Top 5 Books in Space

When I first saw this week’s topic for Shanah’s Top 5 Tuesday, I got really excited. I’ve always gravitated toward stories of fantasy and sci-fi, so I felt like I’d be able to make a really great list. But then when I started to think about it, and eliminate all the sci-fi titles that never actually got out into space, I realized something: I really haven’t read many space books. So this is more of a top 3, though it references more than 5 books in the end.

Andy Weir’s Books

I know. They aren’t a series. But I like to think that The Martian and Artemis take place in the same world, hundreds of years apart. Weir’s writing uses top shelf technology and explains it well enough for a 5 year old to understand. Reading Weird has the tendency to make you feel like a genius, but the whole time it’s Weir that’s the genius.

The Illuminae Files

Someone is yelling, “WHAT ABOUT OBSIDIO?” right now. While I’m totally confident it belongs here, I haven’t read it yet. Relax, I will be reading it this year.

Red Rising

Are you shocked that Red Rising made it onto yet another one of my lists? No? I didn’t think so. There’s also Iron Gold, the first book to a new trilogy within the Red Rising world. Again, I’m sure it belongs here, but it remains on my shelf, unread. I’m a horrible person. I know.

Fun fact about this post: Venus is the hottest planet in our solar system, even though it’s second closest to the sun. 450 degrees on average. Mercury, the closest, has no atmosphere to regulate temperature causing extreme fluctuations.