15 Astronomy and Space books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

• Book of the Moon: A Guide to Our Closest Neighbour by Maggie Aderin-Pocock
• The Jazz of Physics: The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe by Stephon Alexander
• I Have Lived Four Lives by Wilfred Buck
• Tipiskawi Kisik: Night Sky Star Stories by Wilfred Buck
• We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe by Jorge Cham & Daniel Whiteson
• Star Stories: Constellations Tales From Around the World by Anita Ganeri
• The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond Earth by Michio Kaku
• Chasing Space: An Astronaut’s Story of Grit, Grace, and Second Chances by Leland Melvin
• Inhabiting the Earth by Leonard Moose & Mary Moose
• Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos by Priyamvada Natarajan
• The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
• Visions of the Universe by Raman Prinja
• Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
• Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
• The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America’s Favorite Planet by Neil deGrasse Tyson