my street. Suggestions to keep me happy for a while. :) Thank you Topum and also Wearwolf and Randomdreams.

[topum.livejournal.com]

I bought it too. And some others. Thank you guys.

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

I will note the mitochondria book is probably more meaningful to those of us who are microbiologists, but as regards part of the biogenesis problem, it's pretty amazing.