WIRED's Required Science Reading From 2016

If your resolution for the coming year is to spend less time on your commute scrolling through Twitter or playing "Puzzler on the Roof," there's no shortage of fantastic and fantastical new books you can use to take a break from mindless screen time. Curating this year's new arrivals was tough, but we managed to narrow the list down to our top-ten favorites. Patient H.M. by Luke Dittrich There's a certain poetic intrigue to the story of Henry Molaison, the most important neuroscience subject of the 20th-century, as told through the eyes of science writer Luke Dittrich. In the 1950s, it was Dittrich's grandfather, William Scoville, who tried to cure Molaison of his epileptic seizures by removing signifiant portions of his brain. Instead, the lobotomy turned Molaison into a profound amnesiac, living the rest of his life in a series of 30-second increments.