Popsugar 2020 - Books about or by Women in STEM

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Hidden Figures
Hidden Figures 3.96 avg rating — 112,015 ratings
2.
Where the Crawdads Sing
Where the Crawdads Sing 4.37 avg rating — 3,479,410 ratings
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The Love Theorem (First Comes Love, #4)
The Love Theorem (First Comes Love, #4) 3.63 avg rating — 5,474 ratings
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The Kiss Quotient (The Kiss Quotient, #1)
The Kiss Quotient (The Kiss Quotient, #1) 3.88 avg rating — 485,446 ratings
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The Love Algorithm (True Love, #3)
The Love Algorithm (True Love, #3) 3.83 avg rating — 2,431 ratings
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women 4.16 avg rating — 176,385 ratings
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It Started with a Book
It Started with a Book 3.51 avg rating — 1,359 ratings
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The Calculating Stars (Lady Astronaut Universe, #1)
The Calculating Stars (Lady Astronaut Universe, #1) 3.95 avg rating — 36,713 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 4.13 avg rating — 787,073 ratings
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Lab Girl
Lab Girl 3.98 avg rating — 70,900 ratings
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Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II 3.96 avg rating — 29,155 ratings
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Still Alice
Still Alice 4.32 avg rating — 355,948 ratings
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Where the Forest Meets the Stars
Where the Forest Meets the Stars 4.13 avg rating — 224,250 ratings
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The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies
The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies 4.09 avg rating — 23,147 ratings
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Silent Spring
Silent Spring 4.05 avg rating — 53,318 ratings
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To the Stars and Back (First Comes Love, #4)
To the Stars and Back (First Comes Love, #4) 3.63 avg rating — 5,474 ratings
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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup 4.41 avg rating — 276,378 ratings
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Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World
Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World 4.44 avg rating — 6,797 ratings
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Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)
Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1) 3.79 avg rating — 202,981 ratings
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The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II 3.73 avg rating — 31,441 ratings
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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory 4.22 avg rating — 104,627 ratings
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Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA
Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA 4.12 avg rating — 2,552 ratings
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The Only Woman in the Room
The Only Woman in the Room 3.87 avg rating — 102,852 ratings
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Delusions of Gender: The Real Science Behind Sex Differences
Delusions of Gender: The Real Science Behind Sex Differences 4.08 avg rating — 11,310 ratings
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Left Neglected
Left Neglected 3.98 avg rating — 80,136 ratings
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The Other Einstein
The Other Einstein 3.86 avg rating — 82,869 ratings
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Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1) 3.79 avg rating — 281,935 ratings
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Prodigal Summer
Prodigal Summer 4.05 avg rating — 123,761 ratings
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Radioactive: Marie and Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout
Radioactive: Marie and Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout 4.02 avg rating — 6,059 ratings
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Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life
Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life 4.28 avg rating — 81,134 ratings
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Love, Theoretically
Love, Theoretically 4.09 avg rating — 595,915 ratings
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The Roommate Experiment (Funny Feelings #3)
The Roommate Experiment (Funny Feelings #3) 3.71 avg rating — 1,125 ratings
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Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy 3.87 avg rating — 29,311 ratings
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Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story
Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story 4.05 avg rating — 9,413 ratings
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Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner
Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner 4.26 avg rating — 26,521 ratings
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Every Note Played
Every Note Played 4.12 avg rating — 46,678 ratings
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The Madame Curie Complex: The Hidden History of Women in Science
The Madame Curie Complex: The Hidden History of Women in Science 3.86 avg rating — 338 ratings
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Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World
Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World 3.17 avg rating — 3,305 ratings
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The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World
The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World 3.84 avg rating — 1,340 ratings
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All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1) 4.13 avg rating — 335,264 ratings
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The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars 3.59 avg rating — 3,470 ratings
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A Princess in Theory (Reluctant Royals, #1)
A Princess in Theory (Reluctant Royals, #1) 3.78 avg rating — 16,091 ratings
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Transcendent Kingdom
Transcendent Kingdom
by: Yaa Gyasi
4.10 avg rating — 158,651 ratings
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Contact
Contact 4.15 avg rating — 150,004 ratings
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Unsheltered
Unsheltered 3.67 avg rating — 77,140 ratings
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Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars
Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars 3.87 avg rating — 9,263 ratings
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A Mind of Her Own
A Mind of Her Own 3.18 avg rating — 10,633 ratings
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To Be Taught, If Fortunate
To Be Taught, If Fortunate 4.20 avg rating — 52,553 ratings
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State of Wonder
State of Wonder 3.90 avg rating — 197,563 ratings
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Flight Behavior
Flight Behavior 3.82 avg rating — 100,167 ratings
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Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World 4.07 avg rating — 1,658 ratings
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Remarkable Creatures
Remarkable Creatures 3.89 avg rating — 54,486 ratings
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Grace Hopper: Queen of Computer Code
Grace Hopper: Queen of Computer Code 4.36 avg rating — 1,269 ratings
