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# +50 Space-Related Books For Enthusiasts of The Universe!

By [BestBooksNow (@bestbooksnow)](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow)

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Published 3 April 2023 · Updated 20 April 2023

Category: books & literature

Space is the final frontier, the vast and infinite expanse that has captivated our imagination and inspired countless works of science fiction. From the early days of space exploration to the far-flung future of interstellar travel, there is no shortage of stories to be told about the mysteries of the universe. In this list, we've compiled over 50 space-related books that explore the wonders and dangers of the cosmos, featuring classics of the genre, contemporary bestsellers, and everything in between. Whether you're a fan of hard science fiction or thrilling space operas, there's something here for every reader who has ever looked up at the stars and wondered what lies beyond. So, sit back, buckle up, and get ready to blast off on an epic journey through the vastness of space.

## Items

### 1. [The Martian Chronicles](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84413/50-space-related-books-for-enthusiasts-of-the-universe/2/the-martian-chronicles)

Item ID: `2`

- Author: Ray Bradbury
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/p7msfmmd33wdynnegfcs.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 1950
- Number of Pages: 182
- Average Rating: 4.15
- Summary: Soar above the fossil seas and crystal pillars of a dead world in the pages of Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles. A milestone of American literature, Bradbury’s classic collection of interconnected vignettes about life on the red planet diverges from the War of the Worlds theme, in which humanity must defend its shores against its neighbors, for in Bradbury’s prismatic vision, humanity is the conqueror, colonizing Mars to escape an Earth devastated by atomic war and environmental catastrophe.
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Martian-Chronicles-Ray-Bradbury/dp/006207993X/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680093540&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Martian-Chronicles-Ray-Bradbury/dp/006207993X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680093540&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
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### 2. [Foundation (Foundation, #1)](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84413/50-space-related-books-for-enthusiasts-of-the-universe/28/foundation-foundation-1)

Item ID: `28`

- Author: Isaac Asimov
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/kbbcvbozcxbuj8fj9wxz.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 1951
- Number of Pages: 244
- Average Rating: 4.17
- Summary: For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future—to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save humankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire—both scientists and scholars—and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for future generations. He calls his sanctuary the Foundation.
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Foundation-Apple-Tie-Isaac-Asimov/dp/0593497481/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680096273&sr=8-2](https://www.amazon.com/Foundation-Apple-Tie-Isaac-Asimov/dp/0593497481/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680096273&sr=8-2&tag=listium03-20)
- Read: false

### 3. [Foundation and Empire (Foundation, #2)](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84413/50-space-related-books-for-enthusiasts-of-the-universe/49/foundation-and-empire-foundation-2)

Item ID: `49`

- Author: Isaac Asimov
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/kipwvnkxur27adfqoubq.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 1952
- Number of Pages: 272
- Average Rating: 4.22
- Summary: Led by its founding father, the psychohistorian Hari Seldon, and utilizing science and technology, the Foundation survived the greed and barbarism of its neighboring warrior-planets. Now cleverness and courage may not be enough. For the Empire—the mightiest force in the Galaxy—is even more dangerous in its death throes. Even worse, a mysterious entity called the Mule has appeared with powers beyond anything humanly conceivable. Who—or what—is the Mule? And how is humanity to defend itself against this invulnerable avatar of annihilation?Filled with nail-biting suspense, nonstop action, and cutting-edge speculation, Foundation and Empire is the story of humanity’s perpetual struggle against the darkness that forever threatens to overwhelm the light—and of how the courage of even a determined few can make all the difference in the universe.
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Foundation-Empire-Isaac-Asimov/dp/0553382586/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680098057&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Foundation-Empire-Isaac-Asimov/dp/0553382586/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680098057&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
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### 4. [Second Foundation (Foundation, #3)](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84413/50-space-related-books-for-enthusiasts-of-the-universe/50/second-foundation-foundation-3)

Item ID: `50`

- Author: Isaac Asimov
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/sikmv40rycja7w0holkn.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 1953
- Number of Pages: 272
- Average Rating: 4.27
- Summary: The Foundation lies in ruins—destroyed by a mutant mind bent on humanity’s annihilation. But it’s rumored that there’s a Second Foundation hidden somewhere at the end of the Galaxy, established as insurance to preserve the knowledge of mankind. Now a desperate race has begun between the survivors of the First Foundation and an alien entity to find this last flicker of humanity’s shining past—and future hope. Yet the key to it all might be a fourteen-year-old girl burdened with a terrible secret. Is she the Foundation’s savior—or its deadliest enemy?
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0553382594?ref\_=dbs\_m\_mng\_rwt\_calw\_tpbk\_2&storeType=ebooks&qid=1680098057&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0553382594?ref_=dbs_m_mng_rwt_calw_tpbk_2&storeType=ebooks&qid=1680098057&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read: false

### 5. [2001: A Space Odyssey](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84413/50-space-related-books-for-enthusiasts-of-the-universe/33/2001-a-space-odyssey)

Item ID: `33`

- Author: Arthur C. Clarke
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/ymitnjc2tzd7scdgteny.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 1968
- Number of Pages: 297
- Average Rating: 4.16
- Summary: This allegory about humanity’s exploration of the universe—and the universe’s reaction to humanity—is a hallmark achievement in storytelling that follows the crew of the spacecraft Discovery as they embark on a mission to Saturn. Their vessel is controlled by HAL 9000, an artificially intelligent supercomputer capable of the highest level of cognitive functioning that rivals—and perhaps threatens—the human mind.
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/2001-Space-Odyssey-25th-Anniversary/dp/0451452739/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680096609&sr=8-3](https://www.amazon.com/2001-Space-Odyssey-25th-Anniversary/dp/0451452739/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680096609&sr=8-3&tag=listium03-20)
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### 6. [Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84413/50-space-related-books-for-enthusiasts-of-the-universe/15/carrying-the-fire-an-astronauts-journey)

Item ID: `15`

- Author: Michael Collins
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/iqjnhjkw5gltvxmncmfx.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 1974
- Number of Pages: 478
- Average Rating: 4.49
- Summary: The years that have passed since Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins piloted the Apollo 11 spacecraft to the moon in July 1969 have done nothing to alter the fundamental wonder of the event: man reaching the moon remains one of the great events―technical and spiritual―of our lifetime.
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Carrying-Fire-Astronauts-Journeys-Anniversary/dp/0374537763/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680094875&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Carrying-Fire-Astronauts-Journeys-Anniversary/dp/0374537763/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680094875&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read: false

### 7. [The Right Stuff](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84413/50-space-related-books-for-enthusiasts-of-the-universe/34/the-right-stuff)

Item ID: `34`

- Author: Tom Wolfe
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/ddrmhdj6d2ng5h2ufxpg.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 1979
- Number of Pages: 369
- Average Rating: 4.22
- Summary: Millions of words have poured forth about man's trip to the moon, but until now few people have had a sense of the most engrossing side of the adventure; namely, what went on in the minds of the astronauts themselves - in space, on the moon, and even during certain odysseys on earth.
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Right-Stuff-Tom-Wolfe/dp/0312427565/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680097158&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Right-Stuff-Tom-Wolfe/dp/0312427565/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680097158&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
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### 8. [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84413/50-space-related-books-for-enthusiasts-of-the-universe/45/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-1)

