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  • Janet Vertesi The best books about NASA and space exploration, from a human perspective Book cover of The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA Book cover of Placing Outer Space: An Earthly Ethnography of Other Worlds Book cover of Making Time on Mars Book cover of Apollo in the Age of Aquarius Book cover of Exploration and Engineering: The Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Quest for Mars
  • Stephen J. Pyne The best books on the history of exploration Book cover of The Establishment of the European Hegemony, 1415-1715: Trade and Exploration in the Age of the Renaissance Book cover of The Great Explorers: The European Discovery of America Book cover of New Lands, New Men: America and the Second Great Age of Discovery Book cover of This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age Book cover of The Eternal Darkness: A Personal History of Deep-Sea Exploration
  • Gordon L. Dillow The best books on giant space rocks that threaten Earth Book cover of Near-Earth Objects: Finding Them Before They Find Us Book cover of Asteroid Hunters Book cover of Asteroids: A History Book cover of Impact Jupiter: The Crash of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Book cover of Mining the Sky: Untold Riches From the Asteroids, Comets and Planets
  • Laura Rahme The best books on China’s Ming Dynasty Book cover of Chinese Clothing Book cover of Naxi Dongba Pictograph Dictionary Book cover of Eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty Book cover of 1421: The Year China Discovered America Book cover of When China Ruled the Seas: The Treasure Fleet of the Dragon Throne, 1405-1433
  • Charles A. Wood The best Moon books from a lunar scientist Book cover of The Face of the Moon Book cover of The Once and Future Moon Book cover of To a Rocky Moon: A Geologist's History of Lunar Exploration Book cover of Epic Moon: A History of Lunar Exploration in the Age of the Telescope Book cover of The Women of the Moon: Tales of Science, Love, Sorrow, and Courage
  • Sylvia Engdahl The best books about colonizing Mars of interest to young adults Book cover of The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must Book cover of Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration Book cover of How We'll Live on Mars Book cover of In the Shadow of Deimos: A Terraforming Mars Novel Book cover of First Landing
  • J.G. Harlond The best historical fiction to take you travelling across Europe and beyond Book cover of Niccolò Rising Book cover of A Divided Inheritance Book cover of Song at Dawn Book cover of Children of Earth and Sky Book cover of Monsoon
  • S. T. Blake The best books about reality becoming unreal Book cover of Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H.P. Lovecraft Book cover of The Haunting of Hill House Book cover of Slaughterhouse-Five Book cover of Ubik Book cover of Solaris
  • Judith Jesch The best medieval books about Viking Islands Book cover of Orkneyinga Saga: The History of the Earls of Orkney Book cover of The Faroe Islanders’ Saga Book cover of The Book of Settlements: Landnámabók Book cover of The Vinland Sagas Book cover of Guta Saga: The History of the Gotlanders
  • Michael Ridpath The best books to read if you want to understand Iceland Book cover of The Vinland Sagas Book cover of The Little Book of the Icelanders: 50 Miniature Essays on the Quirks and Foibles of the Icelandic People Book cover of Independent People Book cover of How Iceland Changed the World: The Big History of a Small Island Book cover of Silence of the Grave
  • Jools Cantor The best science fiction novels that are real-life time machines Book cover of The War of the Worlds Book cover of Prelude To Space Book cover of Solaris Book cover of The Forever War Book cover of Snow Crash
  • Dylan James Quarles The best sci-fi to pique your sense of wonder and cure your dystopian blues Book cover of Rendezvous with Rama Book cover of I, Robot Book cover of The Fountains of Paradise Book cover of Mars Book cover of Chariots of the Gods
  • Tyler LeBlanc The best nonfiction books that may make you never want to step foot on a boat again Book cover of In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex Book cover of Endurance Book cover of Farthest North: The Epic Adventure of a Visionary Explorer Book cover of Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea Book cover of The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
  • J.C. Gemmell The best future history books that give a glimpse of what might happen Book cover of Coyote Book cover of Dayworld Book cover of Red Mars Book cover of Logan's Run Book cover of Intervention
  • Robin Esrock The best books to inspire your bucket list travels Book cover of On the Road Book cover of Endurance Book cover of Magicians of the Gods Book cover of Jitterbug Perfume Book cover of Molvania: A Land Untouched by Modern Dentistry
  • Jean Muenchrath The best books on adventure, healing, and growth Book cover of The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness Book cover of Lands of Lost Borders: A Journey on the Silk Road Book cover of Mount Analogue: A Tale of Non-Euclidean and Symbolically Authentic Mountaineering Adventures Book cover of Endurance Book cover of The Healing Power of Mind
  • John L. Casti The best psychological thrillers that will make you think Book cover of A Philosophical Investigation Book cover of Permutation City Book cover of Solaris Book cover of Truth Machine Book cover of Timescape
  • Owen W. Knight The best accessible first contact sci-fi novels Book cover of The Three-Body Problem Book cover of Solaris Book cover of Stories of Your Life and Others Book cover of The Midwich Cuckoos Book cover of The War of the Worlds
  • Kristy Dempsey The best children’s books for kids who love space Book cover of Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon Book cover of Moon! Book cover of A Computer Called Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Helped Put America on the Moon Book cover of A Kite for Moon Book cover of You Are the First Kid on Mars
  • Else Roesdahl The best books on Vikings: their day-to-day life, achievements, and culture Book cover of The World in the Viking Age Book cover of Chronicles of the Vikings Book cover of Viking Art Book cover of The Vinland Sagas Book cover of Viking Poetry of Love and War
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