Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Survival in Auschwitz
The Nazi Assault on Humanity
byPrimo Levi
1995192 Pages“Perhaps the best book I have read... His tone in Survival in Auschwitz is so perfectly controlled, at once clinical, sceptical and humane, that it remains the standard that all fiction and non-fiction writers might aspire to.”
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
Source: The Guardian interview, 'My hero: Primo Levi'
byPrimo Levi
1975233 Pages“While writing my own book on the history of cancer, I returned to him for his control of tone, his capacity to talk about very big stories through very small stories.”
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
Source: The Guardian interview, 'My hero: Primo Levi'
The Double Helix
A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
byJames D. Watson
1968226 Pages“Watson's searingly honest chronicle of the race to solve DNA's structure... it humanized science and scientists. It is a racy, funny, scandalous read—a glimpse into the inner anatomy of science.”
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
Source: Goodreads Interview on Genetics Books
byMatt Ridley
2006344 Pages“Ridley's extraordinary book uses the 23 human chromosomes (23 chapters) to explore subjects as diverse as disease, fate, language, and racial history. The writing sparkles, and the science is never oversimplified.”
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
Source: Goodreads Interview on Genetics Books
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