I hadn’t heard of Hidden Figures until I saw the movie a few years ago. Then I knew I needed to read the book. I think there was a lot of great information on Dorothy, Mary, and Katherine, the challenges they overcame, and their extraordinary contributions to NASA. It’s such an important topic, and I appreciate all the work and research the author did to tell these intricate stories.

I thought there were some parts of the book that had unnecessary info (e.g. explanations of aerodynamic principles), and the timeline was not linear and sometimes caused me to get confused.

Overall, I’m glad this was my first audiobook. If you like historical non-fiction, then I’d recommend this. If not, I think you could just watch the movie.