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Virus: 101 Incredible Microbes from Coronavirus to Zika

Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond

Girl Decoded: A Scientist’s Quest to Reclaim Our Humanity by Bringing Emotional Intelligence to Technology

Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism

Reading the Rocks: How Victorian Geologists Discovered the Secret of Life

Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82

The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World

Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss

The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here

Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology

The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys’ Club

The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis

The Field Guide to Citizen Science: How You Can Contribute to Scientific Research and Make a Difference

The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance

Why We Dream: The Transformative Power of Our Nightly Journey

Climate Justice: Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future

The Flavour Thesaurus: Pairings, Recipes and Ideas for the Creative Cook

Better Sex Through Mindfulness: How Women Can Cultivate Desire

This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society

Lurking: How a Person Became a User

Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

This Is Not A Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook

Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms

Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error

How Music Can Make You Better

Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything

The Frailty Myth: Redefining the Physical Potential of Women and Girls

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln’s Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities

Wicked Bugs: The Louse That Conquered Napoleon’s Army and Other Diabolical Insects

Gender and Our Brains: How New Neuroscience Explodes the Myths of the Male and Female Minds

The Kew Gardener’s Guide to Growing House Plants: The art and science to grow your own house plants

When We Are No More: How Digital Memory Is Shaping Our Future

Unf#ck Your Brain: Using Science to Get Over Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Freak-Outs, and Triggers

American Harvest: God, Country, and Farming in the Heartland

It’s Not Always Depression: Working the Change Triangle to Listen to the Body, Discover Core Emotions, and Connect to Your Authentic Self

Pilates Body in Motion

Data Feminism

For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts’ Advice to Women

The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars

Period Power: Harness Your Hormones and Get Your Cycle Working for You

Staying Well: How to Build a Healthy Immune System in the Modern World

The Lady’s Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness

Get Well Soon: History’s Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them

Our House Is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis

Dust Bowls of Empire: Imperialism, Environmental Politics, and the Injustice of “Green” Capitalism

Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death

What Patients Taught Me: A Medical Student’s Journey

Slime: How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us

Gross Anatomy: Dispatches from the Front (and Back)

Making Sense of Science: Separating Substance from Spin

Madame Curie: A Biography

Deadly Monopolies: The Shocking Corporate Takeover of Life Itself—and the Consequences for Your Health and Our Medical Future

She-ology: The Definitive Guide to Women’s Intimate Health. Period.

Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World

The Fate of Food: What We’ll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World

A Curious History of Sex

The Scientist and the Spy: A True Story of China, the FBI, and Industrial Espionage

Turning the Tide on Plastic: How Humanity (And You) Can Make Our Globe Clean Again

Lab Girl

The Genius of Women: From Overlooked to Changing the World

A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind

The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America

Reaching for the Moon: The Autobiography of NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson

The Crying Book

Mudlark: In Search of London’s Past Along the River Thames

Artificial You: AI and the Future of Your Mind

Who Can You Trust?: How Technology is Rewriting the Rules of Human Relationships

The End of Forgetting: Growing Up with Social Media

Visionary Women: How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters Changed Our World

The Future of Feeling: Building Empathy in a Tech-Obsessed World

Sex, Lies & Statistics

Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls and the Consequences of a World Full of Men

For Small Creatures Such as We: Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World

The Story Behind: The Extraordinary History Behind Ordinary Objects

Who Knew?: Questions That Will Make You Think Again

Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do

The Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World

This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol, Find Freedom, Discover Happiness & Change Your Life

The Spark of Life: Electricity in the Human Body

Uncanny Valley: A Memoir

The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms

Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe’s Hidden Dimensions

You’re Not Listening: What You’re Missing and Why It Matters

The Art of Rest: How to Find Respite in the Modern Age

The Wondrous Workings of Planet Earth: Understanding Our World and Its Ecosystems

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

The Joy of Movement: How Exercise Helps Us Find Happiness, Hope, Connection, and Courage

