Egg & Ego: An Almost True Story of Life in the Biology Lab (1999)

Egg and Ego is a book aimed at a general audience of student biologists. It is part a personal account of Jonathan Slack's own life in science (specifically developmental biology), and part an entertaining description and discussion of what it is like to a professional biologist. This superbly written book provides an intriguing (and often amusing) account of what exactly cellular and molecular biologists do in their jobs.