Women in STEM: this month's reading list

Biological Sciences

• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
• Me, Myself, and Why: Searching for the Science of Self - Jennifer Ouelette
• Blue Skies and Bench Space - Adventures in Cancer Research - Kathleen M. Weston
• The Philadelphia Chromosome - Jessica Wapner
  
  
• Silent Spring - Rachel Carson
• Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature - Janine M. Benyus
• ​Molecules of Emotion - Candace Pert​

Physical Sciences

• Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space - Janna Levin
• The Poisoner’s Handbook - Deborah Blum
•  A Big Bang in a Little Room: The Quest to Create a New Universe - Zeeya Merali
• Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe - Lisa Randall
• Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas that Reveal the Cosmos - Priyamvada Natarajan
• Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life - Helen Czerski

Psychology

• The Autistic Brain - Temple Grandin
• The Art of Choosing - Sheena Iyengar
• The Willpower Instinct - Kelly McGonigal
• The Deepest Well - Dr Nadine Burke Harris

Technology and Mathematics

• Journey into Geometries - Márta Svéd
• Closing the Gap: The Quest to Understand Prime Numbers - Vicky Neale
• Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age - Leslie Berlin
• Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech - Sara Wachter-Boettcher
• The Soul of a New Machine - Tracy Kidder
• Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley - Emily Chang
• Hello World: How to be Human in the Age of the Machine - Hannah Fry