Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid

352 Pages, Published In 2025

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Atmosphere follows the first female astronauts at NASA in the 1980s, weaving a love story through the high-pressure world of early spaceflight. For a 352-page novel, it feels a bit too ambitious—taking on heavy issues such as gender inequality, sexuality, parenting, loss, life meaning, and NASA politics and bureaucracy all at once. Loved the plot structure, told through two alternating timelines, with a shocking opening and an excellent ending. The middle, however, is more predictable.