If you’re science-inclined, then chances are you’re a curious individuals. One of the most effective ways to gain more knowledge about science is by reading scientific books.
Thankfully, there are a plethora of them out there. But we’ve compiled the best picks of science books that have been recommended him and again. These books fall under different categories of science including Astronomy, Cosmology, Space travel, Physics, and Biology.
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- Cosmos
- Packing for Mars
- Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
- The Edge of Physics:
- Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
- A Brief History of Time
- Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe:
- The Planets:
- Brother Astronomer: Adventures of a Vatican Scientist
- Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos
- The Right Stuff
- Turn Left at Orion
- The Backyard Astronomer’s Guide:
- 365 Starry Nights:
- Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein’s Outrageous Legacy
- The Alchemy of the Heavens:
- The Day We Found the Universe
- The Black Hole War
- Breaking the Chains of Gravity: The Story of Spaceflight before NASA
- Exoplanets and Alien Solar Systems
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- The Epigenetics Revolution: How Modern Biology Is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease, and Inheritance:
- The Drunken Botanist
- The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
- The Woman with a Worm in Her Head: And Other True Stories of Infectious Disease
- Silent Spring
- The Origin of the Species
- Silent World
- Wonderful Life
- Birds of America
- Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded
- Isaac’s Storm
- How to Cool the Planet:
- In the Shadow of Man
- Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds
- The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
- Sex in the Sea: Our Intimate Connection with Sex-Changing Fish, Romantic Lobsters, Kinky Squid, and Other Salty Erotica of the Deep
- Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology
- Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History
- Natural History: A Selection
- Hyperspace
- The Age of Entanglement
- Basic Physics
- The Dancing Wu Li Masters
- Magic Furnace
- Only the Longest Threads
- The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next
- 101 Quantum Questions: What You Need to Know About the World You Can’t See
- The Woman Who Knew Too Much: Alice Stewart and the Secrets of Radiation
- Most Wanted Particle: The Inside Story of the Hunt for the Higgs, the Heart of the Future of Physics
- Martians of Science: Five Physicists Who Changed the Twentieth Century
- Six Easy Pieces
- The Cosmic Landscape:
- The Elegant Universe
- E=mc2: A Biography of the World’s Most Famous Equation
- The Five Ages of the Universe
- Edge of the Universe
- The Theoretical Minimum
- Chaos: Making a New Science
- Relativity
With the above titles, even a newbie can get a firm grasp of science. Enjoy!
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