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Astronomy Books
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Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 740 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.40 — 162,229 ratings — published 1980
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 600 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.21 — 489,061 ratings — published 1988
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 527 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.08 — 213,847 ratings — published 2017
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 312 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.33 — 40,472 ratings — published 1994
Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries (Paperback)
by (shelved 279 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.10 — 32,695 ratings — published 2006
The Universe in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 212 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.18 — 45,964 ratings — published 2001
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 208 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.09 — 103,604 ratings — published 1999
How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 172 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.06 — 10,077 ratings — published 2010
Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 153 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,991 ratings — published 2004
The Grand Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 144 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.06 — 78,333 ratings — published 2010
The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)
by (shelved 142 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.25 — 13,528 ratings — published 2020
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality (Paperback)
by (shelved 138 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.12 — 41,310 ratings — published 2004
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 133 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.25 — 90,214 ratings — published 2018
The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America’s Favorite Planet (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as astronomy)
avg rating 3.87 — 7,244 ratings — published 2008
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as astronomy)
avg rating 3.95 — 61,149 ratings — published 2010
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.21 — 431,740 ratings — published 2003
NightWatch: A Practical Guide to Viewing the Universe (Spiral-bound)
by (shelved 121 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,271 ratings — published 1983
Bad Astronomy (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.04 — 5,791 ratings — published 2002
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as astronomy)
avg rating 3.94 — 31,167 ratings — published 2012
Turn Left at Orion: A Hundred Night Sky Objects to See in a Small Telescope - and How to Find Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 113 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.37 — 809 ratings — published 1990
The Planets (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as astronomy)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,874 ratings — published 2005
Contact (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 110 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.15 — 155,232 ratings — published 1985
A Briefer History of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.26 — 43,754 ratings — published 2005
Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.21 — 18,969 ratings — published 2004
Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.21 — 22,965 ratings — published 2004
Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.30 — 17,961 ratings — published 1997
Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.23 — 13,755 ratings — published 1994
Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.18 — 18,697 ratings — published 1993
Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,417 ratings — published 2016
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.29 — 82,275 ratings — published 1995
The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.11 — 21,123 ratings — published 2011
The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 88 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.18 — 28,913 ratings — published 2002
The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.10 — 13,448 ratings — published 1977
The Backyard Astronomer's Guide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.44 — 531 ratings — published 1994
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.17 — 63,826 ratings — published 2013
The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as astronomy)
avg rating 3.60 — 3,616 ratings — published 2016
The Astronomy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.31 — 713 ratings — published 2012
Death from the Skies!: These Are the Ways the World Will End... (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.04 — 5,247 ratings — published 2008
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as astronomy)
avg rating 3.76 — 30,630 ratings — published 1999
The 4% Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as astronomy)
avg rating 3.93 — 8,292 ratings — published 2010
Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,600 ratings — published 2018
Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as astronomy)
avg rating 3.99 — 6,984 ratings — published 2012
The Stars: A New Way to See Them (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.48 — 1,049 ratings — published 1952
Coming of Age in the Milky Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,155 ratings — published 1988
On the Shoulders of Giants: The Great Works of Physics and Astronomy (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,187 ratings — published 2002
Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.15 — 24,460 ratings — published 1994
Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer's Guide to the Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,564 ratings — published 2023
The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality and Our Destiny Beyond Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.18 — 12,332 ratings — published 2018
Universe: The Definitive Visual Guide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.49 — 977 ratings — published 2008
The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as astronomy)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,482 ratings — published 2020
“The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of the human race than the discovery of a star.”
― The Physiology of Taste: Or, Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy
― The Physiology of Taste: Or, Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy
“Stars are beautiful, but they must not take an active part in anything, they must just look on forever. It is a punishment put on them for something they did so long ago that no star now knows what it was.”
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