Recs if you like The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science...

These are some of my favorites and books I want to read--nonfiction that reads like fiction or is otherwise compelling. If you're intimidated by books on history, science, memoir, or other subgenres in nonfiction, start here.

Qwordy's Hardest Reading Challenge You'll Ever Do 3.0 Periodic Table Titles Prompt You must find five books that use a different element of the periodic table in the title of the book This is an on going list and always open for recommendations

(Auto)Biographies, memoirs, and stories of influential women, both well and lesser known

Microhistory and PopSci books to find your newest hyperfixation.

Of the Nobel Prizes in Chemistry and Medicine or Physiology, women make up about 5% of the recipients. These are some of their stories from needing your husband to stand up for you (Marie Curie) to hiding during the Holocaust (Rita Levi-Montalcini) to winning it with another woman (Elizabeth Blackburn and Carol Greider), all of these women should be an inspiration to everyone, whether or not we're in STEM DISCLAIMER: I have not read all of these books

non-fiction shining the light on women and women’s story’s and experiences

look around you right now. what do you see? a manual dishwasher? a nice beer? a calendar? your computer? there’s a hot chance you’re looking at something invented by a woman.

the books on this list cross various genres and ideas of how women did it all first, from being the first to understand radioactivity or change the tides of war, create a genre or to reach the moon, to pioneer for civil rights or to found nations.

recommendations are highly encouraged in the comments!

A list dedicated to nuclear energy, nuclear disasters, the Atomic Age, and radiation. Mostly non-fiction, but I decided to include some fiction as well.

Non-fiction books of all different types that I'm hoping to read to get inspired and learn new things.