In our downtime, all of us at WIRED Science like a good book (and we're betting a lot of people on your holiday list do too). In 2014 we were impressed by books ranging from Atul Gawande's expansive essays on the morality of end of life care ( Being Mortal), to a coffee table tome of beautifully photographed marine invertebrates (Susan Middleton's Spineless). We've curated a list of our favorites to stuff into some stockings, or into your carry on so you're not too bored during your inevitably delayed flight to Grandma's.
Or maybe you're staying home for the holidays? Curl up by the fossil-fueled heater and learn how human civilization is the most destructive force since the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs, with Elizabeth Kolbert's The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History. Looking for something lighter? Fire up your New Year's resolution by reading Faster, Higher, Stronger: How Sports Science Is Creating a New Generation of Superathletes, by WIRED's own Mark McClusky. And as the Ebola crisis in west Africa enters its second year, you'd be remiss if you didn't read David Quammen's superb summary of the disease and its toll on people.
Whatever your plans, you'll have plenty of travel time to tear your way through most of these. Already read them all? Congratulations smarty, let us know what you think in the comments!
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