Are you a fan of Bonnie Garmus's hit novel Lessons In Chemistry, and/or the TV adaptation? (If you'd like to watch the Apple+ miniseries but don't have that streaming service, you can borrow the library's Roku with Apple+.) Or are you on the waitlist for a copy of the book? Here are some other books about smart, unconventional women you might enjoy.
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Chemistry : a novel
by Weike Wang Losing her love for her major when her graduate studies become subject to research failures and high pressure, a Boston University student contemplates a marriage proposal from a more successful fellow scientist while she pursues an entirely different kind of chemistry. |
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City of girls
by Elizabeth Gilbert The best-selling author of Eat, Pray, Love traces the experiences of a theater insider in 1940s New York who discovers that she does not have to be a "good girl" in order to be a good person. |
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The dictionary of lost words : a novel
by Pip Williams Deciding to create her own dictionary— the Dictionary of Lost Words— Esme, who has collected “objectionable” words a team of male scholars omit from the first Oxford English Dictionary, leaves her sheltered world behind to meet the people whose words will fill those pages. |
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Her hidden genius : a novel
by Marie Benedict Tells the story of Rosalind Franklin, who, despite an environment of harassment and bullying in the late 1940s and 1950s, worked in a stringent, scientific manner and became one of the first scientists to map the structure of DNA. |
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Hidden figures : the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space
by Margot Lee Shetterly Explores the previously uncelebrated but pivotal contributions of NASA's African-American women mathematicians to America's space program, describing how Jim Crow laws segregated them from their white counterparts despite their groundbreaking successes. |
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Lillian Boxfish takes a walk
by Kathleen Rooney Embarking on a walk across the unsafe landscape of Manhattan on New Year's Eve in 1984, 85-year-old Lillian Boxfish recalls her long and eventful life, which included a brief reign as the highest-paid advertising woman in America, whose career was cut short by marriage and loss. By the author of O, Democracy! |
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Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
by Gabrielle Zevin Embarking on a legendary collaboration launching them to stardom, two friends, intimates since childhood, have the world at their feet until they discover that their success, brilliance and money won't protect them from their own creative ambitions or the betrayals of the heart. |
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Transcendent kingdom
by Yaa Gyasi A novel about faith, science, religion, and family that tells the deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief, narrated by a fifth year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford school of medicine studying the neural circuits of reward seeking behavior in mice. |
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Where'd you go, Bernadette : a novel
by Maria Semple When her notorious, hilarious, volatile, talented, troubled and agoraphobic mother goes missing, teenage Bee begins a trip that takes her to the ends of the earth to find her. By the author of This One is Mine. |
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With the fire on high
by Elizabeth Acevedo Navigating the challenges of finishing high school while caring for a daughter, talented cook Emoni Santiago struggles with a lack of time and money that complicate her dream of working in a professional kitchen. By the National Book Award-winning author of The Poet X. |
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A woman of intelligence
by Karin Tanabe A former translator at the United Nations who has become a bored 1950s housewife is asked to join the FBI as an informant after a man from her past has become a high-level Soviet spy. |