COMPLETE BOOK LIST.

Browse the archive of books read and discussed by The STEMMinist Book Club. These are listed in reverse chronological order from our first ever selection, to our current and future picks.

Currently Reading

Future Picks

Past Recommendations

The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth by Zoë Schlanger                           

Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks by Marcia Bjornerud

Breaking the Boss Bias by Catherine Fox     

Only the Astronauts by Ceridwen Dovey      

Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation by Jen Gunter

How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler

Breaking Through: My Life in Science by Katalin Karikó      

Women in Science Now: Stories and Strategies for Achieving Equity by Lisa M.P. Munoz

Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible by Anna Funder                   

The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science by Kate Zernike      

Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science by Jessica Hernandez

The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality by Angela Saini 

Converge: A futurist's insights into the potential of our world as technology and humanity collide by Catherine Ball              

The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein     

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus   

Bitch: On the Female of the Species by Lucy Cooke             

Girl Decoded: A Scientist's Quest to Reclaim Our Humanity by Bringing Emotional Intelligence to Technology Girl by Rana El Kaliouby

Strong Female Lead: Lessons from Women in Power by Arwa Mahdawi

Ordinary Matter by Laura Elvery         

The End of Bias: A Beginning by Jessica Nordell      

The Arbornaut: A Life Discovering the Eighth Continent in the Trees Above Us by Meg Lowman             

The Menopause Manifesto: Own Your Health with Facts and Feminism by Jen Gunter

Emotional Female by Yumiko Kadota             

x+y by Eugenia Cheng

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot 

A Lab of One's Own: One Woman's Personal Journey Through Sexism in Science by Rita Colwell        

Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons by Julia Gillard and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala  

Built: The Hidden Stories Behind our Structures by Roma Agrawal

Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark by Julia Baird                

Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener        

Spineless: The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone by Juli Berwal  

Pain and Prejudice: A Call to Arms for Women and Their Bodies by Gabrielle  Jackson

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood              

Superior: The Return of Race Science by Angela Saini       

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez       

Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet by Claire L.  Evan               

Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger by Soraya Chemaly  

Women Kind: Unlocking the Power of Women Supporting Women by Kirstin Ferguson

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou            

Lab Girl by Hope Jahren          

A Lab of One's Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War by Patricia Fara           

Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society by Cordelia Fine 

Stop Fixing Women: Why Building Fairer Workplaces Is Everybody's Business by Catherine Fox           

Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story by Angela Saini

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