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What to read after Schirra’s Space by Wally Schirra: 24 titles sharing themes of Science & Technology and Biography & Autobiography, chosen for mood and literary overlap.

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Boer War Nurse Diary of a Nurse in South Africa with the Dutch-Belgian Red Cross During the Boer War

Themes: Science & Technology • Biography & Autobiography

The Most Beautiful Roof in the World Exploring the Rainforest Canopy — Kathryn Lasky

The Most Beautiful Roof in the World Exploring the Rainforest Canopy

Themes: Science & Technology • Biography & Autobiography

Time Lord Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time — Clark Blaise

Time Lord Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time

Themes: Science & Technology • Biography & Autobiography

Did You Invent the Phone Alone, Alexander Graham Bell? — Melvin Berger

Did You Invent the Phone Alone, Alexander Graham Bell?

Themes: Science & Technology • Biography & Autobiography

A Twentieth-Century Argonaut One Man’s Quest for an American Dream — Ernest Baldini

A Twentieth-Century Argonaut One Man’s Quest for an American Dream

Themes: Science & Technology • Biography & Autobiography

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The New Guys The Historic Class of Astronauts That Broke Barriers and Changed the Face of Space Travel

Themes: Science & Technology • Biography & Autobiography

Letters — Oliver Sacks

Themes: Science & Technology • Biography & Autobiography

Unraveling What I Learned about Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World’s Ugliest Sweater — Peggy Orenstein

Unraveling What I Learned about Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World’s Ugliest Sweater

Peggy Orenstein

Themes: Science & Technology • Biography & Autobiography

Inside the Outbreaks The Elite Medical Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service — Mark Pendergrast

Inside the Outbreaks The Elite Medical Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service

Mark Pendergrast

Themes: Science & Technology • Biography & Autobiography

Plague of Corruption Restoring Faith in the Promise of Science — Judy Mikovits

Plague of Corruption Restoring Faith in the Promise of Science

Themes: Science & Technology • Biography & Autobiography

Human Nature After Darwin A Philosophical Introduction — Janet Radcliffe Richards

Human Nature After Darwin A Philosophical Introduction

Janet Radcliffe Richards

Themes: Science & Technology • Biography & Autobiography

Ghost in the Wires My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker — Kevin Mitnick

Ghost in the Wires My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker

Themes: Science & Technology • Biography & Autobiography

Florence Nightingale — Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara

Florence Nightingale

Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara

Themes: Science & Technology • Biography & Autobiography

Letters from an Astrophysicist — Neil deGrasse Tyson

Letters from an Astrophysicist

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Themes: Science & Technology • Biography & Autobiography

Doing Physics How Physicists Take Hold of the World — Martin H. Krieger

Doing Physics How Physicists Take Hold of the World

Martin H. Krieger

Themes: Science & Technology • Biography & Autobiography

Too Hot to Handle The Journey of a Soul — Margo Blackwell

Too Hot to Handle The Journey of a Soul

Margo Blackwell

Themes: Science & Technology • Biography & Autobiography

An Unlikely Astronaut — Susan Kilrain

An Unlikely Astronaut

Themes: Science & Technology • Biography & Autobiography

Curious Minds How a Child Becomes a Scientist — John Brockman

Curious Minds How a Child Becomes a Scientist

Themes: Science & Technology • Biography & Autobiography

Florence Nightingale The Woman and Her Legend — Mark Bostridge

Florence Nightingale The Woman and Her Legend

Themes: Science & Technology • Biography & Autobiography

Lone Stars Rising The Fifty People Who Turned Texas Into the Fastest-Growing, Most Exciting, And, Sometimes, Most Exasperating State in the Country — Editors of Texas Monthly

Lone Stars Rising The Fifty People Who Turned Texas Into the Fastest-Growing, Most Exciting, And, Sometimes, Most Exasperating State in the Country

Editors of Texas Monthly

Themes: Science & Technology • Biography & Autobiography

Sincerely, Emerson A Girl, Her Letter, and the Helpers All Around Us — Emerson Weber

Sincerely, Emerson A Girl, Her Letter, and the Helpers All Around Us

Themes: Science & Technology • Biography & Autobiography

Lewis Carroll in Numberland His Fantastical Mathematical Logical Life — Robin Wilson

Lewis Carroll in Numberland His Fantastical Mathematical Logical Life

Themes: Science & Technology • Biography & Autobiography

Little Scientist Board Book Set — Mudpuppy

Little Scientist Board Book Set

Themes: Science & Technology • Biography & Autobiography

The Disappearing Spoon And Other True Tales of Rivalry, Adventure, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements (Young Readers Edition) — Sam Kean

The Disappearing Spoon And Other True Tales of Rivalry, Adventure, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements (Young Readers Edition)

Themes: Science & Technology • Biography & Autobiography

If Schirra’s Space by Wally Schirra is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by Science & Technology, Biography & Autobiography and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by Alice Bron, Kathryn Lasky, Clark Blaise, Melvin Berger, and others.

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