Science Writing By People of Marginalized Genders
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants 4.52 avg rating — 158,410 ratings
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The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
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Jaime Green
3.99 avg rating — 1,094 ratings 
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
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Dava Sobel
3.99 avg rating — 75,016 ratings 11. 
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
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Naomi Klein
4.16 avg rating — 27,259 ratings 
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The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
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Deborah Blum
4.01 avg rating — 36,513 ratings 
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
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Andrea Wulf
4.32 avg rating — 28,483 ratings 17. 
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
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Mary Roach
3.95 avg rating — 59,459 ratings 17. 
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
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Sy Montgomery
3.94 avg rating — 57,031 ratings 19. 
Flu: The Story Of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It
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Gina Kolata
3.91 avg rating — 7,614 ratings 
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Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble
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Marilyn Johnson
3.64 avg rating — 2,114 ratings 22. 
Wicked Bugs: The Louse That Conquered Napoleon's Army and Other Diabolical Insects
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Amy Stewart
3.76 avg rating — 5,184 ratings 23. 
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
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Cordelia Fine
4.08 avg rating — 11,310 ratings 
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Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe
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Jane Goodall
4.29 avg rating — 3,223 ratings 27. 
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine 4.31 avg rating — 21,421 ratings
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Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story
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Angela Saini
4.05 avg rating — 9,412 ratings 29. 
The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
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Dava Sobel
3.59 avg rating — 3,470 ratings 30. 
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
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Sheri Fink
3.93 avg rating — 39,324 ratings 31. 
The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
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Margalit Fox
4.01 avg rating — 3,647 ratings 
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The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
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Laurie Garrett
4.21 avg rating — 10,688 ratings 34. 
Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells
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Helen Scales
4.10 avg rating — 995 ratings 35. 
The Soil Will Save Us: How Scientists, Farmers, and Foodies Are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet
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Kristin Ohlson
4.14 avg rating — 1,412 ratings 
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Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos
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Lisa Kaltenegger
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,252 ratings 38. 
Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ
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Giulia Enders
4.08 avg rating — 53,719 ratings 39. 
Talking Hands: What Sign Language Reveals About the Mind
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Margalit Fox
4.02 avg rating — 526 ratings 40. 
Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
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Jennifer Wright
4.23 avg rating — 13,609 ratings 
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Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made
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Gaia Vince
4.06 avg rating — 897 ratings 43. 
Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History
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Penny Le Couteur
3.97 avg rating — 7,042 ratings 44. 
Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding 4.13 avg rating — 639 ratings
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Nobel Prize Women in Science: Their Lives, Struggles, and Momentous Discoveries 4.25 avg rating — 253 ratings
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Working Stiff: Two years, 262 bodies and the making of a medical examiner
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Judy Melinek
4.26 avg rating — 26,512 ratings 48. 
How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space
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Janna Levin
3.98 avg rating — 1,340 ratings 49. 
Decoding the Heavens: A 2,000-Year-Old Computer and the Century-Long Search to Discover Its Secrets
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Jo Marchant
4.09 avg rating — 548 ratings 50. 
In the Bonesetter's Waiting Room: Travels Through Indian Medicine
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Aarathi Prasad
3.60 avg rating — 117 ratings 51. 
Plastic Fantastic: How the Biggest Fraud in Physics Shook the Scientific World 3.79 avg rating — 389 ratings
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A Monk and Two Peas : The Story of Gregor Mendel and the Discovery of Genetics 3.73 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Antarctica: An Intimate Portrait of the World's Most Mysterious Continent
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Gabrielle Walker
4.26 avg rating — 1,194 ratings 55. 
A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya
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Linda Schele
3.96 avg rating — 534 ratings 57. 
Snowball Earth: The Story of the Great Global Catastrophe That Spawned Life as We Know It
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Gabrielle Walker
3.99 avg rating — 415 ratings 58. 
Before the Lights Go Out: Conquering the Energy Crisis Before It Conquers Us 3.65 avg rating — 202 ratings
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The Twenty-Four Hour Mind: The Role of Sleep and Dreaming in Our Emotional Lives 3.77 avg rating — 324 ratings
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Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People
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Joan Roughgarden
4.06 avg rating — 898 ratings 59. 
Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
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Marcia Bjornerud
4.07 avg rating — 1,657 ratings 
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Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World
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Laura Spinney
3.91 avg rating — 7,929 ratings 
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Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do 4.32 avg rating — 8,624 ratings
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Tomorrow Is Too Late: An International Youth Manifesto for Climate Justice
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Grace Maddrell
4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings 
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The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred 4.11 avg rating — 4,007 ratings
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Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond
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Sonia Shah
4.07 avg rating — 4,009 ratings 72. 
Grit-Tempered: Early Women Archaeologists in the Southeastern United States (Ripley P. Bullen Series) 4.60 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Pick Your Poison: How Our Mad Dash to Chemical Utopia is Making Lab Rats of Us All
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Monona Rossol
3.79 avg rating — 52 ratings 
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Corpse: Nature, Forensics, and the Struggle to Pinpoint Time of Death 3.93 avg rating — 1,100 ratings
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The Cure for Women: Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Challenge to Victorian Medicine That Changed Women's Lives Forever
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Lydia Reeder
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,400 ratings 80. 
The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years
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Sonia Shah
3.90 avg rating — 1,490 ratings 
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How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space
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Janna Levin
3.98 avg rating — 1,340 ratings 84. 
The Intelligent Ear: The Science of Auditory Perception
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Diana Deutsch
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 
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The Ferocious Summer: Adelie Penguins and the Warming of Antarctica
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Meredith Hooper
3.73 avg rating — 33 ratings 86. 
Sea Turtles of the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States (A Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book) 4.06 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms
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Amy Stewart
3.92 avg rating — 2,704 ratings 
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Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
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Amy Stewart
3.82 avg rating — 10,910 ratings 
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Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian And the Secrets of Metamorphosis
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Kim Todd
3.88 avg rating — 444 ratings 94. 
Mythical River: Chasing the Mirage of New Water in the American Southwest 4.33 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World
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Rachel Swaby
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,982 ratings 
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Voices in the Ocean: A Journey into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins
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Susan Casey
4.04 avg rating — 3,304 ratings 
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The Discovery of Jeanne Baret: A Story of Science, the High Seas, and the First Woman to Circumnavigate the Globe
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Glynis Ridley
3.57 avg rating — 499 ratings