Historical Fiction
Atmosphere
In the early 1980s a reserved astronomer joins NASA's Space Shuttle programme, falls in love with a fellow astronaut, and is tested when a mission goes catastrophically wrong.
Curated list · 5 books
After Lessons in Chemistry
Five highly rated books for readers who finished Lessons in Chemistry: another scientist, another woman they could not keep small, and a few that keep her wit.
Start with Atmosphere if you want another woman in a lab coat. Circe if you want myth. Educated if you want the true story of a mind that would not stay small.
Fantasy
Circe
Exiled to a remote island, the witch of Greek myth hones her craft and her will, and crosses paths with gods, monsters and heroes.
Memoir
Educated
Raised in a survivalist household in rural Idaho, the author teaches herself enough to reach university, and pays a heavy price for the education.
Literary Fiction
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Two friends build video games together across three decades, and a partnership that is part love story, part creative rivalry.
Historical Fiction
A Gentleman in Moscow
Sentenced to house arrest in a grand Moscow hotel in 1922, Count Rostov finds an entire world within its walls.
