9 best-selling space books like The New World on Mars: What We Can Create on the Red Planet by Robert Zubrin

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The New World on Mars: What We Can Create on the Red Planet

By: Robert Zubrin

3.83

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

Robert Zubrin, world-renowned space authority and founding president of the Mars Society, taps toda…

If you liked the space plot in The New World on Mars: What We Can Create on the Red Planet by Robert Zubrin , here is a list of 9 books like this:

1. The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves

By: Matt Ridley

3.76

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Life is getting better--and at an accelerating rate. Food availability, income, and life span are u… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
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2. Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries

By: Neil deGrasse Tyson

4.51

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Loyal readers of the monthly "Universe" essays in Natural Historymagazine have long recognized Neil… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • space
  • science
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3. My Life

By: Bill Clinton

3.74

Format: 1056 pages, Paperback

An exhaustive, soul-searching memoir, Bill Clinton's My Life is a refreshingly candid look at the f… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I think that when you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself."

-Bill Clinton, My Life

"The idea that power was an end in itself, rather than a means to provide the security and opportunity necessary for the pursuit of happiness, seemed to him stupid and self-defeating." (about Senator …"

-Bill Clinton, My Life

"I learned a lot from the stories my uncle, aunts and grandparents told me: that no one is perfect but most people are good; that people can’t be judged by their worst or weakest moments; that harsh j…"

-Bill Clinton, My Life

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4. 2054

By: Elliot Ackerman

3.46

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed authors of the runaway New York Times bestseller 2034 comes another explosive wo… read more

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  • audiobook
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5. A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?

By: Kelly Weinersmith

4.06

Format: 448 pages, ebook

Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no … read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • space
  • science
"For now, if leaving Earth is humanity leaving the cradle, well, humanity is going straight to its neighbor's basement."

-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?

"The Moon isn't just sort of a gray Sahara without air. Its surface is made of jagged, electrically charged microscopic glass and stone, which clings to pressure suits and landing vehicles. Nor is Mar…"

-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?

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6. The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos

By: Jaime Green

4.02

Format: 288 pages, ebook

A dazzling cultural and scientific exploration of alien life and the cosmos, examining how the poss… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • space
  • science
"We’re not alone because we’re not separate from the swirl of a galaxy’s arms or the way wind catches dust in a gyre. We’re no more an anomaly than an atom is."

-Jaime Green, The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos

"…science fiction writers may have been the first people to realize the unknowability of where technology would lead us… Where it used to be possible to set stories millennia in the future—affording h…"

-Jaime Green, The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos

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7. Interstellar: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future in the Stars

By: Avi Loeb

3.51

Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition

“The world's leading alien hunter” — New York Times Magazine From acclaimed Harvard astrophysicist… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • space
  • science
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8. After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations

By: Eric H. Cline

3.84

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping sequel to his bestselling 1177 B.C., Eric Cline tells the story of what happened a… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • science
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9. Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science & Religion

By: Nicholas Spencer

4.07

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Science and religion have always been at each other’s throats, right? Most things you ‘know’ about… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • science
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10. Civilized to Death: What Was Lost on the Way to Modernity

By: Christopher Ryan

4.14

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Progress, the basic illusion of our age, is exhausted. Kids typically no longer expect their lives … read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • science
"When you're going in the wrong direction, progress is the last thing you need."

-Christopher Ryan, Civilized to Death: What Was Lost on the Way to Modernity

"The depiction of human nature embedded in the NPP isn't science; it's a marketing campaign for the status quo. The politics of perpetual fear is corrosive to our well-being and our innate capacities …"

-Christopher Ryan, Civilized to Death: What Was Lost on the Way to Modernity

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11. Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX

By: Eric Berger

4.47

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

"This is as important a book on space as has ever been written and it's a riveting page-turner, too… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • space
  • science
Cover of How to Take Over the World: Practical Schemes and Scientific Solutions for the Aspiring Supervillain by Ryan North

12. How to Take Over the World: Practical Schemes and Scientific Solutions for the Aspiring Supervillain

By: Ryan North

4.01

Format: 388 pages, Hardcover

A tongue-in-cheek introduction to the science of comic-book supervillainy, revealing the true poten… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • science
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13. The Asteroid Hunter: A Scientist’s Journey to the Dawn of our Solar System

By: Dante Lauretta

4.16

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A "captivating, behind-the-scenes account" of NASA’s historic OSIRIS-REx mission to return an aster… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • space
  • science
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14. The Allure of the Multiverse: Extra Dimensions, Other Worlds, and Parallel Universes

By: Paul Halpern

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Our books, our movies—our imaginations—are obsessed with extra dimensions, alternate timelines, and… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Bezonomics: How Amazon Is Changing Our Lives and What the World's Best Companies Are Learning from It by Brian Dumaine

15. Bezonomics: How Amazon Is Changing Our Lives and What the World's Best Companies Are Learning from It

By: Brian Dumaine

3.77

Format: 336 pages, ebook

An in-depth, revelatory, and unbiased look at Amazon’s world-dominating business model, the current… read more

Similar categories in Brian Dumaine's Bezonomics: How Amazon Is Changing Our Lives and What the World's Best Companies Are Learning from It book and Robert Zubrin's The New World on Mars: What We Can Create on the Red Planet

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. The Mercy of Gods (The Captive’s War, #1)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.24

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

How humanity came to the planet called Anjiin is lost in the fog of history, but that history is ab… read more

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  • space
  • audiobook
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17. The New World on Mars: What We Can Create on the Red Planet

By: Robert Zubrin

3.83

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

Robert Zubrin, world-renowned space authority and founding president of the Mars Society, taps toda… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • space
  • science
Cover of Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass by Frank Close

18. Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass

By: Frank Close

3.95

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

*A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice Selection* The first major biography of Peter Higgs, … read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of How to Speak Science: Gravity, Relativity, and Other Ideas That Were Crazy Until Proven Brilliant by Bruce Benamran

19. How to Speak Science: Gravity, Relativity, and Other Ideas That Were Crazy Until Proven Brilliant

By: Bruce Benamran

3.82

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A math-free introduction to the greatest scientific ideas of the last 2,000 years: "This is the boo… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age by Eric  Berger

20. Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age

By: Eric Berger

4.70

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

How did a shaky startup that barely got its first rocket off the ground defy expectations to become… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • space
  • science

18 best-selling audiobook books like The New World on Mars: What We Can Create on the Red Planet by Robert Zubrin

Transform Your Habits

Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries

Neil deGrasse Tyson

4.51

Transform Your Habits

My Life

Bill Clinton

3.74

Transform Your Habits

2054

Elliot Ackerman

3.46

Transform Your Habits

A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?

Kelly Weinersmith

4.06

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15 must-read audiobook books like Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX by Eric Berger

Transform Your Habits

Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

Ashlee Vance

3.87

Transform Your Habits

Into the Black: The Extraordinary Untold Story of the First Flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia and the Astronauts Who Flew Her

Rowland White , Richard Truly

3.41

Transform Your Habits

Elon Musk

Walter Isaacson

4.40

Transform Your Habits

Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

Chris Miller

4.44

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