What was the best book you read in 2021?

Fiction:

Attack Surface - Cory Doctorow

Non-Fiction:

Engineering General Intelligence Vol 2 - Ben Goertzel

Honorable Mention - Fiction

Daemon - Daniel Suarez

Freedom - Daniel Suarez

Billy Summers - Stephen King

Elsewhere - Dean Koontz

Honorable Mention - Non-Fiction:

We See It All - Jon Fasman

Integrating Rules and Connectionism for Robust Commonsense Reasoning - Ron Sun

Talking Nets: An Oral History of Neural Networks - James A. Anderson

The Soar Cognitive Architecture - John Laird

"The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" by Julian Jaynes

Stories of Your Life by Ted Chiang

I finished reading the last book in Iain M. Banks The Culture series. Not perfect but the series overall turned out to be my favorite fiction across any medium.

Similar to a written version of Star Trek.

Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir

Be Here Now by Ram Daas.

Haven't finished it but reading: The Charisma Machine

About the One Laptop Per Child computers

Fiction I enjoyed reading:

- Sourdough/24hr library

- Nick Webb legacy fleet series

- Long way to a small angry planet

The Heart of Buddha's Teachings by Thich Nhat Han This is one of the life changing book!

How Emotions Are Made - Lisa Feldman Barrett

Augustus: A Novel, by John Edward Williams

A Man and His Symbols by Jung and others.

Nim in Action

These Truths (Jill Lepore)