50 of the Best Books of 2016

What It's All About: Siddhartha Mukherjee's talent for making scientific writing literary and immediate made his history of cancer, The Emperor of All Maladies, unforgettable. Now, he's back with The Gene, in which he applies his one-of-a-kind skill to this biography of the gene.
Why It's on Our List: Pulitzer Prize-winning author, New York Times bestseller