Start with high-confidence space exploration books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
Liftoff
Eric Berger
The New Guys
Meredith Bagby
Carrying the Fire
Michael Collins
Rocket Boys
Homer Hickam
Space Chronicles
Neil deGrasse Tyson, Avis Lang
Endurance
Scott Kelly, Margaret Lazarus Dean
Apollo 13
James Lovell, Jeffrey Kluger
Rocket Dreams
Christian Davenport
Comm Check...
Michael Cabbage, William Harwood
Apollo Remastered
Andy Saunders
Gemini and Mercury Remastered
Rocket Men
Robert Kurson
How to Make a Spaceship
Julian Guthrie, Richard Branson
Chasing New Horizons
Alan Stern, David Grinspoon
Gemini
Jeffrey Kluger
Star Bound
Emily Carney, Bruce McCandless
Bringing Columbia Home
Michael D. Leinbach, Jonathan H. Ward
The Future of Geography
Tim Marshall
SUN TZU IN SPACE (EB)
Gregory D. Miller
Challenger
Adam Higginbotham
