HAPS Book Club
Upcoming Dates
Join us for the Fall 2024 Book Club as we read, discuss, and explore the book I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and the Grander View of Life by Ed Young. “For most of human existence, microbes were hidden, visible only through the illnesses they caused. When they finally surfaced in biological studies, they were cast as rogues. Only recently have they immigrated from the neglected fringes of biology to its center.
Even today, many people think of microbes as germs to be eradicated, but those that live with us—the microbiome—are invaluable parts of our lives.”
-Ed Yong, Author of I Contain Multitudes
Join us for our monthly virtual Book Club sessions. Didn’t read all of the chapters? No worries, still come out to listen, discuss, and share!
The Book Club Bookshelf
Since 2020 the HAPS Book Club has read and discussed a wide range of books. We encourage you to include these titles in your reading list and eventually onto your book shelves as well.
Spring 2021
Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create race in the twenty-first century by Dorothy Roberts
Summer 2021
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
Fall 2021
Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets by Luke Dittrich
Spring 2022
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson
Summer 2022
Sins Against Science: How Misinformation Affects Our Lives and Laws by Judi Nath
Fall 2022
What Inclusive Instructors Do by Addy, Dube, Mitchell, and SoRelle
Spring 2023
Sporting Gender: The History Science, and Stories of Transgender and Intersex Athletes by Joanna Harper
Fall 2023
Evolution Gone Wrong: The Curious Reasons Why Our Bodies Work (or Don’t) by Alex Bezzerides