Can you recommend a STEM-related book?
Nov 11 2024
Happy National STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) Day, readers! We observe National STEM Day every November 8th, celebrating the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Observed in different countries and in various ways across classrooms, communities, and the workplace, National STEM Day aims to inspire more people into STEM-related careers. Activities and events are organized on the same date each year, drawing attention to what makes STEM subjects exciting to study and work in. It is also an opportunity to celebrate the achievements of past and present STEM specialists and highlight STEM-focused organizations and industries’ important impact on society.And of course, what better way to celebrate than with books! Below, you’ll find five STEM fiction recommendations, with a list in the comments. As always, the list definitely does NOT have all the STEM titles that exist in the world, so please share your recommendations below! 1. “Not in Love” by Ali Hazelwood
Honestly, MOST books by Ali Hazelwood would qualify for this. It follows Rue Siebert, a biotech engineer at Kline, one of the most promising start-ups in the field of food science. Her world is stable, pleasant, and hard-fought. Until a hostile takeover and its offensively attractive front man threatens to bring it all crumbling down – Eli Killgore. 2. “Lessons in Chemistry” by Bonnie Garmus
Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant, Nobel–prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with—of all things—her mind. True chemistry results. 3. “Children of Time” by Adrian Tchaikovsky
The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age—a world terraformed and prepared for human life.4. "The Gene: An Intimate History" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Mukherjee expresses abstract intellectual ideas through emotional stories…[and] swaddles his medical rigor with rhapsodic tenderness, surprising vulnerability, and occasional flashes of pure poetry” (The Washington Post). Throughout, the story of Mukherjee’s own family—with its tragic and bewildering history of mental illness—reminds us of the questions that hang over our ability to translate the science of genetics from the laboratory to the real world. In riveting and dramatic prose, he describes the centuries of research and experimentation—from Aristotle and Pythagoras to Mendel and Darwin, from Boveri and Morgan to Crick, Watson and Franklin, all the way through the revolutionary twenty-first century innovators who mapped the human genome.5. "Honey Girl" by Morgan Rogers
With her newly completed PhD in astronomy in hand, twenty-eight-year-old Grace Porter goes on a girls’ trip to Vegas to celebrate. She’s a straight A, work-through-the-summer certified high achiever. She is not the kind of person who goes to Vegas and gets drunkenly married to a woman whose name she doesn’t know…until she does exactly that.
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