Goodreads Choice Awards Book Club discussion

The group voted to read the Science & Technology nominee, Idiot Brain: What Your Head Is Really Up To in March. The winner for this genre was Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?. Have you read any of the other nominees for this award? Which have you read and what did you think? Which was your favorite?

Do you plan to read any of them in the future? How about setting up a buddy read of one that you are interested in this month? Use this thread to discuss and find a buddy!

Schedule buddy reads here, then set up a separate thread to discuss.

Additional nominees:

Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
Baby Birds: An Artist Looks Into the Nest
Citizen Scientist: Searching for Heroes and Hope in an Age of Extinction
Cure: A Journey into the Science of Mind Over Body
Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
In a Different Key: The Story of Autism
Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon's Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart
On Trails: An Exploration
Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets
The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
The Gene: An Intimate History
The Genius of Birds
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words
Time Travel: A History
Unseen City: The Majesty of Pigeons, the Discreet Charm of Snails & Other Wonders of the Urban Wilderness
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

This isn't my favorite genre. I see titles that I think look interesting, but then feel like the book could have been summarized in about 10 pages and been more enjoyable. The information tends to be interesting, but repetitive. I feel like I would be good to skim a few.

The two we have for group reads, Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? & Idiot Brain: What Your Head Is Really Up To, both look interesting. I also think Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets looks interesting.

This is so not my interest in reading, I can't think of any year that I've read a book out of this category.

I enjoy science books. However, there are way too many "animal" books which I guess appeal to more people, but are ultimately not all that interesting (to me at least). I guess I only like some science ... other science not so much ;)
Definitely going to read The Gene and I contain multitudes. Not sure about the others.

I read The Genius of Birds it was just okay.
Although I'm an avid wild bird watcher... so if you don't care for wild birds, you'd likely hate it. LOL.