Favorite books to read on subjects ranging from Astronomy

[TheStatutoryApe]

For classics I suggest H.G. Wells and Alexdre Dumas. If you like short stories check out a more complete selection of Edgar Allen Poe. He was a major influence in short story writing and is credited as writing the first dectective story ('The Purloined Letter' I think). Unless you're already familiar with his work most people don't realize that he didn't just write 'goth' material. He also wrote satire, dark comedy, adventure, and even a scifi spoof called 'The Balloon Hoax' making fun of the authors and dupes of the space travel hoaxs of the time.

 

[Holocene]

If you want a very complete understanding of the events leading up to the formation of the Big Bang theory, check out "Big Bang" by Simon Singh. Learned a whole lot from that book.

Another favorite that I've been meaning to re-read is "The Secret Pulse of Time" by Stefan Klein. Very insightful.

 

[B. Elliott]

In Search of Schrodinger's Cat - John Gribbin
In Search of Superstrings - John Gribbin

I have one book by John Gribbin that I use quite often. Almost on a daily basis. 'Q Is for Quantum: An Encyclopedia of Particle Physics'. 560 pages of nothing but hard info, definitions, great Physicists and what they did.

IMO, a necessity to any book collection.