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The Gene: An Intimate History
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4.34 avg rating — 58,282 ratings
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The Selfish Gene
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4.16 avg rating — 198,242 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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4.13 avg rating — 830,402 ratings
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Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
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4.06 avg rating — 28,619 ratings
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The Origin of Species
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4.01 avg rating — 124,774 ratings
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She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
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4.15 avg rating — 7,689 ratings
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A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
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4.13 avg rating — 6,716 ratings
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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4.34 avg rating — 118,747 ratings
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The Double Helix
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3.83 avg rating — 20,397 ratings
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Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA
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4.12 avg rating — 2,671 ratings
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A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
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4.02 avg rating — 12,675 ratings
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The Epigenetics Revolution
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4.05 avg rating — 5,560 ratings
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Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity
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3.97 avg rating — 3,879 ratings
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Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
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4.14 avg rating — 6,399 ratings
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Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes
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4.08 avg rating — 3,529 ratings
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The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
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4.09 avg rating — 42,555 ratings
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The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code
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4.01 avg rating — 11,145 ratings
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Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life
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4.26 avg rating — 3,865 ratings
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The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
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4.15 avg rating — 29,051 ratings
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The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance
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4.20 avg rating — 17,577 ratings
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DNA: The Secret of Life
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4.11 avg rating — 2,850 ratings
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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
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4.09 avg rating — 25,700 ratings
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Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body
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4.05 avg rating — 4,002 ratings
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The Invisible History of the Human Race: How DNA and History Shape Our Identities and Our Futures
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3.81 avg rating — 1,659 ratings
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Inheritance: How Our Genes Change Our Lives—and Our Lives Change Our Genes
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3.93 avg rating — 1,749 ratings
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A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History
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3.74 avg rating — 1,596 ratings
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Saxons, Vikings, and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland
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3.86 avg rating — 2,229 ratings
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Epigenetics: The Ultimate Mystery of Inheritance
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3.72 avg rating — 740 ratings
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The Telomere Effect: A Revolutionary Approach to Living Younger, Healthier, Longer
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3.77 avg rating — 6,113 ratings
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Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 295,682 ratings
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Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
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4.04 avg rating — 30,015 ratings
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Next
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3.54 avg rating — 78,654 ratings
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The Philadelphia Chromosome: A Mutant Gene and the Quest to Cure Cancer at the Genetic Level
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4.28 avg rating — 1,127 ratings
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The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7,734 ratings
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The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
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4.05 avg rating — 17,473 ratings
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The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene
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4.12 avg rating — 9,737 ratings
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Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo
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4.08 avg rating — 5,804 ratings
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Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease
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4.14 avg rating — 9,337 ratings
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Junk DNA: A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome
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3.94 avg rating — 1,122 ratings
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Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
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3.89 avg rating — 46,981 ratings
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Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience and What Makes Us Human
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4.06 avg rating — 4,275 ratings
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The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution
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4.06 avg rating — 3,183 ratings
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River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life
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3.98 avg rating — 9,098 ratings
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The Rosie Project (Don Tillman, #1)
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4.01 avg rating — 609,129 ratings
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Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins
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3.94 avg rating — 1,068 ratings
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The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey
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4.07 avg rating — 1,642 ratings
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The 10000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution
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3.94 avg rating — 1,876 ratings
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DNA USA: A Genetic Biography of America
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3.54 avg rating — 755 ratings
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The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
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4.28 avg rating — 42,979 ratings
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Deep Ancestry: Inside the Genographic Project
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3.88 avg rating — 708 ratings
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The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
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4.05 avg rating — 17,473 ratings
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The Genius in All of Us: Why Everything You've Been Told About Genetics, Talent, and IQ Is Wrong
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3.86 avg rating — 2,206 ratings
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The Windup Girl
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3.75 avg rating — 79,326 ratings
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Climbing Mount Improbable
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4.12 avg rating — 10,206 ratings
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Adam's Curse: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Destiny
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3.92 avg rating — 1,153 ratings
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The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
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3.98 avg rating — 4,719 ratings
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School's Out—Forever (Maximum Ride, #2)
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4.14 avg rating — 125,733 ratings
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The Cartoon Guide to Genetics
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4.05 avg rating — 1,001 ratings
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The Third Twin
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3.83 avg rating — 42,778 ratings
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Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity
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4.27 avg rating — 23,123 ratings
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Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life
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3.83 avg rating — 875 ratings
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Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
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4.37 avg rating — 34,603 ratings
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The Language of Life: DNA and the Revolution in Personalized Medicine
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 784 ratings
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Genes, Peoples, and Languages
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3.86 avg rating — 810 ratings
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What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches
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4.12 avg rating — 8,137 ratings
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Biology as Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA
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3.97 avg rating — 1,074 ratings
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The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
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4.16 avg rating — 57,128 ratings
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Seveneves
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 128,380 ratings
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A Short History of Humanity: A New History of Old Europe
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4.14 avg rating — 2,043 ratings
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Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors
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3.99 avg rating — 4,715 ratings
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The Angel Experiment (Maximum Ride, #1)
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4.07 avg rating — 235,210 ratings
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Ancestral Journeys: The Peopling of Europe from the First Venturers to the Vikings
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3.94 avg rating — 744 ratings
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I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life ― A New York Times Bestselling Science Book
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4.16 avg rating — 33,767 ratings
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Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves
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3.79 avg rating — 1,269 ratings
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Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome
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4.01 avg rating — 2,142 ratings
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The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
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3.88 avg rating — 1,648 ratings
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Upgrade
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3.80 avg rating — 130,933 ratings
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Prey
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3.79 avg rating — 189,268 ratings
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Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To
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4.11 avg rating — 27,471 ratings
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Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are
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3.94 avg rating — 2,415 ratings
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The Genome Odyssey: Medical Mysteries and the Incredible Quest to Solve Them
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4.24 avg rating — 962 ratings
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Evolution in Four Dimensions: Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, And Symbolic Variation in the History of Life (Life And Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology And Philosophy Series)
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4.20 avg rating — 660 ratings
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Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
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4.42 avg rating — 21,197 ratings
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How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference
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3.89 avg rating — 6,846 ratings
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Wonder (Wonder, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 1,227,066 ratings
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The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief
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3.88 avg rating — 14,061 ratings
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Seize the Night (Moonlight Bay, #2)
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4.09 avg rating — 30,215 ratings
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Eve & Adam (Eve & Adam, #1)
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3.52 avg rating — 14,596 ratings
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Fear Nothing (Moonlight Bay, #1)
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3.99 avg rating — 40,047 ratings
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The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
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3.93 avg rating — 12,879 ratings
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Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
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4.09 avg rating — 1,642 ratings
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The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
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4.28 avg rating — 16,605 ratings
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Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)
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4.14 avg rating — 1,102,869 ratings
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Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
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4.15 avg rating — 2,848 ratings
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Darwin's Radio (Darwin's Radio, #1)
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3.73 avg rating — 16,995 ratings
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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4.32 avg rating — 1,333,144 ratings
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Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas
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3.80 avg rating — 3,382 ratings
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DNA USA: A Genetic Portrait of America
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3.54 avg rating — 755 ratings
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The Lost Family: How DNA Testing Is Uncovering Secrets, Reuniting Relatives, and Upending Who We Are
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,399 ratings
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Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes
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3.95 avg rating — 5,280 ratings
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