Item ID: `45`

- Author: Douglas Adams
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/fqlue0ol3ulkl3sxtpca.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 1979
- Number of Pages: 216
- Average Rating: 4.23
- Summary: It’s an ordinary Thursday morning for Arthur Dent . . . until his house gets demolished. The Earth follows shortly after to make way for a new hyperspace express route, and Arthur’s best friend has just announced that he’s an alien.After that, things get much, much worse.With just a towel, a small yellow fish, and a book, Arthur has to navigate through a very hostile universe in the company of a gang of unreliable aliens. Luckily the fish is quite good at languages. And the book is The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy . . . which helpfully has the words DON’T PANIC inscribed in large, friendly letters on its cover.Douglas Adams’s mega-selling pop-culture classic sends logic into orbit, plays havoc with both time and physics, offers up pithy commentary on such things as ballpoint pens, potted plants, and digital watches . . . and, most important, reveals the ultimate answer to life, the universe, and everything.Now, if you could only figure out the question. . .
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Hitchhikers-Guide-Galaxy-Douglas-Adams/dp/0345418913/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680097833&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Hitchhikers-Guide-Galaxy-Douglas-Adams/dp/0345418913/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680097833&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read: false

### 9. [The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #2)](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84413/50-space-related-books-for-enthusiasts-of-the-universe/7/the-restaurant-at-the-end-of-the-universe-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-2)

Item ID: `7`

- Author: Douglas Adams
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/vjtwjfrnxpn17pfibxmk.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 1980
- Number of Pages: 250
- Average Rating: 4.21
- Summary: Facing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons? Time for a cup of tea! Join the cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his uncommon comrades in arms in their desperate search for a place to eat, as they hurtle across space powered by pure improbability.Among Arthur’s motley shipmates are Ford Prefect, a longtime friend and expert contributor to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the three-armed, two-headed ex-president of the galaxy; Tricia McMillan, a fellow Earth refugee who’s gone native (her name is Trillian now); and Marvin, the moody android. Their destination? The ultimate hot spot for an evening of apocalyptic entertainment and fine dining, where the food speaks for itself (literally).
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Restaurant-at-End-Universe/dp/0345391810/ref=tmm\_mmp\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680093958&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Restaurant-at-End-Universe/dp/0345391810/ref=tmm_mmp_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680093958&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read: false

### 10. [Cosmos](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84413/50-space-related-books-for-enthusiasts-of-the-universe/36/cosmos)

Item ID: `36`

- Author: Carl Sagan
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/tle5v4kjgrghiziubooy.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 1980
- Number of Pages: 365
- Average Rating: 4.39
- Summary: Cosmos retraces the fourteen billion years of cosmic evolution that have transformed matter into consciousness, exploring such topics as the origin of life, the human brain, Egyptian hieroglyphics, spacecraft missions, the death of the Sun, the evolution of galaxies, and the forces and individuals who helped to shape modern science.
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Cosmos-Carl-Sagan/dp/0345539435/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680097276&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Cosmos-Carl-Sagan/dp/0345539435/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680097276&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read: false

### 11. [Life, the Universe and Everything (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #3)](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84413/50-space-related-books-for-enthusiasts-of-the-universe/51/life-the-universe-and-everything-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-3)

Item ID: `51`

- Author: Douglas Adams
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/ikhra3iizv8ph5fsjixk.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 1982
- Number of Pages: 232
- Average Rating: 4.18
- Summary: The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads—so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals stand between the killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of total annihilation.They are Arthur Dent, a mild-mannered space and time traveler who tries to learn how to fly by throwing himself at the ground and missing; Ford Prefect, his best friend, who decides to go insane to see if he likes it; Slartibartfast, the indomitable vice president of the Campaign for Real Time, who travels in a ship powered by irrational behavior; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two-headed, three-armed ex-president of the galaxy; and Trillian, the sexy space cadet who is torn between a persistent Thunder God and a very depressed Beeblebrox.How will it all end? Will it end? Only this stalwart crew knows as they try to avert “universal” Armageddon and save life as we know it—and don’t know it!
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345418905?ref\_=dbs\_m\_mng\_rwt\_calw\_tpbk\_2&storeType=ebooks&qid=1680098364&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345418905?ref_=dbs_m_mng_rwt_calw_tpbk_2&storeType=ebooks&qid=1680098364&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read: false

### 12. [Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84413/50-space-related-books-for-enthusiasts-of-the-universe/46/enders-game-enders-saga-1)

Item ID: `46`

- Author: Orson Scott Card
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/ly7a9chyas4lrall97jo.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 1985
- Number of Pages: 324
- Average Rating: 4.31
- Summary: In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn't make the cut―young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training.Ender's skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. His psychological battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he remembers, and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved sister.Is Ender the general Earth needs? But Ender is not the only result of the genetic experiments. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Ender's two older siblings are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. Between the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world. If, that is, the world survives.
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Enders-Ender-Quintet-Orson-Scott/dp/0765378485/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680097895&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Enders-Ender-Quintet-Orson-Scott/dp/0765378485/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680097895&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
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### 13. [Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2)](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84413/50-space-related-books-for-enthusiasts-of-the-universe/0/speaker-for-the-dead-enders-saga-2)

Item ID: `0`

- Author: Orson Scott Card
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/i8v5cfehvxzrcs0vgany.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 1986
- Number of Pages: 382
- Average Rating: 4.09
- Summary: In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: The Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War.Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered, but again the aliens' ways are strange and frightening...again, humans die. And it is only the Speaker for the Dead, who is also Ender Wiggin the Xenocide, who has the courage to confront the mystery...and the truth.
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Speaker-Dead-Ender-Quintet-2/dp/1250773067/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680093425&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Speaker-Dead-Ender-Quintet-2/dp/1250773067/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680093425&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read: false

### 14. [A Brief History of Time](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84413/50-space-related-books-for-enthusiasts-of-the-universe/27/a-brief-history-of-time)

Item ID: `27`

- Author: Stephen Hawking
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/frqrfujo7xbrzpyhfxqr.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 1988
- Number of Pages: 226
- Average Rating: 4.21
- Summary: A landmark volume in science writing by one of the great minds of our time, Stephen Hawking’s book explores such profound questions as: How did the universe begin—and what made its start possible? Does time always flow forward? Is the universe unending—or are there boundaries? Are there other dimensions in space? What will happen when it all ends?Told in language we all can understand, A Brief History of Time plunges into the exotic realms of black holes and quarks, of antimatter and “arrows of time,” of the big bang and a bigger God—where the possibilities are wondrous and unexpected. With exciting images and profound imagination, Stephen Hawking brings us closer to the ultimate secrets at the very heart of creation.
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Brief-History-Time-Stephen-Hawking/dp/0553380168/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=2HHVHTYITZGGV&keywords=a+brief+history+of+time+hawking&qid=1680095989&sprefix=A+Brief+History+of+Time%2Caps%2C204&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Brief-History-Time-Stephen-Hawking/dp/0553380168/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2HHVHTYITZGGV&keywords=a+brief+history+of+time+hawking&qid=1680095989&sprefix=A+Brief+History+of+Time%2Caps%2C204&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
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### 15. [Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84413/50-space-related-books-for-enthusiasts-of-the-universe/23/pale-blue-dot-a-vision-of-the-human-future-in-space)

Item ID: `23`

- Author: Carl Sagan
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/ke55oasnzcsuatqchtdp.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 1994
- Number of Pages: 384
- Average Rating: 4.32
- Summary: In Cosmos, the late astronomer Carl Sagan cast his gaze over the magnificent mystery of the Universe and made it accessible to millions of people around the world. Now in this stunning sequel, Carl Sagan completes his revolutionary journey through space and time.Future generations will look back on our epoch as the time when the human race finally broke into a radically new frontier—space. In Pale Blue Dot, Sagan traces the spellbinding history of our launch into the cosmos and assesses the future that looms before us as we move out into our own solar system and on to distant galaxies beyond. The exploration and eventual settlement of other worlds is neither a fantasy nor luxury, insists Sagan, but rather a necessary condition for the survival of the human race.
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Pale-Blue-Dot-Vision-Future/dp/0345376595/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680095707&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Pale-Blue-Dot-Vision-Future/dp/0345376595/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680095707&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
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### 16. [Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84413/50-space-related-books-for-enthusiasts-of-the-universe/25/lost-moon-the-perilous-voyage-of-apollo-13)

