The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks appears in 8 book lists

By Rebecca Skloot ,

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks appears in 8 book lists on Shepherd.

The best historical books for inspiring hope and action among feminists

Book cover of Gyn/Ecology Book cover of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Book cover of Looking for Lorraine Book cover of The Movement Book cover of Rise Up, Women! The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes

The best books to free your mind

Book cover of Fahrenheit 451 Book cover of The Creative Act: A Way of Being Book cover of How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy Book cover of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Book cover of When God Was a Woman

The best books about creatives who transformed American history

Book cover of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Book cover of On Gold Mountain: The 100-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family Book cover of Hamilton: The Revolution Book cover of An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood Book cover of The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

The best nonfiction books with fantastic storytelling

Book cover of The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America Book cover of Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster Book cover of The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics Book cover of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Book cover of Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America

The best books about how technology is changing us and how we live

Book cover of Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time Book cover of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Book cover of The AI Factor: How to Apply Artificial Intelligence and Use Big Data to Grow Your Business Exponentially Book cover of The Inversion Factor: How to Thrive in the IoT Economy Book cover of Brainwashed: The Bad Science Behind CTE and the Plot to Destroy Football

The best non-fiction books written by women

Book cover of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Book cover of Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout Book cover of Auschwitz and After Book cover of A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide Book cover of This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War

The best books about DNA from unique and interesting perspectives

Book cover of Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic Book cover of The Selfish Gene Book cover of The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome Book cover of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Book cover of Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters

The best books about women in STEM

Book cover of The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine Book cover of Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II Book cover of The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II Book cover of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Book cover of Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

Want books like The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks?

Our community of 12,000+ authors has personally recommended 100 books like The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.

Book cover of Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race Book cover of The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II Book cover of Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II Book cover of The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine Book cover of The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America Book cover of This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War

Browse books like The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

5 book lists we think you will like!

Interested in cancer, health, and human subject research?

Cancer 129 books
Health 125 books
Human Subject Research 23 books