As I've mentioned in the past, Booklist does many annual top 10 lists. Today I ran across their new one for biographies with a focus on trailblazers who changed the world. They include a pioneer in gene-editing, sisters who were some of the first women to get medical degrees in the US, Malcolm X and the Black struggle, a brilliant mathematician who suffered from depression, a legendary film director, a dancer and Marie Curie, the three founding women of NPR, the three mothers of prominent Black leaders, women tv pioneers, and a woman who championed women's rights and mental health reform.
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- Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson. 2021. [ebook]
- The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne and Tamara Payne. 2020. [ebook]
- The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine by Janice P. Nimura. 2021. [ebook]
- Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel by Stephen Budiansky. May 2021.
- Mike Nichols: A Life by Mark Harris. 2021.
- Radiant: The Dancer, the Scientist, and a Friendship Forged in Light by Liz Heinecke. 2021.
- Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie: The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR by Lisa Napoli. 2021. [ebook]
- The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation by Anna Malaika Tubbs. 2021.
- When Women Invented Television: The Untold Story of the Female Powerhouses Who Pioneered the Way We Watch Today by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong. 2021.
- The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear by Kate Moore. June 2021.