The Epigenetics Revolution

The Scars of Evolution: What Our Bodies Tell Us About Human Rights

Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space

A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution

This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship Between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture

Invisible: How Young Women with Serious Health Issues Navigate Work, Relationships, and the Pressure to Seem Just Fine

The New Killer Diseases: How the Alarming Evolution of Mutant Germs Threatens Us All

Body Respect: What Conventional Health Books Get Wrong, Leave Out, and Just Plain Fail to Understand about Weight

Dreaming in Code: Ada Byron Lovelace, Computer Pioneer

Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

Building a Life Worth Living: A Memoir

Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes

Underbug: An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology

The Confidence Game: The Psychology of the Con and Why We Fall For It Every Time

Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking

Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

The Undying

Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait

The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays

The Optimist’s Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age

H is for Hawk

Spotify Teardown: Inside the Black Box of Streaming Music

Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women

Widen the Window: Training Your Brain and Body to Thrive During Stress and Recover from Trauma

Buzzed: The Straight Facts About the Most Used and Abused Drugs from Alcohol to Ecstasy

Borrowed Time: The Science of How and Why We Age

Choked: Life and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution

The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness

Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom

Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

The Vagina Bible: The Vulva and the Vagina—Separating the Myth from the Medicine

Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

Body of Truth: Change Your Life by Changing the Way You Think about Weight and Health

Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle

Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World

The Gendered Brain: The New Neuroscience That Shatters the Myth of the Female Brain

Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That’s Rewriting the Story

Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History

Girls Who Code: Learn to Code and Change the World

The Wonder Down Under: A User’s Guide to the Vagina

Untrue: Why Nearly Everything We Believe About Women, Lust, and Infidelity Is Wrong and How the New Science Can Set Us Free

Sex Power Money

A To Z Of Women In Science And Math

Breaking and Mending: A doctor’s story of burnout and recovery

You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It’s Making the World a Weirder Place

Promised the Moon: The Untold Story of the First Women in the Space Race

Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass

Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy

Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness

Climate Chaos: Ecofeminism and the Land Question

Rosalie Bertell: Scientist, Eco-Feminist Visionary

Everything Below the Waist: Why Health Care Needs a Feminist Revolution

Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech

Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans

Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe

Cured: How the Berlin Patients Defeated HIV and Forever Changed Medical Science

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

Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick

Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

Endless Crusade: Women Social Scientists and Progressive Reform

Superior: The Return of Race Science

Geek Nation: How Indian Science Is Taking Over the World

Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body

The Sociopath Next Door

Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital Technology

Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth

Good Habits, Bad Habits: The Science of Making Positive Changes That Stick

The Sex Myth: Why Everything We’re Told Is Wrong

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

Pretty Unhealthy: Why Our Obsession with Looking Healthy is Making Us Sick

The Complete Houseplant Survival Manual: Essential Gardening Know-how for Keeping (Not Killing!) More Than 160 Indoor Plants

Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don’t Know You Have

Marriage and Slavery in Early Islam

Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women’s Pain

The Descent of Woman

A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)

A Lab of One’s Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War

Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World

Unf*ckology: A Field Guide to Living with Guts and Confidence

Give a Sh*t: Do Good. Live Better. Save the Planet.

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet

Evil: The Science Behind Humanity’s Dark Side

Black Feminist Archaeology

Figuring

Silent Spring

The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance – What Women Should Know

The Secret Lives of Color

Women Scientists: Reflections, Challenges, and Breaking Boundaries

Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void

The Quiet Revolution of Caroline Herschel: The Lost Heroine of Astronomy

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

The Happy Traveler: Unpacking the Secrets of Better Vacations

Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History

Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing

The Case Against Fragrance

The Stress-Proof Brain: Master Your Emotional Response to Stress Using Mindfulness & Neuroplasticity

The Lion in the Living Room: How House Cats Tamed Us and Took Over the World

Female Innovators at Work: Women on Top of Tech

Girling Up: How to be Strong, Smart, and Spectacular

The Chick and the Dead: Life and Death Behind Mortuary Doors

Hidden Figures

Life In Code: A Personal History of Technology