The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness

The Soul of an Octopus

A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness

By
Sy Montgomery
Sy Montgomery
2015 • 273 pages

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113 books

The Sea

Traveller
Mer Barr
Captains Courageous
The Nautical Chart
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
The Riddle-Master of Hed
The Silent Sea
Nights of rain and stars

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162 books

Non Fiction

Sandy
Sandy
Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
When Breath Becomes Air
Married with Luggage: What We Learned About Love by Traveling the World
I Am Malala
Grammar Girl's 101 Words Every High School Graduate Needs to Know
Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
The gastronomy of marriage

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61 books

2018

WinoSmau
Girish Kumar
My Lady Jane
The Order of Time
Embers of War
The Woman in the Window
Lost in Math
Six Months, Three Days, Five Others
The Changeling

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6 books

Non Fiction

WinoSmau
Girish Kumar
Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story
The universe : leading scientists explore the origin, mysteries, and future of the cosmos
Squid Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just about Everything

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93 books

2022 Popsugar Challenge

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Pia Jensen
Seveneves
The Atlas Six
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
Christmas on the Island
A Desolation Called Peace
Hex Appeal
It Ends with Us

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200 books

Non Fiction

SettingShadow
Becca
Go Ask Alice
The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
The Art of Possibility
Autobiography of a Face

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68 books

Autobiographical

SettingShadow
Becca
The Game
Too Late to Die Young: Nearly True Tales from a Life
Julie & Julia
The Doctor Stories
My Own Country
Incidental Findings: Lessons from My Patients in the Art of Medicine
Self-Made Man

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15 books

Biology

SettingShadow
Becca
Phantoms in the Brain
Survival of the Sickest
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Alex & Me
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Evolution’s Rainbow

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1 book

Ichthyology

SettingShadow
Becca
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness

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46 books

Setting Ocean Sea Beach

Rkishu
Jan
Master of the Void
The Breath of a Whale: The Science and Spirit of Pacific Ocean Giants
An Immense World
The Shadow-line

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Wish List

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Now in November
A Hundred Summers
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A Death in the Family: A Restoration of the Author's Text
The Time Traveler's Wife
Letters to a Young Poet
And Then There Were None

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196 books

Genre Non Fiction

yukarin
Bianca
Stuff Matters
The Crossroads of Should and Must
Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime
Headstrong
Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ
Groundbreaking Food Gardens: 73 Plans That Will Change the Way You Grow Your Garden
At Home: A Short History of Private Life

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21 books

Nonf Nature

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Lucille Ancrath
The Genius of Birds
The Secret Wisdom of Nature : Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things --- Stories from Science and Observation
The Hidden Life of Trees
A Short Philosophy of Birds
The Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar: Evolution's Most Unbelievable Solutions to Life's Biggest Problems
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
How to Be a Good Creature A Memoir in Thirteen Animals

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Nonfiction

DebNance
Deb Nance
Barefoot Books World Atlas Sticker Book
Carlos Santana: Sound of the Heart, Song of the World
Sinister Savannah
Deadly Spider Bite!
The Whaleship Essex: The True Story of Moby Dick
Skulls!
Half-Earth

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311 books

Nature

DebNance
Deb Nance
High Tide in Tucson
Country Matters: The Pleasures and Tribulations of Moving from a Big City to an Old Country Farmhouse
In the Trees, Honey Bees: A Rhyming Nature Book for Kids
Living Sunlight: How Plants Bring the Earth to Life
Moonshot : the flight of Apollo 11
Down, Down, Down

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370 books

Animals

DebNance
Deb Nance
Creature ABC
Pony island
Life-Size Zoo: From Tiny Rodents to Gigantic Elephants, An Actual-Size Animal Encyclopedia
Butterflies And Moths
Bubble Homes & Fish Farts
About Penguins: A Guide for Children
Where Else in the Wild?

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189 books

Nonfiction

tara
Tara
Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas: The Film, the Art, the Vision
Where Am I Now?
Alan Turing: the enigma
Why Not Me?
The Story of Stuff
Crying in H Mart

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204 books

2023 Reads

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Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories
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8 books

2023 Nonfiction Challenge

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Petri
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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees
Tiny Beautiful Things
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Vesper Flights

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8 books

Favorites

Leeleebird
Leah
The Kite Runner
Orphan Train
Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
The Night Circus
Scythe
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

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71 books

Non Fiction

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Maiden Voyage
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Growing Up
Bare Bones: Conversations on Terror with Stephen King
The God Delusion
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America Along the Appalachian Trail
In A Sunburned Country

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10 books

Nature

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David Woodger
Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
The World Without Us
Wicked Bugs
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
The Secret House
The Drunken Botanist: The Plants that Create the World's Great Drinks
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness

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21 books

Science

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David Woodger
The God Delusion
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Blink
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
Mental Floss Presents Condensed Knowledge
Your Inner Fish
The World Without Us

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My Library

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Fermi Remembered
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Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize
Debate en torno a la etica del discurso de Apel: Diálogo filosófico Norte-Sur desde América Latina
Love and math : the heart of hidden reality
The Road to Reality
The Large, the Small and the Human Mind

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Owned

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Elliot Starr
Garfield Loses His Feet
Where's Waldo: The Totally Essential Travel Collection
I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
The Indian in the Cupboard
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Nature Attacks!
History Year by Year: The History of the World from Stone Age to the Digital World
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