Suggested light reading for undergraduate and graduate biology students
| 1491 (Second Edition): New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus | Charles C. Mann |
| A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes | Adam Rutherford |
| A Crack In Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution | Jennifer A. Doudna and Samuel H. Sternberg |
| Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup | John Carreyrou |
| Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History | Stephen Jay Gould |
| Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty | Patrick Radden Keefe |
| Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism and progress | Steven Pinker |
| Finding Darwin’s God: A Scientist’s Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution | Kenneth R. Miller |
| Galileo’s Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and One Scholar’s Search for Justice | Alice Dreger |
| Herding Hemingway’s Cats: Understanding how our genes work | Kat Arney |
| Is Science Racist? (Debating Race) | Jonathan Marks |
| Life’s Greatest Secret: The Story of the Race to Crack the Genetic Code | Matthew Cobb |
| Simply Complexity: A Clear Guide to Complexity Theory | Neil Johnson |
| The Art and Politics of Science | Harold E. Varmus |
| The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer | Siddhartha Mukherjee |
| The Genome War: How Craig Venter Tried to Capture the Code of Life and Save the World | James Shreeve |
| The Mismeasure of Man | Stephen Jay Gould |
| The Philadelphia Chromosome: A Genetic Mystery, a Lethal Cancer, and the Improbable Invention of a Lifesaving Treatment | Jessica Wapner |
| The Selfish Gene | Richard Dawkins |
| The Society of Genes | Itai Yanai and Martin Lercher |
| What’s in your genome?: 90% of your genome is junk | Lawrence Moran |
| Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy | Cathy O’Neil |
| Why Big Fierce Animals Are Rare: An Ecologist’s Perspective | Paul A. Colinvaux |
| Why Evolution is True | Jerry A. Coyne |