Item ID: `25`

- Author: Jim Lovell
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/w8hlqu7ulxkvgx0lkr4o.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 1994
- Number of Pages: 378
- Average Rating: 4.36
- Summary: It is about the failed Apollo 13 moon landing mission, of which Lovell was the commander. The 1995 Ron Howard movie Apollo 13 is based on the book. The Apollo 13 mission was planned to perform the third manned moon landing, and became famous for the astronauts' unlikely return to earth after the spacecraft suffered crippling damage in an explosion while en route to the moon.
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Moon-Perilous-Voyage-Apollo/dp/B000HEMP3O/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680095864&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Moon-Perilous-Voyage-Apollo/dp/B000HEMP3O/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680095864&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read: false

### 17. [A Man on the Moon](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84413/50-space-related-books-for-enthusiasts-of-the-universe/31/a-man-on-the-moon)

Item ID: `31`

- Author: Andrew Chaikin
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/v1puhn0oi2gj9w1dqzbj.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 1994
- Number of Pages: 688
- Average Rating: 4.48
- Summary:
  > When astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took their 'giant leap for mankind' across a ghostly lunar landscape, they were watched by some 600 million people on Earth 240,000 miles away.
  > 
  > Drawing on hundreds of hours of in-depth interviews with the astronauts and mission personnel, this is the story of the twentieth century's greatest human achievement, minute-by-minute, through the eyes of those who were there.
  > 
  > From the tragedy of the fire in Apollo 1 during a simulated launch, Apollo 8's bold pioneering flight around the moon, through to the euphoria of the first moonwalk, and to the discoveries made by the first scientist on the moon aboard Apollo 17, this book covers it all.
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Man-Moon-Voyages-Apollo-Astronauts/dp/0241363152/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680096480&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Man-Moon-Voyages-Apollo-Astronauts/dp/0241363152/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680096480&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
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### 18. [Failure is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84413/50-space-related-books-for-enthusiasts-of-the-universe/32/failure-is-not-an-option-mission-control-from-mercury-to-apollo-13-and-beyond)

Item ID: `32`

- Author: Gene Kranz
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/ijx0divk3lgzriy9uifh.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 2000
- Number of Pages: 416
- Average Rating: 4.29
- Summary: Gene Kranz was present at the creation of America’s manned space program and was a key player in it for three decades. As a flight director in NASA’s Mission Control, Kranz witnessed firsthand the making of history. He participated in the space program from the early days of the Mercury program to the last Apollo mission, and beyond. He endured the disastrous first years when rockets blew up and the United States seemed to fall further behind the Soviet Union in the space race. He helped to launch Alan Shepard and John Glenn, then assumed the flight director’s role in the Gemini program, which he guided to fruition. With his teammates, he accepted the challenge to carry out President John F. Kennedy’s commitment to land a man on the Moon before the end of the 1960s.Kranz recounts these thrilling historic events and offers new information about the famous flights. What appeared as nearly flawless missions to the Moon were, in fact, a series of hair-raising near misses. When the space technology failed, as it sometimes did, the controllers’ only recourse was to rely on their skills and those of their teammates. He reveals behind-the-scenes details to demonstrate the leadership, discipline, trust, and teamwork that made the space program a success.
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Failure-Not-Option-Mission-Control/dp/1439148813/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=2EU9YA0VDPM2J&keywords=Failure+is+Not+an+Option%3A+Mission+Control+From+Mercury+to+Apollo+13+and+Beyond&qid=1680096551&sprefix=failure+is+not+an+option+mission+control+from+mercury+to+apollo+13+and+beyond%2Caps%2C207&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Failure-Not-Option-Mission-Control/dp/1439148813/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2EU9YA0VDPM2J&keywords=Failure+is+Not+an+Option%3A+Mission+Control+From+Mercury+to+Apollo+13+and+Beyond&qid=1680096551&sprefix=failure+is+not+an+option+mission+control+from+mercury+to+apollo+13+and+beyond%2Caps%2C207&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
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### 19. [Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84413/50-space-related-books-for-enthusiasts-of-the-universe/22/old-mans-war-old-mans-war-1)

Item ID: `22`

- Author: John Scalzi
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/cxkcyprdlsn8wssgflqn.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 2005
- Number of Pages: 318
- Average Rating: 4.23
- Summary: John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife's grave. Then he joined the army.The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. The bad news is that planets fit to live on are scarce―and alien races willing to fight us for them are common. So: we fight. To defend Earth, and to stake our own claim to planetary real estate. Far from Earth, the war has been going on for decades: brutal, bloody, unyielding.Earth itself is a backwater. The bulk of humanity's resources are in the hands of the Colonial Defense Force. Everybody knows that when you reach retirement age, you can join the CDF. They don't want young people; they want people who carry the knowledge and skills of decades of living. You'll be taken off Earth and never allowed to return. You'll serve two years at the front. And if you survive, you'll be given a generous homestead stake of your own, on one of our hard-won colony planets.John Perry is taking that deal. He has only the vaguest idea what to expect. Because the actual fight, light-years from home, is far, far harder than he can imagine―and what he will become is far stranger.
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Old-Mans-War-John-Scalzi/dp/0765315246/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680095657&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Old-Mans-War-John-Scalzi/dp/0765315246/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680095657&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
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### 20. [Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84413/50-space-related-books-for-enthusiasts-of-the-universe/42/packing-for-mars-the-curious-science-of-life-in-the-void)

Item ID: `42`

- Author: Mary Roach
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/p1eiaqrvpfzlwxbhvpz8.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 2010
- Number of Pages: 334
- Average Rating: 3.95
- Summary: The best-selling author of Stiff and Bonk explores the irresistibly strange universe of space travel and life without gravity. From the Space Shuttle training toilet to a crash test of NASA’s new space capsule, Mary Roach takes us on the surreally entertaining trip into the science of life in space and space on Earth.
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Packing-Mars-Curious-Science-Life/dp/0393339912/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=1E2ALRNXJRR3G&keywords=packing+for+mars+the+curious+science+of+life+in+the+void&qid=1680097668&sprefix=Packing+for+Mars%3A+The+Curious+Science+of+Life+in+the+Void%2Caps%2C216&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Packing-Mars-Curious-Science-Life/dp/0393339912/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1E2ALRNXJRR3G&keywords=packing+for+mars+the+curious+science+of+life+in+the+void&qid=1680097668&sprefix=Packing+for+Mars%3A+The+Curious+Science+of+Life+in+the+Void%2Caps%2C216&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
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### 21. [Across the Universe (Across the Universe, #1)](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84413/50-space-related-books-for-enthusiasts-of-the-universe/35/across-the-universe-across-the-universe-1)

Item ID: `35`

- Author: Beth Revis
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/qm3t24lzpnusx9e62lgp.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 2011
- Number of Pages: 399
- Average Rating: 3.77
- Summary: Amy has left the life she loves for a world 300 years away Trapped in space and frozen in time, Amy is bound for a new planet. But fifty years before she's due to arrive, she is violently woken, the victim of an attempted murder. Now Amy's lost on board and nothing makes sense - she's never felt so alone. Yet someone is waiting for her. He wants to protect her; and more if she'll let him. But who can she trust amidst the secrets and lies? A killer is out there - and Amy has nowhere to hide...
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Across-Universe-Beth-Revis/dp/0141333669/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680097228&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Across-Universe-Beth-Revis/dp/0141333669/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680097228&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
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### 22. [Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84413/50-space-related-books-for-enthusiasts-of-the-universe/43/leviathan-wakes-the-expanse-1)

