I stumbled upon Children Under Fire: An American Crisis by John Woodrow Cox over two years ago. The topic of gun violence was overwhelming, and growing up as a gun owner in a rural community, I had always heard pro-gun arguments. My family owned guns, and when I moved to a “big city” just a few miles up the highway, I was given my own handgun “for protection.”

At 304 pages, Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez is a powerful read published by Vintage. This book serves as both a feminist manifesto and a data-driven exposé of systemic gender bias. While social media often highlights how women are excluded from medical studies, Perez goes much deeper. She uncovers how data bias has shaped the very fabric of our world, leaving women at a disadvantage in ways most of us don’t even realize.