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The Martian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,332,417 ratings — published 2011
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,588,102 ratings — published 2021
The Right Stuff (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 34 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.23 — 56,297 ratings — published 1979
A Man on the Moon (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.49 — 7,822 ratings — published 1994
Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.40 — 10,643 ratings — published 1994
A New Eden (The Betaverse, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.65 — 356 ratings — published 2023
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.95 — 60,939 ratings — published 2010
Failure is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.31 — 10,775 ratings — published 2000
Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.49 — 6,911 ratings — published 1974
Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.42 — 6,998 ratings — published 2017
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.17 — 63,590 ratings — published 2013
Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.16 — 4,016 ratings — published 1994
First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,694 ratings — published 2005
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.50 — 21,937 ratings — published 2024
Orbital (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.48 — 157,978 ratings — published 2023
Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.53 — 12,235 ratings — published 2018
Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.21 — 23,242 ratings — published 2017
The Case for Mars (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,018 ratings — published 1996
To Be Taught, If Fortunate (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.19 — 59,226 ratings — published 2019
Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.37 — 2,581 ratings — published 2018
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.25 — 134,846 ratings — published 2016
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.30 — 185,283 ratings — published 2015
Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.12 — 187,416 ratings — published 1973
Riding Rockets (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,003 ratings — published 2006
Artemis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.68 — 345,128 ratings — published 2017
The Interstellar Age: Inside the Forty-Year Voyager Mission (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,297 ratings — published 2015
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.33 — 40,188 ratings — published 1994
The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,808 ratings — published 1999
Ringworld (Ringworld #1)
by (shelved 12 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.93 — 130,042 ratings — published 1970
A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,463 ratings — published 2023
The Calculating Stars (Lady Astronaut Universe, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.95 — 38,579 ratings — published 2018
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.40 — 161,316 ratings — published 1980
Flight: My Life in Mission Control (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,183 ratings — published 2001
Hidden Figures (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.96 — 115,272 ratings — published 2016
Across the Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings – The Forgotten History of Daring Exploration and Human Genius (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.19 — 877 ratings — published 2021
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.47 — 6,701 ratings — published 2021
Into the Black: The Extraordinary Untold Story of the First Flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia and the Astronauts Who Flew Her (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,746 ratings — published 2015
2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.18 — 340,216 ratings — published 1968
Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,399 ratings — published 2005
Atmosphere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.32 — 857,627 ratings — published 2025
One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,078 ratings — published 2019
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.11 — 389,179 ratings — published 2017
Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.53 — 5,315 ratings — published 2016
Two Sides of the Moon: Our Story of the Cold War Space Race (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.28 — 596 ratings — published 2004
Space Race: The Epic Battle Between America and the Soviet Union for Dominion of Space (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.23 — 833 ratings — published 2005
Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,933 ratings — published 2009
Apollo: The Race To The Moon (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.51 — 2,019 ratings — published 1989
The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.33 — 7,560 ratings — published 2023
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.08 — 211,945 ratings — published 2017
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.16 — 191,181 ratings — published 2014
“The sky is the limit only for those who aren't afraid to fly!”
― Sci-fi Almanac, 2010: An Anthology of Short Stories
― Sci-fi Almanac, 2010: An Anthology of Short Stories












