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The biologist’s bookshelf

One of the first things that I did when I started this blog was to publish the bio reading list, basically a list of books that I considered useful for biology teachers and their students to read. That post is a little tired now, so I update it to the biologist’s bookshelf and include all the books that I have read since it was published.

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1. Bad Science – by Ben Goldacre
2. The sixth extinction: an unnatural history – by Elizabeth Kolbert
3. Thirteen things that don’t make sense – by Michael Brooks
4. The magic of reality – by Richard Dawkins
5. The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks – by Rebecca Skloot
6. Creation: the origin of life/the future of life – by Adam Rutherford
7. The language of life – by Francis Collins
8. The rational optimist – by Matt Ridley
9. Quantum evolution: the new science of life – by Johnjoe Mcfadden
10. The diversity of life – by E.O. Wilson
11. Impossibility – by John Barrow
12. Collapse – by Jared Diamond
13. Thinking, fast and slow – by Daniel Kahneman
14. The self illusion – by Bruce Hood
15. The selfish gene – by Richard Dawkins
16. Genome – by Matt Ridley
17. Your inner fish – by Neil Shubin
18. The secret life of trees – by Colin Tudge
19. The man who mistook his wife for a hat – Oliver Sacks
20. The Handmaid’s tail – by Margaret Atwood
21. The Inheritors – by William Golding
22. The Baroque cycle – by Neal Stephenson
23. Seveneves – by Neal Stephenson
24. Aping mankind – by Raymond Tallis
25. Getting Darwin wrong – by Brendan Wallace
26. The vital question – by Nick Lane
27. Life Ascending – by Nick Lane
28. The greatest show on earth – by Richard Dawkins
29. The song of the Dodo – by David Quammen
30. The lives of a cell – by Lewis Thomas
31. Why evolution is true – by Jerry Coyne
32. Faith vs fact – by Jerry Coyne
33. The Serengeti rules – by Sean Carroll
34. Being mortal – by Atul Gawande
35. Patient H.M. – by Luke Dittrich
36. A brief history of everyone whoever lived – by Adam Rutherford
37. I contain multitudes – by Ed Yong
38. Neanderthal man – by Svante Paabo
39. The serpents promise – by Steve Jones
40. The book of humans – Adam Rutherford
41. When breath becomes air – Paul Kalanithi
42. This is going to hurt – Adam Kay
43. Stiff – Mary Roach
44. I, Mammal – Liam Drew
45. Superior – Angela Saini
46. Parasite Rex – Carl Zimmer
47. What is life? – Erwin Schrodinger
48. The Demon in the machine – Paul Davies
49. The body – Bill Bryson
50. The incredible unlikeliness of being – Alice Roberts
51. The Epigenetics Revolution – Nessa Carey
52. Junk DNA – Nessa Carey
53. The Tangled Tree – David Quammen
54. The Gene – Siddhartha Mukherjee
55. A Crack in Creation – Jennifer Doudna
56. Factfulness – Hans Rosling
57. Life on Earth – David Attenborough
58. 10 million aliens – Simon Barnes
59. Biology as ideology – Richard Lewontin