In perusing The Globe's 100 best books of the year insert (Books, Nov. 23), I found two worth reading, since I prefer non-fiction. Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox (Was She Robbed Of A Nobel Prize?) confirms that Nobel Prize winner James Watson included some fiction in his biography, The Double Helix. Anyone who writes his or her own biography is essentially writing fiction.
Universe on a T-Shirt: The Quest for the Theory of Everything by Dan Falk is a non-technical book about historical progress toward understanding the universe (Zing Goes The String Theory). Humans have great difficulty accepting their limitations since the part can't understand the whole. If we don't fully understand how our physical bodies operate, there isn't much hope we can understand how heavenly bodies work.
Let's see more reviews of books on science please.