Books of the year 2016 - a scientist's reading list
by Stephen Curry from on (#26YNQ)
The twenty-seven books this scientist read in 2016 as part of a long-term project to delve deeper into science and to escape it altogether
The most irritating thing about the seasonal lists of the best books of the year that appear in the Guardian and other papers is that they are collated by people, writers mostly, whose lifestyles seem to allow them to gobble up books as soon as they are published. Here's Alan Hollinghurst, for example, being supremely annoying: "David Szalay's All that Man Is was a revelation to me - not only of a brilliantly inventive and observant writer, whose three previous novels I then immediately consumed, but of ""
Wait", what? He immediately read three more books? Where does he get the appetite? Or the time?
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