📚 Genetics

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Heredity from the double helix to the gene edit: how traits pass down, how variation arises, and how a few letters of code build a whole organism.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject genetics in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
Introduction to genetic analysis	Anthony J. F. Griffiths	1993	90
Hereditary genius	Sir Francis Galton	1869	59
Human Genetics	Ricki Lewis	1993	30
The Genetic Code	Isaac Asimov	1936	29
Microbiology	John Wade Foster	2008	29
The Blind Watchmaker	Richard Dawkins	1986	28
Advances in genetics	Jeffrey C. Hall	1996	27
Molecular biology of the gene	James D. Watson	1965	24
Genetic Analysis	Mark F. Sanders	2011	23
The Gene	Siddhartha Mukherjee	2016	20
Genetics	Robert J. Brooker	1998	19
Survival of the Sickest	Sharon Moalem	2007	19
iGenetics	Peter J. Russell	2002	17
Concepts of Genetics	William S. Klug	2005	17
Molecular genetics of bacteria	Jeremy Dale	1989	16
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived	Adam Rutherford	2016	16
The biology of fungi	C. T. Ingold	1961	15
Climbing Mount Improbable	Richard Dawkins	1996	15
The genetical theory of natural selection	Ronald Aylmer Fisher	1930	14
Human heredity	Michael R. Cummings	1988	14
Concepts of genetics	William S. Klug	1983	13
Genetics	Peter J. Russell	1986	13
Principles of genetics	D. Peter Snustad	1997	12
The violinist's thumb	Sam Kean	2012	12
The Seven Daughters of Eve	Bryan Sykes	2001	11
A Crack in Creation	Jennifer A. Doudna	2017	11
Endless Forms Most Beautiful	Sean B. Carroll	2005	10
The epigenetics revolution	Nessa Carey	2011	10
How to Argue With a Racist	Adam Rutherford	2020	10
Genetics	Thomas Robert Mertens	1991	9

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 06 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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