Comments on: Year list – The Inquisitive Biologist’s top 5 reads of 2023/2023/12/31/year-list-the-inquisitive-biologists-top-5-reads-of-2023/Reviewing fascinating science books since 2017Thu, 06 Feb 2025 14:41:05 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: inquisitivebiologist/2023/12/31/year-list-the-inquisitive-biologists-top-5-reads-of-2023/comment-page-1/#comment-94703Mon, 01 Jan 2024 22:14:19 +0000/?p=24373#comment-94703In reply to Jacob.

Thanks Jacob, glad to hear you enjoy them! Yes, there certainly are some books that have stuck with me. This list became longer than I thought it would…

Some books that have really shaped my outlook on the state of the world
– The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene Since 1945 (reviewed in 2021)
– Limits: Why Malthus Was Wrong and Why Environmentalists Should Care (reviewed in 2020)
– Abundant Earth: Toward an Ecological Civilization (reviewed in 2019)

Some books that have really shaped by outlook on our fellow travellers
– Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel (reviewed in 2020)
– Mama’s Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Teach Us about Ourselves (reviewed in 2019)

Some books that had really powerful narratives
– Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape (reviewed in 2021)
– Owls of the Eastern Ice: The Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl (reviewed in 2020)
– The Outlaw Ocean: Crime and Survival in the Last Untamed Frontier (reviewed in 2019)
– A Wilder Time: Notes from a Geologist at the Edge of the Greenland Ice (reviewed in 2018)

Some darn fine popular science:
– Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life (reviewed in 2020)
– Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past (reviewed in 2018)
– Squid Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods (reviewed in 2018)

Some evolutionary biology titles that really stuck
– Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA (reviewed in 2020)
– Contingency and Convergence: Toward a Cosmic Biology of Body and Mind (reviewed in 2020)
– Good Enough: The Tolerance for Mediocrity in Nature and Society (reviewed in 2019)

Finally, one I-can’t-believe-they-made-this-but-I’m-so-happy-they-did book:
– Terrestrial Impact Structures: The TanDEM-X Atlas (2-Volume Set, reviewed in 2020)

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]]>By: Jacob/2023/12/31/year-list-the-inquisitive-biologists-top-5-reads-of-2023/comment-page-1/#comment-94702Mon, 01 Jan 2024 21:25:06 +0000/?p=24373#comment-94702I really enjoy your reviews. Thank you. Are there any books that you read and reviewed a few years ago which stick out to you as being especially impactful or important in hindsight? Books which you feel stuck with you in a special way or shaped how you think over a longer period of time?

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]]>By: inquisitivebiologist/2023/12/31/year-list-the-inquisitive-biologists-top-5-reads-of-2023/comment-page-1/#comment-94700Sun, 31 Dec 2023 17:41:01 +0000/?p=24373#comment-94700In reply to Peter Rowlands.

Thanks Peter! Stick around for 2024, there is much more in the pipeline ; )

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]]>By: Peter Rowlands/2023/12/31/year-list-the-inquisitive-biologists-top-5-reads-of-2023/comment-page-1/#comment-94699Sun, 31 Dec 2023 17:29:44 +0000/?p=24373#comment-94699For goodness sake. Your appetite and accomplishment are voracious. If I could approximate that number of books that challenged my default intellect, I’d be as conceited as hell.

Have a very good New Year and thank you for continuing to be such a superb resource (you might have got this message on your reply template but it told me I had made some form of fatal error!)

Peter

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]]>By: inquisitivebiologist/2023/12/31/year-list-the-inquisitive-biologists-top-5-reads-of-2023/comment-page-1/#comment-94698Sun, 31 Dec 2023 17:06:47 +0000/?p=24373#comment-94698In reply to LynnR.

Thanks! That TBR pile is going to be a focus for me next year…

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]]>By: LynnR/2023/12/31/year-list-the-inquisitive-biologists-top-5-reads-of-2023/comment-page-1/#comment-94697Sun, 31 Dec 2023 16:57:10 +0000/?p=24373#comment-94697Thanks to you, my TBR pile has gotten bigger. And even when I end up deciding that a particular title isn’t for me, I still enjoy reading your reviews.

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