RNAlab Reading List

A reading list of essential(#) or suggested readings which I've personally found influential.

Science

1. What is Life? - Erwin Schrödinger (1944) #

2. Strong Inference - John Platt (1964) #

3. The Replication of DNA in Escherichia coli - Meselson & Stahl. (1958)

4. The Hot Zone - Richard Preston (1994)

5. Smallpox: Death of a Disease - Donald Henderson (2009)

6. Godel, Escher, Bach - Douglas R. Hofstadter (1979)

7. The Singularity is near - Ray Kurzweil (2005)

8. The Cathedral and the Bazaar - Eric Steven Raymond (2000) #

9. The Double Helix - James Watson (1968)

10. The Salvation of Doug - William Sullivan (1993) #

11. The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins (1976)

12. The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection - Ronald Fisher (1930)

13. The Emperor of All Maladies - Siddhartha Mukherjee (2010)

14. Viral - Matt Ridley + Alina Chan

Fiction / Philosophy

1. Walden - Henry David Thoreau (1854)

2. Solaris - Stanislaw Lem (1961) #

3. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky (1866)

4. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway (1952) #

5. Foundation - Isaac Asimov (1951)