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Into the Drowning Deep (Rolling in the Deep, #1)
Into the Drowning Deep (Rolling in the Deep, #1) 3.95 avg rating — 42,645 ratings
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The End of Everything
The End of Everything 4.26 avg rating — 12,204 ratings
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The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1) 4.17 avg rating — 175,387 ratings
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The Dreamers
The Dreamers 3.63 avg rating — 42,689 ratings
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Give Me Your Hand
Give Me Your Hand 3.31 avg rating — 21,692 ratings
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Enchantress of Numbers
Enchantress of Numbers 3.59 avg rating — 5,638 ratings
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When Dimple Met Rishi (Dimple and Rishi, #1)
When Dimple Met Rishi (Dimple and Rishi, #1) 3.68 avg rating — 54,920 ratings
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Spineless: The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone
Spineless: The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone 3.71 avg rating — 3,255 ratings
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The Queen of Hearts
The Queen of Hearts 3.59 avg rating — 17,419 ratings
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Tamed: Ten Species that Changed our World
Tamed: Ten Species that Changed our World 4.07 avg rating — 1,638 ratings
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The Genius of Birds
The Genius of Birds 4.04 avg rating — 13,005 ratings
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Traces: The Memoir of a Forensic Scientist and Criminal Investigator
Traces: The Memoir of a Forensic Scientist and Criminal Investigator 3.60 avg rating — 2,993 ratings
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The Pearl That Broke Its Shell
The Pearl That Broke Its Shell 4.19 avg rating — 51,217 ratings
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The Eye of the Elephant: An Epic Adventure in the African Wilderness
The Eye of the Elephant: An Epic Adventure in the African Wilderness 4.19 avg rating — 3,255 ratings
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The Gendered Brain: The New Neuroscience That Shatters the Myth of the Female Brain
The Gendered Brain: The New Neuroscience That Shatters the Myth of the Female Brain 3.88 avg rating — 2,458 ratings
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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void 3.95 avg rating — 59,461 ratings
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Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society
Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society 3.79 avg rating — 3,505 ratings
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Remedial Rocket Science (Chemistry Lessons, #1)
Remedial Rocket Science (Chemistry Lessons, #1) 3.55 avg rating — 10,022 ratings
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The Fated Sky (Lady Astronaut Universe, #2)
The Fated Sky (Lady Astronaut Universe, #2) 4.27 avg rating — 15,121 ratings
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The Nature of Life and Death: Every Body Leaves a Trace
The Nature of Life and Death: Every Body Leaves a Trace 3.39 avg rating — 742 ratings
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The Silent Tower (Windrose Chronicles, #1)
The Silent Tower (Windrose Chronicles, #1) 3.93 avg rating — 3,533 ratings
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Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray 4.06 avg rating — 3,344 ratings
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The Need
The Need 3.15 avg rating — 16,925 ratings
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Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death 4.13 avg rating — 46,333 ratings
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Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World
Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,982 ratings
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The Annie Year
The Annie Year 3.56 avg rating — 384 ratings
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The Lie Tree: A Novel
The Lie Tree: A Novel 3.84 avg rating — 28,011 ratings
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Never Suck A Dead Man's Hand: Curious Adventures of a CSI
Never Suck A Dead Man's Hand: Curious Adventures of a CSI 3.75 avg rating — 1,790 ratings
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The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate (Calpurnia Tate, #1)
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate (Calpurnia Tate, #1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 35,555 ratings
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The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage
The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage 4.02 avg rating — 4,892 ratings
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The Making of You: The Incredible Journey from Cell to Human
The Making of You: The Incredible Journey from Cell to Human 4.12 avg rating — 849 ratings
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Secrets of the Savanna: Twenty-three Years in the African Wilderness Unraveling the Mysteries of Elephants and People
Secrets of the Savanna: Twenty-three Years in the African Wilderness Unraveling the Mysteries of Elephants and People 4.13 avg rating — 1,149 ratings
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Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women
Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women 4.13 avg rating — 1,362 ratings
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Cry of the Kalahari
Cry of the Kalahari 4.33 avg rating — 8,284 ratings
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Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1)
Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1) 4.13 avg rating — 992,935 ratings
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We Rule the Night
We Rule the Night 3.71 avg rating — 1,921 ratings
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Rocket Girl: The Story of Mary Sherman Morgan, America's First Female Rocket Scientist
Rocket Girl: The Story of Mary Sherman Morgan, America's First Female Rocket Scientist 3.86 avg rating — 1,138 ratings
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I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban 4.16 avg rating — 612,712 ratings
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Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life
Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life 4.03 avg rating — 4,895 ratings
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Call the Midwife (The Midwife Trilogy, #1)
Call the Midwife (The Midwife Trilogy, #1) 4.19 avg rating — 77,381 ratings
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In the Shadow of Man
In the Shadow of Man 4.36 avg rating — 8,858 ratings
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The Epigenetics Revolution
The Epigenetics Revolution 4.05 avg rating — 5,312 ratings
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The Half-Life of Marie Curie
The Half-Life of Marie Curie 3.92 avg rating — 4,162 ratings
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Bare Bones (Temperance Brennan, #6)
Bare Bones (Temperance Brennan, #6) 3.97 avg rating — 40,796 ratings
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Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms 4.11 avg rating — 11,480 ratings
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How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain 4.10 avg rating — 12,379 ratings
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On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson, Author of Silent Spring
On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson, Author of Silent Spring 3.91 avg rating — 933 ratings
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