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This page is for a list of the books in my personal science library, including a few biographies or books that are biographical sketches or have much biographical material. I have separated the titles into some major categories. Some of these books may fit in more than one category or a more specific category, but I have listed them in only one. For some, I note additional categories from the title page in parenthesis. I have been slow to create this list because I concentrate on history articles. The list could be helpful for research and to have the books in proper citation form. The list is perhaps 20 percent complete (based on shelf space used). I intend to finish it, probably piecemeal, as time permits. Donner60 (talk) 08:14, 1 February 2022 (UTC)

In general, my Library (bibliography) pages have been created so that I can more easily research my books to find references to add content or references to articles or to create new articles. Links are on my user page. The titles are shown in Chicago Manual of Style format. Note from Wikipedia:Citing sources. July 17, 2016: "While citations should aim to provide the information listed above, Wikipedia does not have a single house style, though citations within any given article should follow a consistent style. A number of citation styles exist including those described in the Wikipedia articles for Citation, APA style, ASA style, MLA style, The Chicago Manual of Style, Author–date referencing, Vancouver system and Bluebook." I use the Chicago Manual of Style format because I found it easier to understand and edit when I started contributing to Wikipedia. It can have one or two more pieces of information than other formats. In 2018, "magic links" have been deprecated and the advantage of automatically checked ISBNs can be attained by using the correct format for ISBNs and still use the Chicago Manual of Style format. Wikipedia:Book sources and Help:ISBN are pertinent Wikipedia pages. I occasionally also have listed some more frequently used books in the more standard style.

Incomplete; about 20% complete Last edits February 4, 2023

Archaeology; Dinosaurs; Paleontology

 * Brusatte, Steve. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of Their Lost World, New York: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins, 2018. ISBN 978-0-06-249043-8.

Astronomy; Gravitational Wave Astronomy; Astrophysics; Extraterrestrial Life; Space Exploration; Space Sciences
See also Relativity; Gravity, Black Holes; Dark Matter, Dark Energy


 * Asimov, Isaac. Asimov on Astronomy. New York: Bonanza Books, 1979. ISBN 978-0-517-27924-3.
 * Bartusiak, Marcia. Einstein's Unfinished Symphony: The Story of A Gamble, Two Black Holes, and A New Age of Astronomy. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2017. ISBN 978-0-300-22339-2. Earlier edition 2000.
 * Davies, Paul. The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence. New York: Mariner Books, 2011. ISBN 978-0-547-42258-9.
 * Krauss, Lawrence M. The Physics of Star Trek. New York: Basic Books, 1995. ISBN 978-0-465-00559-8.
 * Rees, Martin. Smithsonian Universe: The Definitive Visual Guide Revised and updated edition. New York: DK Publishing, 2012. ISBN 978-0-7566-9841-6.
 * Sagan, Carl. Cosmos. New York: Random House, 1980. ISBN 978-0-394-50294-6.

Biography; History of Science

 * Gribbin, John. The Scientists: A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors. New York: Random House, 2004. ISBN 978-0-8129-6788-3.

Biology; Psychology; Nature; Evolution

 * Attenborough, David. Life on Earth. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1979. ISBN 978-0-316-05745-5.
 * Bronowski, Jacob. The Ascent of Man. Boston: Little, Brown and Company: 1973. ISBN 978-0-316-10930-7. (History of human life, cultural evolution, philosophy of science, scientific endeavor)
 * Pinker, Steven. How the Mind Works. New York, London: W. W. Norton & Company, 1997.  ISBN 978-0-393-04535-2.

Communication; Information

 * Gleick, James. The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood. New York: Pantheon Books, 2011. ISBN 978-0-375-42372-7.

Cosmology
See also Relativity, Time below.


 * Davies, Paul. Cosmic Jackpot: Why Our Universe Is Just Right for Life. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2007. ISBN 978-0-618-59226-5.
 * Davies, Paul. The Runaway Universe. New York: Penguin Books, 1980 ISBN 978-0-14-005366-1. Originally published: New York: Harper & Row, 1978.
 * Greene, Brian. The Fabric of the Cosmos. New York: Vintage Books, 2005. ISBN 978-0-375-72720-7. First published New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.
 * Kaku, Michio. Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos. New York: Anchor Books, 2996. ISBN 978-1-4000-3372-0. (Also: Big Bang Theory; Superstring Theories; Super Gravity.}
 * Krauss, Lawrence M. A Universe from Nothing. New York: Atria Paperback, 2013. ISBN 978-1-4516-2446-5. (Beginning, End of the universe.))
 * Tyson, Neil DeGrasse. Death By Black Hole and Other Cosmic Quandaries. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2007. ISBN 978-0-393-33016-8. (Also Black Holes, Astronomy, Astrobiology, Solar System, Religion and Science.)

Dark Matter, Dark Energy

 * Gates, Evalyn. Einstein's Telescope: The Hunt for Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the Universe. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2020. ISBN 978-0-393-33801-0. Originally published in hardcover 2009.

Environment; Geology

 * Attenborough, David. The Living Planet. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1984. ISBN 978-0-316-05748-6. (Geology, Environment, Current life on Earth and adaptation to environment)

Gravity; Black Holes

 * Chown, Marcus. The Ascent of Gravity. New York: Pegasus Books, Ltd., 2017. ISBN 978-1-68177-537-1.
 * Scharf, Caleb. Gravity's Engines: How Bubble-Blowing Black Holes Rule Galaxies, Stars and Life in the Cosmos. New York: Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. ISBN 978-0-374-11412-1.
 * Thorne, Kip S. Black Holes & Time Warps. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1994. ISBN 978-0-393-31276-8. (Also Astronomy, Astrophysics, Relativity.)

