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Adult Summer Reading List Suggestions 2019 a Universe of Stories ADULT SUMMER READING LIST SUGGESTIONS 2019 A UNIVERSE OF STORIES 1. A Universe of Science Fiction. FICTION: 48 Hours William R. Forstchen 1984 George Orwell An Absolutely Remarkable Thing: A Novel Hank Green Big Damn Hero James Lovegrove Brave New World Aldous Huxley The Calculating Stars Mary Robinette Kowal The Cassandra: A Novel Sharma Shields Children of the Fleet Orson Scott Card The Crossing: A Novel Jason Mott Crucible: A Thriller James Rolling The Darkest Time of Night Jeremy Finley Dragons Code: Ann McCaffey’s Dragonriders… Gigi McCaffey The Dreamers: A Novel Karen Thompson Walker Dune Frank Herbert Early Riser Jasper FForde Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury Foundation (Series) Isaac Asimov Hazards of Time Travel: A Novel Joyce Carol Oates Head On John Scalzi Here and Now and Then Mike Chen Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams The Illustrated Man Ray Bradbury Iron Gold Pierce Brown Journey to the Center of the Earth Jules Verne The Left Hand of Darkness Ursula K. Le Guin Machines Like Me: And People Like You Ian McEwan The Pharaoh Key Douglas J. Preston The Philosopher’s Flight: A Novel Tom Miller Red Clocks: A Novel Leni Zumas Red Moon: A Novel Kim Stanley Robinson Relic Alan Dean Foster The Sirens of Titan Kurt Vonnegut Street Freaks Terry Brooks The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells The Wolves of Winter: A Novel Tyrell Johnson 2. Moon Landings. FICTION: Artemis: A Novel Andy Weir The Dark Side Anthony O’Neill Gunpowder Moon David Pedreira Luna: New Moon Ian McDonald The Moon is a Harsh Mistress Robert A. Heinlein Moon Rising Ian McDonald NONFICTION: American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Douglas Brinkley Great Space Race Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission Jeffrey Kluger to the Moon Apollo’s Legacy: Perspectives on the Roger D. Launius Moon Landings Apollo to the Moon: A History in 50 Objects Teasel E. Muir-Harmony Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Alan Stern Mission to Pluto Fallen Astronauts: Heroes Who Died Reaching Colin Burgess for the Moon First on the Moon: Apollo 11 50th Anniversary Rod Pyle Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 Jim Lovell Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell Andrew Smith to Earth Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America’s Race Alan B. Shepard to the Moon Picturing Apollo 11: Rare Views and Undiscovered J. L. Pickering Moments The Race: The Uncensored Story of How America James L. Schefter Beat Russia to the Moon Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8… Robert Kurston Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men Craig Nelson on the Moon Shoot for the Moon: The Space Race… Jim Donovan The Smithsonian History of Space Exploration Roger D. Launius The Value of the Moon Paul D. Spudis 3. Astronauts and Scientists. FICTION: The Calculating Stars (Book 1) Mary Robinette Kowal Delta-V Daniel Suarez The Fated Sky (Book 2) Mary Robinette Kowal Good Morning, Midnight: A Novel Lily Brooks-Dalton Last Day: A Novel Domenica Ruta The Last Pilot Benjamin Johncock The Only Woman in the Room Marie Benedict The Wanderers Meg Howrey NONFICTION: The Astronaut Wives Club: A True Story Lily Koppel Astrophysics for People in a Hurry Neil deGrasse Tyson Chasing Space: An Astronaut’s Story… Leland Melvin Cosmos Carl Sagan Endurance: A Year in Space: A Lifetime Scott Kelly of Discovery First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong James R. Hansen For Spacious Skies: The Uncommon Journey of a M. Scott Carpenter Mercury Astronaut The Glass Universe: How the Ladies Dava Sobel Of the Harvard Observatory… John Glenn: A Memoir John Glenn Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 Jim Lovell Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home Buzz Aldrin From the Moon Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America’s Race Alan B. Shepard to the Moon No Dream is too High: Life Lessons From a Man… Buzz Aldrin Sally Ride: America’s First Woman in Space Lynn Sherr The Sky Below: Scott Parazynski StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson: Everything… National Geographic We Are All Stardust Stefan Klein Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour Neil deGrass Tyson 4. Aliens and Close Encounters. FICTION: Ancestral Night Elizabeth Bear Armada: A Novel Ernest Cline Beyond the Ice Limit Douglas J. Preston Contact: A Novel Carl Sagan The Darkest Time of Night Jeremy Finley A Dream of Ice Gillian Anderson Fifteen Wonders of Daniel Green Erica Boyce The Hive Orson Scott Card Noir: A Novel Christopher Moore Provenance Ann Leckie The Razor Mitchell J. Barton Relic Alan Dean Foster Saucer: A Savage Planet Stephen Coonts Solar Express L. E. Modesitt Stonehenge, 2000 B.C. Bernard Cornwall The Swarm Orson Scott Card NONFICTION: The 37th Parallel: The Secret Truth Behind Ben Mezrich America’s UFO Highway Aliens: The Worlds Leading Scientists on the Jim