Nonfiction Books
True Stories and Real-Life Insights Across Fields
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer. Atlas Books, 2006.
Make Your Bed
Little Things that Can Change Your Life… and Maybe the World. Grand Central Publishing, 2017.
The Radium Girls
The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women. Sourcebooks, 2017.
Quackery
A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything. Workman Publishing, 2017.
The Disappearing Spoon
And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements. Little, Brown and Company, 2010.
Twice as Hard
The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century. Beacon Press, 2023.
Talking Across the Divide
How to Communicate with People You Disagree with and Maybe Change the World. TarcherPerigee, 2018.
Women in White Coats
How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine. Park Row Books, 2021.
Stuff Matters
Exploring the Marvelous Materials that Shape Our Man-Made World. Mariner Books, 2015.
Raising Critical Thinkers
A Parent’s Guide to Growing Wise Kids in the Digital Age. TarcherPerigee, 2022.
Traffic
Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us). Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
From Strength to Strength
Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life. Portfolio, 2022.
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