What was your favorite science book of 2014?

[Betsy, co-mod]

io9 published a list of it's favorite 2014 science books:

http://io9.com/the-best-science-books...

Most of them seem to be pop science and I must admit I haven't read any, although I have purchased Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End and hope to read it soon.

What was your favorite science book of those you did read last year? Mine was The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History. Fascinating, easy reading, well written.

[Jim]

Oooo! Thank you, Betsy. What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions immediately caught my eye. I love xkcd & just finished another good book on the subject.

[BetseaK]

Thanks, Betsy. I haven't read any from the list, either.
Of those I read last year, my favorite one was Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts

[Jim]

2014 on Goodreads isn't a real book, just a place for all of us to review our reading for 2014. Here's mine
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Jaye]

Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner

An excellent look into a world that I would otherwise know nothing about.

[Lois]

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... - got it when the miniseries was on PBS and read it after watching it.

[Betsy, co-mod]

Lois wrote: "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... - got it when the miniseries was on PBS and read it after watching it."

Yes, I enjoyed that miniseries, too.

[Jimmy]

by Sam Kean

[[deleted user]]

Some of my favorite science books from 2014 were from National Graphic (I believe it was one on the body and its various...functions). I also read a book on the controversy surrounding orcas in captivity. It's called Death In Seaworld I think.