Item ID: `43`

- Author: James S.A. Corey
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/gxqzfofllm5jvprobehk.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 2011
- Number of Pages: 592
- Average Rating: 4.29
- Summary: Humanity has colonized the solar system—Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond—but the stars are still out of our reach.Jim Holden is XO of an ice miner making runs from the rings of Saturn to the mining stations of the Belt. When he and his crew stumble upon a derelict ship, the Scopuli, they find themselves in possession of a secret they never wanted. A secret that someone is willing to kill for—and kill on a scale unfathomable to Jim and his crew. War is brewing in the system unless he can find out who left the ship and why.Detective Miller is looking for a girl. One girl in a system of billions, but her parents have money and money talks. When the trail leads him to the Scopuli and rebel sympathizer Holden, he realizes that this girl may be the key to everything.Holden and Miller must thread the needle between the Earth government, the Outer Planet revolutionaries, and secretive corporations—and the odds are against them. But out in the Belt, the rules are different, and one small ship can change the fate of the universe.
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Leviathan-Wakes-James-S-Corey/dp/0316129089/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680097722&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Leviathan-Wakes-James-S-Corey/dp/0316129089/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680097722&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
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### 23. [The Martian](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84413/50-space-related-books-for-enthusiasts-of-the-universe/48/the-martian)

Item ID: `48`

- Author: Andy Weir
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/taaoou0bimnbq41byb8m.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 2011
- Number of Pages: 384
- Average Rating: 4.41
- Summary: Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he’s sure he’ll be the first person to die there.After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive—and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. Chances are, though, he won’t have time to starve to death. The damaged machinery, unforgiving environment, or plain-old “human error” are much more likely to kill him first. But Mark isn’t ready to give up yet. Drawing on his ingenuity, his engineering skills—and a relentless, dogged refusal to quit—he steadfastly confronts one seemingly insurmountable obstacle after the next. Will his resourcefulness be enough to overcome the impossible odds against him?
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Martian-Novel-Andy-Weir/dp/0593357132/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680097991&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Martian-Novel-Andy-Weir/dp/0593357132/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680097991&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
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### 24. [Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1)](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84413/50-space-related-books-for-enthusiasts-of-the-universe/4/cinder-the-lunar-chronicles-1)

Item ID: `4`

- Author: Marissa Meyer
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/kns9jmgkxqwb8k310wzh.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 2012
- Number of Pages: 400
- Average Rating: 4.13
- Summary: Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth's fate hinges on one girl. . . .Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She's a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister's illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai's, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world's future.
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Cinder-Book-One-Lunar-Chronicles/dp/1250768888/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680093656&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Cinder-Book-One-Lunar-Chronicles/dp/1250768888/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680093656&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
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### 25. [Caliban's War (The Expanse, #2)](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84413/50-space-related-books-for-enthusiasts-of-the-universe/24/calibans-war-the-expanse-2)

Item ID: `24`

- Author: James S.A. Corey
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/aqzjj5c4qqxqqklhndxq.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 2012
- Number of Pages: 624
- Average Rating: 4.37
- Summary: We are not alone.On Ganymede, breadbasket of the outer planets, a Martian marine watches as her platoon is slaughtered by a monstrous supersoldier. On Earth, a high-level politician struggles to prevent interplanetary war from reigniting. And on Venus, an alien protomolecule has overrun the planet, wreaking massive, mysterious changes and threatening to spread out into the solar system.In the vast wilderness of space, James Holden and the crew of the Rocinante have been keeping the peace for the Outer Planets Alliance. When they agree to help a scientist search war-torn Ganymede for a missing child, the future of humanity rests on whether a single ship can prevent an alien invasion that may have already begun . . .
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Calibans-War-Expanse-James-Corey/dp/0316129062/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680095816&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Calibans-War-Expanse-James-Corey/dp/0316129062/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680095816&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
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### 26. [Abaddon's Gate (The Expanse, #3)](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84413/50-space-related-books-for-enthusiasts-of-the-universe/9/abaddons-gate-the-expanse-3)

Item ID: `9`

- Author: James S.A. Corey
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/wsdbav5qwj7v0nlmwgrk.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 2013
- Number of Pages: 539
- Average Rating: 4.26
- Summary: For generations, the solar system -- Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt -- was humanity's great frontier. Until now. The alien artifact working through its program under the clouds of Venus has appeared in Uranus's orbit, where it has built a massive gate that leads to a starless dark.Jim Holden and the crew of the Rocinante are part of a vast flotilla of scientific and military ships going out to examine the artifact. But behind the scenes, a complex plot is unfolding, with the destruction of Holden at its core. As the emissaries of the human race try to find whether the gate is an opportunity or a threat, the greatest danger is the one they brought with them.
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Abaddons-Gate-Expanse-James-Corey/dp/0316129070/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680094103&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Abaddons-Gate-Expanse-James-Corey/dp/0316129070/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680094103&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
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### 27. [Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84413/50-space-related-books-for-enthusiasts-of-the-universe/18/ancillary-justice-imperial-radch-1)

Item ID: `18`

- Author: Ann Leckie
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/j1tngkcoxtah93lkjie8.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 2013
- Number of Pages: 416
- Average Rating: 3.98
- Summary: On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest.Once, she was the Justice of Toren—a colossal starship with an artificial intelligence linking thousands of soldiers in the service of the Radch, the empire that conquered the galaxy.Now, an act of treachery has ripped it all away, leaving her with one fragile human body, unanswered questions, and a burning desire for vengeance.
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Ancillary-Justice-Imperial-Radch-Leckie/dp/031624662X/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680095175&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Ancillary-Justice-Imperial-Radch-Leckie/dp/031624662X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680095175&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
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### 28. [These Broken Stars (Starbound, #1)](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84413/50-space-related-books-for-enthusiasts-of-the-universe/30/these-broken-stars-starbound-1)

Item ID: `30`

- Author: Amie Kaufman
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/wun3hs3rdp2zgpmovdci.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 2013
- Number of Pages: 389
- Average Rating: 3.90
- Summary: It's a night like any other on board the Icarus. Then, catastrophe strikes: the massive luxury spaceliner is yanked out of hyperspace and plummets into the nearest planet. Lilac LaRoux and Tarver Merendsen are the only survivors. Lilac is the daughter of the richest man in the universe. Tarver comes from nothing, a young war hero who learned long ago that girls like Lilac are more trouble than they're worth. But with only each other to rely on, Lilac and Tarver must work together, making a tortuous journey across the eerie, deserted terrain to seek help. Then, against all odds, Lilac and Tarver find a strange blessing in the tragedy that has thrown them into each other's arms.Everything changes when they uncover the truth behind the chilling whispers that haunt their every step. Lilac and Tarver may find a way off this planet. But they won't be the same people who landed on it.
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/These-Broken-Stars-Amie-Kaufman/dp/1423171217/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680096417&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/These-Broken-Stars-Amie-Kaufman/dp/1423171217/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680096417&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
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### 29. [An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84413/50-space-related-books-for-enthusiasts-of-the-universe/41/an-astronauts-guide-to-life-on-earth)

Item ID: `41`

- Author: Chris Hadfield
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/q3pz8jx5pvmk6ir5ndbd.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 2013
- Number of Pages: 295
- Average Rating: 4.16
- Summary: Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4000 hours in space. During this time he has broken into a Space Station with a Swiss army knife, disposed of a live snake while piloting a plane, and been temporarily blinded while clinging to the exterior of an orbiting spacecraft. The secret to Col. Hadfield's success-and survival-is an unconventional philosophy he learned at NASA: prepare for the worst- and enjoy every moment of it.In An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth, Col. Hadfield takes readers deep into his years of training and space exploration to show how to make the impossible possible. Through eye-opening, entertaining stories filled with the adrenaline of launch, the mesmerizing wonder of spacewalks, and the measured, calm responses mandated by crises, he explains how conventional wisdom can get in the way of achievement — and happiness. His own extraordinary education in space has taught him some counterintuitive lessons: don't visualize success, do care what others think, and always sweat the small stuff.You might never be able to build a robot, pilot a spacecraft, make a music video or perform basic surgery in zero gravity like Col. Hadfield. But his vivid and refreshing insights will teach you how to think like an astronaut, and will change, completely, the way you view life on Earth — especially your own.
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Astronauts-Guide-Life-Earth-Determination/dp/0316253030/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680097618&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Astronauts-Guide-Life-Earth-Determination/dp/0316253030/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680097618&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
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### 30. [Cress (The Lunar Chronicles, #3)](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84413/50-space-related-books-for-enthusiasts-of-the-universe/16/cress-the-lunar-chronicles-3)

