Cecile Pin is a writer living in London. Her debut novel Wandering Souls was published in twelve languages. It was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Prix Femina Etranger, and shortlisted for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize. She has won the Fragonard Prize for Foreign Literature, a Somerset Maugham Award, and a London Writers' Award. In 2025, she was selected as one of Forbes’ 30 Under 30 Europe. Her new novel is Celestial Lights.
At Lit Hub Pin tagged seven novels with astronaut protagonists, including:
Taylor Jenkins Reid, AtmosphereRead about another title on the list.
As for To the Moon and Back [by Eliana Ramage], I read Jenkins Reid’s latest novel once I had finished writing Celestial Lights, and what a joy it was. Set against the backdrop of the 1980s US space shuttle program, Atmosphere is a story of love and human limitation, both epic and intimate in its scope.
Also see Samantha Cristoforetti's top ten books about space travel.
--Marshal Zeringue
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