Female Scientists
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Nobel Prize Women in Science: Their Lives, Struggles, and Momentous Discoveries 4.25 avg rating β 253 ratings
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Listening to Whales: What the Orcas Have Taught Us
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Alexandra Morton
4.51 avg rating β 996 ratings 
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Shark Lady: The True Story of How Eugenie Clark Became the Ocean's Most Fearless Scientist
by:
Jess Keating
4.44 avg rating β 3,231 ratings 
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Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and BirutΓ© Galdikas (Primates, 1)
by:
Jim Ottaviani
3.84 avg rating β 7,274 ratings 
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Life in the Ocean: The Story of Oceanographer Sylvia Earle
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Claire A. Nivola
4.08 avg rating β 1,067 ratings 17. 
The Madame Curie Complex: The Hidden History of Women in Science 3.86 avg rating β 338 ratings
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The Watcher: Jane Goodall's Life with the Chimps
by:
Jeanette Winter
4.11 avg rating β 2,867 ratings 19. 
Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age
by:
Kurt W. Beyer
3.77 avg rating β 304 ratings 20. 
Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian And the Secrets of Metamorphosis
by:
Kim Todd
3.88 avg rating β 444 ratings 21. 
Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World
by:
Rachel Swaby
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 2,982 ratings 
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The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
by:
Margalit Fox
4.01 avg rating β 3,647 ratings 28. 
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Seduced by Logic: Γmilie Du ChΓ’telet, Mary Somerville and the Newtonian Revolution
by:
Robyn Arianrhod
3.79 avg rating β 87 ratings 
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Ada, the Enchantress of Numbers: A Selection from the Letters of Lord Byron's Daughter and Her Description of the First Computer
by:
Ada Lovelace
3.38 avg rating β 129 ratings 
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
by:
Dava Sobel
3.99 avg rating β 75,016 ratings 34. 
Ada's Algorithm: How Lord Byron's Daughter Ada Lovelace Launched the Digital Age
by:
James Essinger
3.27 avg rating β 1,704 ratings 35. 
Maria Sibylla Merian and Daughters: Women of Art and Science
by:
Ella Reitsma
4.27 avg rating β 30 ratings 
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The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
by:
Dava Sobel
3.59 avg rating β 3,470 ratings 
39. 
Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution
by:
Lynn Margulis
4.22 avg rating β 888 ratings 
41. 
The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies
by:
Jason Fagone
4.09 avg rating β 23,146 ratings 
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The Comet Sweeper: Caroline Herschel's Astronomical Ambition
by:
Claire Brock
3.44 avg rating β 61 ratings 
51. 
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
by:
Walter Isaacson
4.12 avg rating β 39,120 ratings 
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The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One
by:
Sylvia A. Earle
4.27 avg rating β 1,285 ratings 
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The Lady and the Panda: The True Adventures of the First American Explorer to Bring Back China's Most Exotic Animal 3.83 avg rating β 1,343 ratings
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Fossil Hunter: Life and Times of Mary Anning, 1799-1848 really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 3 ratings
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Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrongβand the New Research That's Rewriting the Story
by:
Angela Saini
4.05 avg rating β 9,412 ratings 
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Chasing Cheetahs: The Race to Save Africa's Fastest Cat (Scientists in the Field Series)
by:
Sy Montgomery
4.17 avg rating β 236 ratings 71. 
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love
by:
Dava Sobel
3.75 avg rating β 30,045 ratings 72. 
Jurassic Mary: Mary Anning and the primeval monsters
by:
Patricia Pierce
3.76 avg rating β 138 ratings 73. 
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
by:
Cathy O'Neil
3.87 avg rating β 29,310 ratings 
75. 
Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe
by:
Jane Goodall
4.29 avg rating β 3,223 ratings 76. 
Radioactive: Marie and Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout
by:
Lauren Redniss
4.02 avg rating β 6,059 ratings 77. 
Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation
by:
Margaret Mead
3.55 avg rating β 3,149 ratings 78. 
Virginia Apgar: Innovative Female Physician and Inventor of the Apgar Score
by:
Melanie Ann Apel
3.46 avg rating β 13 ratings 
80. 
Thinking In Pictures: and Other Reports from My Life with Autism
by:
Temple Grandin
4.10 avg rating β 16,786 ratings 
81. 
The Dolphin in the Mirror: Exploring Dolphin Minds and Saving Dolphin Lives
by:
Diana Reiss
4.13 avg rating β 401 ratings 
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Opening Doors: Carole Noon and Her Dream to Save the Chimps
by:
Gary Ferguson
4.67 avg rating β 9 ratings 90. 
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Women Who Launched the Computer Age: Ready-to-Read Level 3
by:
Laurie Calkhoven
4.11 avg rating β 105 ratings 
98. 
Margaret and the Moon: How Margaret Hamilton Saved the First Lunar Landing
by:
Dean Robbins
4.24 avg rating β 1,010 ratings 
100. 
Ada's Ideas: The Story of Ada Lovelace, the World's First Computer Programmer
by:
Fiona Robinson
4.07 avg rating β 528 ratings