Item ID: `16`

- Author: Marissa Meyer
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/jhnymu6gpay7zxcbifhd.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 2014
- Number of Pages: 566
- Average Rating: 4.42
- Summary: Cinder and Captain Thorne are fugitives on the run, with Scarlet and Wolf in tow. Together they're plotting to overthrow Queen Levana and her army.Their best hope lies with Cress, who has been trapped on a satellite since childhood with only her netscreens as company. All that screen time has made Cress an excellent hacker; unfortunately, she's just received orders from Levana to track down Cinder and her handsome accomplice.When a daring rescue goes awry, the group is separated. Cress finally has her freedom, but it comes at a high price. Meanwhile, Queen Levana will let nothing stop her marriage to Emperor Kai. Cress, Scarlet, and Cinder may not have signed up to save the world, but they may be the only ones who can.
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Cress-Book-Three-Lunar-Chronicles/dp/125076890X/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680094929&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Cress-Book-Three-Lunar-Chronicles/dp/125076890X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680094929&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
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### 31. [Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84413/50-space-related-books-for-enthusiasts-of-the-universe/29/red-rising-red-rising-saga-1)

Item ID: `29`

- Author: Pierce Brown
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/bhbi5m9zgo6hw9mc3gwv.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 2014
- Number of Pages: 382
- Average Rating: 4.26
- Summary: Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations. Yet he toils willingly, trusting that his blood and sweat will one day result in a better world for his children.But Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. Soon he discovers that humanity reached the surface generations ago. Vast cities and lush wilds spread across the planet. Darrow—and Reds like him—are nothing more than slaves to a decadent ruling class.Inspired by a longing for justice, and driven by the memory of lost love, Darrow sacrifices everything to infiltrate the legendary Institute, a proving ground for the dominant Gold caste, where the next generation of humanity’s overlords struggle for power.  He will be forced to compete for his life and the very future of civilization against the best and most brutal of Society’s ruling class. There, he will stop at nothing to bring down his enemies . . . even if it means he has to become one of them to do so.
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Red-Rising-Pierce-Brown/dp/034553980X/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680096360&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Red-Rising-Pierce-Brown/dp/034553980X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680096360&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
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### 32. [The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84413/50-space-related-books-for-enthusiasts-of-the-universe/44/the-long-way-to-a-small-angry-planet-wayfarers-1)

Item ID: `44`

- Author: Becky Chambers
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/nopes9rcnm7kq5foogdf.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 2014
- Number of Pages: 518
- Average Rating: 4.18
- Summary:
  > Rosemary Harper doesn’t expect much when she joins the crew of the aging Wayfarer. While the patched-up ship has seen better days, it offers her a bed, a chance to explore the far-off corners of the galaxy, and most importantly, some distance from her past. An introspective young woman who learned early to keep to herself, she’s never met anyone remotely like the ship’s diverse crew, including Sissix, the exotic reptilian pilot, chatty engineers Kizzy and Jenks who keep the ship running, and Ashby, their noble captain.
  > 
  > Life aboard the Wayfarer is chaotic and crazy—exactly what Rosemary wants. It’s also about to get extremely dangerous when the crew is offered the job of a lifetime. Tunneling wormholes through space to a distant planet is definitely lucrative and will keep them comfortable for years. But risking her life wasn’t part of the plan. In the far reaches of deep space, the tiny Wayfarer crew will confront a host of unexpected mishaps and thrilling adventures that force them to depend on each other. To survive, Rosemary’s got to learn how to rely on this assortment of oddballs—an experience that teaches her about love and trust, and that having a family isn’t necessarily the worst thing in the universe.
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Long-Small-Angry-Planet-Wayfarers-ebook/dp/B00ZP64F28/ref=tmm\_kin\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680097766&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Long-Small-Angry-Planet-Wayfarers-ebook/dp/B00ZP64F28/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680097766&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
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### 33. [Binti (Binti, #1)](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84413/50-space-related-books-for-enthusiasts-of-the-universe/3/binti-binti-1)

Item ID: `3`

- Author: Nnedi Okorafor
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/mnwtwdnfjpeuqi4nwlk0.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 2015
- Number of Pages: 96
- Average Rating: 3.88
- Summary: Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University, the finest institution of higher learning in the galaxy. But to accept the offer will mean giving up her place in her family to travel between the stars among strangers who do not share her ways or respect her customs.Knowledge comes at a cost, one that Binti is willing to pay, but her journey will not be easy. The world she seeks to enter has long warred with the Meduse, an alien race that has become the stuff of nightmares. Oomza University has wronged the Meduse, and Binti's stellar travel will bring her within their deadly reach.If Binti hopes to survive the legacy of a war not of her making, she will need both the gifts of her people and the wisdom enshrined within the University, itself ― but first she has to make it there, alive.
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Binti-Nnedi-Okorafor/dp/0765385252/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680093603&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Binti-Nnedi-Okorafor/dp/0765385252/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680093603&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
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### 34. [Seveneves](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84413/50-space-related-books-for-enthusiasts-of-the-universe/6/seveneves)

Item ID: `6`

- Author: Neal Stephenson
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/cikzm1yzvu6n2qtedniq.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 2015
- Number of Pages: 872
- Average Rating: 4.00
- Summary:
  > What would happen if the world were ending?
  > 
  > A catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb. In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band together to devise an ambitious plan to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere, in outer space.
  > 
  > But the complexities and unpredictability of human nature coupled with unforeseen challenges and dangers threaten the intrepid pioneers, until only a handful of survivors remain . . .
  > 
  > Five thousand years later, their progeny—seven distinct races now three billion strong—embark on yet another audacious journey into the unknown . . . to an alien world utterly transformed by cataclysm and time: Earth.
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Seveneves-Novel-Neal-Stephenson/dp/0062190377/ref=tmm\_hrd\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680093899&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Seveneves-Novel-Neal-Stephenson/dp/0062190377/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680093899&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read: false

### 35. [Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84413/50-space-related-books-for-enthusiasts-of-the-universe/11/children-of-time-children-of-time-1)

Item ID: `11`

- Author: Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/v9ixiqqhc7ojag1fkear.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 2015
- Number of Pages: 600
- Average Rating: 4.30
- Summary: Who will inherit this new Earth?The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age -- a world terraformed and prepared for human life.But all is not right in this new Eden. In the long years since the planet was abandoned, the work of its architects has borne disastrous fruit. The planet is not waiting for them, pristine and unoccupied. New masters have turned it from a refuge into mankind's worst nightmare.Now two civilizations are on a collision course, both testing the boundaries of what they will do to survive. As the fate of humanity hangs in the balance, who are the true heirs of this new Earth?
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Children-Time-Adrian-Tchaikovsky/dp/0316452505/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680094240&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Children-Time-Adrian-Tchaikovsky/dp/0316452505/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680094240&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read: false

### 36. [Winter (The Lunar Chronicles, #4)](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84413/50-space-related-books-for-enthusiasts-of-the-universe/12/winter-the-lunar-chronicles-4)

