Nathalia Holt Books in Order

Holt follows two men known as the Berlin Patients and the different treatments that made their cases important to HIV research. Interviews with patients and doctors examine scientific uncertainty, personal experience, and the relationship between medical discovery and patient care.

Beginning in the 1940s, women mathematicians at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory calculated the trajectories that helped transform American rocketry. Holt traces their professional and personal lives, revealing contributions to satellites and planetary exploration alongside the barriers they faced.

Holt traces the women whose storytelling, art, and technical work helped shape Disney animation. Their careers reveal struggles for recognition and influence inside a male-dominated industry, as well as efforts to change how female characters appeared on screen.

Four women helped build the CIA's intelligence capabilities after World War II while fighting for recognition and fair treatment. Holt follows their work in communications, overseas operations, and technical intelligence, drawing on interviews and declassified records.

Theodore Roosevelt's sons join scientists and naturalists on a dangerous Himalayan expedition to find the giant panda. Storms, illness, robbers, and failing supplies test their ambition as the journey documents a fragile landscape and its wildlife.