Best Popular Astronomy Books on Goodreads

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Cosmos
Cosmos 4.40 avg rating — 155,626 ratings
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A Brief History of Time
A Brief History of Time 4.21 avg rating — 467,027 ratings
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Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space 4.34 avg rating — 38,701 ratings
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark 4.29 avg rating — 78,415 ratings
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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory 4.10 avg rating — 101,037 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
A Short History of Nearly Everything 4.22 avg rating — 412,839 ratings
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The Grand Design
The Grand Design 4.06 avg rating — 76,524 ratings
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The Universe in a Nutshell
The Universe in a Nutshell 4.19 avg rating — 44,656 ratings
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Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries 4.10 avg rating — 31,877 ratings
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An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth 4.17 avg rating — 61,769 ratings
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time 3.99 avg rating — 75,027 ratings
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Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love 3.75 avg rating — 30,046 ratings
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A Briefer History of Time
A Briefer History of Time 4.26 avg rating — 42,072 ratings
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Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium 4.30 avg rating — 17,621 ratings
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The Martian
The Martian
by: Andy Weir
4.42 avg rating — 1,238,827 ratings
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Contact
Contact 4.15 avg rating — 150,004 ratings
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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void 3.95 avg rating — 59,461 ratings
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Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension
Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension 4.15 avg rating — 23,942 ratings
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The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality 4.13 avg rating — 40,011 ratings
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Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos
Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos 4.21 avg rating — 22,367 ratings
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Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces That Shape the Universe
Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces That Shape the Universe 3.96 avg rating — 5,245 ratings
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The Planets
The Planets 3.64 avg rating — 4,734 ratings
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The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe
The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe 4.10 avg rating — 13,115 ratings
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What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions 4.14 avg rating — 191,217 ratings
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Coming of Age in the Milky Way
Coming of Age in the Milky Way 4.16 avg rating — 3,100 ratings
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The Science of Interstellar
The Science of Interstellar 4.29 avg rating — 6,591 ratings
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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry 4.08 avg rating — 199,992 ratings
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From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time
From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time 4.06 avg rating — 6,757 ratings
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The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe[s] Report
The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe[s] Report 4.07 avg rating — 2,398 ratings
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A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing 3.94 avg rating — 30,330 ratings
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Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics 3.99 avg rating — 64,374 ratings
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The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe
The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe 4.18 avg rating — 27,444 ratings
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The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos
The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos 4.11 avg rating — 20,663 ratings
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How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming
How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming 4.05 avg rating — 9,731 ratings
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Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution
Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution 4.14 avg rating — 10,706 ratings
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Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays
Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays 4.18 avg rating — 18,161 ratings
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The End of Everything
The End of Everything 4.26 avg rating — 12,204 ratings
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The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America’s Favorite Planet
The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America’s Favorite Planet 3.87 avg rating — 7,143 ratings
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The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics
The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics 4.13 avg rating — 11,355 ratings
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The 4% Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality
The 4% Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality 3.93 avg rating — 8,053 ratings
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Physics of the Impossible
Physics of the Impossible 4.10 avg rating — 40,954 ratings
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Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier
Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier 3.99 avg rating — 6,936 ratings
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Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy
Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy 4.23 avg rating — 13,357 ratings
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Death from the Skies!: These Are the Ways the World Will End...
