Peter Godfrey-Smith. Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness. Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2016. 271 p. $27.

Author
A biology professor, formerly at Harvard and Stanford.

Benefit
A book about the intelligence and consciousness of a few animals with an emphasis on cephalopods.  Very interesting argument about evolutionary biology and intelligence.