Bioengineering Books
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Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as bioengineering)
avg rating 4.00 — 286,591 ratings — published 2003
Parasite (Parasitology, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as bioengineering)
avg rating 3.68 — 18,971 ratings — published 2013
Under the Never Sky (Under the Never Sky, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as bioengineering)
avg rating 3.98 — 115,253 ratings — published 2011
Falling Free (Vorkosigan Saga, #4)
by (shelved 6 times as bioengineering)
avg rating 3.84 — 23,019 ratings — published 1988
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as bioengineering)
avg rating 4.12 — 364,742 ratings — published 2017
The Windup Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as bioengineering)
avg rating 3.75 — 78,099 ratings — published 2009
The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as bioengineering)
avg rating 4.07 — 132,715 ratings — published 2009
Beggars in Spain (Sleepless, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as bioengineering)
avg rating 3.93 — 8,959 ratings — published 1993
Blood Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as bioengineering)
avg rating 3.84 — 17,004 ratings — published 1985
Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as bioengineering)
avg rating 4.01 — 53,650 ratings — published 2006
Altar of Eden (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as bioengineering)
avg rating 4.05 — 20,347 ratings — published 2009
Lock In (Lock In, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as bioengineering)
avg rating 3.92 — 71,546 ratings — published 2014
The Drowned Cities (Ship Breaker, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as bioengineering)
avg rating 3.91 — 11,306 ratings — published 2012
Patient Zero (Joe Ledger, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as bioengineering)
avg rating 4.00 — 31,242 ratings — published 2009
The Adoration of Jenna Fox (Jenna Fox Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as bioengineering)
avg rating 3.69 — 52,995 ratings — published 2008
We3 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as bioengineering)
avg rating 3.92 — 25,717 ratings — published 2005
Upgrade (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as bioengineering)
avg rating 3.81 — 120,532 ratings — published 2022
Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)
by (shelved 2 times as bioengineering)
avg rating 4.29 — 102,222 ratings — published 2021
Borne (Borne, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as bioengineering)
avg rating 3.93 — 41,146 ratings — published 2017
Scarlet (The Lunar Chronicles, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as bioengineering)
avg rating 4.23 — 459,631 ratings — published 2013
The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as bioengineering)
avg rating 4.33 — 165,919 ratings — published 2017
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as bioengineering)
avg rating 4.18 — 286,392 ratings — published 2015
Change Agent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as bioengineering)
avg rating 3.98 — 8,140 ratings — published 2017
Adulthood Rites (Xenogenesis, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as bioengineering)
avg rating 4.19 — 28,603 ratings — published 1988
Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as bioengineering)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,057,273 ratings — published 1990
Symbiont (Parasitology, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as bioengineering)
avg rating 3.71 — 7,832 ratings — published 2014
Spin (Spin, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as bioengineering)
avg rating 4.04 — 44,365 ratings — published 2005
The Peripheral (Jackpot, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as bioengineering)
avg rating 3.89 — 33,221 ratings — published 2014
Gun, With Occasional Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as bioengineering)
avg rating 3.76 — 11,634 ratings — published 1994
Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as bioengineering)
avg rating 4.15 — 63,165 ratings — published 1987
Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as bioengineering)
avg rating 4.23 — 223,169 ratings — published 2005
Pump Six and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as bioengineering)
avg rating 4.04 — 8,807 ratings — published 2008
Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as bioengineering)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,251 ratings — published 2012
Dead of Night (Dead of Night, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as bioengineering)
avg rating 3.99 — 7,113 ratings — published 2011
Weak Links: The Universal Key to the Stability of Networks and Complex Systems (The Frontiers Collection)
by (shelved 2 times as bioengineering)
avg rating 4.45 — 38 ratings — published 2006
The Gecko's Foot: Bio-inspiration: Engineering New Materials from Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as bioengineering)
avg rating 3.85 — 224 ratings — published 2006
Partials (Partials Sequence, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as bioengineering)
avg rating 3.93 — 59,954 ratings — published 2012
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as bioengineering)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,696,810 ratings — published 2010
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as bioengineering)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,843,731 ratings — published 2008
Quarantine (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as bioengineering)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,265 ratings — published 1992
Introduction to Protein Structure (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as bioengineering)
avg rating 4.23 — 71 ratings — published 1991
Protein Engineering and Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bioengineering)
avg rating 4.00 — 4 ratings — published 2009
The Machinery of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bioengineering)
avg rating 4.43 — 732 ratings — published 1992
Protein Actions: Principles and Modeling (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as bioengineering)
avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published
Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bioengineering)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,203 ratings — published 2025
Star Splitter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bioengineering)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,707 ratings — published 2023
As Gods: A Moral History of the Genetic Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bioengineering)
avg rating 4.02 — 167 ratings — published
The Colonel (Firefall, #1.5)
by (shelved 1 time as bioengineering)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,094 ratings — published 2014
Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as bioengineering)
avg rating 4.05 — 60,879 ratings — published 2019
Resurrection Science: Conservation, De-extinction and the Precarious Future of Wild Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bioengineering)
avg rating 4.16 — 391 ratings — published 2015
“I had so much to learn. We knew that Pax was a billion years older than Earth. On Earth, plants had separated from animals less than a billion years ago. Probably Pax plants had more time to evolve.
The greenery around me held secrets I would never learn.”
― Semiosis
The greenery around me held secrets I would never learn.”
― Semiosis
“We had already realized from the disaster on Mars that transplanting Earth ecology wouldn't work. Crops would not grow without specific symbiotic fungi on their roots to extract nutrients, and the exact fungi would not grow without the proper soil composition, which did not exist without certain saprophytic bacteria that had proven resistant to transplantation, each life-form demanding its own billion-year-old niche. But Mars fossils and organic chemicals in interstellar comets showed that the building blocks of life were not unique to Earth. Proteins, amino acids, and carbohydrates existed everywhere. The theory of panspermia was true to a degree.
I had found a grass resembling wheat on our first day on Pax, and with a little plant tissue, a dash of hormone from buds, and some chitin, we soon had artificial seeds to plant. But would it grow? Theory was one thing and farming was another.
Then a few days before the women had died from poisoned fruit, Ramona and Carrie had seen the first shoots, ...”
― Semiosis
I had found a grass resembling wheat on our first day on Pax, and with a little plant tissue, a dash of hormone from buds, and some chitin, we soon had artificial seeds to plant. But would it grow? Theory was one thing and farming was another.
Then a few days before the women had died from poisoned fruit, Ramona and Carrie had seen the first shoots, ...”
― Semiosis