Item ID: `12`

- Author: Marissa Meyer
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/tlcan2ooua7ledev8yat.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 2015
- Number of Pages: 832
- Average Rating: 4.43
- Summary: Princess Winter is admired by the Lunar people for her grace and kindness, and despite the scars that mar her face, her beauty is said to be even more breathtaking than that of her stepmother, Queen Levana.Winter despises her stepmother, and knows Levana won't approve of her feelings for her childhood friend―the handsome palace guard, Jacin. But Winter isn't as weak as Levana believes her to be and she's been undermining her stepmother's wishes for years. Together with the cyborg mechanic, Cinder, and her allies, Winter might even have the power to launch a revolution and win a war that's been raging for far too long. Can Cinder, Scarlet, Cress, and Winter defeat Levana and find their happily ever afters?
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Winter-Book-Four-Lunar-Chronicles/dp/1250768926/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680094311&sr=8-2](https://www.amazon.com/Winter-Book-Four-Lunar-Chronicles/dp/1250768926/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680094311&sr=8-2&tag=listium03-20)
- Read: false

### 37. [Illuminae (The Illuminae Files, #1)](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84413/50-space-related-books-for-enthusiasts-of-the-universe/40/illuminae-the-illuminae-files-1)

Item ID: `40`

- Author: Amie Kaufman
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/gnv5trzzpg0tkcnseagx.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 2015
- Number of Pages: 608
- Average Rating: 4.25
- Summary: This morning, Kady thought breaking up with Ezra was the hardest thing she’d have to do. This afternoon, her planet was invaded.      The year is 2575, and two rival megacorporations are at war over a planet that’s little more than a speck at the edge of the universe. Now with enemy fire raining down on them, Kady and Ezra—who are barely even talking to each other—are forced to evacuate with a hostile warship in hot pursuit.     But their problems are just getting started. A plague has broken out and is mutating with terrifying results; the fleet’s AI may actually be their enemy; and nobody in charge will say what’s really going on. As Kady hacks into a web of data to find the truth, it’s clear the only person who can help her is the ex-boyfriend she swore she’d never speak to again.      Told through a fascinating dossier of hacked documents—including emails, maps, files, IMs, medical reports, interviews, and more—Illuminae is the first book in a heart-stopping trilogy about lives interrupted, the price of truth, and the courage of everyday heroes.
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Illuminae-Book-1-Files/dp/178074837X/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680097542&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Illuminae-Book-1-Files/dp/178074837X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680097542&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read: false

### 38. [Hidden Figures](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84413/50-space-related-books-for-enthusiasts-of-the-universe/13/hidden-figures)

Item ID: `13`

- Author: Margot Lee Shetterly
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/ndonermdqtqghsqesqax.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 2016
- Number of Pages: 349
- Average Rating: 3.97
- Summary:
  > Before John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as “human computers” used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space.
  > 
  > Among these problem-solvers were a group of exceptionally talented African American women, some of the brightest minds of their generation. Originally relegated to teaching math in the South’s segregated public schools, they were called into service during the labor shortages of World War II, when America’s aeronautics industry was in dire need of anyone who had the right stuff. Suddenly, these overlooked math whizzes had a shot at jobs worthy of their skills, and they answered Uncle Sam’s call, moving to Hampton, Virginia and the fascinating, high-energy world of the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory.
  > 
  > Even as Virginia’s Jim Crow laws required them to be segregated from their white counterparts, the women of Langley’s all-black “West Computing” group helped America achieve one of the things it desired most: a decisive victory over the Soviet Union in the Cold War, and complete domination of the heavens.
  > 
  > Starting in World War II and moving through to the Cold War, the Civil Rights Movement and the Space Race, Hidden Figures follows the interwoven accounts of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson and Christine Darden, four African American women who participated in some of NASA’s greatest successes. It chronicles their careers over nearly three decades they faced challenges, forged alliances and used their intellect to change their own lives, and their country’s future.
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Figures-American-Untold-Mathematicians/dp/0062363603/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=X6UK1ZLVBUXR&keywords=hidden+figures+book&qid=1680094379&sprefix=Hidden+Figures%2Caps%2C224&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Figures-American-Untold-Mathematicians/dp/0062363603/ref=sr_1_1?crid=X6UK1ZLVBUXR&keywords=hidden+figures+book&qid=1680094379&sprefix=Hidden+Figures%2Caps%2C224&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
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### 39. [A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers, #2)](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84413/50-space-related-books-for-enthusiasts-of-the-universe/14/a-closed-and-common-orbit-wayfarers-2)

Item ID: `14`

- Author: Becky Chambers
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/leql8pq7qbwfh0lgpwvv.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 2016
- Number of Pages: 365
- Average Rating: 4.36
- Summary:
  > Lovelace was once merely a ship’s artificial intelligence. When she wakes up in a new body, following a total system shut-down and reboot, she has no memory of what came before. As Lovelace learns to negotiate the universe and discover who she is, she makes friends with Pepper, an excitable engineer, who’s determined to help her learn and grow.
  > 
  > Together, Pepper and Lovey will discover that no matter how vast space is, two people can fill it together.
  > 
  > The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet introduced readers to the incredible world of Rosemary Harper, a young woman with a restless soul and secrets to keep. When she joined the crew of the Wayfarer, an intergalactic ship, she got more than she bargained for—and learned to live with, and love, her rag-tag collection of crewmates.
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Closed-Common-Orbit-Wayfarers/dp/0062569406/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680094454&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Closed-Common-Orbit-Wayfarers/dp/0062569406/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680094454&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read: false

### 40. [Gemina (The Illuminae Files, #2)](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84413/50-space-related-books-for-enthusiasts-of-the-universe/17/gemina-the-illuminae-files-2)

Item ID: `17`

- Author: Amie Kaufman
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/xe9hrnbnbdxlipep0myl.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 2016
- Number of Pages: 659
- Average Rating: 4.45
- Summary: Hanna is the station captain’s pampered daughter; Nik the reluctant member of a notorious crime family. But while the pair are struggling with the realities of life aboard the galaxy's most boring space station, little do they know that Kady Grant and the Hypatia are headed right toward Heimdall, carrying news of the Kerenza invasion.     When an elite BeiTech strike team invades the station, Hanna and Nik are thrown together to defend their home. But alien predators are picking off the station residents one by one, and a malfunction in the station's wormhole means the space-time continuum might be ripped in two before dinner. Soon Hanna and Nik aren’t just fighting for their own survival; the fate of everyone on the Hypatia—and possibly the known universe—is in their hands.     But relax. They've totally got this. They hope.     Once again told through a compelling dossier of emails, IMs, classified files, transcripts, and schematics, Gemina raises the stakes of the Illuminae Files, hurling readers into an enthralling new story that will leave them breathless.
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Gemina-Illuminae-Files-Amie-Kaufman/dp/0553499181/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=3JANJAA1IEKDV&keywords=gemina+book&qid=1680095027&sprefix=Gemina%2Caps%2C214&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Gemina-Illuminae-Files-Amie-Kaufman/dp/0553499181/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3JANJAA1IEKDV&keywords=gemina+book&qid=1680095027&sprefix=Gemina%2Caps%2C214&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
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### 41. [Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84413/50-space-related-books-for-enthusiasts-of-the-universe/20/endurance-a-year-in-space-a-lifetime-of-discovery)

Item ID: `20`

- Author: Scott Kelly
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/io10fpvw9gsq1drlhjv8.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 2017
- Number of Pages: 400
- Average Rating: 4.21
- Summary: He describes navigating long-term spaceflight—the devastating effects on the body, the isolation from everyone he loves and the comforts of Earth, the pressures of constant close cohabitation, and the catastrophic risks of depressurization or colliding with space junk. But perhaps the most haunting challenge is that of being unable to help should tragedy strike at home, something Kelly knows about firsthand.Kelly's humanity, compassion, humor, and passion resonate throughout, as he recalls his rough-and-tumble New Jersey childhood and the youthful inspiration that sparked his astounding career. Here, in his personal story, we see the triumph of the human imagination, the strength of the human will, and the infinite wonder of the galaxy.
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Endurance-Year-Space-Lifetime-Discovery/dp/0525432434/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=2L3CS6GJUF1V9&keywords=Endurance%3A+A+Year+in+Space%2C+A+Lifetime+of+Discovery&qid=1680095566&sprefix=endurance+a+year+in+space%2C+a+lifetime+of+discovery%2Caps%2C208&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Endurance-Year-Space-Lifetime-Discovery/dp/0525432434/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2L3CS6GJUF1V9&keywords=Endurance%3A+A+Year+in+Space%2C+A+Lifetime+of+Discovery&qid=1680095566&sprefix=endurance+a+year+in+space%2C+a+lifetime+of+discovery%2Caps%2C208&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read: false

