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Lessons in Chemistry Read-a-Likes

posted on - April 26, 2023

Still waiting to get your hands on Bonnie Garmus’ Lessons in Chemistry?

Consider reading one (or more) of the following books while you wait! MML owns several, but not all, of these titles. If it’s one we don’t have, you can request it from another library in the Minerva consortium and likely still get it before Lessons in Chemistry is available.

 

 

 

Titles available at the Merrill Memorial Library

TITLE

AUTHOR

CALL NO. & LOCATION

SUMMARY/BLURB

Dearie

Spitz, Bob

92 CHI

(Biography)

Biography of the one and only, Julia Child.

The Exceptions

Zernike, Kate

509 ZER

(New Non-fiction)

Acclaimed book about women scientists facing discrimination at MIT.

When Women Were Dragons

Barnhill, Kelly

BAR

(Fiction)

Feminist fantasy novel set in 1950s America.

Recommended by Garmus, the author of Lessons in Chemistry, herself!

Her Hidden Genius

Benedict, Marie

BEN

(Fiction)

Historical fiction based on the life and work of a 19th-Century Paris & London-based woman geneticist.

The Only Woman in the Room

Benedict, Marie

BEN

(Fiction)

Historical fiction about a European scientist who fled Nazi Austria and became a Hollywood starlet.

The Other Einstein

Benedict, Marie

BEN

(Fiction)

Historical fiction about the first wife of Einstein, a physicist in her own right in late 19th-century Zurich.

The Movement of Stars

Brill, Amy

BRI

(Fiction)

Historical fiction and romance about a young woman who happens to be a Quaker astronomer.

Maame

George, Jessica

GEO

(New Fiction)

Domestic fiction & coming of age novel addressing race relations in contemporary London.

Recommended by Garmus, the author of Lessons in Chemistry, herself!

 

Titles available in the Minerva Network

TITLE

AUTHOR

# of Minerva libraries holding this title

SUMMARY/BLURB

The Last Animal

Ausubel, Ramona

11

Novel about mother-daughter biologist team uncovering wooly mammoth fossils in Siberia.

The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao

Batalha, Martha

1

Historical novel featuring a fierce female protagonist upending traditional gender roles in 1940s Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).

Enchantress of Numbers: A Novel of Ada Lovelace

Chiaverini, Jennifer

36

Historical novel about the real-life mathematician and daughter of Lord Byron.

The Woman with the Cure

Cullen, Lynn

4

Historical novel about the real-life woman who halted the polio epidemic in the 1950s.

Recommended by Garmus, the author of Lessons in Chemistry, herself!

The Love Hypothesis 

Hazelwood, Ali

22

A great beach read & romance novel about a PhD candidate at Stanford “putting her own heart under the microscope.”

The Calculating Stars: A Lady Astronaut Novel

Kowal, Mary Robinette

18

Multi-award winning science fiction and alternate history novel about a meteorite striking North America and space colonies in the 1950s.

Mr. & Mrs. American Pie

McDaniel, Juliet

7

Humorous historical and domestic novel about a 1960s divorcee entering a prominent beauty pageant.

Go As a River

Read, Shelley

8

Historical novel about a woman in the wilderness (the mountains of Colorado) in the 1960s addressing racism and sexism.

Recommended by Garmus, the author of Lessons in Chemistry, herself!

Park Avenue Summer

Rosen, Renee

9

Historical novel and readalike for The Devil Wears Prada about a rural midwestern woman moving to NYC to work for Cosmopolitan magazine in the 1960s.

Where’d You Go, Bernadette?

Semple, Maria

4

A humorous and sardonic novel about a mother- daughter relationship. A film adaptation is also available through several libraries on bluray and DVD.

Looking for more titles beyond this list pulled, in part, from MML’s NoveList subscription? Reach out to MML’s adult services librarian, Courtney Kleftis (ckleftis@yarmouthlibrary.org), and she can help you out.

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