Royal Society Science Book Prize - anyone up for reading the shortlist?

[slightlyglittermaned]

The prize winner was announced last week, and having had a look at the shortlist, I think I like the look of pretty much all the books on it.

Anyone else up for a thread of reading through the shortlist (or part of it!) I have two, may ask for the rest for Christmas/birthday.

royalsociety.org/grants-schemes-awards/book-prizes/science-book-prize/2017/

Links never seem to work for me in the first post: royalsociety.org/grants-schemes-awards/book-prizes/science-book-prize/2017/

Was just looking through the shortlist, without knowing the winner, and thought that Testosterone Rex is the one that I really want to read. Definitely going to read that and also interested in In Pursuit of Memory and I Contain multitudes. Not sure that I can manage the whole list though, I'm more of a fiction fan but do try to vary my book diet.

Yeah, Testosterone Rex is top of my list too - must have been for the judges too as it won!

I'm hoping to get Testosterone Rex for my birthday nxt month, also definitely want to read Beyond Infinity, other than that I might see which ones I can find from the library.

Haven't read Testosterone Rex yet, but her other two books are excellent.

Given that it's apparently World Octopus Day today, I feel I should put a good word in for Other Minds even though I haven't got very far through it yet. I rather like the idea of studying octopus intelligence as the closest we're likely to get to an alien intelligence...

Only just stumbled into this.

It's a brilliant list!

(and there's such a thing as World Octopus Day?!? We're there any special events?)