The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Illustration: Silja Götz
Book photo: Philip Friedman/Studio D

6 of 10
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
By Siddhartha Mukherjee
592 pages; Scribner


Hard to believe, but this serious scientific history of the dread disease, its researchers, doctors, and patients, is a page-turner—by a physician who can also write.

Read the complete book review from O