Rocket Science and Scientists
1. 
Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars
by:
Nathalia Holt
3.87 avg rating — 9,263 ratings 
2. 
Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America
by:
Annie Jacobsen
4.14 avg rating — 9,249 ratings 5. 
Starman: The Truth Behind The Legend Of Yuri Gagarin
by:
Piers Bizony
4.07 avg rating — 1,182 ratings 5. 
Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon
by:
Robert Kurson
4.53 avg rating — 11,266 ratings 
9. 
Korolev: How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive to Beat America to the Moon
by:
James Harford
4.08 avg rating — 253 ratings 
12. 
Astronaut-Aquanaut: How Space Science and Sea Science Interact
by:
Jennifer Swanson
4.31 avg rating — 81 ratings 15. 
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
by:
Mary Roach
3.95 avg rating — 59,463 ratings 15. 
Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
by:
Mike Massimino
4.53 avg rating — 5,110 ratings 15. 
Space Has No Frontier: The Terrestrial Life and Times of Sir Bernard Lovell 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings
18. 
Percival Lowell: The Culture and Science of a Boston Brahmin
by:
David Strauss
3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings 21. 
Rocket Girl: The Story of Mary Sherman Morgan, America's First Female Rocket Scientist
by:
George D. Morgan
3.86 avg rating — 1,138 ratings 21. 
The New Guys: The Historic Class of Astronauts That Broke Barriers and Changed the Face of Space Travel
by:
Meredith Bagby
4.58 avg rating — 429 ratings 21. 
26. 
The Interstellar Age: The Story of the NASA Men and Women Who Flew the Forty-Year Voyager Mission
by:
Jim Bell
4.16 avg rating — 1,231 ratings 
28. 
How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private Spaceflight
by:
Julian Guthrie
4.14 avg rating — 920 ratings 
31. 
In the Shadow of the Moon: America, Russia, and the Hidden History of the Space Race
by:
Amy Cherrix
3.97 avg rating — 167 ratings 32. 
Where's the Moon?: A Memoir of the Space Coast and the Florida Dream
by:
Ann McCutchan
3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings 
34. 
Chasing the Moon: The People, the Politics, and the Promise That Launched America into the Space Age
by:
Robert L. Stone
4.04 avg rating — 489 ratings 35. 
Shoot for the Moon: The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11
by:
James Donovan
4.36 avg rating — 1,675 ratings 36. 
American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race
by:
Douglas Brinkley
4.17 avg rating — 3,248 ratings 37. 
The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos 4.10 avg rating — 4,136 ratings
38. 
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race 3.96 avg rating — 112,017 ratings
39. 
Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery
by:
Scott Kelly
4.21 avg rating — 22,456 ratings 
42. 
The Science of Superheroes and Space Warriors: Lightsabers, Batmobiles, Kryptonite, and More!
by:
HowStuffWorks
3.29 avg rating — 35 ratings 43. 
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race 3.96 avg rating — 112,017 ratings
44. 
The Art of Space: The History of Space Art, from the Earliest Visions to the Graphics of the Modern Era
by:
Ron Miller
4.23 avg rating — 56 ratings 