Physics

Physics is the natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through space and time, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.

Take Me to Your Leader: Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter
The Maniac
A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
White Holes
What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (What If?, #2)
The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything
Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
Physics for Cats: Science Cartoons
In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
Quantum Supremacy
The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science
The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb
To Infinity and Beyond: A Journey of Cosmic Discovery
On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory
Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe
A Brief History of Time
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
The Feynman Lectures on Physics
QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
The Grand Design
The Order of Time
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
Physics of the Impossible
Cosmos
The Universe in a Nutshell
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill  BrysonThe Feynman Lectures on Physics by Richard P. FeynmanStuff Matters by Mark MiodownikA Universe from Nothing by Lawrence M. KraussWhat If? by Randall Munroe
Best Physical Science Books
68 books — 44 voters
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootLab Girl by Hope JahrenSilent Spring by Rachel CarsonAlien Earths by Lisa KalteneggerInvisible Women by Caroline Criado Pérez
Women in Science
366 books — 112 voters

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. KuhnA Brief History of Time by Stephen W. HawkingTimaeus by PlatoGuns, Germs and Steel by Jared DiamondRelativity by Albert Einstein
History and Philosophy of Science
72 books — 26 voters
Every 9 Minutes by Christina VitaglianoThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootStiff by Mary RoachA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill  BrysonThe Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean
Modern Science Nonfiction
484 books — 393 voters

A Brief History of Time by Stephen W. HawkingCosmos by Carl SaganThe Elegant Universe by Brian GreeneThe Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian GreenePale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan
Cosmology
218 books — 199 voters


Thomas Jefferson
Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry...
Thomas Jefferson, Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom

Terry Pratchett
In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.
Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

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