Barbenheimer Reading Recommendations

Are you wondering what to read after watching Barbie or Oppenheimer? We’ve got recommendations for you! (Our jobs are just…*books*)

Barbie recommendations:

STUFF MOM NEVER TOLD YOU: The Feminist Past, Present, and Future by Anney Reese and Samantha McVey
9781250268600 | available 8/29/23
An upbeat, whip-smart, and trenchant walk through major feminist issues, by the hosts of the popular podcast of the same name. Written with a sharp tongue, an infectious curiosity, and a deeply empathetic voice, STUFF MOM NEVER TOLD YOU shows the true breadth of what feminism can stand for, what it can achieve, and whom it can help lift up.

THE WOMEN OF NOW: How Feminists Built an Organization That Transformed America by Katherine Turk
9780374601539 | available now
The history of NOW—its organization, trials, and revolutionary mission—told through the work of three members.

ONE IN A MILLENNIAL: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In by Kate Kennedy
9781250285126 | available 1/23/24
With Kate Kennedy’s trademark style and vulnerability, ONE IN A MILLENNIAL is sharp, hilarious, and heartwarming all at once. She tackles AOL Instant Messenger, purity culture, American Girl Dolls, going out tops, Spice Girl feminism, her feelings about millennial motherhood, and more. Kate’s laugh-out-loud asides and keen observations will have you nodding your head and maybe even tearing up.

Oppenheimer recommendations:

AN AFFAIR OF SPIES by Ronald H. Balson
9781250282460 | available now
From the winner of the National Jewish Book Award—A spy mission to rescue a defector from Germany and prevent the Nazis from creating an atomic bomb.

THE POPE OF PHYSICS: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age by Gino Segrè and Bettina Hoerlin
9781250143792 | available now
A major biography of the great, Nobel Prize-winning physicist, Enrico Fermi, a leading architect of the atomic age.

GUN BARONS: The Weapons That Transformed America and the Men Who Invented Them by John Bainbridge, Jr.
9781250266866 | available now
A narrative history of six charismatic and idiosyncratic men who changed the course of American history through the invention and refinement of repeating weapons.