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Astronauts Books
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The Martian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as astronauts)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,342,363 ratings — published 2011
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as astronauts)
avg rating 4.17 — 63,718 ratings — published 2013
Atmosphere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as astronauts)
avg rating 4.32 — 899,149 ratings — published 2025
The Astronaut Wives Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as astronauts)
avg rating 3.35 — 28,811 ratings — published 2013
The Right Stuff (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 24 times as astronauts)
avg rating 4.23 — 56,448 ratings — published 1979
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as astronauts)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,661,696 ratings — published 2021
Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as astronauts)
avg rating 4.21 — 23,328 ratings — published 2017
Orbital (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as astronauts)
avg rating 3.48 — 160,854 ratings — published 2023
Riding Rockets (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as astronauts)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,018 ratings — published 2006
Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as astronauts)
avg rating 4.49 — 6,956 ratings — published 1974
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as astronauts)
avg rating 3.95 — 61,060 ratings — published 2010
Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as astronauts)
avg rating 4.40 — 10,700 ratings — published 1994
Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as astronauts)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,927 ratings — published 2009
Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as astronauts)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,609 ratings — published 2009
The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as astronauts)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,815 ratings — published 1999
Failure is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as astronauts)
avg rating 4.31 — 10,828 ratings — published 2000
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as astronauts)
avg rating 4.50 — 22,563 ratings — published 2024
Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as astronauts)
avg rating 4.53 — 12,329 ratings — published 2018
Mae Among the Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as astronauts)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,373 ratings — published 2018
The Darkest Dark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as astronauts)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,717 ratings — published 2016
Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as astronauts)
avg rating 4.16 — 4,028 ratings — published 1994
Falling to Earth: An Apollo 15 Astronaut's Journey to the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as astronauts)
avg rating 4.12 — 737 ratings — published 2011
First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as astronauts)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,716 ratings — published 2005
The Apollo Murders (Apollo Murders, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as astronauts)
avg rating 3.91 — 20,288 ratings — published 2021
Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as astronauts)
avg rating 4.53 — 5,327 ratings — published 2016
Mousetronaut: Based on a (Partially) True Story (The Mousetronaut Series)
by (shelved 9 times as astronauts)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,261 ratings — published 2012
Off the Planet: Surviving Five Perilous Months Aboard the Space Station Mir (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as astronauts)
avg rating 3.92 — 394 ratings — published 1999
The Calculating Stars (Lady Astronaut Universe, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as astronauts)
avg rating 3.95 — 38,713 ratings — published 2018
John Glenn: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as astronauts)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,257 ratings — published 2000
Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as astronauts)
avg rating 3.57 — 1,975 ratings — published 2009
Astronaut Handbook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as astronauts)
avg rating 4.09 — 413 ratings — published 2008
Chasing Space: An Astronaut's Story of Grit, Grace, and Second Chances (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as astronauts)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,306 ratings — published 2017
Light This Candle: The Life & Times of Alan Shepard – America's First Spaceman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as astronauts)
avg rating 4.17 — 495 ratings — published 2004
Rama Revealed (Rama, #4)
by (shelved 7 times as astronauts)
avg rating 3.83 — 18,073 ratings — published 1993
A Man on the Moon (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as astronauts)
avg rating 4.49 — 7,853 ratings — published 1994
The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as astronauts)
avg rating 4.33 — 7,695 ratings — published 2023
The Fated Sky (Lady Astronaut Universe, #2)
by (shelved 6 times as astronauts)
avg rating 4.26 — 15,856 ratings — published 2018
Life on Mars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as astronauts)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,525 ratings — published 2017
The Ordinary Spaceman: From Boyhood Dreams to Astronaut (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as astronauts)
avg rating 3.91 — 277 ratings — published 2015
Flight: My Life in Mission Control (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as astronauts)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,186 ratings — published 2001
Eight Days Gone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as astronauts)
avg rating 3.85 — 278 ratings — published 2012
I Want to Be an Astronaut: A Picture Book About NASA Astronauts for Kids (Ages 4-8)
by (shelved 6 times as astronauts)
avg rating 3.44 — 604 ratings — published 1988
Forever Young: A Life of Adventure in Air and Space (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as astronauts)
avg rating 4.00 — 439 ratings — published 2012
Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as astronauts)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,941 ratings — published 2009
We Dream of Space (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as astronauts)
avg rating 4.11 — 9,054 ratings — published 2020
To Be Taught, If Fortunate (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as astronauts)
avg rating 4.19 — 59,678 ratings — published 2019
The Astronaut Who Painted the Moon: The True Story of Alan Bean (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as astronauts)
avg rating 4.22 — 350 ratings — published 2019
Astronaut Annie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as astronauts)
avg rating 3.90 — 289 ratings — published 2018
I Love You, Michael Collins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as astronauts)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,631 ratings — published 2017
“While the two below tested their weightlessness, picked up samples of whatever moonie-eyed lovers looked up to, and marked up the moon’s surface with moon boot tracks, the third astronaut was left behind holding everything together.
The other thing that sprang to mind was that the moon was beautiful at night from a distance, but it surely was a lonely place up close.”
― Gone Crazy in Alabama
The other thing that sprang to mind was that the moon was beautiful at night from a distance, but it surely was a lonely place up close.”
― Gone Crazy in Alabama
“I believe there are beautiful things seen by the astronauts. The indications revealed. That few of us realize life is quite surreal”
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