Recs if you like Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space...
A Braid in Space
Heavily influenced by the picture of Christina Koch's braid floating zero-g as she smiled at the moon (2026, during the Atremis II mission). Nonfic on space from perspectives outside of white men! Space exploration, astronauts, astronomy, and the history in between it all!
Astrophysics & Astronomy by WOMEN and GENDERQUEERS
I want this list to highlight women and gender minorities* who wrote about astrophysics/astronomy, or their experience studying it. I also included some biographies because a lot of the history of women+ in physics was (and still is) ignored, even though their contributions are phenomenal :)
I could change the list to include all of the branches of physics (instead of just astrophysics) but I only had astrophysics books in my personal library hehehehe
VIW: Very Important Women
(Auto)Biographies, memoirs, and stories of influential women, both well and lesser known
Queer Nonfiction
Books about queer people or written by queer people. Our voices will be heard.
Recommendations and requests welcome
👩🏻🚀🚀 To Infinity and Beyond
In honor of the Artemis II launch on 1 April 2026, here are some more books about space travel.
Women in Space!
Non-fiction works about women who went to space or worked for NASA/ESA/JAXA/Roscosmos/etc. Also (in a rarity for me) includes children's books.
