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Young Adult FictionSkyward by Brandon Sanderson

Nyxia by Scott Reintgen

Satellite by Nick Lake

Hullmetal Girls by Emily Skrutskie

Shadow Run by AdriAnne Strickland

Aurora Rising by Jay Kristoff

The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

Hold Back the Stars by Katie Khan

For Darkness Shows the Stars by Diana Peterfreund

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz

November 9 by Colleen Hoover

The Outsider by Melinda Metz

I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson

Holding Up the Universe by Jennifer Niven

The Last Girl on Earth by Alexandra Blogier

FictionDune by Frank Herbert

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

The Map of Salt and Stars by Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar

In the Midnight Room by Laura McBride

The Stars Are Fire by Anita Shreve

Oh My Stars by Lorna Landvik

Illumination Night by Alice Hoffman

Stardust by Neil Gaiman

Under the Wide and Starry Sky by Nancy Horan

A Perfect Universe: Ten Stories by Scott O’Connor

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton

At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft

The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

Infected by Scott Sigler

Ship of Fools by Richard Paul Russo

The Humans by Matt Haig

Dawn by Octavia Butler

NonfictionWelcome to the Universe by Neil deGrasse Tyson,

Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richard Gott

A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

Packing for Mars by Mary Roach

The Particle at the End of the Universe by Sean Carroll

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli

Cosmos by Carl Sagan

Beyond Einstein by Michio Kaku

Death by Black Hole by Neil deGrasse Tyson

The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must by Robert Zubrin

The Universe in a Single Atom by Dalai Lama

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Biography & MemoirHidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

The Glass Universe by Dava Sobel

Sally Ride by Lynn Sherr

The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe

Failure Is Not an Option by Gene Krantz

Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut’s Journeys by Michael Collins

The Last Man on the Moon by Eugene Cernan

The Radium Girls by Kate Moore

Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wit and Wisdom of Maya Angelou

The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher

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2019: A Universe of StoriesThe titles on this list are suggestions and other books may be substituted. Ask your librarian for recommendations.