8 Best nonfiction books like The Code Breaker -- Young Readers Edition: Jennifer Doudna and the Race to Understand Our Genetic Code by Walter Isaacson

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The Code Breaker -- Young Readers Edition: Jennifer Doudna and the Race to Understand Our Genetic Code

By: Walter Isaacson

4.23

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Walter Isaacson’s #1 New York Times bestselling history of our third scientific CRISPR, gene editi…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Code Breaker -- Young Readers Edition: Jennifer Doudna and the Race to Understand Our Genetic Code by Walter Isaacson , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax (Mrs. Pollifax, #4)

By: Dorothy Gilman

4.16

Format: 191 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A secret agent like no other, Mrs. Pollifax was leading a very full life: Garden Club, karate, yoga… read more

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2. Mrs. Pollifax and the Golden Triangle (Mrs. Pollifax, #8)

By: Dorothy Gilman

4.03

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Although Mrs. Pollifax is determined to give up spying for good, she can't help but agree to carry … read more

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3. Mrs. Pollifax Pursued (Mrs. Pollifax, #11)

By: Dorothy Gilman

4.06

Format: 240 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The last thing Mrs. Pollifax expects to find in her closet is a young woman hiding. Kadi Hopkirk in… read more

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4. The Middle Moffat (The Moffats, #2)

By: Eleanor Estes , Louis Slobodkin

4.03

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A 1943 Newbery Honor Book Who is Jane Moffat, anyway? She isn't the youngest in the family, and sh… read more

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Cover of Mrs. Pollifax and the Lion Killer (Mrs Pollifax #12) by Dorothy Gilman

5. Mrs. Pollifax and the Lion Killer (Mrs Pollifax #12)

By: Dorothy Gilman

2.50

Format: 216 pages,

In response to a desperate SOS, Kadi Hopkirk flies to the African country of Ubangiba, where her ch… read more

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Cover of Mrs. Pollifax, Innocent Tourist (Mrs. Pollifax, #13) by Dorothy Gilman

6. Mrs. Pollifax, Innocent Tourist (Mrs. Pollifax, #13)

By: Dorothy Gilman

2.50

Format: 216 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Working with her retired CIA friend John Farrell, Emily Pollifax must smuggle a manuscript out of J… read more

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7. The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

By: Sam Kean

0.00

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

The Periodic Table is one of man's crowning scientific achievements. But it's also a treasure trove… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
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8. Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World

By: Mark Miodownik

3.92

Format: 98 pages, Hardcover

A New York TimesBestseller An eye-opening adventure deep inside the everyday materials that surroun… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
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9. Mrs. Pollifax Unveiled (Mrs Pollifax #14)

By: Dorothy Gilman

3.68

Format: None pages, Paperback

After facing down hijackers on a flight to the Middle East and saving the lives of the passengers o… read more

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10. The Night Diary

By: Veera Hiranandani

4.22

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of Inside Out and Back Again and The War That Saved My Life comes a poignant, personal,… read more

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11. Mrs. Pollifax and the Whirling Dervish (Mrs. Pollifax, #9)

By: Dorothy Gilman

3.72

Format: 224 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Mrs. Pollifax is on hand in Morocco to back up an inept CIA agent, and it's a good thing. Their fir… read more

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12. Inside Out & Back Again

By: Thanhhà Lại

3.92

Format: 594 pages, Hardcover

For all the ten years of her life, Ha has only known Saigon: the thrills of its markets, the joy of… read more

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13. Save Me a Seat

By: Sarah Weeks , Gita Varadarajan

4.36

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Joe and Ravi might be from very different places, but they're both stuck in the same place: SCHOOL.… read more

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14. Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station (Mrs. Pollifax, #6)

By: Dorothy Gilman

4.19

Format: 224 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Once again, Mrs. Pollifax, the cheerful little woman with the flyaway white hair and a penchant for… read more

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15. Linked

By: Gordon Korman

4.18

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Link, Michael, and Dana live in a quiet town. But it's woken up very quickly when someone sneaks in… read more

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"A paper chain can be done when it hits a certain number of links. But tolerance is a project you always have to keep working at."

-Gordon Korman, Linked

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16. Prairie Lotus

By: Linda Sue Park

4.29

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

Prairie Lotus is a book about a girl determined to fit in and realize her dreams: getting an educat… read more

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Cover of The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human by Siddhartha Mukherjee

17. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

By: Siddhartha Mukherjee

4.28

Format: 473 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences and the 2023 Chautauq… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
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18. The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

By: Nicholas Day

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive work of narrative nonfiction about how the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, how t… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Leonard da Vinci had painted the Mona Lisa. But Vincenzo Perugia had turned it into The Mona Lisa."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

"The Lourve, he concluded, with an insult designed to puncture French pride, "is less well protected than a Spanish museum."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

"If the Mona Lisa is the most famous face in art history, Les Demoiselles is a hatchet thrown at it. It's not a pretty painting. Its brutal and uncomfortable."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

