Recs if you like The Lady and the Sharks...

Books by female ecologists, biologists, naturalists, environmental activists, and science writers from well-researched nonfiction to reflective memoirs.

(Keywords: science, nature, plants, animals, insects, ecology, climate change, biology, ocean, STEM)

I have been collecting (and reading) a long list of memoirs, autobiographies and biographies about women who had fascinating lives. I thought I might as well make it a list! A lot of them I have read and enjoyed, some are from my TBR. I am especially fascinated by 18th-19th century women's stories, so there will be a lot of those. And women from diverse backgrounds. Open to suggestions!

Polymath Training Challenge is a non-fiction reading challenge that has been running on a Hungarian book site for the past 11 years. Each year it has 12 categories that participants have to pick their own nonfiction reads for (incl. memoirs and biographies). I have discovered several amazing nonfiction books through this challenge, so I decided to make a list of the best, and most mind-blowing, of them so far.

shark related books (both fiction and non fiction)