2022 DCL Reading Challenge: Book by or About a Woman in STEMLike this list

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• 2022 DCL Reading Challenge

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  Our 2022 challenge is on! Read any of the titles on this list to get a step closer to finishing the Reading Challenge and winning a prize.

• My Remarkable Journey

  a Memoir

  Johnson, Katherine G.

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  Remember "Hidden Figures"? Here is the memoir of Johnson, whose crack math skills got us to space.

• Rise of the Rocket Girls

  the Women Who Propelled Us, From Missiles to the Moon to Mars

  Holt, Nathalia, 1980-

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  The Jet Propulsion Lab of NASA had the highest percentage of women employees. Many worked as calculators, doing mind-boggling math quickly and accurately.

• Lab Girl

  Jahren, Hope

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  This memoir of being an unabashed scientist became one of THE it-books of 2016. If you missed it, now's your chance to fix that.

• Her Hidden Genius

  a Novel

  Benedict, Marie

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  Rosalind Franklin took the X-rays Crick and Watson needed to make their double helix model of DNA, and then was neatly cut from getting any of the credit. Benedict's novel seeks to flesh out this important scientific figure.

• The Code Breaker

  Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

  Isaacson, Walter

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  I don't know that I am smart enough to ever fully understand Doudna's contribution to CRISPR technology, but it must have been a BIG DEAL if Isaacson was impressed enough to write about her.

• The Sirens of Mars

  Searching for Life on Another World

  Johnson, Sarah Stewart

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  Mars has been an object of fascination for humans since its discovery. Can it support life? What does the surface look like? Johnson has worked on many of the teams that have answered many of our questions.

• Enchantress of Numbers

  a Novel of Ada Lovelace

  Chiaverini, Jennifer

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  Ada Lovelace was a 19th-century mathematician (and only legitimate child of Lord Byron) AND is often credited with developing early mathematical languages that would make computer programming possible. Chiaverini celebrates her in this luminous…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Glass Universe

  How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars

  Sobel, Dava

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  Learn about the formerly unheralded heroines of the Harvard Observatory—human calculators who computed, assisted, or straight-up advanced our understanding of space—from one of America's great science writers.

• The Way I See It

  a Personal Look at Autism & Asperger's

  Grandin, Temple

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  Colorado author Dr. Grandin has become one of the country's best-known authors on autism and animal behavior. This collects some of her important works on the former, giving an insider's voice to such an important way of processing the world.

• The Book of Hope

  a Survival Guide for Trying Times

  Goodall, Jane, 1934-

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  Jane Goodall leans upon the lessons of her life as a primatologist and environmental activist to talk about what gives her hope.

• Silent Spring

  Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964

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  A classic of the environmental science category that still resonates. Carson's work changed so much. And (less important), it's a Two-word Title and can be counted twice in our challenge.