### 42. [Astrophysics for People in a Hurry](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84413/50-space-related-books-for-enthusiasts-of-the-universe/37/astrophysics-for-people-in-a-hurry)

Item ID: `37`

- Author: Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/njawkxndad17vusfv4eo.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 2017
- Number of Pages: 223
- Average Rating: 4.09
- Summary:
  > What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There’s no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed astrophysicist and best-selling author Neil deGrasse Tyson.
  > 
  > But today, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos. So Tyson brings the universe down to Earth succinctly and clearly, with sparkling wit, in tasty chapters consumable anytime and anywhere in your busy day.
  > 
  > While you wait for your morning coffee to brew, for the bus, the train, or a plane to arrive, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry will reveal just what you need to be fluent and ready for the next cosmic headlines: from the Big Bang to black holes, from quarks to quantum mechanics, and from the search for planets to the search for life in the universe.
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Astrophysics-People-Hurry-deGrasse-Tyson/dp/0393609391/ref=tmm\_hrd\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680097337&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Astrophysics-People-Hurry-deGrasse-Tyson/dp/0393609391/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680097337&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read: false

### 43. [Artemis](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84413/50-space-related-books-for-enthusiasts-of-the-universe/39/artemis)

Item ID: `39`

- Author: Andy Weir
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/qun6xchkfltgivenuu3i.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 2017
- Number of Pages: 305
- Average Rating: 3.69
- Summary: Jasmine Bashara never signed up to be a hero. She just wanted to get rich. Not crazy, eccentric-billionaire rich, like many of the visitors to her hometown of Artemis, humanity’s first and only lunar colony. Just rich enough to move out of her coffin-sized apartment and eat something better than flavored algae. Rich enough to pay off a debt she’s owed for a long time. So when a chance at a huge score finally comes her way, Jazz can’t say no. Sure, it requires her to graduate from small-time smuggler to full-on criminal mastermind. And it calls for a particular combination of cunning, technical skills, and large explosions—not to mention sheer brazen swagger. But Jazz has never run into a challenge her intellect can’t handle, and she figures she’s got the ‘swagger’ part down. The trouble is, engineering the perfect crime is just the start of Jazz’s problems. Because her little heist is about to land her in the middle of a conspiracy for control of Artemis itself. Trapped between competing forces, pursued by a killer and the law alike, even Jazz has to admit she’s in way over her head. She’ll have to hatch a truly spectacular scheme to have a chance at staying alive and saving her city. Jazz is no hero, but she is a very good criminal. That’ll have to do.
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Artemis-Novel-Andy-Weir/dp/0553448145/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680097452&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Artemis-Novel-Andy-Weir/dp/0553448145/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680097452&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read: false

### 44. [All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84413/50-space-related-books-for-enthusiasts-of-the-universe/38/all-systems-red-the-murderbot-diaries-1)

Item ID: `38`

- Author: Martha Wells
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/d7u7jmo9mnoj3u4kykxp.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 2017
- Number of Pages: 144
- Average Rating: 4.17
- Summary:
  > "As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."
  > 
  > In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety.
  > 
  > But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn’t a primary concern.
  > 
  > On a distant planet, a team of scientists are conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied ‘droid ― a self-aware SecUnit that has hacked its own governor module, and refers to itself (though never out loud) as “Murderbot.” Scornful of humans, all it really wants is to be left alone long enough to figure out who it is.
  > 
  > But when a neighboring mission goes dark, it's up to the scientists and their Murderbot to get to the truth.
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/All-Systems-Red-Murderbot-Diaries/dp/0765397536/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680097403&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/All-Systems-Red-Murderbot-Diaries/dp/0765397536/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680097403&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read: false

### 45. [Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84413/50-space-related-books-for-enthusiasts-of-the-universe/21/artificial-condition-the-murderbot-diaries-2)

Item ID: `21`

- Author: Martha Wells
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/pygo21zk4jhpfed8vfqn.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 2018
- Number of Pages: 158
- Average Rating: 4.28
- Summary: It has a dark past―one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself “Murderbot”. But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned that title, and it wants to know more.Teaming up with a Research Transport vessel named ART (you don’t want to know what the “A” stands for), Murderbot heads to the mining facility where it went rogue.What it discovers will forever change the way it thinks…
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Artificial-Condition-Murderbot-Martha-Wells/dp/1250186927/ref=tmm\_hrd\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680095612&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Artificial-Condition-Murderbot-Martha-Wells/dp/1250186927/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680095612&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read: false

### 46. [Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84413/50-space-related-books-for-enthusiasts-of-the-universe/10/rogue-protocol-the-murderbot-diaries-3)

Item ID: `10`

- Author: Martha Wells
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/tpnwm0ipjsuv6uuqayww.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 2018
- Number of Pages: 158
- Average Rating: 4.27
- Summary: Starring a human-like android who keeps getting sucked back into adventure after adventure, though it just wants to be left alone, away from humanity and small talk.Who knew being a heartless killing machine would present so many moral dilemmas?Sci-fi’s favorite antisocial A.I. is back on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCris Corporation is floundering, and more importantly, authorities are beginning to ask more questions about where Dr. Mensah's SecUnit is.And Murderbot would rather those questions went away. For good.
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Rogue-Protocol-Murderbot-Martha-Wells/dp/1250191785/ref=tmm\_hrd\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680094162&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Rogue-Protocol-Murderbot-Martha-Wells/dp/1250191785/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680094162&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read: false

### 47. [Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84413/50-space-related-books-for-enthusiasts-of-the-universe/8/exit-strategy-the-murderbot-diaries-4)

Item ID: `8`

- Author: Martha Wells
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/f0tbqaqbdweiazdkyfzp.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 2018
- Number of Pages: 176
- Average Rating: 4.39
- Summary: Murderbot wasn’t programmed to care. So, its decision to help the only human who ever showed it respect must be a system glitch, right?Having traveled the width of the galaxy to unearth details of its own murderous transgressions, as well as those of the GrayCris Corporation, Murderbot is heading home to help Dr. Mensah―its former owner (protector? friend?)―submit evidence that could prevent GrayCris from destroying more colonists in its never-ending quest for profit.But who’s going to believe a SecUnit gone rogue?And what will become of it when it’s caught?
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Exit-Strategy-Murderbot-Martha-Wells/dp/1250191858/ref=tmm\_hrd\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680094043&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Exit-Strategy-Murderbot-Martha-Wells/dp/1250191858/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680094043&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
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### 48. [Obsidio (The Illuminae Files, #3)](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84413/50-space-related-books-for-enthusiasts-of-the-universe/5/obsidio-the-illuminae-files-3)

Item ID: `5`

- Author: Amie Kaufman
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/yj2pikpcjzyd0ymrd9sn.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 2018
- Number of Pages: 618
- Average Rating: 4.47
- Summary: Kady, Ezra, Hanna, and Nik narrowly escaped with their lives from the attacks on Heimdall station and now find themselves crammed with 2,000 refugees on the container ship, Mao. With the jump station destroyed and their resources scarce, the only option is to return to Kerenza--but who knows what they'll find seven months after the invasion? Meanwhile, Kady's cousin, Asha, survived the initial BeiTech assault and has joined Kerenza's ragtag underground resistance. When Rhys--an old flame from Asha's past--reappears on Kerenza, the two find themselves on opposite sides of the conflict. With time running out, a final battle will be waged on land and in space, heros will fall, and hearts will be broken.
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Obsidio-Illuminae-Files-Amie-Kaufman/dp/055349922X/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=2GQ8T6GCJDL19&keywords=obsidio+book&qid=1680093717&sprefix=Obsidio%2Caps%2C467&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Obsidio-Illuminae-Files-Amie-Kaufman/dp/055349922X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2GQ8T6GCJDL19&keywords=obsidio+book&qid=1680093717&sprefix=Obsidio%2Caps%2C467&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read: false

