I had a weird year, reading no new 2015 books. Here&#x27;s a handful I enjoyed the most:<p>&quot;Surely You&#x27;re Joking, Mr Feynmann&quot; - probably needs no introduction here on HN, but some wonderful anecdotes by Richard Feynmann.<p>&quot;Red Plenty&quot; by Francis Spufforth. Enjoyable (and apparently thoroughly well researched) depiction of life in the Soviet Union during its rise and decline<p>&quot;My Ten Years Imprisonment&quot; 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.<p>&quot;Into Thin Air&quot; by Jon Krakauer - luckily a couple of months before Everest was released (it was recommended in an HN discussion)