Recs if you like A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?...

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!

Nonfiction that makes me think of The Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir.

“The Booker Prize of science writing”

One of the world’s most prestigious science book prizes, awarded by the Royal Society to excellent and accessible works of science nonfiction written for a non-specialist audience — spanning all fields of science or technology.

(winners listed oldest to newest, from 2009)

This list focuses on nonfiction books that describe different topics in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math). This list tends to prioritize books that focus more on the whys/hows something works, but occasionally dive into the history of subjects too!

Happy reading! As always open to suggestions!! 🤠🌱

this list is for everyone who wants to learn more about our big home— the universe 🪐 i love learning about the cosmos, the planets, and the different galaxies and constellations that surround us. this list includes books that open the door to that universe. i hope you like it!! 💖

As someone who voraciously reads fiction, getting interested in non-fic is a bit of a slog. Does that describe you? Fantastic! Here are non-fic books that I found page-turning, compelling, and interesting.

(or) books I read for my thesis on extraterrestrial habitation