There are many good popular books on physics topics and good biographies coming out these days. Below is the addition to My 2012 List of recent books which I have read. Check out other lists of books: Goodreads.
More books:
Theoreticall Minimum series: Classical Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum - Leonard Susskind Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum - Leonard Susskind and Art Friedman Special Relativity and Classical Field Theory: The Theoretical Minimum - Leonard Susskind and Art Friedman 13.8: The Quest to Find the True Age of the Universe and the Theory of Everything - John Gribbin What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics - Adam Becker The Accelerating Universe: Infinite Expansion, the Cosmological Constant, and the Beauty of the Cosmos - Mario Livio The Quantum Labyrinth: How Richard Feynman and John Wheeler Revolutionized Time and Reality - Paul Halpern The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age - David N. Schwartz Ripples in Spacetime: Einstein, Gravitational Waves, and the Future of Astronomy - Govert Schilling and Martin Rees A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age - Rob Goodman and Jimmy Soni The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars - Dava Sobel The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age - Gino Segre and Bettina Hoerlin Quantum: A Guide for the Perplexed - Jim Al-Khalil Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space - Janna Levin The General and the Genius: Groves and Oppenheimer - The Unlikely Partnership That Built the Atom Bomb - James Kunetka The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition - Richard Rhodes Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World - Amir Alexander The Universe in the Rearview Mirror: How Hidden Symmetries Shape Reality - Dave Goldberg
The list below was compiled in 2016.
Quantum Mechanics
Dance of the Photons - Anton Zellinger - Great read on quantum entanglement
Einstein's Dice and Schrodinger's Cat - Paul Halpern
The Quantum Moment - Crease & Goldhaber
Cosmology
The Cosmic Cocktail - Katherine Freese (Search for dark matter)
Relativity
Black Hole Blues - Janna Levin - Book (April 2016) on the story of
gravitational wave detection
The Science of Interstellar - Kip Thorne (The science behind the movie)
A Perfect Theory - Pedro Ferreira (History of General Relativity)
Black Hole - Marcia Bartusiak
Higgs
The Particle at the End of the Universe - Sean Carroll
Knocking on Heaven's Door - Lisa Randall
Present at the Creation: The Story of CERN and the Large Hadron Collider - Amir
Aczel
Biography
Traveling to Infinity - Jane Hawking (lead to the movie, Theory of
Everything)
Half-Life The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy - Frank Close (Spy mystery)
Robert Oppenheimer - Ray Monk (good discussion of Oppenheimer's science)
Einstein and the Quantum - A Douglas Stone (concentrates on Einstein's
contribution to QM)
Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman - James Gleick
Alan Turing: The Enigma - Andrew Hodges (not physics, book behind the movie)
Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla: Biography of a Genius - Marc Seifer
The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan - Robert Kanigel (not
physics)
Einstein and the
Quantum Theory - article by Pais
Other
A Short Bright Flash - Theresa Levitt (History of Fresnel Lens)
Operation Paperclip - Annie Jacobsen (Program that brought German Scientists to
US)
Farewell to Reality - Jim Baggot
Beyond Uncertainty - David Cassidy (Heisenberg)
Our Mathematical Universe - Max Tegmark
First War of Physics - Jim Baggot (History of Atomic Bomb)
Einstein's Cosmos - Michio Kaku
The Character of Physical Law - Feynman
Time Reborn - Lee Smolin
Physics on the Fringe - Margaret Wertheim
How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival
- David Kaiser
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