Al-Khalili, editor Search for Extraterrestrial Life American Cosmic: UFO’s, Religion, Technology Dana Walsh Pasulka Area 51: An Uncensored History of America’s Top Annie Jacobsen Secret Military Base Beyond Area 51 Mack Maloney Crop Circles: The Bones of God Michael Glickman Exoplanets: Diamond Worlds, Super Earths Michael E. Summers Pulsar Planets… Midwest UFO’s and Beyond Tom Baker The Mothman Prophecies John A. Keel Out There: A Scientific Guide to Alien Life, Michael Wall Antimatter and Human Space Travel Stonehenge, A New Understanding : Solving the Michael Parker Pearson Mysteries of the Greatest Stone Age Monument UFO Wisconsin: A Progress Report Noah Voss UFO’s and Government: An Historical Inquiry Michael Swords 5. Astronomy. FICTION: The Comet Seekers Helen Sedgwick The Dark Between the Stars Kevin J. Anderson Murder in the Dark Simon R. Green Perihelion Summer Greg Egan Saturn Run John Sandford We Can Save Us All Adam Nemett NONFICTION: American Eclipse: A Nation’s Epic Race to Catch David Baron The Shadow of the Moon… The Astronomy Book Jacqueline Mitton, editor Backyard Guide to the Night Sky Andrew Fazekas Black Hole Blues: And Other Songs From Janna Levin Outer Space A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang Stephen Hawking to Black Holes Catching Stardust: Comets, Asteroids and the Natalie Starkey Birth of the Solar System Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Lisa Randall Interconnectedness of the Universe Einstein’s Monsters: The Life and Times Chris Impey of Black Holes Einstein’s Shadow: A Black Hole, Seth Fletcher a Band of Astonomers … The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of Dava Sobel Harvard Observatory… How to Read the Solar System Chris E. North Hubble’s Universe: Greatest Discoveries and Terence Dickinson Latest Images The Little Book of Black Holes Steven Scott Gubser The Man Who Painted the Universe … Ron Legro My Brief History Stephen Hawking Space Atlas: Mapping the Universe and Beyond James Trefil The Stars: The Definitive Guide to the Cosmos Robert Dinwiddie Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour Neil deGrasse Tyson Your Place in the Universe: Understanding … Paul Sutter 6. Space Exploration/Space Travel. FICTION: The Afterlives Thomas Pierce All Our Wrongs Todays: A Novel Elan Mastai All Systems Red: The Murderbot Diaries Martha Wells Black Star Renegades Michael Moreci Caught in Time (Book 3) Julie McElwain Cibola Burn James S. A. Corey Clade James Bradley Cold Welcome Elizabeth Moon Hazards of Time Travel: A Novel Joyce Carol Oates Here and Now and Then Mike Chen If I Could Turn Back Time Elizabeth Harbison The Jane Austen Project Kathleen Flynn The Martian: A Novel Andy Weir A Murder in Time (Book 1) Julie McElwain Persepolis Rising James S. A. Corey Red Moon Kim Stanley Robinson The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. Neal Stephenson Shipstar Gregory Benford Times Convert Deborah Harkness A Twist in Time (Book 2) Julie McElwain The Psychology of Time Travel Kate Mascarenhas NONFICTION: The Astronaut Maker: How One Mysterious Michael Cassutt Engineer Ran Human Spaceflight… Beyond Earth: Our Path to a New Home in the Charles Wohlforth Planets Beyond: Our Future in Space Chris Impey Destination Mars: New Explorations of the Rod Pyle Red Planet Hidden Figures Margot Lee Shetterly Interstellar Age: Inside the Forty-year Jim Bell Voyager Mission Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days … Margaret Lazarus Dean Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration Buzz Aldrin Space Barons: Elon Musk Jeff Bezos & the Quest Christian Davenport to Colonize the Cosmos Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier Neil deGrasse Tyson Time Travel: A History James Gleick 7. Mythology. FICTION: After Atlas: A Planetfall Novel Emma Newman Atlas Alone: A Planetfall Novel Emma Newman Before Mars: A Planetfall Novel Emma Newman Burned: A Fever Novel Karen Marie Moning Circe: A Novel Madeline Miller The Golem and the Jinni: A Novel Helen Wecker The Gospel of Loki Joanne Harris High Voltage: A Fever Novel Karen Marie Moning House of Names Colm Toibin The Immortals (Book 1) Jordanna Max Brodsky The Lost Sisterhood Anne Fortier Medea: A Delphic Woman Novel Kerry Greenwood Necessity Jo Walton Olympus Bound (Book 3) Jordanna Maz Brodsky The Raven Tower Ann Leckie The Sirens of Titan Kurt Vonnegut Spinning Silver Naomi Novik Starless Jacqueline Carey Upon a Burning Throne Ashok Banker Winter of the Gods Jordana Max Brodsky NONFICTION: The Gods of Olympus: A History Barbara Graziosi Living with the Gods: On Beliefs and Peoples Neil MacGregor The Mythology Book First American Edition Norse Mythology Neil Gaiman Oh My Gods: A Modern Retelling of Greek Philip Freeman and Roman Myths Science of the Magical: From the Holy Grail Matt Kaplan To Love Potions to Superpowers A UNIVERSE OF STORIES BINGO Once you have completed a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal BINGO, bring your log back to the library to enter in a drawing for a Book Heads Gift Card.
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