Favourite book of the year: "Molecular Biology of the Cell" Honorable mentions, no particular order: + Cormack McCarthy's "Stella Maris" (ht @emiyazono @wjzeng ) + C. S. Lewis's "A Grief Observed" + Huston Smith's "The World's Religions" (ht @mayli)

- The Black Cloud by Hoyle - His Master's Voice by Lem - Profiles of the Future by Clarke - The Molecular Biology of the Cell - The Other Side of History: Daily Life in the Ancient World