Books like Diary of a Citizen Scientist by Sharman Apt Russell

Hope Jahren’s memoir chronicles her journey from rural Minnesota to the world’s frontiers of plant science, blending vivid anecdotes of laboratory discovery with a heartfelt friendship that shapes her career.

Rachel Carson’s *Silent Spring* examines the widespread use of pesticides and their harmful effects on nature, sparking the modern environmental movement.

John Muir’s first summer in the Sierra Nevada is presented as a biographical and natural‑history account, enriched by photographs from Herbert W. Gleason and drawings by Muir himself.

Elizabeth Kolbert’s nonfiction work examines global warming, tracing scientific evidence, political debates, and personal stories of those most affected by climate change.

In the vein of *H Is for Hawk* and the work of Rebecca Solnit and Elizabeth Kolbert—a masterful consideration of the profound, urgent necessity to bear witness to life and loss.

"Myra Strober became a feminist on the Bay Bridge, heading toward San Francisco. It is 1970. She has just been told by the chairman of Berkeley's economics department that she can never get tenure. Driving home afterward, wondering if she got something out of the freezer for her family's dinner, she realizes the truth: she is being denied a regular faculty position because she is a mother. Flooded with anger, she also finds her life's work: to study and fight sexism, in the workplace, in academia, and at home. Strober's generous memoir captures the spirit of a revolution lived fully, from her Brooklyn childhood (and her shock at age twelve when she's banished to the women's balcony atshul) to her groundbreaking Stanford seminar on women and work. Strober's interest in women and work began when she saw her mother's frustration at the limitations of her position as a secretary. Her consciousness of the unfairness of the usual distribution of household chores came when she unsuccessfully asked her husband for help with housework. Later, when a group of conservative white male professors sputtered at the idea of government-subsidized child care, Strober made the case for its economic benefits."--Provided by publisher.