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1. Who Is Siddhartha Mukherjee?
2. The Best Siddhartha Mukherjee Books of All Time
3. More Books Like Siddhartha Mukherjee's Books
4. Best Siddhartha Mukherjee Quotes
5. Wish There Was a Faster/Easier Way?

Who Is Siddhartha Mukherjee?

Siddhartha Mukherjee (born 21 July 1970) is an Indian-American physician, biologist, oncologist, and author. He is best known for his 2010 book, The Emperor of All Maladies that won notable literary prizes including the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction and the Guardian First Book Award.

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The Best Siddhartha Mukherjee Books of All Time

Why these best Siddhartha Mukherjee books and not others? To stay objective, I rank all my book recommendations by a combination of what’s most loved (Goodreads rating), what’s most popular (Goodreads review count) and what’s proven timlessly relevant (first publication date).

This isn’t a whimsical list. It’s a data-driven, crowdsourced collection of the best Siddhartha Mukherjee books ever published as decided by book lovers like you.

And if you think something's missing? I LOVE book recommendations so if there are any other books by Siddhartha Mukherjee that you think deserve mentioning, email me and I’ll be sure to include them in the next round of updates.

Until then, here are the best Siddhartha Mukherjee books of all time...

Best Siddhartha Mukherjee Books: The Emperor of All Maladies
1. The Emperor of All Maladies - Siddhartha Mukherjee (FREE Summary)
A Biography of Cancer
Published 2010 // 571 pages // Rated 4.3 over 91,800 reviews on Goodreads
Best Siddhartha Mukherjee Books: The Gene
2. The Gene - Siddhartha Mukherjee
An Intimate History
Published 2016 // 592 pages // Rated 4.3 over 40,700 reviews on Goodreads
Best Siddhartha Mukherjee Books: The Laws of Medicine
3. The Laws of Medicine - Siddhartha Mukherjee
Field Notes from an Uncertain Science
Published 2015 // 96 pages // Rated 4.1 over 3,700 reviews on Goodreads

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Best Siddhartha Mukherjee Quotes

Here are some of the best Siddhartha Mukherjee of all time...

"History repeats, but science reverberates."

- Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies

"“The art of medicine is long,” Hippocrates tells us, “and life is short; opportunity fleeting; the experiment perilous; judgment flawed.”"

- Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies

"It remains an astonishing, disturbing fact that in America - a nation where nearly every new drug is subjected to rigorous scrutiny as a potential carcinogen, and even the bare hint of a substance's link to cancer ignites a firestorm of public hysteria and media anxiety - one of the most potent and common carcinogens known to humans can be freely bought and sold at every corner store for a few dollars."

- Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies

"But the story of leukemia - the story of cancer - isn't the story of doctors who struggle and survive, moving from institution to another. It is the story of patients who struggle and survive, moving from on embankment of illness to another. Resilience, inventiveness, and survivorship - qualities often ascribed to great physicians - are reflected qualities, emanating first from those who struggle with illness and only then mirrored by those who treat them. If the history of medicine is told through the stories of doctors, it is because their contributions stand in place of the more substantive heroism of their patients."

- Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies

"Cancer was not disorganized chromosomal chaos. It was organized chromosomal chaos."

- Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies

"Down to their innate molecular core, cancer cells are hyperactive, survival-endowed, scrappy, fecund, inventive copies of ourselves."

- Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies

"In 2005, a man diagnosed with multiple myeloma asked me if he would be alive to watch his daughter graduate from high school in a few months. In 2009, bound to a wheelchair, he watched his daughter graduate from college. The wheelchair had nothing to do with his cancer. The man had fallen down while coaching his youngest son's baseball team."

- Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies

"Cancer's life is a recapitulation of the body's life, its existence a pathological mirror of our own."

- Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies

"A model is a lie that helps you see the truth."

- Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies

"Cancer is an expansionist disease; it invades through tissues, sets up colonies in hostile landscapes, seeking “sanctuary” in one organ and then immigrating to another. It lives desperately, inventively, fiercely, territorially, cannily, and defensively—at times, as if teaching us how to survive. To confront cancer is to encounter a parallel species, one perhaps more adapted to survival than even we are."

- Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies

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