HAPPY JUNE!
Sooooo, you may have noticed that I skipped May. Sorry about that! I had a new book due to my editor, so that kinda ate my life. May’s goodies were a twitter list of spacey accounts to follow, including literal robots crawling on Mars at this very moment, lady astronomers, former astronauts, public figures, journalists, & orgs. You can follow individual people or subscribe to the whole list if you like. I talked a little about why you should follow some of these accounts in a short twitter thread here.
But now it’s June! It’s summer! And that means every public librarian in the world is clutching their knees to their chest and rocking gently as the summer reading program kicks off. But it’s FINE, and I’m here with some spacey nonfiction books to get your summer reading off to a great start.
There are a lot of familiar names on this list (Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking, Neil deGrasse Tyson, etc.), but there are several amazing recent books by women making big impacts in space-related fields, and I do hope you’ll look past the recognizable names to check them out.
Also, my monthy newsletter will be going out soon with some early quotes about THE DISASTERS, announcements about upcoming giveaways, and a few upcoming appearances.
Hope you enjoy these spacey nonfiction titles and their ridiculously long subtitles!
(All titles listed alphabetically by author.)
Adults and YA
- The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos by Christian Davenport
- Rocket Billionaires: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the New Space Race by Tim Fernholz
Women in Space: 23 Stories of First Flights, Scientific Missions, and Gravity-Breaking Adventures by Karen Bush Gibson - The Illustrated Brief History of Time, Updated and Expanded Edition by Stephen William Hawking
- Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars by Nathalia Holt
- Galaxy Girls: 50 Amazing Stories of Women in Space by Libby Jackson
- Find Where The Wind Goes: Moments From My Life by Dr. Mae Jemison
- The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond Earth by Michio Kaku
- Asteroid Hunters by Carrie Nugent
- Facts from Space!: From Super-Secret Spacecraft to Volcanoes in Outer Space, Extraterrestrial Facts to Blow Your Mind! by Dean Regas
- Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach
- Cosmos by Carl Sagan
- Sally Ride: America’s First Woman in Space by Lynn Sherr
- Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
- Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto by Alan Stern and David Grinspoon
- The Planet Factory: Exoplanets and the Search for a Second Earth by Elizabeth Tasker
- Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour by Neil Tyson, Michael Strauss, and J. Gott
- Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance
- The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must by Robert Zubrin
Middle Grade and Kids
- Seven Wonders of the Solar System by David A. Aguilar
- Welcome to Mars: Making a Home on the Red Planet by Buzz Aldrin and Marianne Dyson
- Mission to Pluto: The First Visit to an Ice Dwarf and the Kuiper Belt by Mary Kay Carson and Tom Uhlman
- How Do You Burp in Space?: And Other Tips Every Space Tourist Needs to Know by Susan E. Goodman and Michael Slack
- Exploring Space: From Galileo to the Mars Rover and Beyond by Martin Jenkins and Stephen Biesty
- Curiosity: The Story of a Mars Rover by Markus Motum
- Sally Ride: A Photobiography of America’s Pioneering Woman in Space by Tam O’Shaughnessy
- Hidden Figures (Young Readers’ Edition) by Margot Lee Shetterly
- Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream by Tanya Lee Stone
- StarTalk (Young Reader’s Edition) by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Charles Liu, and Shelby Alinsky
- Elon Musk and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (Young Readers’ Edition) by Ashlee Vance
Picture Books
- Mae Among the Stars by Roda Ahmed and Stasia Burrington
- Margaret and the Moon: How Margaret Hamilton Saved the First Lunar Landing by Dean Robbins and Lucy Knisley
- Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly and Laura Freeman
- To the Stars!: The First American Woman to Walk in Space by Carmella Van Vleet, Dr. Kathy Sullivan, Nicole Wong
Happy reading!
