We Need STEM Books

Gal’s Guide is building the first independent women’s history library. Each month we push to expand our collection to include a diverse look at women from different backgrounds, occupations, and regions.  This month we want to expand our coverage of women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math).

Here are the top 20 books we would love to add to the library!

Marie Curie and Her Daughters by Shelley Emling

Hypatia: Her Life and Times by Faith L. Justice

Miss Leavitt’s Stars: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe by George Johnson

Trailblazers: 33 Women in Science Who Changed the World by Rachel Swaby

GOT IT!! The Madame Curie Complex: The Hidden History of Women in Science by Julie Des Jardins

Women of Steel and Stone: 22 Inspirational Architects, Engineers, and Landscape Designers by Anna M. Lewis

Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars by Nathalia Holt

The Quiet Revolution of Caroline Herschel: The Lost Heroine of Astronomy by Dr Emily Winterburn

International Women in Science: A Biographical Dictionary to 1950 by Catherine M.C. Haines

Black Women Scientists in the United States (Race, Gender, and Science) by Wini Warren

A to Z of Women in Science and Math by Lisa Yount

Nobel Prize Women in Science: Their Lives, Struggles, and Momentous Discoveries by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne

Madame Wu Chien-Shiung: The First Lady of Physics Research by Tsai-Chien Chiang, Caijian Jiang

Emmy Noether’s Wonderful Theorem by Dwight E. Neuenschwander

Lise Meitner by Ruth Lewin Sime

Women of the Scientific Revolution by Jeri Freedman

Barbara McClintock: Cytogeneticist and Discoverer of Mobile Genetic Elements by Cathleen Small

Dorothy Hodgkin: A Life by Georgina Ferry

My Sister Rosalind Franklin: A Family Memoir by Jenifer Glynn

GOT IT!! Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World by Rachel Ignotofsky