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Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,844,266 ratings — published 2021
The Martian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,374,828 ratings — published 2011
The Right Stuff (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 34 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.23 — 57,021 ratings — published 1979
Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.40 — 10,892 ratings — published 1994
A Man on the Moon (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.49 — 7,941 ratings — published 1994
A New Eden (The Betaverse, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.63 — 368 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 — 61,417 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 — 10,957 ratings — published 2000
Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.49 — 7,072 ratings — published 1974
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.17 — 64,094 ratings — published 2013
Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.42 — 7,091 ratings — published 2017
Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.17 — 4,076 ratings — published 1994
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.50 — 24,048 ratings — published 2024
First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,778 ratings — published 2005
Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.53 — 12,583 ratings — published 2018
Orbital (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.47 — 169,229 ratings — published 2023
Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.21 — 23,492 ratings — published 2017
To Be Taught, If Fortunate (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.19 — 61,331 ratings — published 2019
Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,607 ratings — published 2018
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.30 — 195,402 ratings — published 2015
The Case for Mars (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,036 ratings — published 1996
A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.99 — 9,047 ratings — published 2023
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.24 — 144,006 ratings — published 2016
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.33 — 40,785 ratings — published 1994
Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.12 — 190,249 ratings — published 1973
Riding Rockets (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,055 ratings — published 2006
Atmosphere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,024,224 ratings — published 2025
Artemis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.67 — 363,475 ratings — published 2017
The Interstellar Age: Inside the Forty-Year Voyager Mission (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,315 ratings — published 2015
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 — 2,834 ratings — published 1999
Ringworld (Ringworld #1)
by (shelved 12 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.93 — 131,093 ratings — published 1970
Hidden Figures (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.96 — 116,463 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 11 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.20 — 905 ratings — published 2021
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.46 — 6,906 ratings — published 2021
The Calculating Stars (Lady Astronaut Universe, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.95 — 39,207 ratings — published 2018
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.40 — 163,365 ratings — published 1980
Flight: My Life in Mission Control (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,197 ratings — published 2001
Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.53 — 5,366 ratings — published 2016
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 — 1,788 ratings — published 2015
2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.18 — 343,627 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 — 3,439 ratings — published 2005
The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.33 — 8,355 ratings — published 2023
One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,127 ratings — published 2019
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.10 — 407,513 ratings — published 2017
Two Sides of the Moon: Our Story of the Cold War Space Race (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.29 — 601 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 4.22 — 845 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 — 2,958 ratings — published 2009
Apollo: The Race To The Moon (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.51 — 2,054 ratings — published 1989
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 4.16 — 196,817 ratings — published 2014
Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as space-exploration)
avg rating 3.85 — 90,722 ratings — published 1992
“Astronauts are inherently insane. And really noble.”
― The Martian
― The Martian
“A blade of grass is a commonplace on Earth; it would be a miracle on Mars. Our descendants on Mars will know the value of a patch of green. And if a blade of grass is priceless, what is the value of a human being?”
― Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
― Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
