The Gene
By
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Siddhartha Mukherjee
2016 • 742 pages

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772 books

By Men

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Fahrenheit 451
Death Watch
Wool
The Amber Spyglass
The Golden Compass
The Subtle Knife

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Inge
Little Fires Everywhere
Terminal Rage
Sharp Objects
American Kingpin
The Angel of Darkness
The Alienist
The story of B

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65 books

Building A Better World

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Outliers: The Story of Success
Surviving the Extremes
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
Life of Pi

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2016 Faves

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Hunters & Collectors
The Genius of Birds
The Gene

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Kissinger : A Biography
Sleeping with the Devil
The Iran Wars: Spy Games, Bank Battles, and the Secret Deals That Reshaped the Middle East
The Trial of Henry Kissinger
The End of Jobs
Meditations

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Knowledge

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Redefining Reality: The Intellectual Implications of Modern Science
What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
The Inexplicable Universe: Unsolved Mysteries
The Selfish Gene
Equal Is Unfair

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257 books

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Fire
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A Court of Silver Flames
American Gods
Ready Player One
The Atlas Six
The Fault in Our Stars

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765 books

Title A I

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Anne of Green Gables
The Amber Spyglass
The Golden Compass
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Holidays on Ice
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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72 books

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The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story
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Business Adventures
A Gentleman in Moscow
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Anne of Green Gables
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450 books

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The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
Marie Antoinette: The Journey
The City of Falling Angels
Two Histories of England (Child's History of England / History of England)
Becoming Jane Austen

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307 books

History

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The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books
Queen of Vaudeville: The Story of Eva Tanguay
Ungovernable: The Victorian Parent's Guide to Raising Flawless Children
Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings
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The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness
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Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings
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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
Get Well Soon

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33 books

Math And Science And Adjacent

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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
The Glass Universe
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Death by Black Hole

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256 books

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The Oppermanns
Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages
Winter Love
In a Lonely Place
Top Dog

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My Marriage
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The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Holidays on Ice
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Volume Control
The Sweet Forever
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life

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35 books

2023

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Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
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Future Reads

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How to Solve it
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Medicine And Health

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The Code Breaker
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The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
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Weeds: How Vagabond Plants Gatecrashed Civilisation and Changed the Way We Think About Nature
Teaching the Trees: Lessons from the Forest
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