| I broke up my list into cultural (that is, about the people, history, etc), popular (that is, not aimed at a student or an expert), and texts. CULTURAL Einstein - Essays in Humanism Frayn - Copenhagen Feynman - Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Feynman - What Do You Care What Other People Think? de Grasse Tyson - Death by Black Hole Hoffman - The Man Who Loved Only Numbers Kaiser - Drawing Theories Apart Kaiser - How the Hippied Saved Physics Macaulay - The Way Things Work Paulos - Innumeracy Sagan - Cosmos Sagan - Broca's Brain Sagan - The Demon-Haunted World Salam - Science in the Third World Seife - Zero Weisskopf - The Joy of Insight POPULAR Deutsch - The Beginning of Infinity (especially his explanation about fungibility in quantum mechanics) Feynman - The Meaning of It All Feynman - Lectures on Physics Feynman and Weinberg - Elementary Particles and the Laws of Physics Galison - Einstein's Clocks, Poincaré's Maps Gamow - One, Two, Three... Infinity Hadamard - Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field Hawking - A Brief History of Time Hofstadter - Gödel Escher Bach Heisenberg - Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science Polya - How to Solve It Schrödinger - What is Life? Susskind - The Theoretical Minimum Susskind - Quantum Mechanics Wallace - Everything And More Weinberg - The First Three Minutes Wiener - God & Golem, Inc. TEXTS Aaronson - Quantum Computing with Democritus (but I don't have a version with me in the acknowledgements https://books.google.com/books?id=jRGfhSoFx0oC&lpg=PR31&ots=... ) Abelson and Sussman - SICP Abrikosov, Gorkov, and Dzyaloshinski - Methods of Quantum Field Theory in Statistical Physics Cohen-Tannoudji - Quantum Mechanics (1+2) Dirac - Lectures on Quantum Mechanics Eddington - Space, Time, and Gravitation Feynman - Feynman's Thesis Feynman and Hibbs - Quantum Mechanics and Path Integrals Fermi - Thermodynamics Gattringer & Lang - Quantum Chromodynamics on the Lattice Goldstein - Classical Mechanics (the old version, NOT with Poole and Safko) Griffiths - Introduction to Electrodynamics Griffiths - Introduction to Quantum Mechanics Jackson - Classical Electrodynamics (2nd edition---the last one entirely in CGS---is preferable) Kleppner and Kolenkow - An Introduction to Mechanics Landau and Lifshitz - any book in this series Nielsen and Chuang - Quantum Computation and Quantum Information Pauli - Selected Topics in Field Quantization Peskin & Schroeder - An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory Purcell - Electricity and Magnetism Ryden - Introduction to Cosmology Sakurai - Modern Quantum Mechanics (up to chapter 5, after which Sakurai dies and the editors put his notes together) Sussman and Wisdom - Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics Sipser - Introduction to the Theory of Computation Thorne - Black Holes & Time Warps Thouless - The Quantum Mechanics of Many-Body Systems Weinberg - The Quantum Theory of Fields I, II, and III Zee - Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell |