The most popular genetics books of 2025

Books about genetics ask what happens when we can rewrite life. Clones, designer babies, engineered plagues and cures raise hopes and fears in thrillers and thoughtful science fiction. True stories of discovery and of families living with inherited conditions are here too. This list shows the ones first published in 2025.

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Sea Change
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Sea Change

Susan Fletcher

Published 2025

368 pages

Population Genetics in the Neotropics
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Population Genetics in the Neotropics

Marcos Vinícius Bohrer Monteiro Siqueira, Enéas Ricardo Konzen, Pedro Manoel Galetti Junior

Published 2025

417 pages

Leontus
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Leontus

Rob Young

Published 2025

208 pages

Royal Gambit
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Royal Gambit

Daniel O'Malley

Published 2025

480 pages

Epigenetics of Metabolism
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Epigenetics of Metabolism

Yuan-Xiang Pan, Shasha Zheng, Trygve O. Tollefsbol

Published 2025

408 pages