Recs if you like Astrophysics for People in a Hurry...

Shorter books (under 200 pages) that are part of at least one quest. Many are also in the public domain, making them easily accessible when you want to grind for that next badge.

Heavily influenced by the picture of Christina Koch's braid floating zero-g as she smiled at Earth from 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!

This list is made possible by all the 🫛🐝’ers who came through for me during a terrible breakup. I asked the club for joyful nonfiction recs because fiction is too emotionally fraught for what I’m going through.

I hope these books can bring you some hope, relief, or perspective. Together, we can get through this 😊

Nonfiction on a single, weirdly specific topic

Non-fiction books about astronomy, astrophysics, space, planets, galaxies, black holes, and more. 🌒🌓🌔🌕🌖🌗🌘

On space travel and moon joy. 🌌 A mixture of non-fiction, historical fiction and hard science fiction.

These Diverse Baseline Challenge was created by @bookish.millennial & @themargherita.s (on instagram). In 2025, the goal is to read 1 book by a racialized author each month. This challenge is meant to encourage readers to try genres they historically don’t reach for, find new-to-them racialized authors, and to encourage reflection on our reading habits.

This is a mix of recommendations by the challenge organizers and myself.

Looking at our universe through both a fictional and non-fictional lens; a blend of sci-fi, scientific theory, and even a few things in-between. For anyone looking to broaden their reading horizens and learn something along the way, this is all things space and aliens.

A mix of non-fiction and science fiction titles related to the cosmos and physics

for Caitlin 💜 to be further refined self-help, manifestos, memiors, and general learning forget podcasts and random background shows, it's time for audiobooks! (I haven't read most of these so, sorry if they're bad!!)

A list of the books that give you so many neat fun facts that will make you the coolest person to talk to at any function 😜

Audiobooks aren’t my favorite but these might convince me to keep giving them a try

Non-fiction books of all different types that I'm hoping to read to get inspired and learn new things.

(still being curated!)