Book Club Meeting: Atmosphere
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For our first meeting, we’ll be discussing Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid — the book that took the #1 spot as readers’ favorite book of 2025 on Goodreads in the category of Historical Fiction.
About the book:
Joan Goodwin has been fascinated by the stars for as long as she can remember. When she sees an opportunity to apply for NASA’s Space Shuttle program in the summer of 1980, she decides to take the chance. Selected from thousands of applicants, Joan begins training at Houston’s Johnson Space Center alongside a group of brilliant and very different candidates. As they prepare for their first missions, Joan discovers a passion—and a love—she never expected, and begins to question everything she thought she knew about her place in the universe. But in December 1984, during mission STS-LR9, everything changes in an instant.