The Martian

For a story about an astronaut stranded on Mars, this ranks very high on the plausibility meter. The author is a space geek who works out orbital trajectories and stuff like that for fun. When I first started this book, I was a little worried that I was just going to be bombarded with a list of technical problems, that the astronaut, Mark Watney, had to overcome. But it kept drawing me along and in the first two days of reading I realized I'd zipped through 150 pages. (Which is good for my fractured attention span). Then some plot twists enter in and the story just gets more interesting and even funny as Mark Watney got a decent sense of humor about his predicament. And the climax I had to read all in a rush. Should be a killer movie cuz it was a cool book.