What to Read After The Planets
Readers who loved The Planets by Dava Sobel keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Planets is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The Planets
The Pluto files
365 starry nights
The periodic kingdom
Golden Field Guides
Five Ages of the Universe
Canon
The northern lights
The Fly in the Cathedral
The Lunar Men
The Book Nobody Read
Dark Cosmos
Longitude
The Map That Changed the World
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded
Bad Astronomy
Death From The Skies!
Trilobite!
Unweaving the Rainbow
The island at the center of the world
From eternity to here
The strangest man
More Perfect Heaven
A Man on the Moon
Charles Darwin's The Voyage of the Beagle: