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These are non-fiction books with the subject relating to physics or a field of physics: everything from the basics to quantum mechanics to biophysics to turbulence
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The World Treasury of Physics, Astronomy
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4.14 avg rating — 494 ratings
score: 36,
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Great Physicists: The Life and Times of Leading Physicists from Galileo to Hawking
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4.19 avg rating — 297 ratings
score: 35,
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103 |
101 Quantum Questions: What You Need to Know About the World You Can't See
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Kenneth W. Ford (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 205 ratings
score: 34,
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104 |
The Discoveries: Great Breakthroughs in 20th-Century Science, Including the Original Papers
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Alan Lightman (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 198 ratings
score: 33,
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105 |
Black Holes and Warped Spacetime
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4.12 avg rating — 161 ratings
score: 32,
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106 |
A Student's Guide to the Schrödinger Equation
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4.54 avg rating — 39 ratings
score: 31,
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107 |
A Student's Guide to Vectors and Tensors
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4.32 avg rating — 160 ratings
score: 30,
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108 |
A Student's Guide to Waves
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4.60 avg rating — 72 ratings
score: 29,
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109 |
Physics for Scientists and Engineers
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4.05 avg rating — 142 ratings
score: 28,
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110 |
The Atom: A Visual Tour
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Jack Challoner (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 108 ratings
score: 27,
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111 |
What Is Quantum Mechanics?: A Physics Adventure
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4.17 avg rating — 41 ratings
score: 26,
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Quantum Space: Loop Quantum Gravity and the Search for the Structure of Space, Time, and the Universe
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4.08 avg rating — 417 ratings
score: 25,
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QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
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4.27 avg rating — 19,269 ratings
score: 24,
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114 |
White Holes
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4.09 avg rating — 5,926 ratings
score: 23,
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115 |
The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion
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Sean Carroll (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 1,770 ratings
score: 22,
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116 |
The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos
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4.11 avg rating — 20,732 ratings
score: 21,
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117 |
Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
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4.18 avg rating — 8,291 ratings
score: 20,
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118 |
The Universe and Beyond
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4.52 avg rating — 108 ratings
score: 19,
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119 |
For the Love of Physics: From the End of the Rainbow to the Edge of Time - A Journey Through the Wonders of Physics
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4.25 avg rating — 4,051 ratings
score: 18,
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120 |
The Telescope in the Ice: Inventing a New Astronomy at the South Pole
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4.12 avg rating — 110 ratings
score: 17,
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121 |
The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe[s] Report
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Timothy Ferris (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 2,400 ratings
score: 16,
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122 |
The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe
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4.16 avg rating — 8,383 ratings
score: 15,
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123 |
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
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3.81 avg rating — 76,139 ratings
score: 14,
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124 |
Three Roads To Quantum Gravity
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4.19 avg rating — 7,366 ratings
score: 13,
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Neutrino
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4.08 avg rating — 706 ratings
score: 12,
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126 |
Antimatter
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4.03 avg rating — 1,180 ratings
score: 11,
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127 |
Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe
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3.68 avg rating — 3,485 ratings
score: 10,
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128 |
Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe
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4.21 avg rating — 18,732 ratings
score: 9,
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129 |
The Character of Physical Law
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4.30 avg rating — 7,736 ratings
score: 8,
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