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Cosmology Books
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A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 287 times as cosmology)
avg rating 4.21 — 477,201 ratings — published 1988
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 187 times as cosmology)
avg rating 4.40 — 158,417 ratings — published 1980
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as cosmology)
avg rating 4.10 — 102,098 ratings — published 1999
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as cosmology)
avg rating 4.13 — 40,530 ratings — published 2004
The Grand Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 113 times as cosmology)
avg rating 4.06 — 77,281 ratings — published 2010
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 110 times as cosmology)
avg rating 3.94 — 30,718 ratings — published 2012
The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as cosmology)
avg rating 4.11 — 20,899 ratings — published 2011
The Universe in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as cosmology)
avg rating 4.19 — 45,242 ratings — published 2001
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as cosmology)
avg rating 4.34 — 39,377 ratings — published 1994
Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as cosmology)
avg rating 4.21 — 22,662 ratings — published 2004
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as cosmology)
avg rating 4.08 — 205,815 ratings — published 2017
Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as cosmology)
avg rating 4.10 — 32,214 ratings — published 2006
The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as cosmology)
avg rating 4.10 — 13,262 ratings — published 1977
Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as cosmology)
avg rating 4.18 — 8,432 ratings — published 2012
Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as cosmology)
avg rating 4.21 — 18,828 ratings — published 2004
A Briefer History of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as cosmology)
avg rating 4.26 — 42,889 ratings — published 2005
The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 49 times as cosmology)
avg rating 4.18 — 28,121 ratings — published 2002
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as cosmology)
avg rating 4.22 — 420,893 ratings — published 2003
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as cosmology)
avg rating 4.26 — 86,938 ratings — published 2018
The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)
by (shelved 42 times as cosmology)
avg rating 4.26 — 12,779 ratings — published 2020
Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces That Shape the Universe (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as cosmology)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,338 ratings — published 1999
The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as cosmology)
avg rating 4.18 — 10,177 ratings — published 2016
Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as cosmology)
avg rating 4.18 — 18,419 ratings — published 1993
Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as cosmology)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,148 ratings — published 2020
Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as cosmology)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,836 ratings — published 2004
The 4% Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as cosmology)
avg rating 3.93 — 8,153 ratings — published 2010
From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as cosmology)
avg rating 4.06 — 6,855 ratings — published 2009
Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as cosmology)
avg rating 4.15 — 24,193 ratings — published 1994
The Life of the Cosmos (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as cosmology)
avg rating 4.19 — 940 ratings — published 1997
The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as cosmology)
avg rating 4.13 — 11,487 ratings — published 2008
Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as cosmology)
avg rating 4.23 — 13,549 ratings — published 1994
The Order of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as cosmology)
avg rating 4.13 — 38,190 ratings — published 2017
The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as cosmology)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,843 ratings — published 2005
Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as cosmology)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,501 ratings — published 2010
Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as cosmology)
avg rating 4.30 — 17,789 ratings — published 1997
Coming of Age in the Milky Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as cosmology)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,125 ratings — published 1988
Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as cosmology)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,404 ratings — published 2005
The Inflationary Universe: The Quest for a New Theory of Cosmic Origins (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as cosmology)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,893 ratings — published 1997
Reality is Not What it Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as cosmology)
avg rating 4.33 — 16,505 ratings — published 2014
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as cosmology)
avg rating 3.98 — 66,456 ratings — published 2014
The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as cosmology)
avg rating 4.16 — 8,458 ratings — published 2004
The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes--and Its Implications (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as cosmology)
avg rating 4.14 — 5,921 ratings — published 1996
Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as cosmology)
avg rating 3.81 — 6,826 ratings — published 2011
Contact (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as cosmology)
avg rating 4.15 — 152,140 ratings — published 1985
The Greatest Story Ever Told—So Far: Why Are We Here? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as cosmology)
avg rating 3.79 — 3,140 ratings — published 2017
The Holographic Universe (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as cosmology)
avg rating 4.09 — 10,509 ratings — published 1991
Three Roads To Quantum Gravity (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as cosmology)
avg rating 4.19 — 7,425 ratings — published 2000
Physics of the Impossible (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as cosmology)
avg rating 4.10 — 41,430 ratings — published 2008
Introduction to Cosmology: Barbara Ryden (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as cosmology)
avg rating 4.26 — 230 ratings — published 2002
Time Reborn: From the Limits of Physics to the Future of the Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as cosmology)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,915 ratings — published 2013
“Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the idea is quite staggering.”
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“It is possible that these millions of suns, along with thousands of millions more we cannot see, make up altogether but a globule of blood or lymph in the veins of an animal, of a minute insect, hatched in a world of whose vastness we can frame no conception, but which nevertheless would itself, in proportion to some other world, be no more than a speck of dust.”
― The Garden Of Epicurus
― The Garden Of Epicurus












