12 Top science books like Satellite Boy by Andrew K. Amelinckx

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Satellite Boy

By: Andrew K. Amelinckx

3.63

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Spanning the hemisphere from the underworld haunts of Montreal to Havana and Miami in the early day…

If you liked the science plot in Satellite Boy by Andrew K. Amelinckx , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. No Stone Unturned: The True Story of the World's Premier Forensic Investigators

By: Steve Jackson

3.90

Format: 205 pages, Kindle Edition

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • science

2. True Conviction (Adrian Hell, #1)

By: James P. Sumner

3.97

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A break-neck thriller that will have you ducking bullets and dying to turn the page! Meet Adrian H… read more

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3. Water to the Angels: William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles

By: Les Standiford

4.15

Format: 32 pages, ebook

The author of Last Train to Paradisetells the story of the largest public water project ever create… read more

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4. Third Eye

By: Felicia Day

4.14

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

Once upon a time, in the magical land of San Francisco, there lived a not-so-ordinary girl named La… read more

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  • audiobook
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5. Fault Lines: The Social Justice Movement and Evangelicalism's Looming Catastrophe

By: Voddie T. Baucham Jr.

4.45

Format: 270 pages, ebook

The Ground Is Moving The death of George Floyd at the hands of police in the summer of 2020 shocked… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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6. The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I

By: Douglas Brunt

4.23

Format: 374 pages, Kindle Edition

This instant New York Times bestselling “dynamic detective story” (The New York Times) reveals the … read more

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  • audiobook
  • science
  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • technology
"But the prevailing and indelible lesson, learned through traumatic personal experience, was his understanding of the family’s security. War and industrial innovation could destroy the life a family h…"

-Douglas Brunt, The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I

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7. 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
  • history
  • 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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8. Critical Mass (Delta-v, #2)

By: Daniel Suarez

4.19

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

In New York Times bestselling author Daniel Suarez's latest space-tech thriller, a group of pioneer… read more

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  • audiobook
  • technology
">> "is this cup half empty or half full, Mr. Tighe?" << "It's completely full if you include the air" —James Tighe"

-Daniel Suarez, Critical Mass (Delta-v, #2)

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9. Code Name Blue Wren: The True Story of America's Most Dangerous Female Spy―and the Sister She Betrayed

By: Jim Popkin

3.77

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

10 hours, 24 minutes The incredible true story of Ana Montes, the most damaging female spy in U… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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10. Con/Artist: The Life and Crimes of the World's Greatest Art Forger

By: Tony Tetro

3.75

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The world’s most renowned art forger reveals the secrets behind his decades of painting like the ma… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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11. Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men

By: Harold Schechter

3.46

Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition

In the pantheon of serial killers, Belle Gunness stands alone. She was the rarest of female psychop… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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12. Wild Bill: The True Story of the American Frontier's First Gunfighter (Frontier Lawmen)

By: Tom Clavin

3.93

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The definitive true story of Wild Bill, the first lawman of the Wild West, by the #1 New York Times… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
  • audiobook
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13. Boldly Go: Reflections on a Life of Awe and Wonder

By: William Shatner

3.85

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The beloved star of Star Trek , recent space traveler, and living legend William Shatner reflects o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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14. The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans

By: Bill Hammack

3.75

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Discover the secret method used to build the world… For millennia, humans have used one simple m… read more

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  • science
  • history
  • technology
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. Edison's Ghosts: The Untold Weirdness of History’s Greatest Geniuses

By: Katie Spalding

3.81

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Overturn everything you knew about history’s greatest minds in this raucous and hilarious book, whe… read more

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  • science
  • biography
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. What's Gotten Into You: The Story of Your Body's Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night's Dinner

By: Dan Levitt

4.32

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Bill Bryson, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Siddhartha Mukherjee, a wondrous, wildly ambiti… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
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17. Unknown Rider (Battle Born, #1)

By: Jack Stewart

4.36

Format: 436 pages, Kindle Edition

After a Navy pilot inexplicably loses control of his stealth fighter, he stumbles upon a global con… read more

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  • audiobook
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18. His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine

By: S.C. Gwynne

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From historian and bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Empire of the Summer Moon come… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
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19. The Confidante: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Helped Win WWII and Shape Modern America

By: Christopher C. Gorham

4.32

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for readers of A Woman of No Importance, Three Ordinary Girls, and Eleanor: A Life comes th… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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20. Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World in a Big Way

By: Roma Agrawal

3.63

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Shortlisted for the 2023 Royal Society Science Book Prize A structural engineer examines the sev… read more

