She writes narrative-driven non-fiction books including, most recently, Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing, which won the Society for the History of Technology's 2016 Sally Hacker Prize.

Snyder's most recent book, Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing (2015) describes how artists and scientists in Holland in the 1600s changed the way we see the world.

Snyder tells this story through the lens of the lives of two men who were born the same week in the small town of Delft: Johannes Vermeer and Antoni van Leeuwenhoek.

[7] Snyder's The Philosophical Breakfast Club: Four Remarkable Friends who Transformed Science and Changed the World (2011), an interleaved biography of Charles Babbage, John F.W.

Herschel, William Whewell, and Richard Jones, was reviewed in The Wall Street Journal,[8] The Washington Post,[9] The Economist,[10] and other popular media outlets and science magazines.

[11] Snyder's first book, Reforming Philosophy: A Victorian Debate on Science and Society, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2006.