Reading list 2026

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Reading list 2026
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March 1, 2026

Books 2026

Biology

  1. Junk DNA: A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome by Nessa Carey
  2. The Vital Question by Nick Lane
  3. 30 Great essays about biology
    • The importance of stupidity in scientific research - Martin A. Schwartz
    • More is different - P.W. Adnerson
    • The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm - Stephen Jay Gould & Richard Lewontin
    • How to choose a good scientific problem - Uri Alon
    • What is it like to be a bat? - Thomas Nagel
  4. An introduction to systems biology by Uri Alon

Interdisciplinary/Philosophy

  1. What Is Life? by Erwin Schrödinger
  2. Gödel, Escher, Bach
  3. The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan

Fictions

  1. Blood Meridian by McCarthy (if i can be patient with it)
  2. Reread parts of 2066
  3. A short stay in Hell Steven L. Peck
  4. Bel Canto by Ann patchett
  5. Reread wuthering heights
  6. the unberable lightness of being by Milan Kundera
  7. anna karenina tolstoy - maybe