Biotech Reads
2. 
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
by:
John Carreyrou
4.41 avg rating — 276,374 ratings 3. 
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
by:
Laurie Garrett
4.21 avg rating — 10,688 ratings 4. 
The Genome Odyssey: Medical Mysteries and the Incredible Quest to Solve Them 4.25 avg rating — 852 ratings
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Extreme Medicine: How Exploration Transformed Medicine in the Twentieth Century
by:
Kevin Fong
3.92 avg rating — 1,249 ratings 6. 
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
by:
Richard Preston
4.16 avg rating — 119,583 ratings 7. 
Lamarck's Revenge: How Epigenetics Is Revolutionizing Our Understanding of Evolution's Past and Present
by:
Peter D. Ward
3.28 avg rating — 96 ratings 8. 
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The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
by:
Walter Isaacson
4.28 avg rating — 39,743 ratings 9. 
A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution 4.13 avg rating — 6,305 ratings
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Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
by:
Thomas Hager
4.18 avg rating — 5,017 ratings 13. 
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Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
by:
Beth Macy
4.07 avg rating — 44,188 ratings 14. 
The Great American Drug Deal: A New Prescription for Innovative and Affordable Medicines
by:
Peter Kolchinsky
4.10 avg rating — 271 ratings 
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Miracle Cure: The Creation of Antibiotics and the Birth of Modern Medicine
by:
William Rosen
4.08 avg rating — 360 ratings 18. 
Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health
by:
Laurie Garrett
4.13 avg rating — 1,345 ratings 19. 
Science Lessons: What the Business of Biotech Taught Me About Management
by:
Gordon Binder
3.88 avg rating — 156 ratings 20. 
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The Billion Dollar Molecule: One Company's Quest for the Perfect Drug
by:
Barry Werth
3.92 avg rating — 1,044 ratings 23. 
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 23. 
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
by:
Caitlin Doughty
4.22 avg rating — 104,627 ratings 25. 
Malignant: How Bad Policy and Bad Evidence Harm People with Cancer 4.45 avg rating — 277 ratings
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An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back 4.30 avg rating — 7,912 ratings
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Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets 4.08 avg rating — 69,679 ratings
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Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health
by:
Marion Nestle
3.94 avg rating — 4,624 ratings 28. 
The Vaccine: Inside the Race to Conquer the COVID-19 Pandemic
by:
Joe Miller
4.24 avg rating — 864 ratings 31. 
The Aspirin Wars: Money, Medicine & 100 Years of Rampant Competition
by:
Charles C. Mann
3.68 avg rating — 53 ratings 31. 
Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients
by:
Ben Goldacre
4.10 avg rating — 9,120 ratings 33. 
How We Do Harm: A Doctor Breaks Ranks About Being Sick in America 4.18 avg rating — 1,988 ratings
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Deadly Medicine: Why Tens of Thousands of Heart Patients Died in America's Worst Drug Disaster
by:
Thomas J. Moore
3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings 
35. 
Pain Killer: A Wonder Drug's Trail of Addiction and Death
by:
Barry Meier
4.02 avg rating — 2,773 ratings 
37. 
The Danger Within Us: America's Untested, Unregulated Medical Device Industry and One Man's Battle to Survive It
by:
Jeanne Lenzer
4.05 avg rating — 411 ratings 37. 
The Future of Brain Repair: A Realist's Guide to Stem Cell Therapy
by:
Jack Price
3.95 avg rating — 20 ratings 40. 
Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats
by:
Maryn McKenna
4.20 avg rating — 883 ratings 40. 
The Genome War: How Craig Venter Tried to Capture the Code of Life and Save the World
by:
James Shreeve
3.84 avg rating — 462 ratings 42. 
Food, Inc.: Mendel to Monsanto--The Promises and Perils of the Biotech Harvest
by:
Peter Pringle
4.09 avg rating — 951 ratings 
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Lords Of The Harvest: Biotech, Big Money, And The Future Of Food
by:
Daniel Charles
4.04 avg rating — 169 ratings 44. 
The Devil's Playbook: Big Tobacco, Juul, and the Addiction of a New Generation
by:
Lauren Etter
4.15 avg rating — 521 ratings 46. 
A Genetic Switch, Third Edition: Phage Lambda Revisited
by:
Mark Ptashne
4.40 avg rating — 78 ratings 
48. 
Mapping Humanity: How Modern Genetics Is Changing Criminal Justice, Personalized Medicine, and Our Identities 3.89 avg rating — 37 ratings
49. 
A Commotion in the Blood: Life, Death, and the Immune System
by:
Stephen S. Hall
4.22 avg rating — 85 ratings 
50. 
