Books

Women and women’s issues
  • Goodnight Stories by Rebel Girls, by Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo
  • Feminist Fight Club: An Office Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace, by Jessica Bennett
  • We Should All Be Feminists, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Women in science and conservation
  • Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World, by Rachel Ignotofsky
  • The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness, by Sy Montgomery
  • Lab Girl, by Hope Jahren
  • Hedy’s Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World, by Richard Rhodes
  • Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer
  • Hidden Figures, by Margot Shetterly
  • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot
  • Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science – and the World, by Rachel Swaby
  • Rise of the Rocket Girls, by Nathalia Holt
  • The Glass Universe, by Dava Sobel
  • The Girls of Atomic City, by Denise Kiernan
  • The Radium Girls, by Katie Moore
  • Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong, by Angela Saini
  • The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science is Still a Boys’ Club, by Eileen Pollack
  • The Other Einstein, by Marie Benedict
  • A Singularly Unfeminine Profession, by Mary K. Gaillard
  • The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage, by Sydney Padua
  • Hypatia of Alexandria, by Maruia Dzielska
  • Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson
  • Soundings: The Story of the Remarkable Women Who Mapped the Ocean Floor, by Hali Felt
  • The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World, by Shelley Emling
  • The Illustrated Women in Science: Year One, by Dale DeBakcsy
  • The Illustrated Women in Science: Year Two, by Dale DeBakcsy
  • Ellen Swallow: The Woman Who Founded Ecology, by Robert Clarke
  • An Autobiography and Other Recollections, by Cecilia Payne-Gaposchki
  • Nobel Prize Women in Science: The Lives, Struggles, and Momentous Discoveries, by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne
  • Blazing the Trail: Essays by Leading Women in Science, by Emma Ideal and Rhiannon
  • Dorothy Hodgkin: A Life, by Georgina Ferry
  • On Her Own Terms: Annie Montague Alexander and the Rise of Science in the American West, by Barbara R. Stein
  • Seduced by Logic: Emilie du Chatelet, Mary Somerville, and the Newtonian Revolution, by Robyn Arianrhod
  • Caroline Herschel: Priestess of the New Heavens, by Michael Hoskin
  • Maria Mitchell and the Sexing of Science: An Astronomer Among the American Romantics, by Renee Bergland
  • Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics, by Ruth Lewin Sime
  • Women in Science: Antiquity Through the Nineteenth Century, A Biographical Dictionary with an Annotated Bibliography, by Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie
  • Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age, by Kurt W. Beyer
  • Emmy Noether’s Wonderful Theorem, by Dwight E. Neuenschwander
  • In Praise of Imperfection, by Rita Levi-Montalcini
  • Irene Joliot-Curie, by Noelle Loriot
  • Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man, by Dale Peterson
  • Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis, by Kim Todd
  • Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA, by Brenda Maddox