Project Hail Mary

It's an absolute shame that this book came out after Artemis because I feel like that book drove a lot of Weir's fans away. He excels at writing one, mid-tier intelligence, white-bread-interesting type guy getting stuck in space, and he returned to that for Project Hail Mary and nailed it. He keeps the hard science fiction in his writing but makes it approachable for any audience with at least a high-school understanding of how space works. Project Hail Mary is a page-turner and very satisfying to read.