Shepherd is a new book discovery site, which is competing with Goodreads to become the place for finding good writers you may not have heard of before (and if you’ve spent much time on Goodreads then you know they could use the competition).
Last year they asked me to recommend five books that had an influence on my writing, which I was delighted to do: The best space history books that read like novels. The hardest part was narrowing down the list to only five:
The Chiles Files 