Best Nonfiction Books
The best nonfiction books to read, from riveting science writing and memoirs to essential history and business titles.
Our pick: The Song of the Cell by Siddhartha Mukherjee — Mukherjee does for cell biology what he did for cancer in The Emperor of All Maladies — makes it gripping, personal, and urgent.
The Song of the Cell by Siddhartha Mukherjee is the best nonfiction book because it takes cell biology -- a subject most people last considered in high school -- and makes it gripping, personal, and urgent in the same way his Pulitzer-winning The Emperor of All Maladies did for cancer. It is the rare science book that reads like a thriller and leaves you understanding your own body differently by the final chapter.
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