Hi, I'm applying for a Biochemistry course at Uni, and was looking to read some good books on Biochemistry that I could mention on my personal statement. I'm having a hard time finding anything good at the library and I have taken books home, only to find they are too difficult/boringly wriiten, more than once. Has anyone got any suggestions?

 

I am curently reading The Thread of Life from Cambridge University Press, and that's quite interesting.

This one is free:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?call=bv.View..ShowTOC&rid=stryer.TOC&depth=2

 

The classic University textbook in biochemistry is:

Biochemistry

by Donald Voet, Judith Voet

J.Wiley&Sons

 

It will be hard to find "good" in the meaning of "entertaining" one though!

 

Good intro to the field!