Death from the Skies!: These Are the Ways the World Will End... 4.04 avg rating — 5,232 ratings
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Hidden Figures
Hidden Figures 3.96 avg rating — 112,015 ratings
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Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science 4.05 avg rating — 10,816 ratings
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Bad Astronomy
Bad Astronomy 4.04 avg rating — 5,756 ratings
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The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God 4.29 avg rating — 10,629 ratings
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The Illustrated A Brief History of Time/The Universe in a Nutshell
The Illustrated A Brief History of Time/The Universe in a Nutshell 4.31 avg rating — 10,052 ratings
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On the Shoulders of Giants: The Great Works of Physics and Astronomy
On the Shoulders of Giants: The Great Works of Physics and Astronomy 4.21 avg rating — 5,143 ratings
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Brief Answers to the Big Questions
Brief Answers to the Big Questions 4.27 avg rating — 84,152 ratings
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Reality is Not What it Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity
Reality is Not What it Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity 4.33 avg rating — 15,941 ratings
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The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People
The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People 3.87 avg rating — 2,902 ratings
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Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe
Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe 4.21 avg rating — 18,691 ratings
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Lost in the Solar System (The Magic School Bus, #4)
Lost in the Solar System (The Magic School Bus, #4) 4.29 avg rating — 9,787 ratings
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The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light
The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light 4.04 avg rating — 2,479 ratings
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The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe
The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe 4.16 avg rating — 8,351 ratings
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The Case for Mars
The Case for Mars 4.12 avg rating — 2,952 ratings
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My Brief History
My Brief History 3.63 avg rating — 11,114 ratings
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The Mission
The Mission 3.79 avg rating — 582 ratings
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The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred 4.11 avg rating — 4,007 ratings
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Star Stuff: Carl Sagan and the Mysteries of the Cosmos
Star Stuff: Carl Sagan and the Mysteries of the Cosmos 4.12 avg rating — 1,534 ratings
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Comet
Comet 4.11 avg rating — 1,167 ratings
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The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality and Our Destiny Beyond Earth
The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality and Our Destiny Beyond Earth 4.18 avg rating — 11,877 ratings
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Three Roads To Quantum Gravity
Three Roads To Quantum Gravity 4.19 avg rating — 7,342 ratings
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Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective
Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective 4.25 avg rating — 2,129 ratings
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The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew
The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew 3.85 avg rating — 4,768 ratings
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A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos
A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos 3.66 avg rating — 2,109 ratings
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The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself 4.18 avg rating — 9,959 ratings
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Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon
Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon 4.16 avg rating — 3,860 ratings
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Letters From An Astrophysicist
Letters From An Astrophysicist 4.06 avg rating — 8,501 ratings
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Beyond Einstein: The Cosmic Quest for the Theory of the Universe
Beyond Einstein: The Cosmic Quest for the Theory of the Universe 4.21 avg rating — 3,248 ratings
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The Holographic Universe
The Holographic Universe 4.09 avg rating — 10,270 ratings
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The Quantum Universe: Everything That Can Happen Does Happen
The Quantum Universe: Everything That Can Happen Does Happen
by: Brian Cox
3.76 avg rating — 4,575 ratings
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The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World
The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World 4.05 avg rating — 4,398 ratings
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Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars
Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars 3.87 avg rating — 9,263 ratings
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Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality 4.18 avg rating — 8,243 ratings
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The Right Stuff
The Right Stuff
by: Tom Wolfe
4.23 avg rating — 54,857 ratings
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Why Does E=mc²?
Why Does E=mc²?
by: Brian Cox
4.05 avg rating — 10,149 ratings
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The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars 3.59 avg rating — 3,470 ratings
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You Are Here: Around the World in 92 Minutes
You Are Here: Around the World in 92 Minutes 4.29 avg rating — 2,190 ratings
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Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions
Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions 3.93 avg rating — 5,389 ratings
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Wonders of the Universe
Wonders of the Universe
by: Brian Cox
4.34 avg rating — 2,513 ratings
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Every Soul a Star
Every Soul a Star 4.10 avg rating — 25,151 ratings
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We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe
We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe 4.29 avg rating — 6,745 ratings
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Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13
Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 4.39 avg rating — 9,767 ratings
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American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World
American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World 3.75 avg rating — 1,626 ratings
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How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space
How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space 3.98 avg rating — 1,340 ratings
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The Goldilocks Enigma: Why Is the Universe Just Right for Life?
The Goldilocks Enigma: Why Is the Universe Just Right for Life? 4.07 avg rating — 1,242 ratings
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The Hunt for Vulcan: ...And How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet, Discovered Relativity, and Deciphered the Universe
The Hunt for Vulcan: ...And How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet, Discovered Relativity, and Deciphered the Universe 4.05 avg rating — 2,109 ratings
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Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour
Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour 4.25 avg rating — 3,196 ratings
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Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space
Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space 3.74 avg rating — 2,539 ratings
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Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military 3.65 avg rating — 4,947 ratings
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Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe
Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe 3.68 avg rating — 3,477 ratings
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A Man on the Moon
A Man on the Moon 4.49 avg rating — 7,507 ratings
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Black Holes The Reith Lectures
Black Holes The Reith Lectures 4.28 avg rating — 7,992 ratings
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Wonders of the Solar System
Wonders of the Solar System
by: Brian Cox
4.37 avg rating — 1,749 ratings
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The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist
The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist 4.12 avg rating — 1,339 ratings
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The Inflationary Universe: The Quest for a New Theory of Cosmic Origins
The Inflationary Universe: The Quest for a New Theory of Cosmic Origins
by: Alan Guth
4.10 avg rating — 1,887 ratings
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Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe
Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe 4.04 avg rating — 5,901 ratings
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