I had a weird year, reading no new 2015 books. Here's a handful I enjoyed the most: "Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynmann" - probably needs no introduction here o

I had a weird year, reading no new 2015 books. Here's a handful I enjoyed the most: "Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynmann" - probably needs no introduction here on HN, but some wonderful anecdotes by Richard Feynmann. "Red Plenty" by Francis Spufforth. Enjoyable (and apparently thoroughly well researched) depiction of life in the Soviet Union during its rise and decline "My Ten Years Imprisonment" by Silvio Pellico. An autobiographical account of an Italian revolutionary during the times of the Austro-Hungarian empire, he was imprisoned in a castle I live next to. "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer - luckily a couple of months before Everest was released (it was recommended in an HN discussion)