[peterchi]

My favorite book ever is Abraham Lincoln's DNA and Other Adventures in Genetics.

But I'm weird like that.

It's probably only worth your while if you have any interest in science at all, but at the same time, it was written for the non-scientist in terms of level of comprehension. So, if you don't like science, it's not that you wouldn't understand it; it's that you wouldn't care.

It's basically a compilation of stories throughout history, in which genetics plays any sort of significant role. Stuff like crime scene investigations, inbreeding in royal families, eugenics, etc.