Here are the best physics books for anyone looking for an accessible and engaging immersion into the world of physics. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Many books about science are meant to be pleasure reading. Such books attempt to convey the wonder and fascination and excitement of science, and ideally some of the substance as well. After all, good ...

A tour of 10 of this year’s popular science books delivers dark matter, black holes and a hefty dose of Einstein. This collection of 10 recently published books will keep you up-to-date on the new and ...

I have this book called "Superstrings and Other things", by Carlos Calle. It's basically a general physics book, it doesn't really get down and dirty into deriving formulas and stuff, but it really ...

Symmetry writer Mike Perricone’s favorite physics books of 2020 cover an impressive span of time: from the very beginning of our universe until the very end. How do the questions Galileo faced in the ...

Sam Baron receives funding from the Australian Research Council. The Matter of Everything tells the history of physics through experiments. Any book about the history of science for a general audience ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about physics, science, academia, and pop culture. Black Hole Blues is a history of the search for gravitational waves ...

In the year in which condensed-matter physicists celebrated the centenary of the discovery of superconductivity and the 25th anniversary of high-temperature superconductivity, this delightful book ...