The Age of Genomes: Tales from the Front Lines of Genetic Medicine
by:
Steven M. Lipkin
3.73 avg rating — 91 ratings 52. 
Laughing Gas, Viagra, and Lipitor: The Human Stories behind the Drugs We Use
by:
Jie Jack Li
3.68 avg rating — 37 ratings 
54. 
Orphan: The Quest to Save Children with Rare Genetic Disorders
by:
Philip R. Reilly
4.16 avg rating — 43 ratings 55. 
The Cure: How a Father Raised $100 Million—and Bucked the Medical Establishment—in a Quest to Save His Children
by:
Geeta Anand
3.92 avg rating — 307 ratings 55. 
Chasing Captain America: How Advances in Science, Engineering, and Biotechnology Will Produce a Superhuman
by:
E. Paul Zehr
3.64 avg rating — 64 ratings 
57. 
Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism
by:
Marion Nestle
3.89 avg rating — 272 ratings 
59. 
Frankenstein's Cat: Cuddling Up to Biotech's Brave New Beasts
by:
Emily Anthes
3.73 avg rating — 1,027 ratings 61. 
The Bitterest Pills: The Troubling Story of Antipsychotic Drugs
by:
Joanna Moncrieff
4.17 avg rating — 63 ratings 
63. 
The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug
by:
Thomas Hager
4.09 avg rating — 5,802 ratings 
65. 
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
by:
Adam Rutherford
4.03 avg rating — 11,640 ratings 65. 
Blue Dreams: The Science and the Story of the Drugs that Changed Our Minds
by:
Lauren Slater
3.79 avg rating — 808 ratings 67. 
Mind Over Meds: Know When Drugs Are Necessary, When Alternatives Are Better—and When to Let Your Body Heal on Its Own
by:
Andrew Weil
4.15 avg rating — 465 ratings 68. 
Science Business: The Promise, the Reality, and the Future of Biotech
by:
Gary P. Pisano
3.70 avg rating — 111 ratings 68. 
Drug Hunters: The Improbable Quest to Discover New Medicines
by:
Donald R. Kirsch
4.26 avg rating — 1,201 ratings 
70. 
Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition and Modern Medicine―Unpacking the Science Behind Food and Health
by:
Robert H. Lustig
4.26 avg rating — 6,132 ratings 72. 
The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care 4.21 avg rating — 1,126 ratings
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Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results 3.90 avg rating — 393 ratings
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Don't Eat This If You're Taking That: The Hidden Risks of Mixing Food and Medicine 3.51 avg rating — 159 ratings
78. 
Career Opportunities in Biotechnology and Drug Development
by:
Toby Freedman
4.57 avg rating — 63 ratings 78. 
Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure
by:
Paul A. Offit
4.18 avg rating — 1,384 ratings 
81. 
The Truth in Small Doses: Why We're Losing the War on Cancer-and How to Win It
by:
Clifton Leaf
4.19 avg rating — 161 ratings 81. 
The Cell: Discovering the Microscopic World that Determines Our Health, Our Consciousness, and Our Future 3.61 avg rating — 173 ratings
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Conscience and Courage: How Visionary CEO Henri Termeer Built a Biotech Giant and Pioneered the Rare Disease Industry
by:
John T W Hawkins
4.15 avg rating — 47 ratings 83. 
The Human Superorganism: How the Microbiome Is Revolutionizing the Pursuit of a Healthy Life
by:
Rodney Dietert
3.96 avg rating — 693 ratings 85. 
A Rare Breed: How people and perseverance built BioMarin into one of the world's most innovative companies
by:
Daniel S. Levine
3.77 avg rating — 30 ratings 86. 
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Preventing the Next Pandemic: Vaccine Diplomacy in a Time of Anti-science
by:
Peter J. Hotez
3.76 avg rating — 212 ratings 88. 
The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics, and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease
by:
Meredith Wadman
3.96 avg rating — 1,031 ratings 89. 
Don't Be Such a Scientist: Talking Substance in an Age of Style
by:
Randy Olson
3.72 avg rating — 747 ratings 89. 
The Panic Virus: Fear, Myth and the Vaccination Debate
by:
Seth Mnookin
4.07 avg rating — 5,763 ratings 91. 
Life Itself: Exploring the Realm of the Living Cell
by:
Boyce Rensberger
3.91 avg rating — 57 ratings 92. 
The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life
by:
Nick Lane
4.18 avg rating — 5,766 ratings 
96. 
Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom
by:
Katherine Eban
4.42 avg rating — 7,196 ratings 
98. 
American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts
by:
Chris McGreal
4.14 avg rating — 2,162 ratings 
100. 
Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
by:
Sam Quinones
4.23 avg rating — 31,637 ratings