Best Physical Science Books
3. 
Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
by:
Mark Miodownik
4.11 avg rating β 20,495 ratings 4. 
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing 3.94 avg rating β 30,330 ratings
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What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
by:
Randall Munroe
4.14 avg rating β 191,213 ratings 6. 
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character 4.27 avg rating β 213,212 ratings
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The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
by:
Sam Kean
3.93 avg rating β 54,825 ratings 9. 
The Physics Book: From the Big Bang to Quantum Resurrection, 250 Milestones in the History of Physics 4.08 avg rating β 592 ratings
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The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos
by:
Brian Greene
4.11 avg rating β 20,663 ratings 11. 
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
by:
Brian Greene
4.13 avg rating β 40,010 ratings 12. 
The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe
by:
Steven Weinberg
4.10 avg rating β 13,115 ratings 13. 
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman 4.23 avg rating β 13,314 ratings
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The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics
by:
Leonard Susskind
4.13 avg rating β 11,355 ratings 17. 
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
by:
Brian Greene
4.10 avg rating β 101,036 ratings 
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The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age
by:
Gino Segrè
4.29 avg rating β 875 ratings 20. 
The Universe in the Rearview Mirror: How Hidden Symmetries Shape Reality
by:
Dave Goldberg
3.94 avg rating β 555 ratings 
25. 
Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field: How Two Men Revolutionized Physics
by:
Nancy Forbes
4.27 avg rating β 1,764 ratings 26. 
E=mcΒ²: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation
by:
David Bodanis
4.10 avg rating β 8,264 ratings 
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Alice in Quantumland: An Allegory of Quantum Physics
by:
Robert Gilmore
3.83 avg rating β 1,962 ratings 31. 
What Do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures of a Curious Character 4.19 avg rating β 30,239 ratings
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Spacetime Physics: Introduction to Special Relativity
by:
Edwin F. Taylor
4.23 avg rating β 259 ratings 32. 
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Foundations of Space-Time Theories: Relativistic Physics and Philosophy of Science
by:
Michael Friedman
3.89 avg rating β 18 ratings 
42. 
Six Not So Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time 4.26 avg rating β 9,291 ratings
43. 
13.8: The Quest to Find the True Age of the Universe and the Theory of Everything
by:
John Gribbin
4.12 avg rating β 442 ratings 43. 
Time Travel and Warp Drives: A Scientific Guide to Shortcuts through Time and Space
by:
Allen Everett
3.78 avg rating β 157 ratings 
45. 
The Boy Who Played with Fusion: Extreme Science, Extreme Parenting, and How to Make a Star
by:
Tom Clynes
4.14 avg rating β 600 ratings 45. 
The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe
by:
Roger Penrose
4.16 avg rating β 8,351 ratings 48. 
Edge of the Universe A Voyage to the Cosmic Horizon and Beyond
by:
Paul Halpern
3.84 avg rating β 245 ratings 48. 
In Search of SchrΓΆdinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
by:
John Gribbin
4.06 avg rating β 21,372 ratings 48. 
Electrodynamics and Classical Theory of Fields and Particles (Dover Books on Physics)
by:
AsΔ±m O. Barut
4.47 avg rating β 17 ratings 51. 
The Radioactive Boy Scout: The Frightening True Story of a Whiz Kid and His Homemade Nuclear Reactor
by:
Ken Silverstein
3.73 avg rating β 2,040 ratings 51. 
Conjuring the Universe: The Origins of the Laws of Nature
by:
Peter Atkins
3.54 avg rating β 139 ratings 
54. 
Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe
by:
Lisa Randall
3.68 avg rating β 3,476 ratings 55. 
Dreams of a Final Theory: The Scientist's Search for the Ultimate Laws of Nature
by:
Steven Weinberg
4.07 avg rating β 3,439 ratings 56. 
101 Quantum Questions: What You Need to Know About the World You Can't See
by:
Kenneth W. Ford
3.97 avg rating β 205 ratings 
58. 
Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines 4.03 avg rating β 2,513 ratings
59. 
Electric Universe: How Electricity Switched on the Modern World
by:
David Bodanis
3.78 avg rating β 1,399 ratings 
61. 
Great Physicists: The Life and Times of Leading Physicists from Galileo to Hawking 4.19 avg rating β 297 ratings
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The Inflationary Universe: The Quest for a New Theory of Cosmic Origins
by:
Alan Guth
4.10 avg rating β 1,887 ratings 66. 
From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time
by:
Sean Carroll
4.06 avg rating β 6,757 ratings 67. 
Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World
by:
Lisa Randall
3.80 avg rating β 2,549 ratings