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The Emperor of All Maladies
Siddhartha Mukherjee, 2010
Long read, about 592 pagesPulitzer Prize, 2011.
A "biography" of cancer: four thousand years of fighting it.
Talk about it
- Why call it a "biography" of cancer? Did that framing work for you?
- Which turn in the long fight against cancer stayed with you?
- What does the book say about how medicine makes progress, and at whose cost?
Questions we wrote from what the book covers. They don’t give away the plot. How we pick. For more, try our questions for any book.