Best Popular Genetics Books on Goodreads
4. 
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
by:
Matt Ridley
4.06 avg rating — 27,646 ratings 
6. 
She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
by:
Carl Zimmer
4.16 avg rating — 7,101 ratings 7. 
A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution 4.13 avg rating — 6,304 ratings
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A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
by:
Adam Rutherford
4.03 avg rating — 11,641 ratings 
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Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity
by:
Jamie Metzl
3.98 avg rating — 3,710 ratings 14. 
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
by:
David Reich
4.14 avg rating — 5,853 ratings 
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The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
by:
Richard Dawkins
4.09 avg rating — 41,145 ratings 17. 
The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code
by:
Sam Kean
4.01 avg rating — 10,634 ratings 18. 
Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life
by:
Nick Lane
4.25 avg rating — 3,636 ratings 19. 
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
by:
Richard Dawkins
4.14 avg rating — 28,421 ratings 20. 
The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance
by:
David Epstein
4.20 avg rating — 16,556 ratings 
22. 
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
by:
Steven Pinker
4.09 avg rating — 25,079 ratings 
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The Invisible History of the Human Race: How DNA and History Shape Our Identities and Our Futures 3.81 avg rating — 1,640 ratings
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Inheritance: How Our Genes Change Our Lives—and Our Lives Change Our Genes
by:
Sharon Moalem
3.94 avg rating — 1,718 ratings 26. 
A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History
by:
Nicholas Wade
3.73 avg rating — 1,541 ratings 27. 
Saxons, Vikings, and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland
by:
Bryan Sykes
3.86 avg rating — 2,138 ratings 
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The Telomere Effect: A Revolutionary Approach to Living Younger, Healthier, Longer 3.77 avg rating — 5,730 ratings
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Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
by:
Margaret Atwood
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 281,967 ratings 31. 
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
by:
Neil Shubin
4.04 avg rating — 28,102 ratings 
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The Philadelphia Chromosome: A Mutant Gene and the Quest to Cure Cancer at the Genetic Level
by:
Jessica Wapner
4.29 avg rating — 1,063 ratings 34. 
The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry
by:
Bryan Sykes
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7,556 ratings 34. 
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
by:
Matt Ridley
4.05 avg rating — 17,202 ratings 36. 
The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene
by:
Richard Dawkins
4.12 avg rating — 9,501 ratings 37. 
Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo
by:
Sean B. Carroll
4.08 avg rating — 5,698 ratings 38. 
Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease
by:
Sharon Moalem
4.14 avg rating — 8,939 ratings 38. 
Junk DNA: A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome
by:
Nessa Carey
3.93 avg rating — 1,051 ratings 40. 
Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
by:
Dani Shapiro
3.89 avg rating — 45,341 ratings 41. 
Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience and What Makes Us Human
by:
Matt Ridley
4.06 avg rating — 4,224 ratings 42. 
The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution
by:
Sean B. Carroll
4.06 avg rating — 3,141 ratings 
45. 
Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins
by:
Steve Olson
3.94 avg rating — 1,054 ratings 
47. 
The 10000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution
by:
Gregory Cochran
3.94 avg rating — 1,834 ratings 
49. 
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
by:
Walter Isaacson
4.28 avg rating — 39,746 ratings 
51. 
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
by:
Matt Ridley
4.05 avg rating — 17,202 ratings 52. 
The Genius in All of Us: Why Everything You've Been Told About Genetics, Talent, and IQ Is Wrong
by:
David Shenk
3.86 avg rating — 2,183 ratings 
55. 
Adam's Curse: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Destiny
by:
Bryan Sykes
3.92 avg rating — 1,118 ratings 56. 
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The Language of Life: DNA and the Revolution in Personalized Medicine 3.98 avg rating — 758 ratings
61. 
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
by:
Richard Dawkins
4.16 avg rating — 55,479 ratings 
65. 
How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference
by:
Adam Rutherford
3.90 avg rating — 6,497 ratings 
67. 
Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports (Maximum Ride, #3)
by:
James Patterson
4.14 avg rating — 96,847 ratings 
68. 
The Inheritance: A Family on the Front Lines of the Battle Against Alzheimer's Disease
by:
Niki Kapsambelis
4.27 avg rating — 536 ratings 
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The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
by:
Ray Kurzweil
3.93 avg rating — 12,333 ratings 
77. 
The Lost Family: How DNA Testing Is Uncovering Secrets, Reuniting Relatives, and Upending Who We Are
by:
Libby Copeland
4.01 avg rating — 3,112 ratings 78. 
Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes
by:
Nathan H. Lents
3.96 avg rating — 4,870 ratings 
81. 
The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
by:
Robert Wright
4.08 avg rating — 11,843 ratings 82. 
Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity
by:
Andrew Solomon
4.27 avg rating — 22,183 ratings 83. 
Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life
by:
J. Craig Venter
3.83 avg rating — 861 ratings 
85. 
What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches 4.13 avg rating — 7,501 ratings
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A Short History of Humanity: A New History of Old Europe
by:
Johannes Krause
4.14 avg rating — 1,810 ratings 89. 
Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors
by:
Nicholas Wade
3.99 avg rating — 4,643 ratings 90. 
Ancestral Journeys: The Peopling of Europe from the First Venturers to the Vikings
by:
Jean Manco
3.95 avg rating — 714 ratings 91. 
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
by:
Ed Yong
4.18 avg rating — 30,340 ratings 92. 
Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves
by:
George M. Church
3.79 avg rating — 1,230 ratings 93. 
Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,936 ratings
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The Genome Odyssey: Medical Mysteries and the Incredible Quest to Solve Them 4.25 avg rating — 852 ratings
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Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
by:
David Quammen
4.42 avg rating — 20,025 ratings 100. 
Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live
by:
Marlene Zuk
3.68 avg rating — 1,539 ratings