Books about genetic engineering
Books where heredity is rewritten or examined: engineered creatures, altered people and the science behind them. Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park brings dinosaurs back from ancient DNA, Daniel Keyes's Flowers for Algernon tests an experiment on human intelligence, and Siddhartha Mukherjee's The Gene tells the history of the idea itself. Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks shows the human cost of research.
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- 1Flowers for Algernon
8.88.8 / 10 - 2Old Man's War
8.38.3 / 10 - 3The Gene: An Intimate History
8.38.3 / 10 - 4The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
8.38.3 / 10 - 5Jurassic Park
8.38.3 / 10 - 6Middlesex
8.28.2 / 10 - 7The Blank Slate
8.18.1 / 10 - 8Children of Strife
8.18.1 / 10 - 9Scarlet
8.08.0 / 10 - 10The Book of Life
8.08.0 / 10 - 11Dawn
8.08.0 / 10 - 12Axiomatic
7.97.9 / 10 - 13Mind of My Mind
7.97.9 / 10 - 14Starfish
7.97.9 / 10 - 15Tuf Voyaging
7.97.9 / 10 - 16Brave New World
7.87.8 / 10 - 17Watchers
7.87.8 / 10 - 18Change Agent
7.87.8 / 10 - 19Oryx and Crake
7.87.8 / 10 - 20Pathfinder
7.87.8 / 10 - 21Shadow of the Giant
7.87.8 / 10 - 22The Drowned Cities
7.87.8 / 10 - 23Artifact
7.87.8 / 10 - 24Virals
7.77.7 / 10 - 25Time
7.77.7 / 10 - 26The Boys from Brazil
7.77.7 / 10 - 27Point Blanc
7.77.7 / 10 - 28God Emperor of Dune
7.77.7 / 10 - 29Leviathan
7.77.7 / 10 - 30Ethan of Athos
7.57.5 / 10