Exoplanets Recommended Reading List
Prepare for the exhibit with these recommended reads and shows!
Non-Fiction
- Astrobiology: The Search for Life Elsewhere in the Universe by Andrew May
- Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Envisioning Exoplanets: Searching for Life in the Galaxy by Michael Carroll
- Goldilocks and the Water Bears : The Search for Life in the Universe by Louisa Preston
- How to Find a Habitable Planet by James Hastings
- Imaged Life: A Speculative Scientific Journey Among the Exoplanets in Search of Intelligent Aliens, Ice Creatures, and Supergravity Animals by James Trefil and Michael Summer
- The Little Book of Exoplanets by Joshua Winn
- Planet Factory by Elizabeth Tasker
Kids and Tween
- Exoplanets, a Visual Guide to Worlds Outside our Solar System by Wendy Bjazevich and David
Miles - Just Right, Searching for the Goldilocks Planet by Curtis Manley
- XO, Exoplanet by Deborah Underwood
Adult Fiction
- 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
- The Algebraist by Iain M. Banks
- Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson
- Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
- The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette
- The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov
- Contact by Carl Sagan
- Dawn by Octavia Butler
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick
- Dune by Frank Herbert
- Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne
- The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- Hull Zero Three by Greg Bear
- The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Long Earth Series by Stephen Baxter and Terry Pratchett
- The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
- The Martian by Andy Weir
- Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson
- Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
- Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle
- Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
- Semiosis by Sue Burke
- Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente
- Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein
- Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
- The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu
- The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
Movies and TV
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Alien series
- Avatar
- Barbarella: Queen of the Galaxy
- The Chronicles of Riddick
- Dune
- Event Horizon
- The Fifth Element
- Galaxy Quest
- The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
- Interstellar
- John Carter
- Pitch Black
- Prometheus
- Serenity/Firefly
- Star Trek series
- Star Wars series
- Stargate
- Thor: The Dark World
- Total Recall
- Treasure Planet
- Wall-E