Reading list 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\

1. 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