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  • audiobook
  • science
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • technology
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21. Built: The Hidden Stories Behind our Structures

By: Roma Agrawal

4.13

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

While our cities are full of incredible engineering feats, most of us live with little idea of what… read more

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  • technology
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
Cover of A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon by Kevin Fedarko

22. A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon

By: Kevin Fedarko

4.36

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

A deeply moving account ever of walking the Grand Canyon, a highly dangerous, life-changing 750-mil… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment. -Annie Dillard"

-Kevin Fedarko, A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon

Cover of Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-Up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House by Rachel Maddow

23. Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-Up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House

By: Rachel Maddow

4.32

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

The untold story of the other scandal that rocked Nixon's White House: the wild crimes, audacious c… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
"Agnew was like Nixon's id -- without the burden of much actual knowledge or curiosity or responsibility to the country at large."

-Rachel Maddow, Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-Up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House

"I had turned over a log and exposed to the light a scurrying colony of unpleasant creatures whose only reaction was one of annoyance that I had been so crass as to disturb their settled way of life. …"

-Rachel Maddow, Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-Up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House

"It is a rare man or woman who is ever really changed by ascension to high office, or tempered by the solemnity of the oaths they have sworn or by the national duties they have shouldered. And Spiro A…"

-Rachel Maddow, Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-Up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House

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24. Dragon Heist

By: Alexander C. Kane

4.08

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

The world’s smallest dragon and a washed-up actress team up to strike a blow for humanity in this b… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins by Lee Berger

25. Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins

By: Lee Berger

4.31

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A true-life scientific adventure story, this thrilling book takes the reader deep into South Africa… read more

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  • science
  • history
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Protein is more stable than DNA over time, and so this new technology offers a fresh way to study fossils."

-Lee Berger, Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins

"By almost any definition, Homo naledi is not human. But if the present archaeological record reflects the complexity of Homo sapiens accurately, it means that naledi was significantly more complex th…"

-Lee Berger, Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins

"Their synchrotron, a super-powerful x-ray machine, can harness the radiation of überfast subatomic particles in order to -- among many other things -- look inside solid objects. It's spectacular scie…"

-Lee Berger, Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins

Cover of On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service by Anthony Fauci

26. On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service

By: Anthony Fauci

4.59

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and w… read more

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  • audiobook
  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • science
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27. Summer of '85

By: Chris Morrow

4.26

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Welcome to the summer of 1985 in Philadelphia, when the city was rocked—in almost every sense of th… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Satellite Boy by Andrew K. Amelinckx

28. Satellite Boy

By: Andrew K. Amelinckx

3.63

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Spanning the hemisphere from the underworld haunts of Montreal to Havana and Miami in the early day… read more

Similar categories in Andrew K. Amelinckx's Satellite Boy book and Andrew K. Amelinckx's Satellite Boy

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • technology
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • science
Cover of Henry at Work: Thoreau on Making a Living by John Kaag

29. Henry at Work: Thoreau on Making a Living

By: John Kaag

3.82

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

What Thoreau can teach us about working―why we do it, what it does to us, and how we can make it mo… read more

Similar categories in John Kaag's Henry at Work: Thoreau on Making a Living book and Andrew K. Amelinckx's Satellite Boy

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
  • audiobook
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30. A Fractured Infinity

By: Nathan Tavares

3.61

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Film-maker Hayes Figueiredo is struggling to finish the documentary of his heart when handsome phys… read more

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  • audiobook
"One summer in high school I thought, hey, I love movies. Why don't I work at a movie theater? Which is like saying you should work at a butcher shop because you love animals. You see the ugly stuff t…"

-Nathan Tavares, A Fractured Infinity

Cover of The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates

31. The Message

By: Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.58

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more

Similar categories in Ta-Nehisi Coates's The Message book and Andrew K. Amelinckx's Satellite Boy

  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"

-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message

13 Best biography books like Satellite Boy by Andrew K. Amelinckx

Transform Your Habits

The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I

Douglas Brunt

4.23

Transform Your Habits

Code Name Blue Wren: The True Story of America's Most Dangerous Female Spy―and the Sister She Betrayed

Jim Popkin

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Con/Artist: The Life and Crimes of the World's Greatest Art Forger

Tony Tetro

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men

Harold Schechter

3.46

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14 Top audiobook books like Henry at Work: Thoreau on Making a Living by John Kaag

Transform Your Habits

Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)

Cormac McCarthy

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance

Alex Hutchinson

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

Cal Newport

3.73

Transform Your Habits

Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results

Shane Parrish

4.21

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