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Siddhartha Mukherjee's Reading List

The author of "The Emperor of All Maladies" read some bizarre things researching his latest book, "The Gene," "including comics from the 1950s that fantasized about future human mutants."

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By the Book: Siddhartha Mukherjee (2016)

NYT By the Book column (2016-05-19).

Source: www.nytimes.com

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Hungry Tide
Amitav Ghosh · Buy on Amazon
"I had read it years ago, but I wanted to read that moment with the tiger again."
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All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr · 2014 · Buy on Amazon
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And the Band Played On
Randy Shilts · Buy on Amazon
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Being Mortal
Atul Gawande · Buy on Amazon
Enduring Love
Ian McEwan · Buy on Amazon
"a novel spun out of an obsessive psychiatric syndrome"
Survival in Auschwitz
Primo Levi · Buy on Amazon
"Without a doubt: Primo Levi's "Survival in Auschwitz." Levi, notably, defined himself first as a chemist and then as a writer."
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Richard Rhodes · Buy on Amazon
"an epic account of the Manhattan Project. I cannot think of another book that makes scientific history more riveting."
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families
Philip Gourevitch · Buy on Amazon
"Philip Gourevitch's spellbindingly beautiful "We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families""
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Katherine Boo · Buy on Amazon
Shadow Lines
Amitav Ghosh · Buy on Amazon
"My favorite character in all books is a rail-thin, anxious, despondent, always hungry Bengali would-be intellectual named Tridib in Amitav Ghosh's "Shadow Lines.""
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Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie · Buy on Amazon
"To read "Midnight's Children" was to be reminded what it meant to be inside a book."
Absurdistan
Gary Shteyngart · Buy on Amazon
"Gary Shteyngart's "Absurdistan." That terminally annoying guy who sits with his nose in a book and smirks through a flight? I was that guy."

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