PTL: The Rise and Fall of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker’s Evangelical Empire by John H. The book is in no way overly scientific rather, we meet all of the characters who brought this beautiful theory to life-and those who tried to stop them. Wade was enough.īig Bang: The Origin of the Universe by Simon Singh tells the story of every scientific achievement that built off the last to get us to our almost-certainty that the Big Bang is the most accurate way to describe the story of the Universe. Ross and Rickie Solinger is a self-explanatory must-read for anyone who still thinks that reproductive rights only mean the right to an abortion, or that Roe v. Reproductive Justice: An Introduction by Loretta J. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez explains just how strangely predictable Trump’s 2016 win was after 75 years of his evangelical voting block was groomed to want a “masculine,” politically incorrect tough guy as a leader.Ĭarl Sagan: A Life by Keay Davidson, while detailed and scientifically jargon-y at times, beautifully and appropriately tells the story of Carl Sagan’s life. It’s essentially full of stories of mothers whose children were ripped away from them. Wade by Ann Fessler is the book on this list that will really make you cry. The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe V. (And that’s canon.) It was so entrancing to see what daily life is really like for astronomers. Levesque is a super fun book that I lovingly call an astronomemoir.

The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy’s Vanishing Explorers by Emily M.

PTL by John H. Wigger