Read Being Mortal

The woman whose cells, taken without consent in 1951, are still alive in every lab.

A biography of cancer from ancient Egypt to gene therapy; Mukherjee's Pulitzer.

Mukherjee's intimate history of heredity, from Mendel's peas to CRISPR.

Matthew Walker on what eight hours do and what six hours cost.

A neurosurgeon diagnosed with lung cancer at 36 writes about it until he cannot.

What humans will want once famine, plague and war are solved; Harari's sequel.

Hofstadter on self-reference in logic, art and music, and where minds come from; the Pulitzer nobody finishes.

Van der Kolk on trauma living in the body and how it heals; years on the bestseller list.