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@Elizabeth suggested that I share here the quick tips I gave her for finding cool history and philosophy of science books, so let's do it.
- I like using awards as starting points. They're not exhaustive, but often they point to particularly good references in a field that I don't know about.
- For philosophy of science, often with a decent dose of history, there is the Lakatos Award.
- For history of science, there is the Sarton Medal, which is given to individuals, not works
- Same with book reviews by journals focused on the topic
- My favorite are from the British Journal for The Philosophy of Science reviews
- Knowing the terminology helps. I find that "History and Philosophy of X" is often a good google query
- I recently discovered https://hiphilangsci.net/ on linguistics that way!
- Obviously, follow the citations: cool books tend to reference cool books. (And terrible ones, but let's not mention that)
- Also known, but just in case: going to https://scholar.google.com/ and searching for the most cited books that cite a book you liked often leads to great reading material.
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