A couple more lists for your reading, gift-giving and collection development pleasure.
Every year for the last bunch of years I've been linking to and posting about all the "year's best sciencey books" lists that appear in various media outlets and shining a bit of light on the best of the year.
All the previous 2011 lists are here.
San Francisco Chronicle 100 recommended books
- American Anthrax: Fear, Crime, and the Investigation of the Nation's Deadliest Bioterror Attack by Jeanne Guillemin
- Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America by Richard White
- Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Los Angeles Public Library: Best of 2011: Fiction and Non-Fiction for Adults
- Our bodies, ourselves by the Boston Women's Health Book Collective.
The Onion A.V. Club: The best books we read in 2011
- Triumph Of The City by Edward Glaeser
I'm always looking for recommendations and notifications of book lists as they appear in various media outlets. If you see one that I haven't covered, please let me know at jdupuis at yorku dot ca or in the comments.
I am picking up a lot of lists from Largehearted Boy.
The summary post for 2010 books is here and all the posts for 2010 can be found here. For 2009, it's here and here.
For my purposes, I define science books pretty broadly to include science, engineering, computing, history & philosophy of science & technology, environment, social aspects of science and even business books about technology trends or technology innovation. Deciding what is and isn't a science book is squishy at best, especially at the margins, but in the end I pick books that seem broadly about science and technology rather than something else completely. Lists of business, history or nature books are among the tricky ones.
And if you wish to support my humble list-making efforts, run on over to Amazon
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