Fiction:

• The MaddAddam Trilogy by Margaret Atwood
• The Seedling Stars by James Blish
• Long for this World by Michael Byers
• Intuition by Allegra Goodman
• Wool Omnibus by Hugh Howey
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• Jar City (also translated as Tainted Blood) by Arnaldur Indridason
• Never Let Me Go by Kasuo Ishiguro
• Mendel’s Dwarf by Simon Mawer
• Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
• The Jenna Fox Chronicles by Mary Pearson
• Second Glance by Jodi Picoult
• Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult
• The Atlantis Gene by A.G. Riddle
• Drama of DNA: Narrative Genomics by Karen H. Rothenberg and Lynn Wein Bush
• Unwind Collection by Neal Shusterman
• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
• The Chrysalids by John Wyndham

Non-Fiction:

• Here is a Human Being: At the Dawn of Personal Genomics by Misha Angrist
• Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues by Martin Blaser
• When Will Broccoli Taste Like Chocolate?: Your Questions on Genetic Traits Answered by Stanford University Scientists by Dale Bodian and D. Barry Starr
• On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition and Fiction by Brian Boyd
• Follow Your Gut by Brenda Buhler and Rob Knight
• The Cure For Everything: Untangling Twisted Messages about Health, Fitness and Happiness by Timothy Caulfield
• Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck by Adam Cohen
• The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief by Francis Collins
• The Science of Human Perfection: How Genes Became the Heart of American Medicine by Nathaniel Comfort
• The $1000 Genome: The Revolution in DNA Sequencing and the New Era of Personalized Medicine by Kevin Davies
• Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports And Why We’re Afraid To Talk About It by Jon Entine
• The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance by David Epstein
• My Beautiful Genome: Discovering Our Genetic Future, One Quirk at a Time by Lone Frank
• The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human by Jonathan Gottschall
• The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen J. Gould
• Change How You See, See How You Change by Rick Guidotti
• Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
• Designs on Nature: Science and Democracy in Europe and the United States by Sheila Jasanoff
• The Fifth Branch: Science Advisors as Policymakers by Sheila Jasanoff
• The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic by Steven Johnson
• The Inheritance: A Family on the Front Lines of the Battle Against Alzheimer’s Disease by Niki Kapsambelis
• The Violinist’s Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code by Sam Kean
• The Invisible History of the Human Race: How DNA and History Shape Our Identities and Our Futures by Christine Kenneally
• The Family Gene: A Mission to Turn My Deadly Inheritance into a Hopeful Future by Joselin Linder
• The Forever Fix: Gene Therapy and the Boy Who Saved It by Ricki Lewis
• The Age of Genomes: Tales from the Front Lines of Genetic Medicine by Steven M. Lipkin with Jon Luoma
• Woolly: The True Story of the Quest to Revive One of History’s Most Iconic Extinct Creatures by Ben Mezrich
• The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
• The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome by Alondra Nelson
• Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes by Svante Paabo
• The Black Stork: Eugenics and the Death of “Defective” Babies in American Medicine and Motion Pictures since 1915 by Martin Pernick
• A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes by Adam Rutherford
• Superior: The Return of Race Science by Angela Saini
• Sex, Love and DNA: What Molecular Biology Teaches Us About Being Human by Peter Schattner
• NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity by Steven Silberman
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
• Genomics and personalized medicine: what everyone needs to know by Michael Snyder
• Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity by Andrew Solomon
• Telling Genes: The Story of Genetic Counseling in America by Alexandra Minna Stern
• The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals our Genetic Ancestry by Bryan Sykes
• Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science by Kim TallBear
• The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care by Eric Topol
• I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong
• She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity by Carl Zimmer

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