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
The Burrow by Melanie Cheng. April 2025.
Translations by Jumaana Abdu. May 2025.
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