"The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Genome science can hardly be considered a topic of mainstream interest, but Mukherjee manages to capture its relevance by being what Bill Gates calls a "quadruple threat."

Mukherjee is a practicing physician, teacher, researcher, and author. He seeks to answer big questions concerning our personalities and what makes us, us.

"The Gene" chronicles the history of how scientists came to be enamored with human genes and what the latest research tells us about our species' genetic future.