Mathematics; Statistics

 * Ellenberg, Jordan. How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking. New York: Penguin Books, 2015. ISBN 978-0-14-312753-6. First published by Penguin Press, 2014.

Nuclear Physics; Particle Physics; Higgs; Collider

 * Baggott, Jim. Higgs: The Invention & Discovery of the 'God Particle' Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. ISBN 978-0-19-967957-7.
 * Close, Frank. Neutrino. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-19-957459-9.
 * Close, Frank. Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2994. ISBN 978-0-19-280434-1.
 * Halpern, Paul. Collider: the search for the world's smallest particles. Hoboken, NJ: Paul Wiley * Sons, 2010. ISBN 978-0-470-64391-4.
 * Randall, Lisa. Higgs Discovery: The Power of Empty Space. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2013. ISBN 978-0-06-230047-8.

Physics, General
See also Nuclear Physics; Particle Physics, Quantum Physics, Thermodynamics; Relativity; Time


 * Krauss, Lawrence M. Fear of Physics: A Guide for the Perplexed. New York: Basic Books, 1993. ISBN 978-0-465-05745-0.
 * Susskind, Leonard & George Hrabovsky. The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics. New York: Basic Books, 2013. ISBN 978-0-465-02811-5.

Quantum Physics; Quantum Mechanics; Reality, Uncertainty

 * Al-Khalili. Quantum, A Guide for the Perplexed. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004. ISBN 978-1-84188-238-3. First published in 2003.
 * Ball, Philip. Beyond Weird: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Quantum Physics is Different. London: Penguin Random House, 2018. ISBN 978-1-784-70608-1.
 * Becker, Adam. What is Real: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics. New York: Basic Books, 2018. ISBN 978-0-465-09605-3.
 * Chown, Marcus. The Quantum Zoo: A Tourist's Guide to the Neverending Universe. Washington, D.C.: Joseph Henry Press, 2005. ISBN 978-0-309-09622-5.
 * Close, Frank. Quantum Field Theory and the Hunt for an Orderly Universe. New York: Basic Books, 2011. ISBN 978-0-465-02144-4.
 * Gribbin, John. In Search of Schrodinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality. New York: Bantam Books, 1984. ISBN 978-0-553-34253-6.
 * Gribbin, John. Schrodinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality: Solving the Quantum Mysteries. Boston: Back Bay Books, 1994. ISBN 978-0-316-32819-7.
 * Feynman, Richard P. QED: the strange theory of light and matter. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0-691-12575-6. First printing 1985.
 * Ford, Kenneth W. 101 Quantum Questions: What You Need to Know About the World You Can't See. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-674-05099-0.
 * Halpern. Paul. The Quantum Labyrinth: How Richard Feynman and John Wheeler Revolutionized Time and Reality. New York: Basic Books, 2017. ISBN 978-0-465-09758-6.
 * Kumar, Manjit. Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2008. ISBN 978-0-393-07829-9. First published in 2008.
 * Lindley, David. Uncertainty: Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr and the Struggle for the Soul of Science. New York: Anchor Books, 2008. ISBN 978-1-4000-7996-4. (Particle physics; Relativity)
 * Susskind, Leonard & Art Friedman. Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum. New York: Basic Books, 2014. ISBN 978-0-465-06290-4.

Relativity; Time

 * Cox, Brian and Jeff Forshaw. Why does E=mc2? (and why should we care?). Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-306-81758-8. (Space and Time; Mathematics.}
 * Davies, Paul. About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution. New York: A Touchstone Book, Published by Simon & Schuster, 1995. ISBN 978-0-684-81822-1.
 * Einstein, Albert. Relativity: The Special and the General Theory. New York: Penguin Books, 2006. ISBN 978-0-14-303982-2. Introduction by Nigel Calder.
 * Gribbin, John with Mary Gribbin. Einstein's Masterwork: 1915 and the General Theory of Relativity. New York: Pegasus Books, Ltd., 2016. ISBN 978-1-68177-212-7.
 * Halpern. Paul. The Quantum Labyrinth: How Richard Feynman and John Wheeler Revolutionized Time and Reality. New York: Basic Books, 2017. ISBN 978-0-465-09758-6.
 * Hawking, Steven. A Brief History of Time. New York, Bantam Books, 1988. ISBN 978-0-553-38016-3.
 * Hawking, Steven. The Illustrated A Brief History of Time, Updated and Expanded Edition. New York: Bantam Books, 1996. ISBN 978-0-553-10374-8.
 * Krauss, Lawrence M. Hiding in the Mirror. New York: Penguin Books, 2006. ISBN 978-0-143-03802-3. Originally published New York: Viking, 2005. (String Theory; Space and Time; Fourth Dimension; Alternate Realities.)
 * Randall, Lisa. Warped Passages" Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions. New York: Harper Perennial, 2--6. ISBN 978-0-06-053109-6. Original published New York: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2005.
 * Lieber, Lillian R. The Einstein Theory of Relativity: A Trip to the Fourth Dimension. Philadelphia: Paul Dry Books, 2008. ISBN 978-1-58988-044-3. Edited and with a new Foreward by David Derbes and Robert Jantzen. Originally published New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1945.

Thermodynanics

 * Atkins, Peter. The Laws of Thermodynamics: A Very Short Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-19-957219-9.