Atmosphere: A GMA Book Club Pick

A Love Story

De: Taylor Jenkins Reid

Narrado por: Kristen DiMercurio, Julia Whelan, Taylor Jenkins Reid

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • From the author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six comes an epic new novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s space shuttle program about the extraordinary lengths we go to live and love beyond our limits.

“Thrilling . . . heartbreaking . . . uplifting . . . the fast-paced, emotionally charged story of one ambitious young woman, finding both her voice and her passion.”—Kristin Hannah, author of The Women

“NASA? Space missions? The ’80s? This is a collection of all the things I love.”—Andy Weir, author of Project Hail Mary and The Martian

Joan Goodwin has been obsessed with the stars for as long as she can remember. Thoughtful and reserved, Joan is content with her life as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University and as aunt to her precocious niece, Frances. That is, until she comes across an advertisement seeking the first women scientists to join NASA’s space shuttle program. Suddenly, Joan burns to be one of the few people to go to space.

Selected from a pool of thousands of applicants in the summer of 1980, Joan begins training at Houston’s Johnson Space Center, alongside an exceptional group of fellow candidates: Top Gun pilot Hank Redmond and scientist John Griffin, who are kind and easygoing even when the stakes are highest; mission specialist Lydia Danes, who has worked too hard to play nice; warmhearted Donna Fitzgerald, who is navigating her own secrets; and Vanessa Ford, the magnetic and mysterious aeronautical engineer, who can fix any engine and fly any plane.

As the new astronauts become unlikely friends and prepare for their first flights, Joan finds a passion and a love she never imagined. In this new light, Joan begins to question everything she thinks she knows about her place in the observable universe.

Then, in December of 1984, on mission STS-LR9, it all changes in an instant.

Fast-paced, thrilling, and emotional, Atmosphere is Taylor Jenkins Reid at her best: transporting listeners to iconic times and places, creating complex protagonists, and telling a passionate and soaring story about the transformative power of love—this time among the stars.

©2025 Taylor Jenkins Reid (P)2025 Random House Audio

Reseñas de la Crítica

“Thrilling . . . heartbreaking . . . uplifting. . . Taylor Jenkins Reid’s novel, Atmosphere, is the fast-paced, emotionally charged story of one ambitious young woman finding both her voice and her passion as she fights to become one of the first female NASA astronauts in the 1980s. You’ll barrel through this electric novel, rooting for the women to not only succeed in the space program but to soar. A pitch-perfect ending . . . I loved it.”—Kristin Hannah, author of The Women

“NASA? Space missions? The ʼ80s? This is a collection of all the things I love. . . . Great story, excellent research and accuracy, and a thrilling conclusion.”—Andy Weir, author of The Martian

She pulls you in and makes you feel deep compassion and empathy for the characters in the book

Voice actor Julia Whelan (Joan) can make even a bad book sound good sound good, so with this great book and Kristen DeMurcurio , the perfect voice actor for Vanessa —they worked off each other and made it so intensely perfect.

Incredible

I could not stop listening and wanted the story to just go on forever. It was fantastic—the characters, the science, the social dynamics, the plot, the climax, everything!

Wow! Amazing

This was such a moving story and written so beautifully. I cried at the end and I don’t normally get emotional over a book, but this touched me to my core. Highly recommend this book! The audio was so wonderful. Great performances, great writing.

Incredibly written, fantastically read

One of the best performed audio books I’ve listened to. Such a gripping story of reaching for the stars in all aspects of life. An absolute 5 star read.

Loved it

So good. The characters and story line hooked me from the start. It’s a wild ride, literally.

Reid does it again

I am now an astronaut and in love. Enough said. Just read it. Now. Seriously.

Excellent!!

I love the book, the performance, the story. I was breathless at the end. Wow.

Could not stop listening

So many feels! So messy and beautiful and frustrating. TJR is such an amazing storyteller. I am a sucker for stars, and loved when they identified them.

Wow…. This book. I’m speechless.

The narrator did a phenomenal job. I was hooked after just the first few chapters. Taylor Jenkins Reid does it again. This is a must listen!

Grab the tissues.

I kid you not, my husband checked on me from another room because I was audibly sobbing.
This one had a teeny bit of pacing issues for me, but the ending. My god, the last two hours ripped my heart out.
The narrators were phenomenal, the love story was gorgeous. So hard to believe that just 40 years ago it was considered deviant to be gay.
I love TJR, that is all.