### 49. [Skyward (Skyward, #1)](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84413/50-space-related-books-for-enthusiasts-of-the-universe/19/skyward-skyward-1)

Item ID: `19`

- Author: Brandon Sanderson
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/uow8vyeblh8nxj19nce0.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 2018
- Number of Pages: 513
- Average Rating: 4.49
- Summary: Spensa's world has been under attack for decades. Now pilots are the heroes of what's left of the human race, and becoming one has always been Spensa's dream. Since she was a little girl, she has imagined soaring skyward and proving her bravery. But her fate is intertwined with her father's--a pilot himself who was killed years ago when he abruptly deserted his team, leaving Spensa's chances of attending flight school at slim to none.No one will let Spensa forget what her father did, yet fate works in mysterious ways. Flight school might be a long shot, but she is determined to fly. And an accidental discovery in a long-forgotten cavern might just provide her with a way to claim the stars.
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Skyward-Brandon-Sanderson/dp/0399555803/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680095357&sr=8-2](https://www.amazon.com/Skyward-Brandon-Sanderson/dp/0399555803/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680095357&sr=8-2&tag=listium03-20)
- Read: false

### 50. [To Be Taught, If Fortunate](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84413/50-space-related-books-for-enthusiasts-of-the-universe/1/to-be-taught-if-fortunate)

Item ID: `1`

- Author: Becky Chambers
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/gakvf5f6yfhe8ke7epg7.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 2019
- Number of Pages: 153
- Average Rating: 4.21
- Summary:
  > At the turn of the twenty-second century, scientists make a breakthrough in human spaceflight. Through a revolutionary method known as somaforming, astronauts can survive in hostile environments off Earth using synthetic biological supplementations. They can produce antifreeze in subzero temperatures, absorb radiation and convert it for food, and conveniently adjust to the pull of different gravitational forces. With the fragility of the body no longer a limiting factor, human beings are at last able to journey to neighboring exoplanets long known to harbor life.
  > 
  > A team of these explorers, Ariadne O’Neill and her three crewmates, are hard at work in a planetary system fifteen light-years from Sol, on a mission to ecologically survey four habitable worlds. But as Ariadne shifts through both form and time, the culture back on Earth has also been transformed. Faced with the possibility of returning to a planet that has forgotten those who have left, Ariadne begins to chronicle the story of the wonders and dangers of her mission, in the hope that someone back home might still be listening.
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Be-Taught-If-Fortunate/dp/0062936018/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680093480&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Be-Taught-If-Fortunate/dp/0062936018/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680093480&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read: false

### 51. [Aurora Rising (The Aurora Cycle, #1)](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84413/50-space-related-books-for-enthusiasts-of-the-universe/26/aurora-rising-the-aurora-cycle-1)

Item ID: `26`

- Author: Amie Kaufman
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/yyl5q6yp6vc5oyprdzx1.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 2019
- Number of Pages: 473
- Average Rating: 4.11
- Summary: Tom Dreyfus is a Prefect, a law enforcement officer with the Panoply. His beat is the Glitter Band, that vast swirl of space habitats orbiting the planet Yellowstone, the teeming hub of a human interstellar empire spanning many worlds.His current case: investigating a murderous attack against one of the habitats that leaves nine hundred people dead. But his investigation uncovers something far more serious than mass slaughter -- a covert plot by an enigmatic entity who seeks nothing less than total control of the Glitter Band.
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Aurora-Rising-Prefect-Dreyfus-Emergencies/dp/0316462586/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680095949&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Aurora-Rising-Prefect-Dreyfus-Emergencies/dp/0316462586/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680095949&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read: false

### 52. [Aurora Burning (The Aurora Cycle, #2)](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84413/50-space-related-books-for-enthusiasts-of-the-universe/52/aurora-burning-the-aurora-cycle-2)

Item ID: `52`

- Author: Amie Kaufman
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/r5c1ojpsglerww8tyriy.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 2020
- Number of Pages: 512
- Average Rating: 4.28
- Summary: First, the bad news: Anancient evil--your standard consume-all-life-in-the-galaxy deal--is about to be unleashed.The good news? Squad 312 is here to save the day. As soon as they'vejust got to take care of a few small distractions first. Like the clan of gremps who are holding a serious grudge against the squad. And a bunch of illegit GIUTA agents with creepy flowers where their eyes used to be. Then there's Kal's long-lost sister, who's not exactly happy to see him.But with the reappearance of the colony ship that Auri was found on, new clues about Auri--and her powers as a Trigger--begin to come to light. And just in time. Because if Auri can't learn to master her powers, the squad going to be soooo dead.Shocking revelations, bank heists, mysterious gifts,inappropriately tight bodysuits, and an epic firefight will determine the fate of the Aurora Legion's most unforgettable heroes--and, you know, the rest of the galaxy.
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Aurora-Burning-Cycle-Amie-Kaufman/dp/152472095X/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680098495&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Aurora-Burning-Cycle-Amie-Kaufman/dp/152472095X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680098495&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read: false

### 53. [Project Hail Mary](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84413/50-space-related-books-for-enthusiasts-of-the-universe/47/project-hail-mary)

Item ID: `47`

- Author: Andy Weir
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/ijrixqwxpeto0rwfpfus.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 2021
- Number of Pages: 476
- Average Rating: 4.52
- Summary: Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish.Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he’s just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling through space on this tiny ship, it’s up to him to puzzle out an impossible scientific mystery—and conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.And with the clock ticking down and the nearest human being light-years away, he’s got to do it all alone.Or does he?
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Project-Hail-Mary-Andy-Weir/dp/0593135229/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680097947&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Project-Hail-Mary-Andy-Weir/dp/0593135229/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680097947&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read: false

### 54. [Aurora's End (The Aurora Cycle, #3)](https://listium.com/@bestbooksnow/84413/50-space-related-books-for-enthusiasts-of-the-universe/53/auroras-end-the-aurora-cycle-3)

Item ID: `53`

- Author: Amie Kaufman
- Cover: ![Cover](https://img.listium.com/images/width=800,height=800,fit=scale-down,format=webp/l/jmmbfwzkbmwtysunv92t.jpg)
- Original Publication Year: 2021
- Number of Pages: 512
- Average Rating: 4.22
- Summary: What happens when you ask a bunch of losers, discipline cases, and misfits to save the galaxy from an ancient evil? The ancient evil wins, of course.    Wait. . . . Not. So. Fast.    When we last saw Squad 312, they were working together seamlessly (aka, freaking out) as an intergalactic battle raged and an ancient superweapon threatened to obliterate Earth. Everything went horribly wrong, naturally.     But as it turns out, not all endings are endings, and the team has one last chance to rewrite theirs. Maybe two. It's complicated.    Cue Zila, Fin, and Scarlett (and MAGELLAN!): making friends, making enemies, and making history? Sure, no problem    Cue Tyler, Kal, and Auri: uniting with two of the galaxy’s most hated villains? Um, okay. That, too.    Actually saving the galaxy, though?     Now that will take a miracle.
- Link to Buy: [https://www.amazon.com/Auroras-Aurora-Cycle-Amie-Kaufman/dp/1524720917/ref=tmm\_pap\_swatch\_0?\_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680098495&sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.com/Auroras-Aurora-Cycle-Amie-Kaufman/dp/1524720917/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1680098495&sr=8-1&tag=listium03-20)
- Read: false