Science · Similar reads
Books like An Elegant Defense
An Elegant Defense by Matt Richtel is about immunology, medicine, disease. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
01
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Siddhartha Mukherjee · Science
The Emperor of All Maladies is Siddhartha Mukherjee's account of cancer from antiquity to the present — its biology, its treatments, its false dawns, and the scientists and patients caught in the middle of each.
Read the summary → - The Gene: An Intimate History
02
Siddhartha Mukherjee · Science
The Gene is Siddhartha Mukherjee's account of the gene — what it is, how it was discovered, and what humanity has done and might yet do with that knowledge.
Read the summary → - Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
03
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Robert M. Sapolsky · Science
Behave is Robert Sapolsky's attempt to explain why humans do what they do — the violence, the altruism, the tribalism, the heroism — by working through every layer of biology that contributes to a single act.
Read the summary → - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
04
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot · Science
In 1951, a Black woman named Henrietta Lacks died of cervical cancer at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Read the summary → - Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don't Have To
05
Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don't Have To
David A. Sinclair · Science
Lifespan opens with a bold claim: aging is not an inevitable feature of biology but a disease — one that can be treated, slowed, and possibly reversed.
Read the summary → - A Brief History of Time
06
Stephen Hawking · Science
A Brief History of Time is Stephen Hawking's attempt to explain the biggest questions in physics — where the universe came from, how it behaves, and where it might be going — to readers with no scientific training.
Read the summary →
