I challenged myself to read a science book out of my niche every month and this is what I ended up reading with links to the full descriptions on my Instagram.

You can also find all the books I’ve read (and want to read) on my Goodreads page!

January: the Genome Defense by Jorge  L. Contreras

February: Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

March: the Best American Science and Nature Writing of 2022 by Ed Yong

April: Marketing for Scientists Marc J. Kuchner

May: the Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan

June: Bad Blood by John Carreyrou 

July: the Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot 

August: Science Lessons by Gordon Binder

September: the Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson

October: Genentech, the Beginnings of Biotech by Sally Smith Hughes

November: Gene Machine by Venki Ramakrishnan

December: the Metaverse by Matthew Ball

Next Up?

I have a long list of books I’m constantly updating, but high up on the must-reads for 2023 are I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong and Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee.