Recommended Reads About Women In STEM

While there are several wonderful options for books about STEM, we have picked from our library collection and from our staffs reading list.

Young Readers Nonfiction

Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed The World by Rachel Ignotofsky
Galaxy Girls: 50 Amazing Stories of Women in Space by Libby Jackson
Women in STEM: Women Who Changed Science and the World Pioneers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math by Sumita Mukherjee
Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History by Sam Maggs

Radioactive!: How Irène Curie and Lise Meitner Revolutionized Science and Changed the World by Winifred Conkling
Elizabeth Blackwell: First Woman Physician (Great Life Stories) by Tristan Boyer Binns

Ten Women Who Changed Science and the World by Catherine Whitlock and Rhodri Evans
Hypatia: The Life and Legend of an Ancient Philosopher by Edward J. Watts
The Madame Curie Complex: The Hidden History of Women in Science by Julie Des Jardins
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
Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World by Rachel Swaby
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
Florence Nightingale: Mystic, Visionary, Healer by Barbara Montgomery Dossey
Rosalyn Yalow: Nobel Laureate: Her Life and Work in Medicine by Eugene Straus
Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers by Barbara Ehrenreich
The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars by Dava Sobel
The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America’s Enemies by Jason Fagone

Feel free to let us know what you think of our selections, or add your own in the comment section below!