Science

The Menopause Brain

June 25, 2025

This book is a great way to educate yourself on perimenopause and menopause! It is so well done and explains why it’s so important for…

The Science of Beauty

June 25, 2025

I love a cosmetic chemist and have been a long-time follower of Dr. Wong’s Youtube, so I was so excited to read this…

Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

December 11, 2024

If you were born before 1980, you know the impact this tragedy had on you. This minute-by-minute telling is so well done without feeling overwhelming.…

Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

December 4, 2024

This is not breezy, but the way Harari writes about how information is leveraged by bureaucracy and mythology and how it’s manipulated for various ends…

Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

March 27, 2024

This is probably one of my favorite nonfiction reads of the last few years. It sounds very dense and tough, but it is not. It…

The Monster’s Bones

August 9, 2022

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

April 14, 2021

I read everything Patrick writes because he takes wildly complex subjects and makes nonfiction read like a thrilling novel.

The Day It Finally Happens

March 10, 2021

An entertaining but sometimes terrifying look at how humanity will handle a litany of unthinkable (but sometimes likely) events.

Hidden Valley Road

June 17, 2020

When non-fiction is almost unbelievable. I still think about this book more than a year later.

The Body

May 6, 2020

This was such a DELIGHTFUL adventure into my own body. Bill Bryson is a season pass for me.