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by Walter Isaacson · about this book

Loved Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson? If its nonfiction, biography and scientist protagonist hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with Quantum Supremacy, Starstruck: A Memoir of Astrophysics and Finding Light in the Dark and Elon Musk: Inventing the Future. Every pick is matched by what’s actually inside the book, not just its genre, and we skip other books by the same author so you find someone new.

What’s inside Einstein: His Life and Universe: Nonfiction · Biography · Scientist Protagonist · Physics · Male Lead

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   Quantum Supremacy

   Michio Kaku

   Physics · Science Writing · Popular Science · Nonfiction · Technology History

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   Starstruck: A Memoir of Astrophysics and Finding Light in the Dark

   Sarafina El-Badry Nance

   Scientist Protagonist · Science Writing · Physics · Nonfiction · Memoir & Biography

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   Elon Musk: Inventing the Future

   Ashlee Vance

   Biography · Nonfiction · Memoir & Biography · Science Writing · Technology History

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   Making the Monster: The Science Behind Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (Bloomsbury Sigma)

   Kathryn Harkup

   Science Writing · Popular Science · Nonfiction · Biography

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   The Future Is Now: Solving the Climate Crisis with Today's Technologies

   Bob McDonald

   Science Writing · Popular Science · Nonfiction · Physics

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   Michael Jordan

   Roland Lazenby

   Biography · Nonfiction · Memoir & Biography · Male Lead · Dense Prose

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   The Dispossessed

   Ursula K. Le Guin

   Scientist Protagonist · Physics · Male Lead · Philosophy · Dense Prose

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   King Hancock

   Brooke Barbier

   Biography · Nonfiction · Memoir & Biography · Male Lead

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   True

   Kostya Kennedy

   Biography · Nonfiction · Memoir & Biography · Male Lead

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    A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?

    Kelly Weinersmith

    Science Writing · Popular Science · Nonfiction

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    The Spy and the Traitor

    Ben Macintyre

    Biography · Nonfiction · Memoir & Biography · Male Lead

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    Dark Matter

    Blake Crouch

    Scientist Protagonist · Physics · Male Lead · Philosophy

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    The Three-Body Problem

    Liu Cixin

    Physics · Scientist Protagonist · Male Lead · Dense Prose

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    The Complete Maus

    Art Spiegelman

    Biography · Nonfiction · Memoir & Biography · Male Lead

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    Thunderstruck

    Erik Larson

    Biography · Nonfiction · Scientist Protagonist · Technology History · Slow-Paced

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    Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success

    Russ Buettner, Susanne Craig

    Biography · Nonfiction · Memoir & Biography · Dense Prose

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    Project Hail Mary

    Andy Weir

    Scientist Protagonist · Physics · Male Lead

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    The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

    Hallie Rubenhold

    Biography · Memoir & Biography · Nonfiction

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    Marsha

    Tourmaline

    Biography · Nonfiction · Memoir & Biography

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    The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick

    Mallory O'Meara

    Biography · Nonfiction · Memoir & Biography

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