Reading list for prospective genetic counseling students

  • A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived by Adam Rutherford

  • A Guide to Genetic Counseling by Wendy Uhlmann

  • Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

  • Carrier: Untangling the Danger in my DNA by Bonnie Rough

  • Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity by Andrew Solomon

  • Genetic Rounds: A Doctor’s Encounters in the Field that Revolutionized Medicine by Robert Marion

  • Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

  • The Boy Who Loved Too Much: A True Story of Pathological Friendliness by Jennifer Latson

  • The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying by Nina Riggs

  • The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee

  • The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee

  • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

  • The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman

  • The Violinist’s Thumb And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code by Sam Kean

  • Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

  • When Bad Things Happen to Good People by Harold Kushner

  • When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi