Walter Isaacson ★★★★★ 4.5/5 Non Fiction; Science A lot more than the title suggests Walter Isaacson has mastered the writing of the Inventor-biography. He’s done it with Steve Jobs, Einstein
Sabine Hossenfelder ★★★★★ 4/5 Science A refreshing read: A big improvement over her first book Sabine Hossenfelder is a contrarian physicist that doesn’t shy away from calling out research that
Matthew Bothwell ★★★★★ 4/5 Non Fiction: Science; Cosmology Matthew Bothwell takes you on a grand tour of the universe (and its unknown mysteries) Note: This is a no obligation honest
Adam Becker ★★★★★ 3.5/5 Non Fiction: Science; Quantum Mechanics Quantum Mechanics has a problem and Adam Becker explains why The weirdness of quantum mechanics and its implications for the world
Barack Obama ★★★★★ 5/5 Non Fiction: Memoir, Political History Long but rewarding read; Politics and history are not really my preferred genres and so I hesitatingly picked up A Promised
Emily Levesque ★★★★★ 4/5 Non Fiction: astronomy, science Edifying and Entertaining—especially if you’re into Astronomy; As an amateur astronomer and astrophotographer I thoroughly enjoyed Emily Levesque’s The Last Stargazers. I
Kit Chapman ★★★★★ 4/5 Non Fiction: Science, nuclear physics Yes, the story and science of element discovery can be interesting! Can a book devoted solely to the discovery of the
Bill Bryson ★★★★★ 5/5 Non Fiction: Science, Human Biology Fascinating! All that a Science book for the layperson should be A magnificent read. The best non fiction book I’ve read
Michael Werner, Peter Eisenhardt ★★★★★ 3.5/5 Non Fiction: Science Overall: The Spitzer space telescope was retired earlier this year (Jan 2020) and I enjoyed reading this chronicle of the many
–Edward Snowden ★★★★★ 4/5 Early last year, I was reading the fascinating but fictitious story of a man imprisoned in a hotel in Moscow (Amor Towles’ A Gentleman in Moscow).
Adam Frank ★★★★★ 3.5/5 “Grow Up!” is Adam Frank’s exhortation to humanity who he likens to “teenagers” in the evolution of our project of civilization. We’ve been given the
–Adam Higginbotham ★★★★★ 4/5 In some unfrequented section of the upper levels of the library of the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, where one can find the hardbound final year
