12 Books to Read If You Loved Hidden Figures

New York Times bestseller Rise of the Rocket Girls tells the true story of a group of women who transformed the Space Age with their mathematical abilities. Author Nathalia Holt interviews the surviving members of the team, known as the "human computers," and details the biases they faced as women in their field, as well as how they overcame such challenges. In a decade when women's roles were primarily domestic, these women braved discrimination and proceeded to revolutionize rocket designs and the first American satellites as well as lay the foundation for exploration of the solar system.