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By Hope Jahren

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NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Geobiologist Hope Jahren has spent her life studying trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Lab Girl is her revelatory treatise on plant life—but it is also a celebration of the lifelong curiosity, humility, and passion that drive every scientist.

"Does for botany what Oliver Sacks’s essays did for neurology, what Stephen Jay Gould’s writings did for paleontology.” —The New York Times

A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Cen...

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Awards Nature Science & Technology Biography Biology & Life Sciences Agricultural Sciences Women's Biography Scientists - Biography Scientists, Inventors, & Naturalists Plants & Fungi Botany Biology Plants - General & Miscellaneous Botany - General & Miscellaneous Biology - General & Miscellaneous Horticulture Scientists & Medical Figures - Women's Biography Biologists - Biography Autobiography/Memoir->National Book Critics Award Winners New York Times Notable Nonfiction of 2016 Entertainment Weekly's 20 Best Books of 2016 Time Magazine's Top 10 Nonfiction Books of 2016 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award Winners 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalists National Book Critics Circle Awards All Winners by Category - National Book Critics Circle Awards Best Books of the Year Best Books of the Year 2016 New York Times Best Books of 2016 Entertainment Weekly's Best Books of 2016 Time Magazine's Best Books of 2016 All Winners by Year - National Book Critics Circle Awards Previous Finalists - National Book Critics Circle Awards

Lab Girl