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Non-fiction books related to physics and astronomy written by women and other marginalized gender minorities.
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Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos
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Lisa Kaltenegger (Goodreads Author)
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The End of Everything
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The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
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A Big Bang in a Little Room: The Quest to Create New Universes
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Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
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The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
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Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe
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Starstruck: A Memoir of Astrophysics and Finding Light in the Dark
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Vera Rubin: A Life
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How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space
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The Astronomy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
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Jacqueline Mitton (Contributor)
4.30 avg rating — 662 ratings
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Queen of Physics: How Wu Chien Shiung Helped Unlock the Secrets of the Atom (People Who Shaped Our World, 6)
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Teresa Robeson (Goodreads Author)
4.34 avg rating — 865 ratings
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The Cosmic Cocktail: Three Parts Dark Matter
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Quantum Physics in Minutes
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Fire, Ice, and Physics: The Science of Game of Thrones
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Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life
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Helen Czerski (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 4,955 ratings
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Treading on Thin Air: Atmospheric Physics, Forensic Meteorology, and Climate Change - How The Weather Shapes Our Everyday Lives
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Handprints on Hubble: An Astronaut's Story of Invention (Lemelson Center Studies in Invention and Innovation series)
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The Great Motion Mission: A Surprising Story of Physics in Everyday Life
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Black Hole Survival Guide
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Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars
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Kate Greene (Goodreads Author)
3.53 avg rating — 664 ratings
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Magnitude: The Scale of the Universe
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Totally Random: Why Nobody Understands Quantum Mechanics
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3.53 avg rating — 120 ratings
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In the Shadow of the Moon: America, Russia, and the Hidden History of the Space Race
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Amy Cherrix (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 170 ratings
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What Stars are Made of: The Life of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
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Where's the Moon?: A Memoir of the Space Coast and the Florida Dream
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Ann McCutchan (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions
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Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past
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Sarah Parcak (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 997 ratings
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Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe
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Under an Ionized Sky: From Chemtrails to Space Fence Lockdown
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4.31 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World
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Astronaut-Aquanaut: How Space Science and Sea Science Interact
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Jennifer Swanson (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 81 ratings
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Higgs Discovery: The Power of Empty Space
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Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
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Margot Lee Shetterly (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 112,660 ratings
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Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space
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The Day We Found the Universe
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A Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Woman
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Lindy Elkins-Tanton (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 549 ratings
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Black Hole: How an Idea Abandoned by Newtonians, Hated by Einstein, and Gambled On by Hawking Became Loved
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Einstein's Unfinished Symphony: Listening to the Sounds of Space-Time
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Archives of the Universe: 100 Discoveries That Transformed Our Understanding of the Cosmos
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Marcia Bartusiak (Editor)
4.30 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Through a Universe Darkly: A Cosmic Tale of Ancient Ethers, Dark Matter, and the Fate of the Universe
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Thursday's Universe
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Dispatches from Planet 3: Thirty-Two (Brief) Tales on the Solar System, the Milky Way, and Beyond
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A Positron Named Priscilla: Scientific Discovery at the Frontier
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Star Gods of the Maya: Astronomy in Art, Folklore, and Calendars (The Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies)
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Heaven and Earth in Ancient Mexico: Astronomy and Seasonal Cycles in the Codex Borgia
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Earth Is My Mother, Sky Is My Father: Space, Time, and Astronomy in Navajo Sandpainting
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Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
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Experimental Search for Quantum Gravity (FIAS Interdisciplinary Science Series)
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Sabine Hossenfelder (editor)
4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
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Life Atomic: A History of Radioisotopes in Science and Medicine
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Multiversal
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Amy Catanzano (Goodreads Author)
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Starlight in Two Million: A Neo-Scientific Novella
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Amy Catanzano (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings
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iEpiphany
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Amy Catanzano (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love
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A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
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3.99 avg rating — 75,552 ratings
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The Planets
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Trespassing on Einstein's Lawn: A Father, a Daughter, the Meaning of Nothing, and the Beginning of Everything
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Amanda Gefter (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 849 ratings
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Black Holes: A Very Short Introduction
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Her Space, Her Time: How Trailblazing Women Scientists Decoded the Hidden Universe
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4.49 avg rating — 146 ratings
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The Sky Is for Everyone: Women Astronomers in Their Own Words
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Virginia Trimble (Editor)
4.25 avg rating — 36 ratings
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
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Kate Moore (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 179,887 ratings
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A Matter of Choices: Memoirs of a Female Physicist
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Hidden Figures
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Margot Lee Shetterly (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 112,660 ratings
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Beyond Curie: Four Women in Physics and Their Remarkable Discoveries, 1903 to 1963
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Scott Calvin (Goodreads Author)
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Madame Curie: A Biography
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After the War: Women in Physics in the United States
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Out of the Shadows: Contributions of Twentieth-Century Women to Physics
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Nina Byers (Editor)
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A Passion for Physics: The Story of a Woman Physicist
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Plastic Fantastic: How the Biggest Fraud in Physics Shook the Scientific World
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Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics (Volume 11)
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The Woman Who Split the Atom: The Life of Lise Meitner
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Radioactive!: How Irène Curie and Lise Meitner Revolutionized Science and Changed the World
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list created April 18th, 2022
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