"Word of his midnight activities gets out. 'The pope has found out that I have skinned three corpses,' Leonardo writes in his notebook. He gets off easy. He's simply told: please stop skinning corpses."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

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19. A Rover's Story

By: Jasmine Warga

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A middle grade novel about the journey of a fictional Mars rover. Meet Resilience, a Mars rover… read more

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20. Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Lord (Lady Petra Inquires, #1)

By: Celeste Connally

3.52

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Bridgerton meets Agatha Christie in Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Lord, a dazzling first entry in a… read more

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21. Sisu

By: Joanna Nylund

3.77

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Derived from the Finnish word sisus, which refers to the internal organs (the guts), the ancient wo… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Huda F Are You? by Huda Fahmy

22. Huda F Are You?

By: Huda Fahmy

4.17

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

From the creator of Yes, I'm Hot In This, this cheeky, hilarious, and honest graphic novel asks the… read more

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"Use your hijab, woman! Cover that forehead!"

-Huda Fahmy, Huda F Are You?

"I swear if we end up getting joint weddings, we're running away."

-Huda Fahmy, Huda F Are You?

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23. Just Like That

By: Gary D. Schmidt

4.37

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

Following the death of her closest friend in summer 1968, Meryl Lee Kowalski goes off to St. Elene'… read more

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"It’s hard to figure out how a friendship begins, she thought. Maybe sometimes it’s because someone you thought you knew - and that you didn’t really - turns out to be a whole lot more like a friend t…"

-Gary D. Schmidt, Just Like That

"And Meryl Lee thought, I wonder how this happens. You live side by side for a while, and suddenly you realize you like living side by side, and you can’t imagine not living side by side because you’v…"

-Gary D. Schmidt, Just Like That

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24. Wingbearer (Wingbearer, #1)

By: Marjorie M. Liu

4.21

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A young girl must stop a threat to her magical world in this epic graphic novel from New York Times… read more

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25. Slay

By: Brittney Morris

4.20

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

'We are different ages, genders and traditions ... but tonight we all SLAY'Black Panther meets Read… read more

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"As we duel, as we chat, there's an understanding that "your black is not my black" and "your weird is not my weird" and "your beautiful is not my beautiful," and that's okay. It' brings tears to my e…"

-Brittney Morris, Slay

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26. The Night in Question (The Agathas #2)

By: Kathleen Glasgow

3.92

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

How do you solve a murder? Follow the lessons of the master—Agatha Christie! Iris and Alice find th… read more

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27. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl

By: Stacy McAnulty

4.29

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

A lightning strike gave her a super power... but even a super genius can't solve the problem of mid… read more

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28. An Arrow to the Moon

By: Emily X.R. Pan

3.44

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Hunter Yee has perfect aim with a bow and arrow, but all else in his life veers wrong. He’s sick of… read more

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"Her face was so earnest, so sweet. When she shined her light on him, he felt safe and protected. He felt loved."

-Emily X.R. Pan, An Arrow to the Moon

"They traced each other's veins and kissed until their lips were swollen, until they thirsted from something unknown."

-Emily X.R. Pan, An Arrow to the Moon

"They traced each other's veins and kissed until their lips were swollen, until they thirsted from something unknown ."

-Emily X.R. Pan, An Arrow to the Moon

"The surface gleamed like hard candy that would dissolve on the tongue. What was that silvery garden scent, so faint and tantalizing? She held the stone up to the moonlight, and then brightness explod…"

-Emily X.R. Pan, An Arrow to the Moon

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29. The Genesis Machine: Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology

By: Amy Webb

3.95

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Named one of The New Yorker's BEST BOOKS OF 2022 SO FAR The next frontier in technology is inside … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • science
Cover of The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House by Nancy Pelosi

30. The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House

By: Nancy Pelosi

4.10

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The most powerful woman in American political history tells the story of her transformation from ho… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of The Code Breaker -- Young Readers Edition: Jennifer Doudna and the Race to Understand Our Genetic Code by Walter Isaacson

31. The Code Breaker -- Young Readers Edition: Jennifer Doudna and the Race to Understand Our Genetic Code

By: Walter Isaacson

4.23

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Walter Isaacson’s #1 New York Times bestselling history of our third scientific CRISPR, gene editi… read more

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5 Top science books like The Code Breaker -- Young Readers Edition: Jennifer Doudna and the Race to Understand Our Genetic Code by Walter Isaacson

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

Sam Kean

0.00

Transform Your Habits

Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World

Mark Miodownik

3.92

Transform Your Habits

The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

Siddhartha Mukherjee

4.28

Transform Your Habits

The Genesis Machine: Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology

Amy Webb

3.95

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Transform Your Habits

Zhara (Guardians of Dawn, #1)

S. Jae-Jones

3.51

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Princess of Souls (Hundred Kingdoms, #2)

Alexandra Christo

3.75

Transform Your Habits

A Magic Steeped in Poison (The Book of Tea, #1)

Judy I. Lin

3.83

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The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

Axie Oh

4.11

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