The most popular space books of 2023

Books about space look outward. Astronauts, colonists and explorers leave Earth for the Moon, Mars and far beyond, in science fiction and in true accounts of the space age. They are stories of courage, isolation and awe at how vast it all is. This list shows the ones first published in 2023.

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Orbital
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Orbital

Samantha Harvey

2023 · 2024 edition

137 pages

Light Bringer
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Light Bringer

Pierce Brown

Published 2023

683 pages

Fractal Noise
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Fractal Noise

Christopher Paolini

Published 2023

286 pages

The Deep Sky
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The Deep Sky

Yume Kitasei

Published 2023

399 pages

How It Unfolds
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How It Unfolds

James S. A. Corey

Published 2023

37 pages

Saga, Volume 11
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Saga, Volume 11

Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples

Published 2023

160 pages

A City on Mars
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A City on Mars

Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith

2023 · 2025 edition

448 pages

The Six
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The Six

Loren Grush

Published 2023

432 pages

The Defector
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The Defector

Chris Hadfield

2023 · 2026 edition

368 pages

Paradise-1
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Paradise-1

David Wellington

Published 2023

681 pages

Critical Mass
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Critical Mass

Daniel Suarez

Published 2023

464 pages

Inquisitor
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Inquisitor

Delilah S. Dawson

Published 2023

343 pages